Loving this! Caepenter joiner from the uk, spent my whole career doing things on my own you really needed 2 or 3 blokes for so totally feeling you! nothing beats the satisfaction! Got my sub!
You asked why would anyone build this shed in this ascetically-amazing but inconvenient way, versus, hiring someone to build a metal shed and be done? I liked this quote from the book I recently enjoyed titled Four Thousand Weeks- Time Management for Mortals: "When you render the process more convenient, you drain it of its meaning".
Love that quote, it tracks for me. Makes me wonder: what is it about convenience that sucks the meaning out of things, is it lack of friction? I think we need some friction.
Your level of introspection can only come from a software developer. I used to work at blackberry. I remember spending months making a date picker control that was then never used. Talk about thinking what using your time valuably means.... When I turned 50 I bought land and am almost done my 1.5 story cabin. Feels so good to use my HANDS to make something I can see. My rule is I do it all myself. I had to pay somone to do the culvert becasue the towhship didn't allow diy. Everything else I've done by myself. I've brought every 2x4 in my truck and carried every piece by hand to the build sight.
I also enjoy working with my hands and seeing the results, obviously ;) Sounds like you have a nice setup there! I also still like programming, though, just gotta balance it with other stuff that's not so heady.
Arch or bow framing is kept from racking by putting the boards on the inside of the arches. By drilling holes and bolting through to the anti racking boards will result in creating dozens of pivot point. By putting the boards on the inside attached to the separator bracing you would have used far less fasteners and spent far less time and had a stronger structure. I have experience.
I certainly claim no expertise, this whole thing is an adventure in learning. The shed was constructed by closely following the plans at bow-roof-shed.com/ -- I simply trusted that they had a good design. I'm sure there are many ways to optimize the build, and many more things for me to discover!
I have to ask because I have watched a ton of gothic arch construction videos...why did you put the horizontal pieces on the inside? Almost every other construction of these arched structures, the individuals slide the horizontal boards THROUGH the spaces above/below the internal blocks that helped keep the arch curved on the jig. Just curious...
Sadly, I don't have any great insight for you here ;) The instructions I purchased from bow-roof-shed.com discussed both options, and doing it on the inside of the bows was way easier!
Why did you use stakes, rather than digging and putting in more traditional concrete footings? The stakes don't seem to me to be deep enough in the ground to last for the long haul, plus they are likely to eventually rot.
Great question. I did consider concrete footings along with some other approaches. In the end, I decided to stick with the method they detailed in the plans I bought: bow-roof-shed.com/ -- they've been selling those plans since the 90's, I figured they got it basically right ;) I will say that, as per the spec, I used pressure-treated decking for the stakes, which should do pretty good against rot.
@@lifetolive_one you could always go back later with a hand held auger and put in steel/concrete footings, or pour an internal concrete slab and tie the whole thing into that. Imo getting it up on time was the more important thing and it isn't like stakes are so expensive that you worry about having wasted them, especially if they gave you years worth of time to choose when to do an upgrade in any weather you want. In my opinion anyway.
Loving this! Caepenter joiner from the uk, spent my whole career doing things on my own you really needed 2 or 3 blokes for so totally feeling you! nothing beats the satisfaction! Got my sub!
Hugs to you, Chad!! Great job!!
Great job , it proves that you can build with sticks . I’m tempted to do it myself
You asked why would anyone build this shed in this ascetically-amazing but inconvenient way, versus, hiring someone to build a metal shed and be done? I liked this quote from the book I recently enjoyed titled Four Thousand Weeks- Time Management for Mortals: "When you render the process more convenient, you drain it of its meaning".
Love that quote, it tracks for me. Makes me wonder: what is it about convenience that sucks the meaning out of things, is it lack of friction? I think we need some friction.
Nicely said!
Everything you've said resonated a lot in myself. Really cool shed, nice work!
Your level of introspection can only come from a software developer. I used to work at blackberry. I remember spending months making a date picker control that was then never used. Talk about thinking what using your time valuably means.... When I turned 50 I bought land and am almost done my 1.5 story cabin. Feels so good to use my HANDS to make something I can see. My rule is I do it all myself. I had to pay somone to do the culvert becasue the towhship didn't allow diy. Everything else I've done by myself. I've brought every 2x4 in my truck and carried every piece by hand to the build sight.
I also enjoy working with my hands and seeing the results, obviously ;) Sounds like you have a nice setup there! I also still like programming, though, just gotta balance it with other stuff that's not so heady.
Nice job on the bracing!
Nice job, dude.
Good neat work imo
Arch or bow framing is kept from racking by putting the boards on the inside of the arches. By drilling holes and bolting through to the anti racking boards will result in creating dozens of pivot point. By putting the boards on the inside attached to the separator bracing you would have used far less fasteners and spent far less time and had a stronger structure. I have experience.
I certainly claim no expertise, this whole thing is an adventure in learning. The shed was constructed by closely following the plans at bow-roof-shed.com/ -- I simply trusted that they had a good design.
I'm sure there are many ways to optimize the build, and many more things for me to discover!
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I have to ask because I have watched a ton of gothic arch construction videos...why did you put the horizontal pieces on the inside? Almost every other construction of these arched structures, the individuals slide the horizontal boards THROUGH the spaces above/below the internal blocks that helped keep the arch curved on the jig. Just curious...
Sadly, I don't have any great insight for you here ;)
The instructions I purchased from bow-roof-shed.com discussed both options, and doing it on the inside of the bows was way easier!
Why did you use stakes, rather than digging and putting in more traditional concrete footings? The stakes don't seem to me to be deep enough in the ground to last for the long haul, plus they are likely to eventually rot.
Great question. I did consider concrete footings along with some other approaches. In the end, I decided to stick with the method they detailed in the plans I bought: bow-roof-shed.com/ -- they've been selling those plans since the 90's, I figured they got it basically right ;) I will say that, as per the spec, I used pressure-treated decking for the stakes, which should do pretty good against rot.
@@lifetolive_one you could always go back later with a hand held auger and put in steel/concrete footings, or pour an internal concrete slab and tie the whole thing into that. Imo getting it up on time was the more important thing and it isn't like stakes are so expensive that you worry about having wasted them, especially if they gave you years worth of time to choose when to do an upgrade in any weather you want. In my opinion anyway.
Indeed, those had also crossed my mind. Maybe. Thankfully there's no hurry on it now.
Three days, you said. Then the first snow would set in. In Maine. Did you made it in time ?
I don't want to spoil the surprise! Episode 35 concludes the shed series.
Моё почтение. Очень круто!