With a shipment of lumber that just arrived, we will get back to building out the workshop. I need lots of shelves and benches for everything inside. We have already built some smaller benches but now its time for some large ones that will go in place and stay there. The other benches are smaller and can be moved around. While we are building the bench we also construct some more shelves. They are massive as well, twelve feet wide by twelve feet long. With five shelves on each they can hold a lot of stuff.
We had to go back to shelves we built a few weeks back and adjust the frame before putting all the 2x6 planks on top. It took just a few minutes to them them all level.
Around 7am the delivery truck arrived with lots and lots of lumber, mostly 6x6x20 posts for an upcoming retaining wall project. Will post on that later, but for now we are talking about the lumber for the workshop.
I thought I would have to get my new skid steer out and move it myself but the delivery truck came with a forklift and moved it all for us.. nice.
He brought most of the wood in the shop, but left the 20 foot long pieces outside as the door is only 16 feet.
My foreman said he can get them in the shop so we got the forks attached to the new skid steer and got to moving the wood.
After a couple tries he got the angle just right and fit all that wood through the door. Quite impressive.
Dropping it was a little less graceful but we got it all in without carrying them one by one.. which is nice.
While we had the forks on the skid steer my foreman moved an old hay bale into the 1/3 acre enclosure. We will use it in the raised beds.
Impressed it stayed together, as it was starting to rot.
We got it inside and dropped it in place.
Double checking the levels of the frame, and then we will start adding the 2x6 planks on top to make the shelf surface.
The frame of one of the large workbenches is complete. Its 16 feet long!
Now we just need to add the planks, just like with the shelf.
As the planks go on, we find it easier to work inside of the shelf until there is no space left.
The last couple planks were the hardest, as it was all the way at the top. But we got them done.
Still many more shelves and benches to build, but good to be making progress.
