What do you build?

[Weldman]

Excellent project, Weldman.

All of your steel there has a look to it that reminds me of a project I worked on a long time ago:

- Is that all "Cor-Ten" product that you used there, or something like it (pre-oxidized)?

Thanks and nope it's not "Cor-Ten", it's just 4.5 inch drill stem pipe for main poles, 2.875 inch drill stem for all other pipes and the roof is from 4 of 17 grain bins someone let me tear down for free! Main roof sheets are 18 gauge for over hang on each end, and then it's 18 gauge sheet for center with two 20 gauge sheets on each side all from 3/8/1965 according to the stamps on them.
The side wings when they go up will be 22 gauge grain bin sheets from 12 of 17 grain bins except I have a tubing roller I will roll 1 5/8" 10 gauge pipe to go every 16 inches on center so I can bury them for temperature control under 2 feet of dirt. Held up to 80 mph winds so far unsupported and snow just falls off.
I do have videos on it, just click on the others I have listed besides this one.

 

[Another Ahab]

The side wings when they go up will be 22 gauge grain bin sheets from 12 of 17 grain bins except I have a tubing roller I will roll 1 5/8" 10 gauge pipe to go every 16 inches on center so I can bury them for temperature control under 2 feet of dirt.

"Temperature control", for the structural steel?

I'm not getting that (but then I'm none too smart either), what's that about?!

 

[Weldman]

"Temperature control", for the structural steel?

I'm not getting that (but then I'm none too smart either), what's that about?!

Temperature control for the inside of the structure. Less to be exposed to outside elements to have to cool down or heat up per say of the season.

 

[Another Ahab]

Temperature control for the inside of the structure. Less to be exposed to outside elements to have to cool down or heat up per say of the season.

Got it. Brilliant!

Minimize the heat sink Factor. You thought it through, for sure!

 

[wheelspinner]

View attachment 715708View attachment 715709View attachment 715710I had forgotten about this thread until it popped up. I hadn't got to work on it with my current work schedule but you guys will get the ideal where it's headed.

Dave it’s been a minute - poke poke prod prod

 

[Weldman]

Got it. Brilliant!

Minimize the heat sink Factor. You thought it through, for sure!

Passive solar earth bermed house next on the list...

 

[Shark Bait]

Dave it’s been a minute - poke poke prod prod

I have it on my list to work on it more this year. Lol, I want to free up the space in my shop!

 

[Weldman]

Guess not many weld on here...
Anywho, drunk took my mailbox out and almost did it a second time except missed and took a tree out instead so I built a better one. Yes I know the regulations of mailboxes and such from USPS. Welp I built a package box so FedEx, UPS, and USPS have a place to put my packages at same time incorporated it as a stand to hold my mailbox.

 

[Weldman]

Double post

 

[Weldman]

 

[Weldman]

Standing 8’ tall to the top built with using 240 lbs of concrete, salt lick tub, #5 rebar, 20” pipe, disc from a tilling plow, expanded metal, 8” junior I beam, 6” channel iron, .375” DOM, pin from my spare backhoe, 4.5” pipe, lynch pin and handle from a welders chipping hammer. I think that’s all I used. Built from scrap laying around

 

[Another Ahab]

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That is an excellent piece of work there, Weldman!

How did you manage those PERFECT bends (#4 bar?), on the street numbers?!!

 

[Weldman]

That is an excellent piece of work there, Weldman!

How did you manage those PERFECT bends (#4 bar?), on the street numbers?!!

Thanks,
You are looking at it in the second picture and it's #5. Stuck the rebar in a hole on a frame and heat it up with cutting torch wrapping it around a pipe of the size I wanted the bends at.

 

[98G]

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We think alike.

 

[Weldman]

We think alike.

I was going to weld the numbers on the side too with the road name, but figured not going to be seen with the other boxes on the sides of it. I was actually the first box to be put there until 2 years ago.

 

[Weldman]

Side wings going up, 12' wide by 12' tall...

 

[Another Ahab]

Side wings going up, 12' wide by 12' tall...View attachment 872718

Looking real good, Weldman:

- How are you bending that radius into those ribs?

 

[Weldman]

Thanks,
I have a tubing roller that I hand crank to roll it, or I get the wife to do it after I set the parameters up and check it as she goes.

 

[Another Ahab]

Thanks,
I have a tubing roller that I hand crank to roll it, or I get the wife to do it after I set the parameters up and check it as she goes.View attachment 872777

Wow.

That is a very cool machine!

And guessing that there are different dies for different diameter tube/pipe?

Is the cost under $1K?

 

[Weldman]

Wow.

That is a very cool machine!

And guessing that there are different dies for different diameter tube/pipe?

Is the cost under $1K?

The machine with shipping breaks over $1000 just barely, but the dies run about $210 a set for whatever you are rolling. Got square tubing, angle iron, pipe, handrail caps, rectangle, and edge roller, might be more.
Roller