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Steel benches

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These were made up over the course of a weekend after purchasing 6 x 7.5 metre lengths of 200 x75 heavy duty lit-gal purlins . This is a basic 3 platform trestle type rack
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and this 1 is a simple bench type
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which will have a granite retaining wall built underneath it , time permitting of course .This has produced around 45 metres of new bench space . I had to get the excavator back to widen the top terrace by 1 metre and sort the drainage out , now growing a nice lawn ready to be trampled when the rock work begins .

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:o :o ... Look at all that stock... :worship: :worship: :worship:
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Looking great Alpine, although the that firewood may not dry :P

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Hi Raymond , plenty of stock here , just not enough time to work it . I might get around to it one day until then it just grows and sells .

Hi Pearcy001 , mate the rack has a roof under the beams , a bit of forward thinking on my behalf :yes: . A dual purpose rack and wood storage , cos I'm running out of usable room for essentials like firewood :whistle: .

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Your making me jealous ,I haven't even started to cut wood for this winter . Great benches ,I'd like to do something similar in the future but I was thinking of turning the purlins or roofing iron the other way up so that I can channel the excess water into tanks for reusing in other areas of the garden . It looks like your maybe doing that on the benches behind .
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Good job. Make sure you paint the welds with ''cold gal'' at some point.
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alpineart wrote:Hi Pearcy001 , mate the rack has a roof under the beams , a bit of forward thinking on my behalf :yes: . A dual purpose rack and wood storage , cos I'm running out of usable room for essentials like firewood :whistle:
You're a much smarter man than I Alpine, very jealous of this set up mate.

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Sno wrote:Your making me jealous ,I haven't even started to cut wood for this winter . Great benches ,I'd like to do something similar in the future but I was thinking of turning the purlins or roofing iron the other way up so that I can channel the excess water into tanks for reusing in other areas of the garden . It looks like your maybe doing that on the benches behind .
Cheers Sno
Hi Sno , managed to haul in around 10 tonnes of wood so far , will require at least another 4 tonnes to get through the cold . The run off goes down onto the grow beds the other side of the screen , I waste nothing here except time .

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Hi Percy001 , mate I'm in the building trade so it helps a little bit

Hi Treeman , mate never had any faith in cold gal unless you put a sealer coat over it. But the time it rusts out I will have re-used them somewhere else

Cheers Guys . Alpine
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