well welcome back to the Steve Rob shawl today it's part three of the wooden garden shed build
and as promised I'm going to show you how I hurricane-proof my building now of course I've
never seen a hurricane in my life the only time I ever seen is destruction the destruction that
it can do is on TV but this building will not be that heavy I'm guessing around maybe a thousand
pounds that's really about it maybe a little bit more than that but you know if you get a good wind
it could push it and or like you say if you get a hurricane it could topple it over now this is
my idea of what I think you know is appropriate to do I can't suggest anybody do this type of
work this isn't like an engineered type of thing this is just my own building of what I figure I'm
gonna do just to hold this down I hope I never have to use this but yeah so I'll show you what
I got going on I'll show you the materials and in my mind what I'm thinking is a good idea so let's
get to it right here okay so let's start off right here I got two 10-foot lengths of 5/8 rebar and
I decided to go with the rebar because rebar is flexible and for the reason that I'm gonna use it
for I think it would be a good idea and of course I've got this tool right here that goes on the
end of my SDS Bosh hammer drill and I've got four washers I got four carriage bolts galvanized and I
got a hunk of old log in chain that I've had now for well many many many years and I'm gonna take
four pieces off of that and you're going to see how this is going together now I'm going to weld
the washers on and I'll show you all I'm gonna do that as well and for those that I've never
seen this tool used before if you want I'll put a link down below and show you how to make that
tool because I've seen it online as expensive as a hundred to a hundred and fifty dollars and I built
that for way under $30.00 it's so easy to do so I've got this rebar here I'm just gonna cut it in
half and put a little bit of an edge on both ends so I'm gonna have four rods and I'll start welding
it up here and I'll show you what my idea is and you guys let me know what you think about this
idea let's get to it right now okay as you can see I've got it marked here at the 5 foot mark well
just get our little cutter here and we'll just cut it off now what I'm going to do guys is I'm
going to cut it on an angle and that will be my point for going into the ground so let's get to it
helps if I turn on the grinder
there you go that'll do the job I didn't want to put my sparks up way I just burn
everything over there well you can hear the welders all fired up and ready to
go and the whole idea behind this is this is going to come in here and drive the rod
in and I just want to make sure that I'm not hitting the washer so I'll just weld that up
right there and I'll do it to all of them I'll just show you on the first one here
okay that's it right there okay so you get a good idea of what I'm doing here
i'm just gonna weld them washers all on and you know it's it's quite easy I mean you're
not holding up a lot I mean just a little bit of welding on there that's all you need
just to stop the washer from going off the end there and look at a good idea of when I put the
chain-link on what I'm trying to accomplish and I wonder how many Nancy's are all going
while because they seen all the sparks going at me when I was cutting these rods and half
I love doing back that okay let's get out to the shed and let's get this foundation
hurricane-proof okay guys here we are I expect this to be slow going because this ground is
hard as a rock and you could put this in with a sledgehammer if you want but my arms just
couldn't take it guys so I'll put them in with the rotary hammer let's see how we do
right about there that'll do fine okay guys there you are they're all put in I figured I didn't
have to show you how to drill an anchor them in there but yeah yeah I got them all in and I'll
tell you one of them took a good 12 minutes 14 minutes to get it in but most of them you know
like this one here went in pretty good so let's go back into the shop and we'll just wrap this
up and let you know what's coming up in the next issue okay guys I hope you like that and that's
how I'm hurricane proofing my my foundation down for the garden shed is it necessary I
really don't know but I tell you what with the weather we've been having over the last couple
of years I thought why not I mean it's like I think total price for everything there was like
22 bucks so I mean why not hey I let me know in the comments who you guys think whether you think
it's something that you should do or you know I'm not too sure but I tell you what guys this
tool like I said I'll leave a link down below if you want to know how to make this guy's I
would have been there for a month the Sunday's pounding with a sledgehammer because even at
that diameter abroad you get some good bounce to it and it is hard especially if you are thinking
pounding that down when it gets closer to the ground so but no I think that's pretty good
and it came out pretty well uh I don't know III think it's a I think it's a good thing to do to
your buildings today I mean like I say I've never had a hurricane up here I've never seen one just
looking on the news but I'm ready now okay guys thanks for dropping in if you haven't seen this
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