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HHWW: Wheatgrass Trellis

A while back I saw this video about growing wheat grass fodder.

View on YouTube

It took my fancy as we need additional fodder for the chickens.

I worked up a design in SketchUp a couple of months ago:
Rectangle Line Parallel Building Drawing


With the plastic garden trays in:
Furniture Shelf Bookcase Shelving Rectangle


I decided to half lap the whole thing. It's a very basic joint, and seemed a good place to start. I planned to screw it together so I could break it down if needed later on. As if to make up for the simplicity of the joints, I decided I wanted to make the lips the tray rest on part of the cross members. I could have just used strips, but hey.

The final cross-members look like this, and were cut on the tablesaw using MicroJig Grippers. (They surely do rock, those Grippers!):
Rectangle Parallel Automotive exterior Metal


This project is one-half utility, one-half woodworking exercise. I've never done designed a thing from scratch like this, never cut half laps, never nibbled a joint on the tablesaw, never done compound cuts as on the cross members, never laid out a thing and needed it to fit properly…lots of firsts here.

Here's how it turned out:


I managed to overcut one set of the grooves in the vertical 1 cm too wide and cut a couple of the half laps a little too thin. I didn't bother with the shorter top members, and I left the bottoms of the verticals whole while half-lapping the cross members. I turned them to the outside to slightly widen the footprint, for stability or something. I also added crossmembers near the middle for needed support.

It's made from 38Ă—57 battens from the building center. I do not claim it to be anything great but it will do the job and it taught me some things about the way it's made. It is sturdy, and stable, and as the second thing I've ever made, it's good enough for me to be pleased with.
 

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HHWW: Wheatgrass Trellis

A while back I saw this video about growing wheat grass fodder.

View on YouTube

It took my fancy as we need additional fodder for the chickens.

I worked up a design in SketchUp a couple of months ago:
Rectangle Line Parallel Building Drawing


With the plastic garden trays in:
Furniture Shelf Bookcase Shelving Rectangle


I decided to half lap the whole thing. It's a very basic joint, and seemed a good place to start. I planned to screw it together so I could break it down if needed later on. As if to make up for the simplicity of the joints, I decided I wanted to make the lips the tray rest on part of the cross members. I could have just used strips, but hey.

The final cross-members look like this, and were cut on the tablesaw using MicroJig Grippers. (They surely do rock, those Grippers!):
Rectangle Parallel Automotive exterior Metal


This project is one-half utility, one-half woodworking exercise. I've never done designed a thing from scratch like this, never cut half laps, never nibbled a joint on the tablesaw, never done compound cuts as on the cross members, never laid out a thing and needed it to fit properly…lots of firsts here.

Here's how it turned out:


I managed to overcut one set of the grooves in the vertical 1 cm too wide and cut a couple of the half laps a little too thin. I didn't bother with the shorter top members, and I left the bottoms of the verticals whole while half-lapping the cross members. I turned them to the outside to slightly widen the footprint, for stability or something. I also added crossmembers near the middle for needed support.

It's made from 38Ă—57 battens from the building center. I do not claim it to be anything great but it will do the job and it taught me some things about the way it's made. It is sturdy, and stable, and as the second thing I've ever made, it's good enough for me to be pleased with.
I watched the video. Amazing the things I never knew existed.

You did a great job building the framework. It looks sturdy. What have you decided on for the trays?

And of course, I so annoyed that you did so well with Sketchup. I still haven't done anything with my paid for lesson book. Kudos, Ted. :)
 

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HHWW: Wheatgrass Trellis

A while back I saw this video about growing wheat grass fodder.

View on YouTube

It took my fancy as we need additional fodder for the chickens.

I worked up a design in SketchUp a couple of months ago:
Rectangle Line Parallel Building Drawing


With the plastic garden trays in:
Furniture Shelf Bookcase Shelving Rectangle


I decided to half lap the whole thing. It's a very basic joint, and seemed a good place to start. I planned to screw it together so I could break it down if needed later on. As if to make up for the simplicity of the joints, I decided I wanted to make the lips the tray rest on part of the cross members. I could have just used strips, but hey.

The final cross-members look like this, and were cut on the tablesaw using MicroJig Grippers. (They surely do rock, those Grippers!):
Rectangle Parallel Automotive exterior Metal


This project is one-half utility, one-half woodworking exercise. I've never done designed a thing from scratch like this, never cut half laps, never nibbled a joint on the tablesaw, never done compound cuts as on the cross members, never laid out a thing and needed it to fit properly…lots of firsts here.

