And it's discussing radiant heat. Take frost pushing up into account & you won't want it on the bottom. Here frost pushes up way harder than any load pushes down.beatle78 wrote:This link says you should put the wire mesh at the bottom of the slab!
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ohhh I see, and since a radiant slab is "inside" (even thought it sits in/on the ground) doesn't have the frost issue, right?Freddy wrote:And it's discussing radiant heat. Take frost pushing up into account & you won't want it on the bottom. Here frost pushes up way harder than any load pushes down.beatle78 wrote:This link says you should put the wire mesh at the bottom of the slab!
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The trucking company's schedule and mine finally fit together, and I got my 24tons of Superior Pea delivered...
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Finshed my bin today. All ready to accept my 24 tons of hoarded rice coal. It's 14x20x5
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Nice coal bin for sure! Where did you get your truckload of rice? I guess Superior is a lost causecoalkirk wrote:Finshed my bin today. All ready to accept my 24 tons of hoarded rice coal. It's 14x20x5
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Terry,
How are the angle support posts anchored into the hillside? Just curious. Looks great.
How are the angle support posts anchored into the hillside? Just curious. Looks great.
Don't you just love us "Curbside Superintendents?"Cap wrote:Terry,
How are the angle support posts anchored into the hillside? Just curious. Looks great.
But, speaking of the support posts.......I probably would have attached them to a 4x4 running horizontally, the length of the outside of the box to equally support the whole side rather than attaching to the individual upright 2x4s.
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Let me see if I can remember and answer all of those questions.
Devil, The bin boards are 2x8's supported on 16" centers, The sides and back are rock solid. I designed and built this thing in my head about 20 times before actually taking saw to wood. The first version had me using 6x6's and it was just way over built. (I tend to over build things). Then I was going to use 4x4's and that was still overbuilt. so it's framed with 2x4's with doulbes where the outriggers attach.
Cap, the outriggers are attached to 4x4's buried 30" in the ground and backfilled with crush/run.
Trader, Grading and stone was 1,800.00, concrete was about 700., wood was about 500. Damn, that's 3k. I save at least that much in 1 year of using coal.
Coalmeister, Coal came from Summit.
I'll post antoher pic when it's "loaded. "
Devil, The bin boards are 2x8's supported on 16" centers, The sides and back are rock solid. I designed and built this thing in my head about 20 times before actually taking saw to wood. The first version had me using 6x6's and it was just way over built. (I tend to over build things). Then I was going to use 4x4's and that was still overbuilt. so it's framed with 2x4's with doulbes where the outriggers attach.
Cap, the outriggers are attached to 4x4's buried 30" in the ground and backfilled with crush/run.
Trader, Grading and stone was 1,800.00, concrete was about 700., wood was about 500. Damn, that's 3k. I save at least that much in 1 year of using coal.
Coalmeister, Coal came from Summit.
I'll post antoher pic when it's "loaded. "
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Wish I could figure out how to crush Superior Pea into Rice... Maybe a coffee grinder of some sort hooked up to a motor to grind the days worth of coal while the coffee pot is warming?LsFarm wrote:The trucking company's schedule and mine finally fit together, and I got my 24tons of Superior Pea delivered...
Greg L