low cost boat storage shed (read that as no cost)

[nedL]

I was looking for a better way to cover my boat project for the winter which would allow me to continue working. As usual 'Zero' is my budget. One day as we were out for a walk I noticed that our 'local corporate office & warehouse location' of a major bath, toiletry, & fregrance was scrapping a bunch of industrial warehouse shelving & that go me to thinking. I called them up & talked to the warehouse manager who told me I'd be doing a favor if I took 'anything in that scrap pile'. The next day I drove my trailer over there & loaded it up with all sorts of steel shelving parts (this is the big stuff that you load with a fork lift). That weekend after a couple of hours of cutting & welding I've got a real nice 7'x15'x7'high frame work that covers nicely with one of those horrid blue tarps. I've got standing room in the boat & it's working out great! :D
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[Donn]

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[CaseyJones]

Very resourceful.

I had my eye on an old Builders Square building that was about to be gutted. The nursery section off one side had some great looking aluminum trusses for their greenhouse. Before I could track somebody down, they were removed. :(

[Steve Lansdowne]

Looks like all that practice with your Erector set as a boy finally paid off!

[Concordia..41]

Our Lady of St. Phoenix has some competition ;)

[PaulC]

Now that's cool!

[Domesticated_Mr. Know It All]

Hmmmm....If I could build something like that, I could park my car inside the garage and out of the snow. smile.gif

You've been busy lately, haven't you Ned? :cool:

[imported_Steven Bauer]

All you have to do now is get get rid of that horrid blue tarp and get a white one. They last longer, block more UV light and look better.

white poly tarps! (http://www.nbmc.com/tarps/white.html)

[Wild Dingo]

But Steven!! can yer gets one on Neds budget?


As usual 'Zero' is my budget:D

Great bit of lateral thinking recycling Ned :cool:

[Banjo]

Good job Ned, all the best for 2004 by the way! smile.gif

Hey Dingo me ol mate, even if yer buys something new with yer hard earned dollars I figure ya still recycling. Recycling yer money!! :D This has another name too, Economics...

Cripes we had a scorcher the other day me old mate, 42+ in some parts of Vic!! :confused: I went out to the shed to do a bit on me project and stayed long enuf to get a coldie from the fridge, then went back inside to watch the idiot box again... ;)

I hope 2004 is good to you all, most of all I hope the fanatics come to their senses and stop their sensless waste of life.

Banjo.

[Walcheren]

I have been looking around for ages for something this economical. Thanks for showing. I'll keep my eyes even more open.

[On Vacation]

Ain't it a great feeling. ;) Free just like the wind, too. tongue.gif

[htom]

Well done. Reuse >> recycle.

[Leon Steyns]

Well done! That's plain brilliant... :eek:

Happy New Year!

Greets, Leon Steyns.

[PaulC]

Just curious as to how you anchored it?

Thanks

[nedL]

I'd love a better looking tarp, but would rather save 'the budget' for the boat, so blue will do for now. :D As for anchoring it down, the bottoms of the legs still have the original 'pads' on them for achoring to the concrete warehouse floor. With the grade of our yard the legs on one end are burried about a foot, and the legs on the other end have about 12" spikes through the holes in the pad feet. On a normal winter with frozen ground that would more than hold it. I'm kind of keeping my fingers crossed with the warm temps of this winter. Luckilly we're pretty protected here with hills around us so the real winds pretty much go over top of us. We've already had a couple of 14" & 16" snow falls with no problems at all. I'm pretty pleased (& the sides roll right up on nice days too). smile.gif

[ 01-01-2004, 09:38 PM: Message edited by: nedL ]

[On Vacation]

FYI, we use a simular framework for open garages. Along the bottom, we sink 4x4s in the ground, short ones every four feet, and then run a long 4x4 horizontal to the ground bolted to the cemented short ones rabitted into them and throughtbolt or lag it, and then place the legs on these 4x4s with flat flanges bolted through the sides of each part, the leg and the 4x4s. These survive hurricanes but sometime the sheet metal, that is covering the roof portion of it will remove itself from the framework.

[J. Dillon]

Great job Ned. I love stories of what people do with discarded material. You clean up the enviorment as well. I still get quite a bit of material from construction or alteration work. :cool: I made my grandson a neat wooden wagon from thrown out oak flooring. Not far from here is a furniature building shop. I get some nice rock maple from there.

Ahh ! the days of dumpster diving. smile.gif I could tell you tales when I lived aboard and practically out fitted my boat from what "yachtsmen" through away. ;)

JD

[brian.cunningham]

:cool: That reminds me, I've got to go make a better boat cover.