Homesteading Aspect Oddball Thread

So, two tracks.  Therefore there is gap between the doors, right?  And the outer door is a little higher?

Yes, yes and no.  The door hangers have a long bolt that gives several inches of adjustment.  So it allowed them to be about the same height.

To keep the gap between the doors I had to cobble together some standard hardware for my creative application.  I buried a cedar post to hold the hardware.  At the end I have some wooden slabs so that the doors can't overtravel and hit the underside of the soffit.

Here are some more pictures:

After two years of trying unsuccessfully to heat my greenhouse with compost, I took out the compost bin recently.  It was 8' high and about 8' diameter.  Unfortunately it was a load bearing bin that was holding up a yoga platform.  I was able to remove the metal panels of the bin and leave the 2x4s in place to hold up the loft.  Then I removed all but the three that were actually holding things up.  I made a new single support post and 2x8 cross beam to take the place of the three 2x4s.  I jacked up the loft a bit, removed the 2x4s, excavated for a new footing for the post in the required spot, leveled the footing (reused cement blocks from another project) and set the loft back down on the new post.  It looks better and now there's room for a RMH...

All the boards for the new support were reused, it needed about 9 screws and a coat of the healthiest white stain we could find at the store (what we had already used on the rest of the greenhouse).  The removed parts were kept for reuse on other projects.

So, mm, yeah. I built a pumphouse. Was my first roundwood timberframing project and a test/practice run for developing some of the skills for doing this kind of joinery. Went with a metal roof, which we'll also be using on the house, again, partly for the practice. It's also a very long lasting product, so while there's a load of embodied energy, it amortizes over a long life span. Frustratingly, many of the pix I took of this project in progress appear to only exist in my uploads directory on FB and are gone from local storage. And I don't know how to get them here from there. Did all the mortise and tenon cutting with hand tools. Worked out all the rigging to lift all the frame members into place by hand, no machine assistance.