Curved Copper Cupola Roof Mini Series Part 1

This is a short midweek series of a project I built about a year ago now. It will be build only, no install footage. I built it for another contractors private client and was not yet posting videos at the time but I was filming a lot and I shot around 30hrs worth for this project. I'll do my best to weed through it and make some watchable episodes that I think you all will enjoy. Some of you might have seen the project in the backround of either the Simple Stairs video here: https: // • Shipping Container Sea... or maybe the Rush Job Guardrail video here; https: // • Rush Job Guardrail for... . Either way, the plan is to put this series out on Monday and still maintain the regular Thursday schedule as well.

[@roblescurbappealconcrete]

Always a great video, Jake. Don’t know if you’ve ever done this type of work but your editing skills are incredible. And that’s besides all the knowledge and experience you have in building construction. Really appreciate it my friend. Thank you. See you on the next one. 🤙

[@dylanmiller7792]

The hydraulic floor jack/ bench looks like a handy tool to have!

[@ShredPile]

One of my favorite things ever. After using this one I realized the amount of work I could get done in a shop with four of them in a grid would be next level. Wouldn''t matter what you were doing be it wood or steel or whatever. Any part at any height at any time. It's good to dream:-)

[@dylanmiller7792]

@@ShredPile that would be awesome! Would you know what the working load would be on the one you have?

[@ShredPile]

@@dylanmiller7792 Yup, it's 4000# It's a panel hoist for a cabinet shop use to lift units of sheet goods up to an automated panel saw to keep them where it can feed itself like a copy machine feeds paper. In another score I got just the top from a larger one of the same brand that is 4'x8' and I married it to a different table base that gets moved around as i need it. If I need a larger space to work off of it's pretty commong for me to add a sheet of steel to the top or just tack weld some arms to it.

[@dylanmiller7792]

@@ShredPile you’re right, it would be next level!

[@Verstore]

Canada Day here and a wonderful surprise, thanks I sure did enjoy.

[@ShredPile]

Super! hopefully you get the day off.

[@robertsimmons3556]

Nice early week post!! Yes I did see this in the background of a couple of your earlier videos. We are in triple digits this week, just came in to cool down and saw you had post this! Can't wait to see how it all comes together Jake!

[@ShredPile]

Awesome Robert, Just saw that it's supposed to get hot here too by the end of the week and i'm not looking forwards to it at all.....

[@paulhammond7489]

Really happy that you decided to piece this series together from your footage. Enjoyed this early fabrication stuff, the hydraulic table is a proper back saver. I'm envious of your mag drill and core bits, I never invested in one of those, hate to think of the number of hours I wasted drilling holes in steel (sigh). Saw the sneak peek for next weeks episode, really looking forward to that. Thanks again Jake :)

[@ShredPile]

trying to keep it interesting over here:-). Theres still stuff I can't get the magdrill into sometimes and then it's old school game on. It really beats a guy up when you need to get sizeable holes into something on a repair job and the only way to do it is with a regular drill

[@president2]

Love it so much keep it up as always 💘

[@andylewis7601]

Hi Jake im loving the rack on your truck very useful & well designed great addition.

[@ShredPile]

Hey Thanks for that, the whole bed ended up a bit heavier than I would've liked when I built it but I had a really clear list of criteria going into it. There is a few small mods I'll end up making to it to add extra tiedown options in the front but I haven't quite worked it out yet.

[@martinstipp6754]

Jake I wish I had room for a Marvel saw n my garage. I found out how to change the corks and the bushing with a new drive belt had them overnight the parts to keep the down time low I like the way they are built.

[@ShredPile]

Worth putting on an addition imho:-) The saying goes that the only thing that will stop a marvel is Osha:-)

[@martinstipp6754]

Ha they are accurate too. Les than +-.005. That drive clutch kinda snuck up on us it had the wrong belt on it too. It never quit cutting only when we changed the corks. Then back at cutting 6x6 tubing and plate

[@dennisdubey2126]

Love all your videos. Can you do one on your work truck & shop tour?

[@ShredPile]

Maybe at some point, It might be easier for me to work it in in bits and parts as I'm frantically digging for something that i need right away and is at the bottom of the pile in the back:-)

[@stevebonczyk3795]

You really pick up some nice projects.

