Conquer Club

The LumberYard is for discussing wood projects. Current, past, future, and someday ‘only if’ projects. Completed, abandoned, sanded, varnished, painted, nailed, glued, screwed, over-engineered or falling apart - all are welcomed.

My winter project is adding a shed in the backyard. Mainly for lawn equipment and tools. This will be a standard 8 x 8 shed. Currently I am building the platform using 2x6x8s using 4 inch galvanized screws. The top of the deck will be 3/4 plywood using two 4 x 8s that run $45 each. The plan is to install thick interlocking vinyl flooring after the shed is up. When the platform is completed this will be placed on concrete deck blocks. Note: Lumber prices are quite high currently. If your also considering putting up a fence get ready for some sticker shock.

Temperatures are expected to drop so this project might take a few weekends.

Questions.

• why 2x6 instead of 2x4?
• what temperature are you expecting?

I'm hiding indoors as much as possible for the last week or so. It's rediculasly cold here. -29 C sort of thing. Really gross if you ask me.

My son built a box in shop. Looks a bit like one you might get a bottle of wine in. It's quite nice.

2x6x8 is over engineered I know. But it made me happy. Texas will be getting snow and getting around 20 degrees. Cold for us.

My second project will be the dining room table. Needs a serious refinishing.

Fair. Our shed floor is 2x4 and with no ramp it is a bit of a bother to move the lawn mower or snow thrower in and out depending on the Wx. I feel like an extra 2" in height would be worse. A nice ramp might solve the issue though.

Dad's P-47 Mountain Cedar. Growing up in the Great Depression he learned to make his own toys.

HitRed wrote:

Dad's P-47 Mountain Cedar. Growing up in the Great Depression he learned to make his own toys.

always liked to have such a hobby, did not have time for it
this millenium, days are too short for such beauties

He included some good details.

HitRed wrote:

Dad's P-47 Mountain Cedar. Growing up in the Great Depression he learned to make his own toys.

Super cool... that is something I would treasure.

I built a workbench and tool storage area in my garage at the beginning of the Covid lockdown.

My garage is not a perfect rectangle... the way the house is designed one corner, about 6’ in length along the back wall, is setback about 4” deeper than the rest of the back wall. It’s bothered me for awhile... I have shelving along that wall and they were not flush. So I built a table to fit in that corner... making it 4” deeper than the shelving units... so once installed it’s basically flush with the shelves.

The frame of the bench is not fancy... just 2x4’s screwed together. Not fancy but very solid. I painted it with some leftover paint from another project. I left one side open on the bottom so my shop-vac slides under there nicely. On the other side I built a couple shelves.

The top of the table and the shelves I got a higher grade plywood and put 3 coats of MinWax Poly Stain. It stains and coats in one product. Not a great solution for high quality indoor projects. You wouldn’t use it on a dinning room table... but it’s easy and quicker for projects like this. I mean the bench is gonna get oil and grease and other shit on it, so how nice should it be.

I then mounted a couple other pieces of that same plywood to the studs (over the drywall)... and stained it with the same poly stuff. So I could then use nails and hooks to mount all my tools on the wall.

Along the sidewall of the garage I was going to use this cool Rubbermaid mounting system... but it was expensive. I could’ve bought it but thought it was not a value. So I got 3 long 2x4”... painted them the same color as the table frame... and mounted them to the studs. Along this wall I can put a bunch of hooks into the 2x4”s and hang up my weedwacker, chainsaw, blower, folding chairs, etc.

I’m not a very handy type guy, so I’m pretty happy with how it all turned out.

I don’t know how to upload picture here.. do you gotta have another site to link?
(I see that imgur site... you need an account?)

When I tried uploading as embedded images it said it couldn’t determine size.

Nice!

Totally into woodworking my whole life. Paid for half of my college with custom boxes, cedar chests, etc. Enjoyed exotic woods for jewelry or pistol presentation boxes. Don't have room for woodworking shop now. Did stick build my vaca cabin with no power (16x32). Stick built my garage (24x32, 12/12 roof). My garden shed, 200 feet of fence, triple decker deck....

My photobucket acct closed so no pix

Done.

The only subject I ever came bottom of the class at was woodwork.
Until we did metalwork. Totally ham-fisted at anything like that.
When I had pretentions as an artist, a friend did teach me how to build a frame and stretch my own canvas for oil-painting (much cheaper than buying 'em ready-made) but I haven't done that in decades.

Sorry to see that. I hope it was painless. RIP

This is not lumber or even a new thing, but I did repair my irrigation system for my "hobby garden" yesterday. It took two trips to the local hardware store and more time than I could really afford to accomplish, but I got it done. I will have to plant my cucumbers another day.

How big is your hobby garden? Mine is 30x50, then have 20x40 old blueberries (dimey has been to my place and raided our BBs ).

I can 150+ jars of shit a year...

Re lumberyard...built 6x6x20 frame for the damn raspberries....

Edit...think I figured it out. I can create a link to my Google cloud storage. Test....this is a pic if last year's garden when in full bloom...about 2/3 of it here

https://photos.app.goo.gl/UVvv3sM4eHvQNNpC9

Wow!

Mine is 144 square feet. I mostly grow cucumbers, summer squash, zucchinis, and a few tomatoes during the hot summer months of Virginia. I did frame the garden space with landscape timbers some 30 years ago, but they finally rotted and I replaced with landscape stones.

This year I planted carrots from seed as well as lettuce. The lettuce is the leaf variety, such as buttercrunch and not the head type, such as iceberg. I would like to try blueberries, but I do not have the space.

KoolBak wrote:How big is your hobby garden? Mine is 30x50, then have 20x40 old blueberries (dimey has been to my place and raided our BBs ).

I can 150+ jars of shit a year...

Re lumberyard...built 6x6x20 frame for the damn raspberries....

Edit...think I figured it out. I can create a link to my Google cloud storage. Test....this is a pic if last year's garden when in full bloom...about 2/3 of it here

https://photos.app.goo.gl/UVvv3sM4eHvQNNpC9