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This video is all about helping you better understand how the metal legs and
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handle work and You can see here in the side view The galvanized steel pipes I used to make this happen. It's one inch diameter stuff
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standard hardware store item Don't go with the black iron pipe because it's going to rust like crazy. You're going to want to use the galvanized and
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Here we have there's a flange underneath here and then a T and
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An elbow and some other pieces as well if you go down here you can see
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The front view this is where that T comes in because it allows you to connect
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one End of the pipe and the other and into the system you really do need this cross piece here when I first built the house
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In the interest of simplicity I only had the the upright pieces and it wasn't that strong
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especially if you try to drag it because all of the leverage forces against these flanges and
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it's just not strong enough on its own, but Put a cross piece here at at one end and the other and you've got some some really good results
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very strong up here the same sort of pipe and Except it's formed into a handle. So we have a flange elbow
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24 inch length of pipe elbow and another flange and I put one of these handles on both the front which is what you're seeing here and
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Then on the opposite side on The back you can put these handles anywhere you want
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You could put them on the sides as well the front of the back doesn't really matter But there should be two of them because if you want to pick this thing up by hand
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You're going to need one person on each side Now in addition to to this whole metal leg arrangement
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It's not sufficient to just simply screw it to the 5 8 inch plywood at the bottom
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It needs to be fastened to something heavier than that. And that's where this 4x4 runner comes in
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It's a pressure treated piece of wood nipped off the corners to make it look a little nicer and
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Glued and screwed that to the bottom of the house and then the legs to the 4x4s
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That gives more strength and it also lets you slip in right here
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with the forks of a loader if you want this there's lots of wood there with the 4x4 and
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It can certainly be lifted up by that with the forks, so
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Just finishing up with this view of the plans. You can see the lid here in different positions
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you can see why we can't have a Cap piece extending down here because if we did
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It would stop the the roof from opening up The cap pieces they're ghosted in here, but you can see that they extend beyond the top of the house
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There's there's plenty of clearance in there. So it never rubs Besides looking nice the cap pieces do make sure that the water sheds on the outside
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of the house and never gets inside of it that way and I
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Guess that's just about it for this view of the plans
