Modern House Part 6- Heavy weather and 2nd floor steel fab
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- Опубликовано: 31 янв 2024
- More work on the Modern House this week but largely done offsite on the next level of steel. The entire area collectively suffered an extreme weather event that mostly shut it down for a week plus. Starting with snow early in the week, uncommonly cold temps mixed with freezing rain and high winds landing on steep roads that are designed to shed heavy rain did not mix and the jobsite and surrounding neighborhood were without power for 7 days and under unpassable ice for a few more. Working at home and at a yard in a neighboring town I used the time to begin steel fab focusing mostly on the posts to get them fabbed, inspected and then painted so I could install them ahead of the wall framing.
Since this is the task at hand it is what I had to draw footage from, I've done my best to keep it moving but I realize it's a whole lot of the same and although I could've shortened this I feel like the buried lede is that sometimes work is just work and it's not real flashy. I appreciate your continued support thru views and watch time and I'll add chapters when I get a chance to help show natural places to skip thru to rather than clicking away.
I'll be back next week of course and I promise things will get way more interesting :-)
-Jake
Jake you do it all. Iron worker, machinist,carpenter, operator, snow remover. I hope your boss pays you well
Thanks Matt! Yessir, there's always enough for lunch money:-)
you prove what i have thought and said for many years , there is little a man cant do by himself awesome work !
Thank you Lee!
It's almost guaranteed we're going to get a "Welding in a Blizzard" video at this point Jake. I didn't realize just how comprehensive the fabrication would be... nothing is off the shelf. When your end of the project is complete I'd love to see you briefly explain how all these details are called out in the plans. Excellent work as always.
Really glad you are enjoying It, I'll give some thought to how I would present that so maybe I can put something together that will make sense when I get there. If you couldn't tell, I'm not much for the talking but I try to explain what I can :-)
Great vid, being able to perform multiple tasks is truly a gift.
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night...
No chance :-)
Im in West Australia, we’ve had a Week of +40 Celsius or +104 degrees F. I look at you in the snow and ice and take my hat off to you.
Don't take your hat off! You'll melt into a puddle :-) Your heat there is like no other. Thanks for checking in!
Thank you for including us on this project. It is clearly a display of a lifetime of honing your skills. And I appreciate the fact you are comfortable working alone, my hope is that you will take an apprentice some day. Not just for the help, but to pass on your knowledge to a new generation.
It's my pleasure, I'm really excited that you and so many others are enjoying the videos. It makes it a lot easier to keep turning the camera on :-)
You deserve The Nobel Prize
I want to be you! one manpower builds the entire house. Looking forward to the next episode.
The Wolverine just called and said he wants his family jewels back...
Again, making the job look easy and fun! Looking good!
There is a selection on amazon where I have bought several.
I can't believe your doing all the fab plus erection work!! Hard to make a "Big Show" when you have to do all the fab work that is so time consuming! If you could somewhere give a brief view of the plans, that would really cast a big light! Your doing a great job on capturing the process that clearly you've done so many times before! Looking forward to your next post Jake!! Keep warm!!
You got it Robert, I have actually shot a little talk with the main floor plan and some elevations that will probably be in the next video. I was just responding to roughly the same request about trying to put together a little more detailed explanation and I'll be giving some thought as to how that might go. It will probably be the hardest part of the job....:-)
When I first moved to the PNW I called those 'Bobble Heads". One day I was thinking about how fast the food might run out in the town I lived in, and I counted 50 Bobble Heads in my back yard. Hope they are good to eat!
They are funny little dudes aren't t they? :-)
I kind of skimmed through this one - preparing the steel and lots of repetition. Thanks for taking the time to record all of this and share it with us. I'm sure there are some who are looking to learn by watching a professional do the work... even the repetitive stuff, but that's not me. I'm enjoying the build - incredible how you do so much of this by yourself! - but I'm eager to see you put all this steel into the building.
Absolutely right, skipping thru is fine on something like this and I'm totally fine with everyone making a DIY highlight reel out of it. It will pick back up next week as the weather did another about face on us :-) Thanks for coming back for another round!
Thanks. Yeah it can be challenging. My grandfather came here after being shipwrecked twice in the Bering Sea (he was captain on a sail whaling ship in 1882 so I guess it looked balmy to him!
I have watch your all videos 🤪 Love from Pakistan ❤
Right back at you friend, thanks for tuning in :-)
Hell yeah, another great one. Thanks for showing the non time lapse of your drool pies method still amazed by that!
Dude, don't edit that! That tool has been waiting for a name and it just got one. It's now known as the Drool Pie X1 :-)
@@ShredPile dude that's fucking hilarious!
i find it interesting. Having been on much larger commercial projects and very far from the actual work, I enjoy seeing how this is done for a high-end residential build. It's almost like a small commercial building. You probably can't talk about it but I am curious of the cost, mostly to judge if I'd ever be able to do such a thing. If I'm wondering, likely not I'd guess.
This is like the home version of brodozer lol
What kind of drill bit is that in the battery Milwaukee? That is a lot of holes without resharpening! I would like to get a few. A lot of steel in this job.
