How to store heavy slabs for easy access and display

Ljohnsaw · February 04, 2024, 01:48:09 PM

Drill a couple finger holes in the ends. Won't take any space.

WV Sawmiller · February 04, 2024, 01:59:33 PM

John,

Do you mean drill holes into the door pull or the end of the door? Remember these are hinged, not sliding doors if that makes a difference.

I use these door pulls on my composting toilet or shed doors and they could not be more simple to make or cheaper to make as almost any piece of small scrap will work. You can use contrasting colored wood if you want to "get fancy" with them. ;)

Ljohnsaw · February 04, 2024, 02:34:17 PM

Sorry, WV. Was referring to the crates. Couple holes in each end and easy to lift but won't prevent them from packing tight. Door handles are great as is.

WV Sawmiller · February 04, 2024, 06:22:02 PM

John,

Thx 4 the clarification. Yes lifting holes would work but I was careful to leave finger space between the top side slats so I can lift them from the sides.

Doc,

Sorry, I missed your point too because I was thinking of the door pull not the crates. The taller crates are shorter because of the weight. In case you haven't noticed dry heart walnut is heavy.

Yes a groove or holes would work without interfering with stacking but I am not router savvy.

WV Sawmiller · February 06, 2024, 04:54:23 PM

I got out today and finished the siding and door covering on my shed with the poplar boards I sawed yesterday. I only needed a 1X10 to finish the siding and a 1X12 and a 1X6 to finish the door. Everything is done outside except the last door and I need the hinges to finish it. I went ahead and made my door pull and simple door lock (a rotating board on a big nail) to the door I finished today. (See reply 125 to note work done today)

I have the framing and sheeting to finish it. The remaining door opening is about 44-45 inches wide. It is nearly 1" difference in the width of the opening from top to bottom. I have 3- 14" boards for that and will rip a 1X4 to finish the door covering.

I may get impatient and pay full price for the 3 big combination hinges to hang the door or just wait till the flea market opens and buy a set for about 1/3 the cost.

I sat down inside and perused the layout and contents. I am torn between what to do next. If I add more bins in the short bay I can store more short boards (Mostly under 6' long) or I can build more shelves lower down but either way I lose floor space so it is a trade-off. Maybe there is some way I can add hook from the trusses and hang something there. Decisions, decisions.

I went ahead and stacked the rest of the 12' poplar 4/4 lumber I cut yesterday.

WV Sawmiller · February 13, 2024, 08:14:19 PM

I am almost there! I built the door frame yesterday and put a 14" board on it today then attached the hinges and hung the door. Hanging a heavy wood door like that by yourself is a bear but it is in place. I see I should have left more clearance space as it is binding on the side opposite the hinges. I may see if I can take enough off with a belt sander but if that seems to be taking too long I'll just take a thin slice off with a circle saw and/or chainsaw.

I have one lag screw left from my $7 flea market find. There were enough to hang all 12 hinges with 9 holes per hinge (108 total screws for the hinges). Actually I still have a couple hundred or so bolts and screws from the same purchase. I should finish tomorrow.

doc henderson · February 13, 2024, 08:44:34 PM

can you not just put it on your mill and give it a trim?

looks good.

WV Sawmiller · February 13, 2024, 09:27:03 PM

Doc,

Great thought but the max height on my mill is 32". If I just had 9.5" more clearance that would do the trick.

WV Sawmiller · February 14, 2024, 02:53:28 PM

Well, 13 months and 5 days after I started this thread this shed build with sturdy vertical bins and floors is finally done. I finished the final door today by sanding down the frame a little and adding 2 more wide boards, a door pull and a simple door latch (A rotating board on a nail). It is still a very tight fit but I figure opening and closing it will wear off the rough spots. Also the entire door - frame and sheeting - were made from fresh cut lumber which I expect to shrink as it air dries and will fit easier. I used a piece of scrap walnut for the door pull and latch. I know the design committee specified mahogany but this was the best I had on hand at the time.

