well welcome back to the Steve Robb show today pretty exciting day I dreamt something last
night we're gonna see if it comes true and it's how to build a fire wood log holder
so when you're outside and you've cut all your wood it's all split and you want to
stack it well this is an idea that I come up with myself and let's see if dreams come
true well let's start right here we got two two by sixes and three two by fours they're
both eight foot long and I'm gonna cut these up and we're gonna get to it and I'm gonna
see if this idea actually works as good as I dreamt it would well let's start doing
let's cut these in half hey this is neat foot log we're gonna cut a rate at four foot mark
well let's get started right here I marked off the end of this 2x4 a nine inch piece gonna need
10 pieces for one end of the log Rock then we'll move over here and I've lined this all up here
and you could see where I'm going to have to buy four in here a space a 2x4 in here and if you take
a look I've done the math and it's 11 inches from the center of the first one to the center
of the next one as we go along so you stay on one side and you work yourself all the way to the end
but on the last one here it's ten and a half which is fine so as you can see where all the marks are
that's where the 2x4 goes and this is where the spaces are so I'll cut up the pieces and you'll
get a better idea of what I'm doing well by the chops on I just thought I'd show you a little bit
of a tip that I do I'm not too sure if you guys do this or not but when you got to cut like a lot of
repeat cuts I don't like fastening anything to my chop saw table I find it binds I don't like doing
that so I'll show you what I do when I'm doing multiple cuts and it doesn't really have to be
that accurate not in this particular situation so I'll show you the chop saw table and what I
do okay so here we are here we got our piece of wood and you can see it's got to be cut off at
the nine inches and I just put the blade down and measure over here with my tape measure measure it
off nine inches and describe it with a pencil and you can always take that pencil mark off it comes
off very easily but it stays there for the whole time no matter how many cuts you want to do I mean
you have to rub on it pretty good I usually just use a little bit of thinners to get it off but for
me that's a good little tip for making multiple cuts so let's get cutting and welcome back well as
you could see I've got the pieces all cut there's ten pieces and you see the piece sitting on top
there and that little block right there that was left out of the whole 8 foot length of 2x4 which
is perfect so there's hardly any waste and I hope you can see what I'm doing here and maybe I can't
but you're going to have to make sure that before you fasten this in that every one of
these is sitting flush and exactly the width of a two by four which is three and a half inches from
here to the end because I will be putting a two by four across the whole side on this side here so I
hope you've got a better idea exactly of what I'm doing and I'm not too sure if you do but yeah it's
all coming together I think it's gonna be pretty good and I'll bring you back when I got more done
well what we're gonna do now was I gonna show you how I'm going to fasten them I'm gonna use my air
nailer and you can use screws or you can just use a hammer and nails and that should work out fine
I'm not going to glue mine I'm just going to put it in as is and I think that should be fine I'll
bring you down and I'll show you exactly what I'm doing and remember you have to make sure that the
block of wood that's hanging out at the bottom is make sure that it's a little on the loose side you
don't want to be having it too tight because it's a purpose part okay so as I was saying you want to
make sure that your block of wood is a little on the loose side you do not want it to have it too
tight because if you have it too tight it's gonna cause a problem so well fasten it down I'll show
you how I'm going to fasten it down and then I'll do all the rest and then I'll bring you back after
okay so the distance between here and here is [ __ ] to shade over a two by four which is three and a
half so let's just fasten these in here and what I'll do is I'll go to the other end and I'll do
that one next okay so I'm at this end here and I'll just fasten this end and let's get to it
okay so what I'm gonna do now to make things a lot easier is put the bottom
board on next and then all the other ones will have an automatic stop to
set the depth okay so as you can see this is just a 2x4 just ripped right
in half and we'll just fast it on I like to use three nails and just laying this one up
like I say guys screws is fine if you want to glue it that's fine too so let's move on to
the next part well I decided to put some clamps on it there make a lot easier to nail and these
guys can get a better understanding of what's going on here at least I hope you can and I'll
bring you back and I'll start nailing this and you'll get a better understanding of what I'm
trying to do here because guys this is looking better all the time and it's best just to jig
something up like this and put some clamps on it makes it so much easier and of course you
could see I put the lines here wherever I'm putting the nails and it's so much easier to
do and this will only take a couple of seconds so let's get to it okay I'll show you a couple
of these you know it's nothing fancy guys try not to nail yourself in their hand I
mean that's pretty easy I mean of course it's just follow the
lines I mean it doesn't get any better than that
okay so there we go I'll bring you back when I got more done okay so I've got this all lined up
here ready to go we'll just finish nailing it off and I'll show you the Bostitch nail are in action
and it makes it so much easier like I say screws would just be fine so there you go guys I'm not
gonna bore you showing all of it I'll turn it over I'll do the other side and I'll bring you
back well here we are here I got one all mocked up and I'm just using the blocks from the other
side I haven't finished the other side yet but I'll show you what the idea is here and you could
see that these are the uprights and like I say you want to make sure that you don't make them
too tight or they won't fit in there and here we are here and then in the front now they're just
short little stubs but they're actually going to be 6 feet long each one of these stubs sticking
out the end there and guys that's pretty well it there well I hope you like this design I'm
going to finish the other side and the only way I can show this is if I bring it up to the camp
so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to finish this all up I'm going to bring it up to the
camp and apart to I'll show you it all installed and what the firewood in it and I thought that's
the only way to to exactly show this and display how this idea actual work so it is going to be 4
feet wide 4 feet high and 6 feet long and the whole idea behind this is I have to fabricate
everything at home first put it in the back of my truck and then put it up there and then assemble
it and for me I thought that's the best idea to do and this is a little bit of a different design
and you're going to see some more improvements to what you're going to see here and a exactly
how this is all going to fit together and why I built this so stay tuned for part two thanks for
joining in and if you haven't seen this channel before you're welcome to subscribe and guys this
is the best part of being retired as you get to do all kinds of crazy stuff like this and dream
up anything you want so thanks for joining it come back again let's have some more fun bye guys