Here in the temperate rain forest of SE Alaska 180+" rain/yr, high winds (100+ at times) rain can go to single digits overnight, humidity is at 95% on a rare good day. The few days with no precipitation are mostly overcast ones. Summers rarely exceed eighty (two days last year) and maybe a week or two spread out in July, August, 1/2 of Sept. Of good (some blue sky) weather. Weathered in by mid September and work inside over winter is the program here. Freeze/thaw until late April. So seeing you framing in January is refreshing! The dark gets old too as the heavy overcast accentuates the normal short days 95% of the time. Dark at 3:15 on a clear day. Oh well as they say, it keeps the population down. You sure enjoy the good days when they come!
Let me know what brand drill bits and annular cutters you use if you get a chance.
Respect dude, thats weather!
Champion is the stuff I've been using lately. For sure on the annular cutters and most likely on the twist drills. Sometimes I just order a sleeve of them with a bolt order and take what they send me.... BTW, if you can source Champion annulars be sure to buy the pilot pins that go with them, they are a different size than the Hougen stuff.
Hey there Jake.
Man you meant it when you said it gets worse! Glad you’re still able to get some shop work done. Are you very far from the building site?
How thick is that steel you’re drilling, It’s difficult for me to tell on the television.
Well, you put out another great video, I’m still pulling for you and your channel- have no doubt it’s going to keep growing. Try to stay warm out there, and keep your finger from under the steel.
Good luck to you, friend.
Joe
Hey Joe! I'm probably 40 minutes away so not horrible and if I end up with a short day or need to leave early to pick something up it's not the same drag or lost time like it would be if I was a bit further or in a worse traffic spot. The thicker wide flange beam on this level is 7/8" or so and the thickest one the floor below was just over an inch. Believe it or not the weather changes one more time and hits us with a week of high 50's as soon as the ice leaves and that was pretty enjoyable ;-)
See you next week!
@@ShredPile glad to hear about the weather. I’ll be looking out for it, Jake.
Thank you
I stand amazed that you can have an open shop in an urban environment without everything being stolen in the first week! In an age when they steal hot conductors in concrete vaults at 600+ volts to sell the copper I wouldn't think you stood a chance. How much more is preprimed weld through steel compared to untreated? Can be a time saver when you are having weather not conducive to painting as well as giving the inventory some protection from flashing. That has to be one expensive house to be siting in such a crowded neighborhood and small lot? Nice job.
My big work shed is definitely not in an urban environment :-)
I want to know what your job title is. Lol, seems like you do it all :)
My street name is "gets all the headaches' :-)
Like a hundred years ago! Today there are heated workshops!
I was using a heat lamp in the shed and was worried that I might be called soft because of it :-)
Was that all with the same annular cutter?? Didn't think you guys down in the sunny south ever got cold enough to slow the hydraulics. Nice to have company in our misery!
It got into the low to mid teens for several days which is pretty uncommon. The previous 7-8 week stretch saw 24" of rain with about 95% humidity most of the time so everything is completely saturated damp. When it freezes up it's horrible.
Quail, cool sight huh?
Totally! I was mostly just baffled by the fact that they just walked out of an area where there was some equipment moving around just off camera.
PS: those are carbide Champion?
No, just the HSS ones. I was not even aware they made carbide, that's cool.
The snow and rain won't hurt the deck?
It will survive and dry out, it’s an unfortunate but normal and accepted part of building in this area. Thanks for watching!
ok...you are doing a great job. love your channel!@@ShredPile
What size are the posts? specs of the steel?
Oh sure Ron, the posts are 4 x 4 x.250 and 5 x 5 x.250. The bigger front to back cantilever beams are W12x96 and the side to side ones to create the corner windows are W12x50. The level below is similarly weighted but all in the W14 category
Just surfing found your thumb nail interested me so I did the right thing and subscribed liked and shared let's see if you hold my interest.
Thanks for that Pete, i’ve always felt like a subscription is an investment that the viewer makes to the channel and I don’t take it lightly. I’m amazed and appreciative of every one. I’ll see what I can do to keep it moving :-)
So question:
What’s going on here and how does this work.
I assume you are building the house for someone else. But are you the main contractor and only person building it?
If so and not just a house you are building by yourself for yourself why so much custom fab work?
Bldg is designed by an architect why isn’t all the fab and steel work sent to a company and you are just erecting the pieces onsite. Not to pry but is it maybe you are the contractor and know you can do the steel fab work yourself so cutting out a shop and saving the money for more profit?
Either way love the work and have picked up a few tips from watching your fab. Please keep the steel fab tips coming. I’m about to start on a steel mezzanine build for my shop and liked the web marking and layout tips on the beam in the last section of the video. Keep those coming.
Sooo close Ethan :)
I am the framing contractor who was hired by the GC. I am also the steel contractor who was hired by the GC.
So it’s kind of all of it and none of it at the same time I guess. Yes, the house is designed by an architect and then it’s engineered by an engineer and yes, they send the job to a steel company (which is me) who then fabricates the job and then sends it to me to erect and incorporate into the framing, which again is also me:)
Glad you are enjoying the series and I hope you stick around to watch the rest of it. I’ll try to include the tips as they happen but I stay pretty busy and I don’t always capture everything.
the biggest question is .. why are you building this house with no help?
Just been working that way for quite some time now. Admittedly it does appear somewhat awkward on the larger jobs but it's really not that big of a deal. I appreciate you watching!
@@ShredPileIt must take decades until a house like this is finished...
I'll be done before you know it but there are a few things that will slow it down. There is some tricky internal routing of stuff that can hold things up but we try to stay ahead of them.@@wernerpfeifer