My New Shed
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My New Shed
Thought i'd share some progress piccies of the new distilling shed.
It measures 5.4m by 4m with a 2m verandah out the front.
edit. Thats 18.3 foot by 13.2 foot.
Has a man size access door with 2 windows and a 7' by 8' loading door, rolling gantry crane, drum wash bay, 500 litre rainwater tank for ferments and will be shopping for a 1000 litre rainwater tank for recycled cooling water. Mains pressure town water above the wash grate...yiddyayiddya...
This is the front, shows the two doors and the frame for my flash spy window, you can see the gantry in the middle of the loading door.
Heres a better shot of the gantry, theres also a whirlybird to go in the roof for cooling on the western side.
This is the wash bay, it's not finnished, needs sand/cement hob around it to smooth rough edges and round the toestubbing edges. Galvanised grate.
Got a few days off this week so hope to get the eastern gutter up and finnish the roof at least.
More piccies later....
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It measures 5.4m by 4m with a 2m verandah out the front.
edit. Thats 18.3 foot by 13.2 foot.
Has a man size access door with 2 windows and a 7' by 8' loading door, rolling gantry crane, drum wash bay, 500 litre rainwater tank for ferments and will be shopping for a 1000 litre rainwater tank for recycled cooling water. Mains pressure town water above the wash grate...yiddyayiddya...
This is the front, shows the two doors and the frame for my flash spy window, you can see the gantry in the middle of the loading door.
Heres a better shot of the gantry, theres also a whirlybird to go in the roof for cooling on the western side.
This is the wash bay, it's not finnished, needs sand/cement hob around it to smooth rough edges and round the toestubbing edges. Galvanised grate.
Got a few days off this week so hope to get the eastern gutter up and finnish the roof at least.
More piccies later....
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nice
very good work and it looks like a nice, private and safe place to distill.
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Thanks guys , it's taking shape.
Insulations not in the budget, i've spent a grand total of $1400 on it so far, that include3s the 5" x 3" RHS frame. It's cyclone/hurricane/conventional civilian bombproof. Scrounging has done me proud so far and i think fans will do me for the time i spend in there. I've got a big kero dome type camping heater that'll hand from the roof in the winter and hopefully run on foreshots.
Yes, the shed is large enough to house a small workshop with a workbench and welding bench, along with a cutting bench along one wall, so the gantry is envisaged as a 'just in case' so i can not only lift drums of fruit or mollasses off the back of my ute, but i can lift the engine out of it too (touch wood i never need to)
I've got some almost new carpet to go over the pavers i got for nuthin and a large rubber mat for the wet area.
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Insulations not in the budget, i've spent a grand total of $1400 on it so far, that include3s the 5" x 3" RHS frame. It's cyclone/hurricane/conventional civilian bombproof. Scrounging has done me proud so far and i think fans will do me for the time i spend in there. I've got a big kero dome type camping heater that'll hand from the roof in the winter and hopefully run on foreshots.
Yes, the shed is large enough to house a small workshop with a workbench and welding bench, along with a cutting bench along one wall, so the gantry is envisaged as a 'just in case' so i can not only lift drums of fruit or mollasses off the back of my ute, but i can lift the engine out of it too (touch wood i never need to)
I've got some almost new carpet to go over the pavers i got for nuthin and a large rubber mat for the wet area.
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Dunno bout the pump being easier or cheaper...there's certainly a pump system going in, i'm not lifting a 40-50kg boiler onto the rim all the time. But finding the right pump is the rub.Pikluk wrote:i just thought pump would be cheaper and easier...alice
I can. Ever tried to lift a 100-litre fermenter up onto a table so you can pour into your still?
Looked at hand sullage pumps, washing machine pumps, 12 volt macerator pumps, sump pumps...none of em are quite right for our application (lumps of grain, acidic medium, gotta have dry lift, etc) and they start getting pricey too.
Still haven't settled on a system yet, but the hand bilge pump is winning so far.
Pity the washing machine ones won't lift, they'd be perfect.