Here's how it turned out:


I managed to overcut one set of the grooves in the vertical 1 cm too wide and cut a couple of the half laps a little too thin. I didn't bother with the shorter top members, and I left the bottoms of the verticals whole while half-lapping the cross members. I turned them to the outside to slightly widen the footprint, for stability or something. I also added crossmembers near the middle for needed support.

It's made from 38Ă—57 battens from the building center. I do not claim it to be anything great but it will do the job and it taught me some things about the way it's made. It is sturdy, and stable, and as the second thing I've ever made, it's good enough for me to be pleased with.
Thanks, Paul :D We have a number of plastic garden trays kicking around. Designed this to fit them. I will need to do some drilling on them so it's a flow through system rather than spill everywhere system. Some paint, a pump and some tubing and we are golden. Oh, and the lights. And water. Ok, I have a way to go yet….

I'm really loving SketchUp. I've had an on again off again relationship with AutoCad since the mid 80's, but I find SU so much more intuitive for 3D. I miss some of the AutoCad functionality though. Mostly the simple stuff. I find i use about 6 commands in SketchUp - it's not as complex as we may want to make it :p
 

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HHWW: Bosch Chicken Coop

Last year, before I owned any tools, I came across a set of chicken coop plans from Bosch. I liked the look of it, and played with it in SketchUp a few times, but never seemed to be able to get it right. Part of my problem was that it was designed using UK standard lumber, and the lumber here in Denmark uses a different size standard. Part too was working on a screen from a pdf of the plans. I sent the pdf off to ezeeplan.co.uk and they sent me back nice full size prints. Much easier to read and make sense of.

Here's the how to video:

View on YouTube

Here is how it is supposed to look (I will not be paining mine a uniform brown!):


The drawings I have to work from:
Rectangle Slope Font Parallel Diagram


Product Slope Rectangle Architecture Schematic


Font Parallel Engineering Rectangle Diagram


Last night I decided to have a go at actually building it. I cut the front frame pieces and laid it all out on the floor. Amazingly, it all fit! I got the angle at the peak a little off on one cut and had to trim a couple of vertical supports because my math was off a little, but it went really smoothly.

Today I put the frame together, attached the siding, routed the outer edges flush and cut and routed the door opening. The top left ratfer edge routed all wobbly because I didn't pay attention to the bearing edge of the frame - it was wonky so the rout is wonky. There is a dip in the edge on the right right where the rafter meets the wall. The mitre slid when I screwed it in, so there is a .25" dip in the edge. Lessons learned.

Here is the front frame assembled:
Wood House Building Floor Hardwood

Wood Pet supply House Rectangle Hardwood


I cut the second wall's members with some trepidation - would they be correct and match the front's dimensions? Why yes, yes they will. (The back is shorter than the front.The parts that should actually match perfectly :D )
Wood Rectangle Floor Flooring Composite material


Tomorrow I will assemble the back frame and skin it up.
This woodworking stuff is well satisfying.
 

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HHWW: Bosch Chicken Coop

Last year, before I owned any tools, I came across a set of chicken coop plans from Bosch. I liked the look of it, and played with it in SketchUp a few times, but never seemed to be able to get it right. Part of my problem was that it was designed using UK standard lumber, and the lumber here in Denmark uses a different size standard. Part too was working on a screen from a pdf of the plans. I sent the pdf off to ezeeplan.co.uk and they sent me back nice full size prints. Much easier to read and make sense of.

Here's the how to video:

View on YouTube

Here is how it is supposed to look (I will not be paining mine a uniform brown!):


The drawings I have to work from:
Rectangle Slope Font Parallel Diagram


Product Slope Rectangle Architecture Schematic


Font Parallel Engineering Rectangle Diagram


Last night I decided to have a go at actually building it. I cut the front frame pieces and laid it all out on the floor. Amazingly, it all fit! I got the angle at the peak a little off on one cut and had to trim a couple of vertical supports because my math was off a little, but it went really smoothly.

Today I put the frame together, attached the siding, routed the outer edges flush and cut and routed the door opening. The top left ratfer edge routed all wobbly because I didn't pay attention to the bearing edge of the frame - it was wonky so the rout is wonky. There is a dip in the edge on the right right where the rafter meets the wall. The mitre slid when I screwed it in, so there is a .25" dip in the edge. Lessons learned.

Here is the front frame assembled:
Wood House Building Floor Hardwood

Wood Pet supply House Rectangle Hardwood


I cut the second wall's members with some trepidation - would they be correct and match the front's dimensions? Why yes, yes they will. (The back is shorter than the front.The parts that should actually match perfectly :D )
Wood Rectangle Floor Flooring Composite material


Tomorrow I will assemble the back frame and skin it up.
This woodworking stuff is well satisfying.
Woohoo, Ted! Lookin' good!
 

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