My New Shed

[punkin]

Really nice setup,man I could pour you a 4" reinforced slab with a stamped logo right in the center, you would flip your wig!!

Yeah, thinking seriously bout concrete out the front where the verandah bit is. Already have a lot of metres of concrete in my back yard i've poured over the last couplea years, and i'd really prefer a traditional timber type verandah deck. just don't think i have enough height ( only a couple of inches to play with) to keep the termites out of it.

Concretes looking easy and cheap, or i may pave it.

[punkin]

Apiccie of my new bench, grain beneath.





From left to right.
Green bin full of cracked corn and the 2 drums in front of it, some whole wheat in the next green bin, then steam rolled barley, then 3 bins full of malt barley and a couple of drums full as well. The bags have sr barley and malt barley.

3 white 25litre buckets full of mollasses in amongst my spare kegs. BOP next to them.The keg on top is set up as a 50 litre storage for white dog. Then two bags of new barrel staves for oak sticks. Then another bin and another drum full of malt barley. Looking forward to using some more of this stuff especially the malt barley.

Carpet came up good, all i did was go to the carpet warehouse and they sent me to the skip out the back. Bit of dumpster diving and the wholesheds carpetted for free

[HookLine]

Looks great, Punkin. I am envious of the amount of dedicated space you have for stillin related stuff. I have to reorganise the storeroom when I want to do a run, and my fermenters sit all over the house.

So when is the shed warming party?

[punkin]

Looks great, Punkin. I am envious of the amount of dedicated space you have for stillin related stuff. I have to reorganise the storeroom when I want to do a run, and my fermenters sit all over the house.

So when is the shed warming party?

Not enough people know about it round here to make a party

[rumbaba]

Looks great, Punkin. I am envious of the amount of dedicated space you have for stillin related stuff. I have to reorganise the storeroom when I want to do a run, and my fermenters sit all over the house.

So when is the shed warming party?

Not enough people know about it round here to make a party

Punkin, you dont have to state in your avatar that your northern oz, all of us in the south have to line our sheds with sizelation, it gets that fn cold in winter. Nice job. Thats a no muck around frame on that bench- way under capacity for whatever you do on it

[punkin]

Gets cold here too mate.. Snows on the hills around rarely in town though we have good crispy frosts and get down to minus 4 or 6 most winters and lower again every now and again.

I'll just have to rug up

[tracker0945]

Punkin, If you can put that shed warming party off until around August or September, I should be passing through about then, so I could make myself available if you needed to build up the numbers.
Cheers

[Jetzon]

Mighty Fine Hooch making shop there Punkin. Just need your satellite radio and fat lazy boy to kick back in! When you hooking the hydraulic lines up to that monster lift there? Buddy of mine uses them for craning engines and tranys out of huge diesel skids, dozer's. Gonna make life a lot easier!

when I get this still up and going I can see a few ideas of my own. I have a little work shop not as nice as yours there but I have a Mighty fine view over looking a Huge dairy farm with the Good Ole Blue Ridge Mountains in the back ground.

[Blind Eye]

Im drooling all over my keyboard!!,Beautiful work!

[punkin]

Time for an update i guess...



Shed is coming along nicely, i've finnished the build on my liquor cabinet, just gotta weld up the doors and design the locks.
It's 1.5m x 1m x 2.4m high (5' x 3.5' x 8') has a large shelf at the bottom to hold kegs ect, two identical shelves above that designed to each hold two 50litre barrels and two 25 litre barrels and a storage shelf above it to hold bottles, flagons and gallon jars.




Got the Fridgemate controller and the heat lamp in yesterday. Figuring out the programming was a little tricky for a dumb hick, but i think i have it running fairly well now, the light is a stainless bainmarie heater with a 275 watt globe. The fridgemate is mounted in the box in the fridge and ticking along here at 31 degrees C.





The workbench is finnished, messy, but finnished, you can also see from the bars on the window that i have taken security fairly seriously. With storage of 65% spirits i couldn't have it on my conscience if kids got into the shed, let alone crooks stealing my hardwon craft.



Didn't take a piccie of the washbay, will do that next time.


Please excuse the blurry photos, don't know why it's done that.

