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I have run a blacksmiths shop for the past five years it was outside with the tools on their racks out in the weather this was not a problem when I w...
The shop design was submitted to the Housing association in a rough CAD draft but it was enough to get permission to build it. it is a basic pole barn...
I had an old deck roughly 8x12 built up round my forge and it had to come down for the new shop to go up. it occupied half the space the new shop woul...
I will explain some steps out of order for ease of following. All post holes were marked out with marking paint and dug to a depth of 40" eight in all...
many people told me to use trusses but they would bring the ceiling down too far and a sledge hammer would surly smash the lights. The same people wh...
The roof decking i chose to go with was1/2" OSB it cost a bit more but it was much stiffer than the 7/16" OSB which I used for siding sides. it was p...
I do not really remember all the details of the roll roofing but I precut the sheets to the right lengths snapped chalk lines across glued and nailed ...
It was not that it took long a long time to do but they were expensive so I bought them in 3 phases. each panel was painted with kills barn paint befo...
This part was done more by eye more than anything else it takes 40-50 6' pressure treated fence pickets to complete. I started with the center board...
5000 pounds of gravel can be moved by one person in four hours. I elected to use 1/2" clean because it looked nicer and will drain better given my sho...
The temporary shelving I put up will probably stay where it is for a while. (see picture captions for information) The electrical is more like a cust...
I hosted a hammer in (a blacksmiths party with an open shop) so that i would have a deadline to meet and the shop would get finished in a timely manne...
All updates will be posted and questions answered on this step. Thoughts, The shop is solid and serves its purpose as was designed. ...
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