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#1 Canuck

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Posted 09 April 2013 - 15:47

Because everyone needs to feel better about their craft. Or - should you posses astounding carpentry credentials such as I, you can marvel at your wood engineering master documented below.
Shed of Doom

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#2 Dipster

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Posted 09 April 2013 - 16:28

Because everyone needs to feel better about their craft. Or - should you posses astounding carpentry credentials such as I, you can marvel at your wood engineering master documented below.
Shed of Doom



Perhaps this shed builder built a Marcos once.....

#3 Magoo

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Posted 09 April 2013 - 16:39

There is more going on here than simple innocence of common construction principles. There is some crazy in the mix here, too.

This is like the video where bees lose their encoding so they no longer know how to make a hive and compulsively build an incoherent mess. I want to see how this comes out.

Edited by Magoo, 09 April 2013 - 16:46.


#4 Tony Matthews

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Posted 09 April 2013 - 18:47

Wonderful! Like the best horror films it is deliciously frightening. The 4x2 CLS floor 'joists' will probably last over a year on the ground, and the OSB about the same, longer if it's 18mm, but it's probably 12mm, even :eek: 6mm!

In a previous house I had a neighbour across the road, who had very little idea of how to make things... Endless fascination from my studio window!

#5 Magoo

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Posted 09 April 2013 - 19:13

Wonderful! Like the best horror films it is deliciously frightening. The 4x2 CLS floor 'joists' will probably last over a year on the ground, and the OSB about the same, longer if it's 18mm, but it's probably 12mm, even :eek: 6mm!

In a previous house I had a neighbour across the road, who had very little idea of how to make things... Endless fascination from my studio window!


Another Krean, you will note.


#6 Canuck

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Posted 09 April 2013 - 19:43

That part of BC is inordinately green - which means wet. They don't get a lot of snow but when they do it's thick, heavy, wet stuff. I'll be amazed if this thing still stands a year from now.

#7 Tony Matthews

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Posted 09 April 2013 - 20:17

Another Krean, you will note.


Kreans are, by nature, shapeshifters, which is frustrating as you can't pick 'em out easily. This one, yes, my one-time neighbour, no.

I'll be amazed if this thing still stands a year from now.

I didn't say it would be standing, I said the floor might still be there...

#8 Lee Nicolle

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Posted 09 April 2013 - 22:42

A carpenter I am not but that is a marvel of the art!

#9 Fat Boy

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Posted 10 April 2013 - 17:08

Inspiration?

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Edited by Fat Boy, 10 April 2013 - 17:09.


#10 slucas

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Posted 10 April 2013 - 17:09

It could be a marketing ploy. Clad this mess with old barn board, stick an old car in it and advert it as a "rare barn find".


#11 Magoo

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Posted 10 April 2013 - 17:52

Wonderful! Like the best horror films it is deliciously frightening. The 4x2 CLS floor 'joists' will probably last over a year on the ground, and the OSB about the same, longer if it's 18mm, but it's probably 12mm, even :eek: 6mm!


If the walls are 18mm OSB it might have snowball's chance...sort of panel contstruction, stressed-skin if you will, walls holding up the framing... at least until a stiff breeze comes along. Or a large domestic animal leans against it.


#12 munks

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Posted 10 April 2013 - 19:47

Ha, the joke's on you guys if you think wind will blow the thing down. It'll actually go right through the gaps.

#13 Tony Matthews

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Posted 10 April 2013 - 20:09

The wind passing through it will cause a pressure drop, so it will implode - in a damp and mournful way. I hope.

It has reminded me that a client, more precisely the client of a colleague, was persuaded to buy a teepee for his grandchildren when they stayed. The idea was to put it up (sorry madam, erect it) in late spring and take it down in late summer. I did this for about three years, putting it up (sorry, madam...) and taking it down, and even at the end I still needed to use the appallingly written and illustrated instructions. I bet the real ones were better made, went together more easily and were a doddle to take down and pack up in order to follow the mighty buffalo herds that roamed majestically over the endless grasslands... grasslands even more endless than the lawn that this one occupied.

#14 Lee Nicolle

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Posted 11 April 2013 - 00:02

Has it fallen down yet?


#15 NeilR

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Posted 12 April 2013 - 13:11

safer to nuke it from space*












*aimless aliens reference

#16 Bloggsworth

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Posted 15 April 2013 - 20:41

Reminds me of the first Dulon chassis.... ;)