Dugout Roof Posts by @cahlen on 3Speak
I want to add more dirt to the top of the dugout shelter roof so I decided to add two posts inside the structure to increase how much weight it can hold. --- ▶ Watch on 3speak.tv
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Hey everyone, Callan here, and in this video I'm going to be putting in a support beam for the roof because I plan to put in more dirt on top and then plant some grass there, and that, but just by itself is going to be a lot of weight. And also, when it snows here, that'll be pretty heavy, and add to that weight, and I don't want this roof collapsing on me. So here's a view of the roof from the outside. I've got a bunch of dirt piled up here, basically at an angle, and then it comes up to the roof. And I've started adding more dirt. I'm just trying to make it thicker because I want to have room for the roots to grow. Also, it'll help with insulating the roof. So basically, maybe you want to add another inch or two of dirt to this. So here's a view of the roof supports as they are now. I'm going to put a beam here. and a beam over there. This is probably the strongest beam that I have because it goes the entire way across without being cut at any point, and it's oriented this long way, right, as opposed to this one over here, which is laying on its side, and it doesn't go all the way. You can see, this one does go all the way, so going this way. It is fairly strong, but again, it's not set up long ways like this one, okay? So this is better than this, though, because of this point. So the only thing supporting this really is two screws, so this, or this, if it gets too much weight on it, could get pulled out through the screws. So I already cleared out the insulation where I'm going to be putting a board, just a 2x4, which goes across here, so it'll be supporting... all three of them at once, and then the beam will come up and sit underneath it. Then directly below it, and I didn't plan this, just kind of worked out this way. I have two floor beams, one's going this way, and one's going this way, and it basically sits basically dead center below that point. Alright, here's a look at the 2x4. put on there and I was careful to select screws which would only go through two two by fours without going any farther because I don't want it to poke a hole in the actual roof and create a point for water to leak in. And here's the beam I'm going to use. I just pulled from the scrap pile here. Okay, so here's the beam. I cut it a little long so that I could... and do what I'm about to explain. The roof is at a slight angle going up in this direction. So I need to cut this beam slightly at an angle. You can see it pokes up higher on this side than it does on this side. So what I'm going to do is just align it like this, and then I'm going to draw a line with the pencil and then cut it there. This is the tool I'm going to be using, and this allows me to... basically move this whole arm to change the angle of this thing. So I just need to bring it down and get the right angle and then cut it. Okay, I've cut it and I've got it in place, and I'm just going to use this rubber mallet to start pounding it into the right spot. And on the bottom as well. Now that I have it in place, I'm just going to use this level to make sure that I've got it straight up and down in both directions. And the thing about using scrap wood is that it's scrap for a reason. So you see, I've had to twist it a little bit, and it's even more so on the bottom. You can see it's not quite in line. That's because this whole thing twists as it goes up, and I'm going to be putting in my raised bed platform here, and what I really need is for this to be straight going this way, okay? So I'm basically just twisting it so that down where I'm going to be attaching the bed, it's straight across. Okay, I've got it all screwed in, and to do that, I basically just did two screws on either side going up at an angle into this board, okay? down at an angle, and you can see it leaves me just enough space for my bed mat. So I've got one of them in. Now I'm just going to do the exact same thing for the other one, which will be a little bit taller in this one because of the roof angle. But I'll just do that by myself, and I'll show you what it looks like when it's done. All right, I've got both of the posts in there. I covered up the bottom with dirt. Super sturdy, not going anywhere. And still leaves a pretty good amount of space for me to move around, mostly around in this area, enough space for the bed. So losing a little bit of space inside the structure, I think, is totally worth it, even if it wasn't really necessary, because, you know, I could walk around on this roof before and it wouldn't sag and anything like that. It could probably hold a lot of weight, but just not having to worry about it because I don't think there's really any, well, there's a certain amount of weight that would still collapse a roof, but it would take a lot at this point. So just having that concern off of my mind, you know, so I'm sitting here in the winter, it's snowing and not having to be stressed out that I need to keep going outside and shoveling the snow off every few hours just so, you know, just so it doesn't collapse. You know, just having that off my mind is totally worth just losing a little bit of the space. So anyways, that's my video on the dugout shelter roof supports. Hope you liked it, and I'll see you guys later.