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Thanks guys, my barrels and jugs will be stored in a welded steel and mesh cage. The doors and windows are all to be held closed with bars, and the locked cage might slow anyone greedy enough to take what's not theirs a little longer.
In the end, i spose you can only make things difficult for the freeloaders in life.
In the end, i spose you can only make things difficult for the freeloaders in life.
heres a cheap way to "pump" your mash in the boiler.
wont work with all type of boiler tho, if you cant remove or seal the column it wont work.
the principle is you remove the air in the boiler and it pump the mash in.
this can be done for less the 50$.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirator" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
wont work with all type of boiler tho, if you cant remove or seal the column it wont work.
the principle is you remove the air in the boiler and it pump the mash in.
this can be done for less the 50$.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirator" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
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I've heard of using sewage pumps for moving stuff like that. One thing to say though: make sure it ain't used!Punkin wrote:Dunno bout the pump being easier or cheaper...there's certainly a pump system going in, i'm not lifting a 40-50kg boiler onto the rim all the time. But finding the right pump is the rub.
Looked at hand sullage pumps, washing machine pumps, 12 volt macerator pumps, sump pumps...none of em are quite right for our application (lumps of grain, acidic medium, gotta have dry lift, etc) and they start getting pricey too.
Otherwise, nice job! I've been thinkin' about making a setup like that in the (kinda sorta hopefully near but probably won't happen) future with one addition.
I'd want to make almost a giant version of Pint's still for stripping very large batches (since stripping runs need little heat control) and run it off of a woodstove so I can take advantage of the firewood that is readily accessible in this region. Then, I'd take the low wines from that and run 'em through a keg still on propane.
And, my barrel house would be 30 feet from surrounding buildings and have a sprinkler system installed. The crane could then be used to haul full barrels from the stillhouse to the barrelhouse, but using a dolly would be just fine.
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20lt small pot still, working on keg
"Don't steal. The government hates competition."
"Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see"
20lt small pot still, working on keg
you can get barel arms for block an takle for round 100. they can tip to
goin this path aint no time to be getin proud with pictures but good job
so im tole
goin this path aint no time to be getin proud with pictures but good job
so im tole
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Punkin, check out the pumps that some hombrewers use... they are food-grade, can handle VERY high temps, and are affordable.
Somethin' like this: http://morebeer.com/view_product/17311/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
I wish ya luck, and like the new room yer buildin'.
Somethin' like this: http://morebeer.com/view_product/17311/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
I wish ya luck, and like the new room yer buildin'.
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Already got a 2 1/2 tonne winch for it goose. You got me round the wrong way too. Never sold a bottle yet and don't intend to start. I have a mate who brews turbos, flavours em and sells em and there's another guy at work who flogs the same stuff for ten bucks a bottle. Couldn't compete with that cheap cordial even if i wanted to (which i don't ).
Just have a fascination with getting it right atm and don't have room to do it in the house or the shed. I always meant to build a workshop there, but the plans got moved forward by the missus when she started tripping over fermenters in the laundry.
Those pumps aren't selfpriming HM.
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Marine sewage pump is high on the winner list BW, can't do the very large batches either as i'd run out of storage room and have to stop brewing...just haven't got that many mates
We've got tight water restrictions here Pikluk, the pump i was most interested in was one that i read about in a thread on here i think. Can't remember where it was or who posted it (mighta been Harry), but it just squeezed the tube to pump, and the pump itself never touched the product. Peristaltic it was called.
Just couldn't find a cheap, reasonable capacity one in Aus or anywhere else.
Made some good progress yesterday, all the welding is done on the shed now, gotta build some benches today, must put a shirt on though. The welders got me sunburnt.
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Just have a fascination with getting it right atm and don't have room to do it in the house or the shed. I always meant to build a workshop there, but the plans got moved forward by the missus when she started tripping over fermenters in the laundry.
Those pumps aren't selfpriming HM.
Cable Broadband only Bushido, i'm on a houseblock in a large town.
