The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:41 pm**

We have just finished this crane repair workshop.

It is 60m long, 28m wide and 17.2m high to the eaves. It has a 30cm thick RC slab with two layers of reinforcement in it. It has two Kone gantry cranes running the building's length, each capable of lifting 10 tonnes. We also put in two mechanic's pits with a drain to diespose of old oil into a used oil tank. We built a 40,000 litre water tank, a septic tank, a waste water tank - we had to exend the slab along one side of the building to provide an area to wash cranes. We made some toilets out of an old shipping container. We also made some offices out of shipping containers. We gravelled the yard and put up security fencing around the site and built a guardhouse. We also installed and hooked up a 400kva genset. I think that was about it.

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:26 pm**

ted you have been very busy good job looks well smart, the cars in the top photo look like little models... thats massive!!

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:40 pm**

Thanks.

We had to mix all the concrete by hand in two small petrol mixers as quality Readymix is not available here. It was a nightmare - almost 1000m3 of concrete. If I did it again I would have to set up a batching plant and get a lorry. The big firms here set up batching plants for their jobs.

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:28 pm**

Ted wrote:We had to mix all the concrete by hand in two small petrol mixers as quality Readymix is not available here. It was a nightmare - almost 1000m3 of concrete.

Hats off, sir!

When you putting the doors on then?

Hp

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:10 pm**

For some reason the client didn't want the ends of the workshop closed/clad nor doors on the side entrance.

But when it rains and there is a bit of wind the rain really enters the building so hopefully we will get the job to close the ends of the workshop and maybe install doors. The client has said it is a problem. Also, it gets really hot in there as the sun shines in and makes it unbearable to work in.

So, hopefully some more work in the pipeline!

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:49 pm**

nice job Ted

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:59 pm**

Thats one huge building! Nice work Ted

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:25 pm**

amazing what you can do with one man and a chain block

Posted: **Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:01 am**

hi ted nice work thats a lot of mixing could do with some granite setts amongst that gravel will bring a big mixer ha ha which part of sa are you.been there twice on rugby tours cape town loved it :p

The Brew Cabin

Warehouse - That i just built