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Return to work | ketches, yaks & hawks
https://sanderling.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/return-to-work
Ketches, yaks and hawks. Boats, planes, and hiking. March ended, April came and went; still freezing at night. But on May 2, work began afresh. Over the winter and had refurbished the per form. It was my own design, and it could have been better designed! But by the 2nd, these faults had been addressed, if not remedied, mostly by new and stronger reinforcements, and also by using light line, tightened with a small Spanish windlass, to hold the sides tightly together. Final pier, freshly poured. Fill in y...
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Winter hiatus | ketches, yaks & hawks
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Ketches, yaks and hawks. Boats, planes, and hiking. Flagstaff sits at an altitude of 7,000 feet (2,130 m.). The air up here is thin and cool … and downright chilly come winter. The area’s nightly low temperatures average below freezing from late October well into May, which means that do-it-yourself concrete work pretty much comes to a halt once winter starts dragging its cloak across the land. Exploring the work site. Tags: Building a shed. Laquo; Third cast. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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This is getting repetitive | ketches, yaks & hawks
https://sanderling.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/this-is-getting-repetitive
Ketches, yaks and hawks. Boats, planes, and hiking. This is getting repetitive. Dug the fourth hole. Made it a little wider and longer. Like the others, it’s about 38″ deep to get well below the frost line. And since the site slopes about 6″ inches, its pier will be the tallest in the row. Tags: Building a shed. Laquo; Third hole, just like the second. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email (Address never made public).
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Second pier | ketches, yaks & hawks
https://sanderling.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/second-pier
Ketches, yaks and hawks. Boats, planes, and hiking. But I made an error in judgement about the skirts. Even with the extra inch, there would still be about another inch between the bottom of the form and the footer, i.e., there would be a one inch gap between the bottom of the form and the footer. I figured it wouldn’t be a problem – concrete is thick and as all the gravel in it, right? No real damage, except to one of the skirts. Tags: Building a shed. Laquo; Cast in concrete. Lots of work ahead! Follow...
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ketches, yaks & hawks | boats, planes, & hiking | Page 2
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Ketches, yaks and hawks. Boats, planes, and hiking. Aggregate and the big box store. The shed’s foundation will have 12 concrete piers sitting atop 12 concrete footers. All totalled, it should take about 72 cubic feet of concrete. That’s a goodly amount of concrete to mix and pour by hand, and it’s going to take a goodly amount of Portland cement and five times a goodly amount of aggregate. Pouring the footer in the second hole was delayed by rain. Flagstaff is enjoying an unusually wet “monsoo...The dig...
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Cast in concrete | ketches, yaks & hawks
https://sanderling.wordpress.com/2014/09/21/cast-in-concrete
Ketches, yaks and hawks. Boats, planes, and hiking. Of course, the proof of the form was to use it. So I did. The first step was painting the insides of the form with motor oil. Cheap motor oil. Using a cheap brush. Nice and messy – use old pants! Pier form in place. First pier in form. When sufficient concrete was in the form to almost reach grade level, I added red and brown pigment to the mix, aiming to come up with a color approximating the surrounding soil (I don’t like the grayish-white of na...
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Form: functional? | ketches, yaks & hawks
https://sanderling.wordpress.com/2014/09/20/form-functional
Ketches, yaks and hawks. Boats, planes, and hiking. The whole point of digging holes and casting footers for piers is to cast the actual pier. But the question is, how should I go about it? One option that I liked was to use Sonotubes. A nice, cylindrical pier (with a characteristic spiraling line running up it). I’ve used Sonotubes before, and liked them. Reusable form for casting concrete piers. It’s a funny looking thing, but I think (and hope) it will work. Tags: Building a shed. My Grand Canyon hike.
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Third hole, just like the second | ketches, yaks & hawks
https://sanderling.wordpress.com/2014/09/14/third-hole-just-like-the-second
Ketches, yaks and hawks. Boats, planes, and hiking. Third hole, just like the second. Another dry day. Pretty, with lots of clouds and sunshine, but no rain. Dug a hole for the third pier, and poured the footer. This is becoming rather routine already … and tedious. Digging holes and mixing and pouring concrete are necessary tasks, but not nearly as fun as framing. Oh well. I hope to keep plugging away so I can finish the concrete work before winter sets in. Laquo; Aggregate and the big box store.
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Third cast | ketches, yaks & hawks
https://sanderling.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/third-cast
Ketches, yaks and hawks. Boats, planes, and hiking. The third pier went smoothly. No problems with the digging or the footer. Newly poured third pier. Starting with this pier, I’m also using longer anchor bolts. Winter’s winds can be quite strong in this area, and temblors are a possibility, so I want to make sure the structure is well anchored. Tags: Building a shed. Laquo; Second pier. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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Beginning to rise: rim joists | ketches, yaks & hawks
https://sanderling.wordpress.com/2015/07/25/beginning-to-rise-rim-joists
Ketches, yaks and hawks. Boats, planes, and hiking. Beginning to rise: rim joists. With the sill plates finished, I faced the same problem: where to get decent pressure treated wood? Back to an online search; still no 0.40 pcf wood to be found anywhere near Flagstaff. The best I could find was some 0.20 pcf hem-fir was at the Lowes in Prescott, some two hours to southwest. Besides, if one goes by way of Williams and Ash Fork, it’s a pretty drive, mostly. Sill plates with rim joists in place. First up was...
