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Mike G wrote:That's going to be a flitch beam, made up of a pair of 9x2 timbers sandwiching a 15mmx200mm piece of steel plate, 6 metres long. Lifting that into place is going to be fun.
9fingers wrote:Mike G wrote:That's going to be a flitch beam, made up of a pair of 9x2 timbers sandwiching a 15mmx200mm piece of steel plate, 6 metres long. Lifting that into place is going to be fun.
Any virtue is assembling the beam in situ Mike?
My back of envelope suggest the steel will be about 140kg so propping that on one of the verticals and then up onto the other will be two 70kg lifts and each timber being a trivial two x 15kg lifts but a lot easier than assembled at 2 x 100kg lifts.
Bob
Mike G wrote:9fingers wrote:Mike G wrote:That's going to be a flitch beam, made up of a pair of 9x2 timbers sandwiching a 15mmx200mm piece of steel plate, 6 metres long. Lifting that into place is going to be fun.
Any virtue is assembling the beam in situ Mike?
My back of envelope suggest the steel will be about 140kg so propping that on one of the verticals and then up onto the other will be two 70kg lifts and each timber being a trivial two x 15kg lifts but a lot easier than assembled at 2 x 100kg lifts.
Bob
I'm going to do a half-way house, Bob. I am going to assemble it at the level of the back wall, on a temporary platform/ frame. This is about shoulder height, so is the highest that we'll be able to lift the steel plate easily unaided (we have to hand-ball it off the lorry). I'll place it onto one of the timbers, then build the flitch up, before doing the lift of the completed thing a couple of feet into it's final resting place.
AJB Temple wrote:Coming along nicely Mike.
It is interesting to compare the cost of building such a thing yourself with what the numerous companies selling these sort of garages charge..........
I find these prices amazing. No idea what he finally spent though I will ask him, but based on the quotes he sent me he will have spent easily £40k.
AJB Temple wrote:.....I imagine you use the incremental support method Mike? I've done similar but I always find the final manoeuvring to be tense.
AJB Temple wrote:.......We used hand made clays as well - bought very cheaply in Kent as a job lot of numerous pallets. These were enough to do both oak buildings, and my utility room roof and I have two pallets left. But the deal was I had to take all of it.....
AJB Temple wrote:Then mixed up some concrete....
That's quite a bit of concrete by the look of it.
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