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« on: August 29, 2011, 10:43:55 AM » |
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In homage to the "der shed".
The Restoration of an old Shed.
Old oak frame barn originally constructed about 1800's but bodged repairs in the 1950's and was till 2011 22nd August very unsafe.
5m x 5m and 5.1m to the top roof ridge. 8 oak uprights that sit on large limestone pads. All joints are mortise and tennon with round tapering oak pins.
The central roof main A frame had been replaced with ash, and this has split the centre oak upright at the roof wall plate as well as rotting out in the middle of its main span. One corner oak upright is missing and i will have to make a new one.
All The oak upright stone pads are loose within their foundations.
1, The old building with 4 oak uprights now removed and saved.
2, Which pin to knock out where ? so the roof doesn't' fall on me??
3, Saved the slates.
4, New base and saved timbers, plus assistant.
5, Old timbers that never made it, just rotted out with no strength left, or the munch of severe woodworm.
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acresswell
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« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2011, 10:50:58 AM » |
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Hope there's more to come... looks more like demolition than restoration!  |
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« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2011, 10:03:47 PM » |
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I may be missing something in your piccy, but I would get a bit of diagonal struttage between those acrows before going under it again. Better safe than flat  Desp |
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« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2011, 07:49:52 AM » |
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acresswell, Yes i will give updates as i go. Over the years, (many) i have restored and done so many jobs without any supporting evidence. So this time I can let others see and let my wider family keep updated. (immediate family never seem to notice).!
This building, (wash pond shelter) was probably built at the same time, but had sunk into the mud. Now restored onto a low foundation wall and oak planked clad. I can not get many folk washing their clothes in it, but its great for my windturbines main control equipment and 600amp 48v gel batteries.
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« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2011, 08:31:32 AM » |
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desperate,
Those accrows were only their for a couple of hours.
Each original oak upright had to be removed carefully for reuse, so i jacked up the roof wall plate and then just knocked out the oak pins.
Eventually i ended up with just 1 accrowjack holding up the whole building about 2.5 tonnes, and then by sacrificing that accrow, ( it bent and split, so no good now) with a large rope tied around its base and a sharp tug the building gently descended to the ground.
Slates easily removed and stored, and the roof structure disassembled, the last remaining wall disassembled and stacked for storage.
Following day dug out foundation slab, all had to be done by hand spade because of the unreliable ground conditions. Sub soil chalk and flint, but ground in some places clay so had to be removed and stone compacted. So concrete slab was kept minimal, (important to me not to over use resources) in places at 200mm and around the edges up to 500mm deep, with steel mesh reinforcement.
Next day, hired 2 local young lads from the next door farm who spent 9 hours constantly with the cement mixer and we laid 5.5m/2. sand at 0-0.3mm and gravel at 10-20mm, mix at 1 cement to 6 sand/gravel, no additives.
Pic shows 1 accrow and the building about to have a controlled descent
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« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2011, 08:38:20 AM » |
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acresswell, the reason for the building sitting on a low wall is because this original 100 ft long Medieval structure on our farm sits on a low wall. Ignore the brick sections as these were 1840's replacement for the original oak sections that rotted out.
As you can see still some work to do here.
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« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2011, 09:19:09 AM » |
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ahhhh i like the pic with the single acrow,
the only problem with that is,that you spend so much time pondering over how you can bring it down and save the acrow,it would have been an exellent prop for a home video,say a little film with a title like,"ladies in reverse"
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« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2011, 09:10:33 AM » |
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It turns out that my Mrs did secretly film the buildings decent, but i did not know until yesterday evening.  Trouble is i have not got a clue how to post the event. You tube and all that. |
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« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2011, 02:47:38 PM » |
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It turns out that my Mrs did secretly film the buildings decent Evidence in case she wanted to claim on the life insurance? |
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