Making a Step Stool Hop Up For The Workshop from Ply Rips and Firewood!
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- In this video, I take some left over scraps of plywood and some spalted elm that was destined for a fire to make a much needed step stool (hop up) for the workshop.
The ply rip construction is exactly the same as I showed in my recent video making a ply rip modular workshop cabinet. It's a great method to either make the most of a sheet of ply or, as I'm doing here, using scraps that wouldn't be much use for much else.
The small planks of spalted elm are from logs I took (with permission) from a felled, diseased tree local to me. Had them sat around for years, never really using them for furniture (with one exception) but, have proved useful for attractive additions to the workshop. - Jak na to + styl
Love watching your furniture builds so I'd appreciate a dedicated channel to that.
Thanks man. It'll be a while as I figure out how I'm gonna present it but I'll announce here when it happens 👍
I'll sub to your new channel, in a heartbeat! Thanks for all you do here M8! Take care & stay safe.
Thanks bud. It'll be a while yet as I wanna have a good think think about how to present it and what not. I'll announce it here though.👍
Love your builds and the reviews! Enjoy a Sunday beer and Greetings from Hamburg.
🙏 Thank you so much!
I was thinking about a step stool for my workshop and I like the ingenuity of the slide out. Might have to copy that 😉 As for a furniture channel, yes, I'd go for that too!
Thank you mate. Yeah, the sliding step has grown on me 👍
👍👍👍. Thank you
Cheers dude👍
Will definitely sub to a furniture build channel. Your furniture is fantastic
Very kind, thank you!
I’ll sub to your new channel I love your builds and I dig this small step I need something like this in my shop
Thanks mate. Yeah, now I have one, i realise I should've made myself a step stool ages ago!
Nice clever design with the stool, Stu. About the 2nd channel, I am with Ben (hewawe) on this. I also think 2 channels is a headache, unless the 2nd channel was something completely different, like a channel about cars or watches or dogs 😁
Cheers mate. I get what you (both) mean. Another reason for the second furniture only channel is I'd aim to make it more kind of formal -for the business. Still giving it some thought might not even happen.🤷♂️
Morning.
Great build!
I've had an old stool that I've been planning - for years - to add a step to. I was planning a fold-up sort of affair but your version is a far more sensible and, to my mind anyway. pleasing way of doing it...
As to your furniture builds... For myself, I enjoy all your content. Should you start a second channel I'd happily watch that too.
The idea is to learn - right...?
Keep truckin'...!
Thanks mate. Think I probably would've preferred something that folded up but, couldn't think of a way to make it work - strength wise - with the offcuts I had. The sliding step is a nice simple way to do it though. Would be perfect for a retro-fit I think.👍
@@BischBaschBosch Yeah. That was an issue I was concerned about - all the weight going on a couple of dowels... Your solution is elegant and side-steps the dowel thing...
Have a good week!
It looks great Dude. If I were you, I might replace the limit stops with vertical members that are a hair above ground level. These should allow the sliding step to move as it currently does, but under load, would bear against the ground. I’m sure that your design is structurally sound, but adding a vertical member either side at the back would assuage my concern about the loading at the rear of the step pulling / shearing / fatiguing screws over time.
Cheers mate. Yeah, i considered an extra set of legs but I think it'll be alright. It'd have to sheer 8 screws to give. An extra square below the step runners inside each front leg would add extra support when extended. I'll add something like that if it feels like it needs it after a while 👍
@@BischBaschBosch I agree. My concern, which is only mild, is that in a screwed connection, one screw is always loaded a bit more than the others. I was mainly thinking about fatigue failure. I’ve investigated a good few lorry wheel detachments and they (nearly) always go the same way. You get a loss of clamping force, which fatigues one wheel stud, eventually to failure. That failure mode cascades around the other wheel studs. If you had wood glue on the load bearing connections, which is a surrogate for clamping force, I’d have no concern at all. I’m probably overthinking a non-problem.
@@dwalsh3469 I always appreciate the input and engagement my friend. I have now added a couple of little squares on the front legs of the stool to support the back of the step when extended. It's been fine (video is about 2 weeks behind the actual buuld) but my missus has taken to using it often. I'm fine using myself as a guinea pig but not others.😉👍
Looking forward to your second channel, to be truthful if people dont want to watch furniture builds thats fair enough but shouldnt need a second channel? i will sub to it though🤣😂🤣😂
Cheers mate. True. It's just I'm thinking if I start a channel specialising in furniture builds, it'll have an audience that actually wants to watch it. 🤷♂️
Nice build Stu. Quick and fits the bill. I always think why did I not do this earlier which the workshop is a place I spend a lot of time
Curious about your fire wood save. I have access to a massive American red oak which was brought down in a storm. How did you plank your elm? I am firewood converting 130 year old oak tree and I would love to at least make something from it
In a few years time once dry
Cheers bud. So because my bandsaw is pathetic, i chipped some bark off a quarter of the log then planed it a little to create 2 flat spots perpendicular to each other. I then ran em through the table saw to create board widths, then finished the cut on the bandsaw. Much easier if you have a decent bandsaw with a 4 tpi 1/2" or 1" blade with power to run it.
@@BischBaschBosch thanks mate. My band saw as one stage up from pathetic… the tree is 26 inches on the crotch and 36 inches on the main trunk. So massive. I just want to save part of it
@@dougsaunders8109 They width measurements? That is quite big if so. My advice there would be to chainsaw or split them down the centre/length to make it more manageable. I selected logs that would be no more than 200mm diameter inside the bark. I'd have no hop of processing otherwise.
Dude, no, fuck no... I'm here for your furniture builds! Ive a pet hate fr peeps that take their vids to a second channel too. My build vids do better than tool reviews so what gives here dude???
No idea mate. For me, not only do they get less views but the watch time is way, way down compared to workshop stuff and reviews.