[@ShredPile]

It's been a good run for a while now but there's also a ton of stuff that's not worth capturing but that's how it goes I guess.

[@hlogoma]

As usual it is always a pleasant time watching your video's. Thanks.

[@ShredPile]

Thanks Thomas1

[@bradleyschneider3871]

And i was wondering if there would be a show on Thursday, to my amazement you put out your show even earlier!thanks jake!

[@ShredPile]

Even better, midweek series time!

[@paulhammond7489]

Another school day for me (not being from the US) with the tubular steel sizes / weight. I looked up the '313' and '180' and found they are wall thickness in thousands of an inch (see 00:00:30) I also found the weights per foot, so those 3.5x3.5 313 square tube sticks provide a really good workout. I was trying to guestimate the weight of the finished Cupola Roof, but I'll defer that until I've seen more of the videos :)

[@ShredPile]

I do the same thing Paul when I watch round the world so to speak. One quick trick for fractions of inches if it's more understandable. .313" x your desired fraction which for this example we will use 16ths so .313 x 16+ 5.008 or 5/16" This will work with any decimal inch to fractional inch that you want and as you can imagine, after a while you just recogonize numbers and the conversion happens automatically. .875 x 8 (for eighths)=7/8" etc. Tube steel here is sold and expressed with the thickness noted in decimal inches and angle and bar is sold and expressed in fractions of inches. It helps with confusion during ordering and conversation if one was to ask for 3x3x1/4 you would assume angle whereas if you wanted tube it would be 3x3x .250. Channel shapes are sold by width and then weight per foot with there usually being several options in each size. Beam is a whole nother conversation. One more thing, I believe most other places besides here calls square tube RHS or SHS for rectangular or sqare hollow section. Its noted here as HSS or hollow structural section but nobody calls it that in conversation or ordering.

[@paulhammond7489]

@@ShredPile I'm officially as old as dirt, and growing up and being schooled in the late 50's and early 60's in England, we were taught how to use both imperial and metric units. Starting work in '66 we used a mix of both, mostly imperial in the early days, but the move to metric (meters etc) marched on each year. I memorized the full range of 8ths as decimal inches (0.125 etc), but sadly never saw that neat trick for converting thou's to 16ths, that's so easy to remember, but I have no idea why I was never shown that, or maybe I was, but failed to put it into practice at work, and thus never memorised it. Career paths are funny things, and I dipped in and out of mechanical, electrical and construction roles, but all of those trades went fully metric in the end, some took longer than others. I don't think the US will ever go fully metric (outside of science). BTW the UK never went full out metric, e.g. Highway speed limits are still in MPH, and miles are still used on highway signs for the distance between cities (mile-markers etc). Going back to steel, the current sizing system in the UK is sort of similar to those in the US. Mass is kilos per meter rather than lbs per foot, but there's a whole bunch of different terms used that I'll likely never be able to, or need to comprehend :) But it's great fun to look into those terms after watching an entertaining video :)

[@ShredPile]

@@paulhammond7489 it’s always such an interesting conversation comparing the two systems. I really appreciate that backstory. It always amuses me when I run across the haters on both sides of the issue. I agree that metric makes a lot of sense for certain fields or applications, but not others. Given the sheer amount of building material that flows back-and-forth between Canada and the US construction here probably never will go metric and I believe most of Canada’s residential construction is all feet and inches still although everything there else is metric. Although I used to hear it a lot, nobody here really complains about most of the automotive stuff being metric, and everybody has both sets of tools now. Like you, I am amuse myself often by making conversions in my head when I hear or see somebody explaining something on KZbin, but without anything here to practically apply that it never really sinks in and becomes automatic. I’m sure there’s all sorts of number and decimal moving tricks with metric that exist but again without a practical application for it I’ll probably never do anything more than wonder about it :-)

[@paulhammond7489]

@@ShredPile There will always be the haters, we'll never escape that. I admit miss elements of the imperial system, I guess most of that is just nostalgia, but good riddance to parts of it. The British currency (prior to going decimal) is a prime example to things I don't miss. One Pound was 20 shillings, a shilling had 12 pennies, a penny had 2 halfpenny's and even the halfpenny had 2 farthings, so one pound was made up of 960 farthings. Besides all those there was other coins: guineas florins, crowns, half crowns, tanners and threepenny bits. While over in the USA you had metric money pretty much from day one with 100c = 1 dollar... Thankfully the UK adopted metric currency in '71 and never looked back. Because of my age I can still think and work in inches, feet, pints, gallons etc as well as the metric system. I guess its a little like being able speaking a extra language as we had to work with both as a teenager, but the young folk only use metric these days :)

[@Z-Bart]

Headed out to make some firewood boxes. I'll catch your show later.

