Red Squirrel
No Lifer
I posted about this in the bought thread when I bought he materials for it but figured it's more fit for this thread.
Made a deck box. Roughly 7.5' x 2' wide and about 2' deep. The biggest available for sale were like $400+, so I spent $300ish in materials and probably over $400 in man hours to make this one.
Dropped it off at my off grid property and it was raining the entire time we were driving there and it didn't get wet inside so that was a good test. Definitely needed 2 people to move that though.
I set it up so I can put a lock on it, but honestly if someone wants to steal they're just going to cut a hole through it with a chainsaw or even break the lock so there's no sense in putting a lock. Going to avoid keeping stuff of value in there, it's mostly for camping chairs, kindling, paper, lighter, bug spray, sun block some hand tools and stuff of that nature. Just to save having to bring that stuff back and forth each time.
Start of piecing it together
Top done
Painted
In it's final resting place
Was originally going to rely on just paint for weatherproofing but decided to put a plastic panel instead, also added drip edge at the higher point as water could potentially trickle down along the back wall. May paint the inside too at some point but was running out of paint and just wanted to get the outside done.
Once I build a shed I will use this for kindling and small pieces of firewood for making it easier to start fires.
Made a deck box. Roughly 7.5' x 2' wide and about 2' deep. The biggest available for sale were like $400+, so I spent $300ish in materials and probably over $400 in man hours to make this one.
Dropped it off at my off grid property and it was raining the entire time we were driving there and it didn't get wet inside so that was a good test. Definitely needed 2 people to move that though.
I set it up so I can put a lock on it, but honestly if someone wants to steal they're just going to cut a hole through it with a chainsaw or even break the lock so there's no sense in putting a lock. Going to avoid keeping stuff of value in there, it's mostly for camping chairs, kindling, paper, lighter, bug spray, sun block some hand tools and stuff of that nature. Just to save having to bring that stuff back and forth each time.
Start of piecing it together
Top done
Painted
In it's final resting place
Was originally going to rely on just paint for weatherproofing but decided to put a plastic panel instead, also added drip edge at the higher point as water could potentially trickle down along the back wall. May paint the inside too at some point but was running out of paint and just wanted to get the outside done.
Once I build a shed I will use this for kindling and small pieces of firewood for making it easier to start fires.
Facebook
Twitter