Outside Workbench & Lean To

[Nutcracker]

Tired of the sawdust & metal shavings in shop. Plus I can see better outside. The last two days , between meeting customers , & running to supply store. I forgot how hard it was to dig a hole by hand. I could of had my employees to do it for me, but figure I need the exercise Made the bench 30 inches by 10 ft. 6x6 legs. I will put a smooth top on table eventually but will let the wood dry some. 

 

[Acruz]

I don’t see how you used the hole to build the bench. 

 

[Nutcracker]

LOL, that hole is for one of the three post I am going to put into the ground for a lean to roof over table. Will let the light in but keep the rain off of my drill press & belt. sander etc. 

 

[dizzums]

me neither .. the red looks like where you assasinated a medium sized animal lol ... thats some nice lumber bet it cost you a pretty penny .. oh i get it now ..

 

[Acruz]

.... looks good so far.. and expensive. I have to do my boat dock and I’m looking at $800 plus on lumber.

 

[Nutcracker]

me neither .. the red looks like where you assasinated a medium sized animal lol ... thats some nice lumber bet it cost you a pretty penny .. oh i get it now ..

Yeah, stuff is high. For all the material, including screws & hardware for table & 10 x 16 ft lean too, excluding the roof sheeting was 1000.00. Stuff is high now. At least we can get material again. 

 

[Scouty]

Subscribed. I need to build a lean-to this summer as well. Not looking forward to digging the holes or seeing the lumber bill. 

 

[JohnL57]

Looking good! Hopefully you won't have condensation rusting your tools. The soil at my place is sandy with a little clay-you can dig a ditch or hole easily in the wet season, but once it dries up it's pick and shovel time.

 

[Nutcracker]

Looking good! Hopefully you won't have condensation rusting your tools. The soil at my place is sandy with a little clay-you can dig a ditch or hole easily in the wet season, but once it dries up it's pick and shovel time.

Our soild is hard brown shale & hard clay. Yeah, rust is something I will have to do battle with. Probably won;t use it much in winter & can store them in one of my other shops. 

Been busy meeting customers, but got a couple hours in on it , hope to get the purlings on next week. 

 

[Nutcracker]

Well it is done, well ten minutes putting the trim on.

 

[fdales17]

looks good 

The lumber probably cost more than my car

 

[Nutcracker]

Cost more than my first 6 cars. My first car was a 52 chev pick up 350.00, second 66 chev pickup 650.00. third was a 66 pontiac , 500.00. the the best one of all can;t remember the year, a dodge dart with a slant 6 cost 75.00. that thing was like a tank. Not a good time to buy building materials for sure. We buy a lot of 6 inch steel pipe, went up 5 bucks a foot more in the last few months. Cold roll steel went from something like 450 a ton, to 1500.. But not too worried, i have seen pipe get high many times it always comes back down. Building materials will fall too.