[@ShredPile]

It's not going anywhere Ray:-)

[@ohhpaul7364]

When you raise the forklift up and down, does that pulley stay consistently the same distance from the top of the frame? If so, what about coping a piece of metal to the size of the pully and offsetting it on the upper frame just so the cable rides up to it and falls back down onto the pulley. Don't want a pinch point so a close cope and the full width of the pulley and cable on its OD would work best; maybe take the tag ends of this bracket and bend them out away from the cable?

[@ShredPile]

Yeah that whole thing looks a little confusing but the fix is pretty simple. It's actually one of the hydraulic hoses that feed the sideshift. I just need to remove it and have it shortened to take the slack out. It would also benefit from a small tab like you suggest to keep it from popping out in the future. I could also just remove it alltogether by eliminatiing the sideshift function but I kind of like having it:-)

[@MUDNROCKS]

Just got here and guess what ..... still raining. And I thought the weather in New Zealand is a bit wonky.

[@ShredPile]

Haha, no surprise:-) I think we're both on the 45th parallel so that tracks.

[@perry1559]

Is there going to be a video on the finished Modern House?

[@ShredPile]

Yeah, I totally plan on keeping up with it as I go back to do the other parts that I do. It's currently getting sided and all the systems are being roughed in now. As soon as I get some information back from the design team I can start laying out for handrails and guardrails. I will keep up with it as it happens. If you've just tuned in for that series I wonder if there's a notification setting that will just notify you of that alone when I post with Modern House in the title?

[@muddlersworkshop]

The blade on that marvel saw. is the blade twisted 90 Deg's where it cuts to the rest of the blade????????? Left me scratching my head trying to work it out.

[@ShredPile]

Exactly right, Its the same way as a portaband tool works. When you slack the unit to install the blade you twist it into it's slot in between the roller or guide blocks and then retension the unit.

[@danbreyfogle8486]

I remember seeing a copper assembly in your shop, is that what this is for?

[@ShredPile]

It is, It's the bigger one of two and I havent' gotten to the second one yet.

[@nathang.1561]

ive noticed your main truck's rack has a cantilever over the cab but the rack on the backup f250 in the last video doesnt. was having no cantilever on the old truck an easy thing to work around or is it a "never again" kind of thing where too much stuff scrapes and dents the cab?

[@ShredPile]

Oh yeah, so lets see... the backup truck is actually a f350 and if you look close it's been re-sprung with a custom stack and the progressive 4 leaf overload so even when past max it looks normal. That rack without the cantilever worked just fine for a lot of years. most steel is stiff enough but flmsier stuff I would just set on an extension ladder to keep it from flopping too much. It was never perfect but having the center always open makes loading and unloading super simple. Also, the rear rack is removeable on both trucks and 'parks' up by the front rack to allow me to use the gooseneck ball in the bed if i need to. I do much prefer the newer setup to the old but I still need to add a few more tiedown options that I keep meaning to do.

[@nathang.1561]

@@ShredPile im curious how the back racks are attached to the trucks to be easily removed yet still be solidly connected enough to stand up to the loads you put on it. do they rest in a piece of next-size-up telescoping tube?

[@ShredPile]

@@nathang.1561 Pretty much correct. The older truck rear rack sits in the back stake pockets with a flange to bear on the deck and when not in use it parks in the extra stake pocket in the front. The newer truck is much heavier built and there is 3.5x3.5 tube welded directly to the rear frame member of the bed and the rack is 3x3x.180 tube that sockets into it again with a flange that bears on the bed. they both just sit in there with no real restraint. the old truck has some bolts thru the stake pocket that keeps it from jumping out. and the newer one has so much crap on it it doesnt' move much at all. I did drill a couple holes before having it galvanized just in case I i needed to bolt it down. Once everything is strapped down it's not going anywhere. This kind of setup is very important to me as it allows me to set up to a unit of ply on and off the truck without having a rack in the way. super handy.

[@johnadams5586]

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