Good Morning
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Today I'll get you updated on the shop addition.
It's been going slow, I had help stripping the old roof to which wasn't that hard at all.
We used the lift to lower the sheets.
Here is a few more pictures of that
The wood came of easy also. There was a stack of it. Every project like this needs these.
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So the drawings have us putting two X's on top of the trusses, they called for 1/8 x 3 flat strap. That's a joke IMO ! That is almost 6'. I used 3" angle. I had help doing this. I was up top calling numbers out. Eric did the layout & cut the part out to allow the angle to lay in place. It worked out really good.
So now I have to get up there & weld that stuff. I borrowed an old Mig Machine from a friend. It's an antique ! It isn't even made anymore. This machine has a remote spool .
The control wire between the 2 units was in horrible condition and only 15' long.
So I bought a new power cable & 5 conductor SO cord plus a gas hose 45' long.
I also built a small stand to put the remote spoil on.
The way I did the plate on the spoil is there is a 4" piece of 1 1/2 OD pipe welded on the bottom. that stand is 1 1/2 ID Pipe. Then I bolted another piece of 1 1/2 od pipe on the front of the Scissor lift. It rotates nicely.
this allows me to get up here
most of the time I stood on
so I have 6 more joints to weld, ran out of sunlight today.
It's the first time I've done anything since the appendix got removed last Friday night.
The roofing company will be there Monday to start on that part. So I needed the X welded, I'm hoping I didn't over do it today.
What I found when I removed the sheeting was those trusses were built funny, in the middle they are 40". Each end is 36". So now they are going to add a 4" purlin. They will also make them line up with the peak of the original roof. So the Purlin at the top of the trusses will be up about 18" off the truss.
I wanted to weld 3" X 3" tubing in place, but I got ruled out. They will screw L brackets down to the truss, then screw a c channel to the L bracket. Then the purlin screws to the C channel. It's going to start moving around there now. I hope I can keep up with some of the things I want to do as the building get a new roof & siding.
I just made a quick album of the work to date here
