The Farm

[Hugh Heifer]

I got the perlins last night and ordered the metal roofing today. Started putting the perlins up tonight. The first two runs were the hardest. Now it is just a matter of setting them all 24 5/8 on center. Hopefully I will be under roof by Saturday evening. Got the roofing at Georgia Metal Center. 38" X 24' sheets. Hope we can handle moving them around.

 

[jynx]

We cut a couple of blocks that put them the right spacing. Made it way easier than measuring and marking them all. Just put the blocks on top of the rafters and run the length.

 

[Hugh Heifer]

We cut a couple of blocks that put them the right spacing. Made it way easier than measuring and marking them all. Just put the blocks on top of the rafters and run the length.

Brilliant.
Did you cut them to butt on the rafters or throw caution to the wind and let them butt anywhere. Or did you overlap them (side by side I mean)?

 

[jynx]

Brilliant.
Did you cut them to butt on the rafters or throw caution to the wind and let them butt anywhere. Or did you overlap them (side by side I mean)?

Cut them to sit on the previous perling and space the next one up to get the proper center to center spacing. We sat them on the rafters, but you should be able to put them anywhere. If I was doing it alone, making it kind of saddle the rafter by adding a couple of legs to hang down on each side so it would sit there by itself would make it easier. Ours were just a couple of cut scraps that we just moved along with us.

I thought I had a better picture, but here you can see one of ours in front of Erin while she is screwing down one of the roof perlings.

Basically if the center to center needed to be 24" we cut it 20.5". That is half a 2x4 for the lower one and half to get to the middle of the upper one. Pull it down tight and drive it home. Should land the center to center right at 24". If your running them flat (like ours) subtract the 3.5" making yours around 21 1/8", or if you are setting them on edge, just take 1.5" off and make them 23 1/8". Double check me on those, but that should be right.

 

[Hugh Heifer]

That is a great pic.
I was not cutting them and just butting them together where ever they fell the first two runs. The rest I cut to share a rafter. I got a bunch on tonight. Will finish tomorrow.

Edit: wtf did I type. Fixed

 

[jynx]

@Hugh Heifer something I think we all missed that is very important, what is that tube situation on the far end of the new shed? Are you trying to slide something new and fun by us.

 

[Hugh Heifer]

There is so much win on the property. The guys who delivered the metal asked why I had not simply roofed the entire thing. It is half an acre.

 

[LDowney]

There is so much win on the property. The guys who delivered the metal asked why I had not simply roofed the entire thing. It is half an acre.

Just think of all the trouble that you could get into with 1/2 acre of shop/storage space!
He who dies with the most toys wins.
You can be an all-time winner for the average Joe crowd.

 

[jynx]

There is so much win on the property. The guys who delivered the metal asked why I had not simply roofed the entire thing. It is half an acre.

I am totally on board for a 20,000sf shop...

And thing is, as you've already found, that is "real concrete" so you should have no issues parking whatever you want on it. Making sure you get the gutter drains away will be the biggest thing since I'm guessing it is flat-flat and water will have a tendency to want to seep under things.

 

[Hugh Heifer]

Spent the evening pounding 8d ring shank nails into my 12 (1x4) 60 foot runs of perlins. I have 38 rafters. 38x12x2=912 nails. That is about 10 pounds. That is a bunch of nails. I got a bunch done but ran out of light. And I need about one more pound of nails.

 

[jynx]

Thats a lot of nails

 

[Hugh Heifer]

I finished them today. At first when I started it I started to think it was going to be a terrible chore but as I got into it it was sort of a pleasant experience. I just used 8d ring shank - 7 pounds of them. I ran out tonight needing about 30 more nails. The PO of the house left me a ton of fasteners I sorted. I have a small box of 16d ring shank and used those to finish. Those were a work out.


Unfortunately, I have no idea when i am going to be able to get the metal up there. Since we are about to fall back I will be coming home in the dark. And the next few days are fraught with rain.

I actually was thinking about taking a page from Larry's play book and getting a hotel room in Oliver Springs.

 

[jynx]

I actually was thinking about taking a page from Larry's play book and getting a hotel room in Oliver Springs.

Aint no shame. I've bailed for a warm dry hotel room at several events. And ima be honest, the ida of just putting a rig on a trailer and pulling in and wheeling and then just going back to a warm dry bed and a shower I don't have to wear flip flops in.

 

[Hugh Heifer]

If I roll in Wednesday it is going to be a mess up there.

 

[jynx]

Yeah, last I saw it was a 70% chance on Wednesday and 50% on Thursday. It is gonna be a sloppy mess thru Friday at least. And cold.

 

[LDowney]

I actually was thinking about taking a page from Larry's play book and getting a hotel room in Oliver Springs.

Be sure to mention that you are here for Windrock (because the hotels give a discount for that) and that are a G-man (you might get lucky and the Windrock discount might start at the government rate). Also, I suggest that you call the hotel directly to make the reservation and get the rates that the corporate operators don't have insight into.

 

[Hugh Heifer]

Got the roof on the lean to. T1-11 is so damn expensive right now the three walls are going to have to wait.

 

[jynx]

Yeah, our shop isn't going to get finished out anytime soon. Building materials are stupid high right now...

I still want to know what the tube chassis is for?

 

[LDowney]

Got the roof on the lean to. T1-11 is so damn expensive right now the three walls are going to have to wait.
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Very good progress. Jumping ahead... Clearly your floor is sloped so water will naturally want to flow through. What are your plans to keep it out?

 

[Hugh Heifer]

Very good progress. Jumping ahead... Clearly your floor is sloped so water will naturally want to flow through. What are your plans to keep it out?

Nothing. It is just an equipment shed. Not using it for anything but vehicles. Maybe some big parts like axles. If I have anything I want to be up off the ground I will put it on pallets.
The garage solution has not yet been found.