Marine sewage pump is high on the winner list BW, can't do the very large batches either as i'd run out of storage room and have to stop brewing...just haven't got that many mates
We've got tight water restrictions here Pikluk, the pump i was most interested in was one that i read about in a thread on here i think. Can't remember where it was or who posted it (mighta been Harry), but it just squeezed the tube to pump, and the pump itself never touched the product. Peristaltic it was called.
Just couldn't find a cheap, reasonable capacity one in Aus or anywhere else.
Made some good progress yesterday, all the welding is done on the shed now, gotta build some benches today, must put a shirt on though. The welders got me sunburnt.
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Gotta fair bit more done over the last week. All the guttering and roof is on, and it's fairly well weatherproof. Built myself an 8' by 3' steel workbench with a 2" timber top. Cleaned out all the crap laying in the shed and rolled out the carpet, cut the rubber mat for the wet area, and started moving in and fitting out.
Used the gantry for the first time to get my workbench in. Probably weighs 150 kilos, but i swung her in, swivelled it round, and lowered it down where it goes all with one hand
Got my drums and bins full of grains and mollasses stored under there, i'll have to take a piccie, just didn't realise i had so much fermentables piled up waiting for the space to play with em
Installed my spy window too. It's a flash bit of gear, i bought it brand new from a second hand dealer for not much years ago to go in a camping canopy i was building for my ute and never used it. Dunno if it's out of a caravan or an armoured car, but it's smoked one way glass on the outside and lexan on the inside. There's a sett of slimline venetians inside with a little knob in the shed to operate em. looks great.
I've also been thinking about cooling water. i have a 500 litre tank of rain water just outside the door that i plan to pipe in, and use my existing wheelie bin inside as a float tank holding an extra 100-200 litres, but i'm a little worried about going from my coil in a bucket with static water to relying on a pump to keep going.
Atm i can go into the house for 20 mins on a strip run and do other things in the yard ect, while periodiclly checking on things, swapping bottles ect without worrying about leaks or pumps blocking/stopping ect ect.
I was thinking if i set a 60-90 litre drum up on a shelf near the roof, pumped up to it and gravity fed through the condensor, at least it'd give me some time to notice a problem and the water level in the top drum dropping.
This is gunna complicate the plumbing though and make it more difficult to get the water back into my tank outside. Don't really know which way to go at this stage.
Maybe i could just use an electronic thermometer and hook a loud alarm to it?
Could do with some suggestions.
The shed should be operational in a few weeks.
Used the gantry for the first time to get my workbench in. Probably weighs 150 kilos, but i swung her in, swivelled it round, and lowered it down where it goes all with one hand
Got my drums and bins full of grains and mollasses stored under there, i'll have to take a piccie, just didn't realise i had so much fermentables piled up waiting for the space to play with em
Installed my spy window too. It's a flash bit of gear, i bought it brand new from a second hand dealer for not much years ago to go in a camping canopy i was building for my ute and never used it. Dunno if it's out of a caravan or an armoured car, but it's smoked one way glass on the outside and lexan on the inside. There's a sett of slimline venetians inside with a little knob in the shed to operate em. looks great.
I've also been thinking about cooling water. i have a 500 litre tank of rain water just outside the door that i plan to pipe in, and use my existing wheelie bin inside as a float tank holding an extra 100-200 litres, but i'm a little worried about going from my coil in a bucket with static water to relying on a pump to keep going.
Atm i can go into the house for 20 mins on a strip run and do other things in the yard ect, while periodiclly checking on things, swapping bottles ect without worrying about leaks or pumps blocking/stopping ect ect.
I was thinking if i set a 60-90 litre drum up on a shelf near the roof, pumped up to it and gravity fed through the condensor, at least it'd give me some time to notice a problem and the water level in the top drum dropping.
This is gunna complicate the plumbing though and make it more difficult to get the water back into my tank outside. Don't really know which way to go at this stage.
Maybe i could just use an electronic thermometer and hook a loud alarm to it?
Could do with some suggestions.
The shed should be operational in a few weeks.