Today was all about cutting up pallets and tacking on shingle boards on the fuel shed. What I did do was move two pallets at a time since that's all the dolly can handle, and took the reciprocating saw with a fine tooth blade to cut the nails on all the pickets of each pair of pallets then I move to tacking the pickets onto the shed as usual. At the front of the shed I did have to contend with the pipes that I had to screw into the fronts of the barrels for the output faucets. I did stop tacking boards on when I got to the first barrel so I can line up the pipe with the next board that I would tack on so I can mark and cut the board before tacking it on. Once the board was tacked on I was able to insert the pipe through the hole and screw it in place into the drum.
With the pipes in place I was also able to screw on the faucets which have metal internal valves that make full contact with the inner walls of the faucet body. This was important as there would be gasoline coming in contact with the internals of the faucet at all times. With the faucets screwed in place I would be able to just open the valves up to dispense fuel into containers as needed. One thing I do still need to do is get the large pipe fittings to screw into the larger flanges of each barrel so I can add a filler port to each barrel. The flanges are 2" NPT, which the regular chain stores do not carry, I'll have to go to an Ace hardware to find this specialty shit. I'm still up in the air about whether I want to have the filler pipes extend to the outside or if I can add the fittings in the tight quarters between the fronts of each barrel and the inside of the wall. I'll have to see how much space will be needed with the fittings available. Worst case if I do have to extend the pipes to the outside I'll just have to do some eyeballing and approximations of the locations on the pallet shingles where I'd have to drill pilot holes to be able to cut out the larger holes for the filler tubes. Well back to the pallets. I started on the other side of the shed to get most of that wall up. I did clad the side with boards all the way up to the lowest point on the sloped roof. It is at this point I'll have to cut an angled notch out of the following boards to fit them in place under the sloped roof eave on each side. Once I was done on the side I moved on to the front where I had to do all the lining up of the pipes and cutting notches prior to putting the pipes in place as mentioned in the first paragraph. I managed to get almost to the top of one side before running out of pallet boards and time. On the other side I ended up putting one pallet board too many up and was blocking the bottom pipe flange on the bottom barrel. As a result I had to eyeball where the pipe would come out at and drill a pilot hole for that pipe so I can cut the hole out further with the reciprocating saw before putting the pipe in place. At this point I'll have to drag more pallets over for "processing" so I can continue with the shingle setup.
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