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Wooden silo

Modeling
#1

With the fun we had on this year’s Build Challenge, I’ve carried it on with the next project…a silo for the barn I built a few years ago.

I started with those cleaner wipe containers - gluing them top to top and filling one of them up with ballast for weight:

…next, I used scaled 2x6s to cover the sides…

…I then trimmed up the boards and put the cap on the top…

My next step was to cover the cap with tin plate. doing some research on the Internet, I came across a program a guy wrote that gave me the template I needed for a 12 gore top (or you can choose the number of gores you want). Using Inkscape, I scaled it to what i needed, used my wife’s crafting cutter and drew out the template on the tin plate. Now I need to cut it out and solder it together. I’ll post when I got that done (hopefully this weekend).

#2

Matt,

The saying around here is “No pictures, it didn’t happen.” We WILL be waiting! (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

#3

that is funny!

about an hour ago, i could see the pics. - now nothing.

#4

Must be a bad day… Seen some photos and now gone and Korm forum signature was gone and now it back. Must of been a misty sun beam from another planet.

#5

Ok Joe. It almost didn’t happen, it is a good thing I took a photo (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif).

Next step is to make myself some tie wraps like Devon did for his MIK Build Challenge.

#6

Cool

#7

Matt still no photos here

#8

Bob Hayes said:

Matt still no photos here

Bob,

I think Matt must be moving them or something. They were here a couple of hours ago when I posted “Cool”, but they are gone now! (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-frown.gif)

#9

Darn, I was too late to see them pictures again.

#10

nada nothing ziltch just minus signs

#11

Just minus signs? Devon, quit being so negative then. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

#12

I would have liked to have seen Montana …I mean the pictures!

#13

(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)Wherrrrrrrre’s the pictures!!!

#14

Joe Zullo said:

…They were here a couple of hours ago when I posted “Cool”, but they are gone now! (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-frown.gif)

maybe he believed you, and put the pics into the fridge…

#15

Ok, ok. I guess I missed the point in the beginning because I see the pics I’ll look into this since I haven’t changed the way I post pics and it seems something did change since the last time…that gives me an idea. I’ll try to work on this tonight.

Sorry to all who can’t see the pics, they’ll come back. (They always do…)

#16

I saw the pics, for $5, I’ll describe them for you … picture 2 white bottles… and some long boards … any more and I’ll haveta charge!

Yer bud,

John

#17

Ok, let me know if what I did helped restore the pictures. Were you all able to see all the pictures from my Build Challenge topic?

Even I didn’t see the pictures when I came back this evening. Sorry for the trouble.

#18

Yessire! That are back again. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

#19

Cool.

#20

Great Silo, Matt. You made that complicated tin roof look easy. Thanks for sharing the imaginative use of the hand wipe containers for the inner core. I’ll have to remember that one.