Old Greenhorn · February 15, 2024, 09:01:01 PM

AW, bless your heart Howard! You think you are done! Well you've had 24 hours to savor that thought, but really, in your heart, you know you are never 'done', are you?
Now that you have a lot more completed than you ever expected to do at the start (as I recall it was just one bay), you have to look ahead. One of those bays should have a basic work bench for you to build benches and work on stuff. You need to add a 12v battery for some lights and a solar charger at the very least. Maybe put a generator in to power some tools or floodlights for night milling and stuff like that. It never ends, you know that.
But boy howdy I gotta tell you that shed looks great! What a huge difference from back when you started adding the addition, milling lumber and collecting roofing in bits and pieces. Super job, But it's never done, take a breath, sit back and look it over and enjoy, and then you will start realizing the new possibilities that come from all that hard work.
Maybe you could put some framing up top and rent out billboard space?

WV Sawmiller · February 15, 2024, 09:15:54 PM

Tom,

You are spot on about more space. I will constantly be moving stock around and may add another shelf or even a bin or two. I had not thought about renting out my roof space for advertising. You can see it really good when coming from the uphill side but that is only this time of year. Pretty soon the trees will leaf out and you won't be able to see that.

Using part of it for shop space would reduce my storage space. I did free up an entire bay in the other shed by moving my spruce and basswood and that is my shop area so I did get more shop space in the mix. I can't get power to the new shed easily but I do have 110V power in the old shed. I will cut some stock spruce pretty soon and use up part of that space but it will still be an improvement.

Thanks again to all the design input from you guys. Some was tongue in cheek but plenty was serious and even the suggestions that did not appear to be used were all considered and did play a valuable part in triggering thought processes that were used.

doc henderson · February 15, 2024, 09:22:11 PM

a second level would provide a large shop area, a loft with a trap door can allow movement of slabs up and down for sale and processing. then the sign would be above the trees after the second story is complete. good luck.

WV Sawmiller · February 15, 2024, 10:36:30 PM

Doc,

May all your patients come to you with explosive diarrhea!

doc henderson · February 16, 2024, 07:58:23 AM

After years of training and experience, I prefer the phrase as expressed by Dr. Deloris Fortado, who never married but had two dogs devoting her life to microbiology and did the original studies to establish what constitutes a urinary tract infection in pregnant woman in part by catheterizing mounted policemen's horses in Boston although possibly not mounted at that precise moment, "massive explosive effortless projectile diarrhea" spoken with a strong Bostonian accent!

Thanks for conjuring that memory, Howard!

SawyerTed · February 16, 2024, 08:28:00 AM

Since today it appears I'm typing in Latin.

Medicus cave!

Old Greenhorn · February 16, 2024, 08:32:25 AM

Or is it 'cave ergo medicus'?

doc henderson · February 16, 2024, 08:38:00 AM

Dolores Furtado (born July 4, 1938), American State Legislator, biology professor | World Biographical Encyclopedia (prabook.com)

WV Sawmiller · February 16, 2024, 09:27:29 AM

Doc,

Sorry to hurt your feelings but I think you need to find a better class of heroes! Who would ever think of catheterizing a horse? Now I'm getting visions of potato guns armed with horse poo.

SawyerTed · February 16, 2024, 11:06:01 AM

Quote from: Old Greenhorn on February 16, 2024, 08:32:25 AMOr is it 'cave ergo medicus'?

Be careful, then, doctor

Or

Medicus Cave, Be careful with the doctor

Or, more appropriately

Cave medicus, Be careful doctor

Being self taught in Latin, my initial translations are loose and imprecise.

Old Greenhorn · February 16, 2024, 11:23:15 AM

Hence, my confusion.

WV Sawmiller · February 16, 2024, 11:40:11 AM

I'm sure glad we never get off the basic topic in these threads!

SawyerTed · February 16, 2024, 11:41:59 AM

Um..You started it!

beenthere · February 16, 2024, 12:20:42 PM

Quote from: doc henderson on February 16, 2024, 08:38:00 AMDolores Furtado (born July 4, 1938), American State Legislator, biology professor | World Biographical Encyclopedia (prabook.com)

Never married..?? I don't have to wonder why.

smiley_horserider smiley_horserider

doc henderson · February 16, 2024, 12:37:54 PM

I, like your translations, also tend to be loose and imprecise.

Yes her idea for making lectures fun, was including pics of her dogs every 30 or 40 slides. you have to imagine a Boston accent in monotone, and the same phrase uttered hundreds of times throughout lectures. We all did joke about feeling sorry for the dogs. She was all business.

the idea of cranberry juice reducing UTIs and she linked it to the hippuric acid produced by the horse diet. horses get few UTIs. Yes, we needed a pic of her catheterizing horses (officers on the Boston police force) and that would have provided needed breaks from the lectures.