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| Imgpoz:
It's definitely just a distorted picture. Must have happened when I was resizing the latest batch before posting. The ramp may not be 100% smooth, but it is pretty much straight across the board! Thanks for the comments from an experienced eye! |
| nipsmg:
you're a machine... :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: |
| Imgpoz:
It’s been a few weeks since the last post – lots going on here plus my basement was the unlucky recipient of some water after a HUGE rainfall we had here recently. But… rest time is over and now it’s back to work! The next piece to tackle is determining how exact slope/angle of my side walls and how I wanted to aesthetically to look. Based on my rough sketching that I did in Excel (I know…; but it works for me!), I knew I needed the sidewall length to be 8 foot and based on a few pencil sketches I made, I decided I didn’t want to have thick / boxy sidewalls. I wanted mine to be as open as possible; this also helps in case the dog wanders under there! I backed into the sidewall overall height and how much of the area under the alley I could cut off by working out the angle of slope I needed and then because I didn’t want to mess up, I made a cardboard mockup to see how it would look. Using my trusty drywall T-Square (I can’t tell you how handy this comes in…!) and the curvature of my recycling trash can I drew out in pencil how the legs and their curves would look. Once this was cut out, the family and I (mostly me!) decided this was a good shape and I got to work transferring this mock up to my plywood. |
| Imgpoz:
Since I’ve already stated I can’t draw a straight line, drawing the angled cut lines for the sidewall on the actual plywood required some thought. In the end, I measured up from the bottom of the higher side and the same from the lower side and I used a long metal cutting guide (12 foot long) I had to connect the two points and draw a line. Once I had the first one cut, I simply laid it on top of the 2nd piece of plywood, lined the edges up and clamped everything down as my daughter & I traced the cut lines. My design required 2 of these cut outs for each side, as each side will have 2x4 pieces sandwiched between both sidewalls, so two down and two more to cut… |
| Imgpoz:
I had a problem posting the pictures with the last post, so here they are. |
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