Hi all, greetings from Ireland.
We are a small firm doing lots of in situ framing, just curious to find out if anyone has come across a lowerback friendly method of making the panels other than starting down low on the floorslab and constantly stooping over to work, the way I was thinking of working is to put up four stools under the panel allowing a comfortable working height and somehow skidding the panels off the bench with a truck to a dedicated storage area.We hire a loader to stand the panels so it would only be the one grunt journey from bench to storage area.
Any help/suggestions would be welcome as my workmate and I are the chiropractors best (or worst lol) customers
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Search the threads for "Table Boogering with Blue" and see what comes up.
Search all folders for some of Blues stuff from the last year. He's a big panelization kinda guy.
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four stools sound good to me.
Just do it.
blue
LOL
Blue is a Zen master, and of course doesn't even know it.
If you do enough of this to make it worth the effort, how about two stools and two special gadgets that look like a quarter circle. The circle gadgets would need a removable prop to keep them stable at first, then when the panel is done, take the prop out and roll it from horizontal to vertical.
-- J.S.
Thanks all, what we have did is setup the stools, (six of) and 3/4 inch plywood as a bench of and made the wall panels at maximum sixteen feet lengths, some of these suckahs are storey and a half high, once made we insert rope pull handles and just hitch them up to the jeep and drop them on skids to a storage area.We booked a skylift for two days and the entire frame bar one gable is in place, plus most of the floorjoists and subfloor, and our backs are in place as well lol, making a note to have rafters ready for lifting on the subfloor in the next house........never again going back to wall jacks and grunting, will take some pics tommorrow and post them.
Catch y'all later
I knew those stools would work!
Congrats on learning something new.
blue
I worked for while at a Co that built high end "manufactured houses". We built wall panals, installed windows, cut beams, rafters etc in a factory setting, and the whole lot was shipped to site on a truck to be erected.
The wall panals were largely 4' or 8' wide and 8' tall, plus a variety of smaller panals to get the whole thing to fit together. We would square the panals using the plywood sheathing. We had simple jigs to provide various downlaps, overlaps etc. This system worked good and we could really push out some volume.
We worked on a table about 30" high, 60" wide, 8' long. Attached to the table were various stops, markings ect to facilitate common layouts. There was one larger table for the 8' wide stuff.
Hi Nailstrike,
How big are the panels? It seems to me you should have something more sturdy than a few stools. Maybe a large tabletop. Incidentally, I am a chiropractor who did first and second year at Blarney and sat the intercert than moved back to the States. I get back often, my folks are from Cork.
Kevin
Howya Doc,
Blarney is only about sixty miles from me, with the system we're going to use it looks like we can make the panels any size.BTW, you following the football and hurling this year?
All the best
nailstrike
Not really. My father will mention results he reads about in the Echo(?) thats about it.
Hey Nailstrike,
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go Kerry is correct......as in go home defeated lmao, u from the kingdom sy ?
No my FIL is and that is the chant I hear every Sunday morning during the season. My MIL is from Cork. Beautiful country, was in Kerry (Port Magee) where the FIL is from, there a couple o years back, plan to take my kids there in the next year or so...SYSOPGot a question about the forums? email me at:[email protected]