Sprayer shed and store.

[Fraserb]

Looking good, did you just sit the concrete wall on some blocks or something? We were wondering about this, we think we'll lay the floor first and then pour a 250mm wall to meet the bottom of the sheets. Insulation wise still not sure, you can buy a lot of antifreeze for the cost of it!

We usually just weld plates onto the steel to carry the panels then concrete the floor about 50mm up the panels.

 

[rob1]

Looking good, did you just sit the concrete wall on some blocks or something? We were wondering about this, we think we'll lay the floor first and then pour a 250mm wall to meet the bottom of the sheets. Insulation wise still not sure, you can buy a lot of antifreeze for the cost of it!

As Fraserb says we weld cleats on the stanchions to sit them on so they are all level then lay the floor under it to the outside. If you are only doing your own spraying then perhaps the cost of insulation is higher than using antifreeze, however I do contract spraying and it is really annoying when you have to go and spray 20 acres for someone and then have to use antifreeze again, it costs me nearly £35 each time to get it right out to the ends of the booms, although I tend to blow them out with my compressor nowadays,

 

[Wombat]

Looks great, my little project fell foul of being too close to a grass airfield for permitted development, so going to turn into a bigger job as full planning will always be needed.

 

[Daniel]

Looks great, my little project fell foul of being too close to a grass airfield for permitted development, so going to turn into a bigger job as full planning will always be needed.

That's a shame, I expect there's as little common sense to be found in your local planning department as there is ours.

 

[Wombat]

That's a shame, I expect there's as little common sense to be found in your local planning department as there is ours.

Government policy on permitted development, if you are within 3km of any airfield no matter how small you cannot go over 3m with permitted development. I did explain the combine was 4.1m tall but unfortunately it's set on stone. Another one of these that nobody prob questioned when it was out for consultation

 

[l'ordinary bonville]

Ridiculous really as airports tend to have large control towers close to runways. A road on final approach would mean you need to be 50' above it.

I have a 12m tall grain store and numerous 9m tall bins within 300m of a grass airfield (mine)

 

[Daniel]

Old concrete removed and new laid, all falls to the sump at the back with a tank buried in the back right hand corner, 1.7 metre flat plinth along the right hand side for shelving for chemicals etc:

All concrete mixed with our mixer bucket and had approx 35kgs/m3 of steel fibres where the sprayer will run, no fibres round the sides.

The job seems to be taking a while in between all the other farm activities at the moment, maybe it will be ready for the 2015 season!

 

[LEAMHEAD]

Daniel,I've not seen a mixer bucket before what's the procedure and how much can you mix in it?

 

[Daniel]

Daniel,I've not seen a mixer bucket before what's the procedure and how much can you mix in it?

Its a good workout chucking the bags in, but nothing like shovelling it all into a drum mixer!

I ordered it direct from italy and we've used it loads, laid a sugarbeet pad with it, this shed and used it for various jobs, laying patios etc on 3 bungalows we built. Laying concrete it saves you about £15-£20 a cube, but more than that it utilises labour better, we've been able to fiddle about getting all the falls correct without having concrete lorries waiting to pour, if we need to go and do something else we're only mixing as much as we can lay etc.

Video I made of it working:

 

[Steevo]

Looks a good mix! What recipe do you use? I'd be interested to know what the liquid you poured in was too.

Those fibres certainly look the business!

 

[LEAMHEAD]

Cheers for that vid explains it perfectly!

 

[Daniel]

Looks a good mix! What recipe do you use? I'd be interested to know what the liquid you poured in was too.

Those fibres certainly look the business!

I use about 8 bags of cement which makes 0.6 to 0.7m3 of concrete per load, but I can do it more or less by eye now. The liquid is a super plasticiser, it cuts the amount of water you need for a workable mix in half, that way the steel fibres will sit down in the mix and not stay on the surface but you don't weaken it too much by having to add a lot of water. Not going to know how much that helped for a few years though!

 

[Daniel]

The sprayer fits!

 

[rob1]

Looking good, what are you going to use for insulation?

 

[Daniel]

Looking good, what are you going to use for insulation?

Still not sure whether to insulate or not, it will add a lot of cost.

 

[Daniel]

Sheeted as far as we can until the doors arrive, definitely going to be ready for the 2015 season!

 

[Jon]

Very impressive ! Well done.

 

[Daniel]

Water tank sits outside shed and is piped underground to come out of the floor by the sprayer intake coupling, sited it so the sprayer is parked under cover but the tractor is just outside the door so the exhaust fumes don't smoke me out, that way there's not a pipe laid on the floor to trip over or a hole cut in the tin sheets with a pipe shoved through it.

 

[Steevo]

What size tank is that?

 

[Daniel]

What size tank is that?

4000 litre, fills from a borehole.