[MountedGoat]

shockingly beautiful. I already have started dreaming up my little shed, though sadly the only place I have free is about 4 hours away! Shit

[Cmonster]

Nice work Punkin

I've got a fridgemate controller too - use it mostly for my lager fermenting fridge. They are a nice unit. That 3 door fridge looks a beauty - shame to hide it away in a barred up shed like that though

There is nothing like a well organised work space to enjoy the job. Cheers, and enjoy playing in the shed, and thanks for sharing.

[Gimp]

That setup looks tops mate.

One day I'll do something like that, Very Impressive.

[Old_Blue]

Nice job!

Maybe curtains on the windows for the curious?

[CoopsOz]

And my missus reckon's mine is getting out of hand!

[punkin]

And my missus reckon's mine is getting out of hand!

Well there ya go.

The bourbon girls been busy sewing curtains since yesterday






IfYouBuildItTheyWillComePunkin

[HookLine]

IfYouBuildItTheyWillComePunkin

Punkin, your fantastic shed just gets better and better. I am seriously envious. I can only dream of that kind of dedicated space to play with.

[goose eye]

good job
would get a fence an couple of dogs an train em or buy em that ways. if you live round folks you dont want barkers or they gona bring the law.

you got evacuation plans for your outfit yet. keep them plans to yourself
plan for the worse hope for the best

so im tole

[OldManP]

Any new updates on the shed/setup/products/etc.?

I'm envious and one day hope to post pictures of my setup in the future. I'd love to have a dedicated shop with all the bells and whistles.

Thanks for all the pics--we are all hungry for more and more pictures/information/updates!?

OMP

[jdonly1]

Shit mate nice set up.
I think I will call you mister shine

[punkin]

Sorry guys, been away fishing the ocean for a couplea weeks now, so no progress. i'm on-call this week, so if works not too busy i may get the welding of the liquor cabinet doors done.

[punkin]

Gettin towards the last update now, the sheds all but complete with the installation of the doors and locks on my liquor cabinet.

Just a bit of shelving to go round the shed here and there and all done.




There's a fair bit of detail in this poor photo for those inclined to look. Notice the bits of rhs welded on the top outside corners to stop any wouldbe robbers jacking the doors off the hinges

Had an extheif help with the design

My two barrells are lodged in their new home, one 50 litre with UJSM and a 25l with corn and malt barley ujsm.

Looking forward to figuring out the mashing process for corn properly so i can order another 25l barrell for an all grain rest.

[jdonly1]

Looken mighty fine there mate

[HookLine]

Now you're just showing off, Punkin.



Seriously, it looks great. You're setting the standard.



JealousInTheNicestPossibleWayHook

[goose eye]

looks good . bring on the dancein girls
someone wants in aint no way to keep em out but make it cost em.
you got any tin snips in your shop.

some ole boys use to booby trap. from streight razers on rat traps to bolted down bear traps to thangs that go bang. they bout all died out

so im tole

[MountedGoat]

A beeping alarm system (kinda like a door chime, just with the motion sensor) is about the most useful addition. Set the chime in the house and the motion sensor at the door (like in a quickie mart) and then you can hear when someone is going in without you knowing. Also works the other way around so you don't get caught by a neighbor wanting a cup of hooch...I mean sugar

Looks great

[punkin]

Thanks guys, i know it may seem excessive, but i think of it like a fence around the pool.
Imagine how you'd feel (and what would happen) if a bunch of neighbourhood kids broke into your stash while you were away.

I've got 65% hooch there.....and it's very drinkable, even a tough kid could guzzle enough to do serious damage.

I know there's now way to keep the serious crooks out, i just have to make it so everythings a hassle, and everything they might wanna get into is noisy and just plain hard.

Not worth much my little stash, but priceless to me.








MyPreciousPunkin

[theholymackerel]

Yep, locks are just to keep the honest out.

[rumbaba]

Yep, locks are just to keep the honest out.

Yep, keeps us honest ones out, some of the theiving bastards but you cant safegaurd against the biggest theives, the govmint(love that yank slang).

[punkin]

Apologies to those who've seen this pic in minimees (and my) VM build thread, but i wanted to stick a pic of the hot end of my shed in here...

This is while installing the VM still, i have a couple more things to do, including building a brace for the new liebig to hold the weight and keep the head straight, insulation to install, the electric controller and a power point behind the pot still, the eprovette needs a stand...etc etc...