Front Axle Finished | DIY Shepherd Hut #3 

I totally agree. You need a grease fitting in there.

Agree 100% with this. As an owner of a classic British sports car with kingpin front suspension, the owner's manual clearly states to regrease the kingpin at least once a year. Putting the zerks in is easy and grease is cheap insurance.

Put em in.

Grease doesn't last forever, kiddo. Add the grease fittings.

The most prominent DIY heavy equipment RU-vidrs like Marty T or Andrew Camarata have one thing in common - they believe in grease. The first thing they do with newly acquired equipment is grease the heck out of it. Grease makes the world go round. Add the grease zerks. In grease we believe.

That's a great tip thank you

Was thinking exactly that when I saw the grinder.

Yup. We do that all the time at work. Good call

and if you forget, invest in a thread file

Or a tap &. die set. @@blackdoublezero

I thought so too! Only improvement would be to exhale on the way up. Not a good idea to hold your breath while lifting. Brilliant build and video. It's wonderful to watch someone with such great skills and interest in doing things the correct way! I know nothing about carpentry/wood working, but you make it look like a pleasurable challenge.

This is a perfect example of what I mean to say; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RV7pmE4MC-I.html

I shuddered and gasped and wondered "does he know something I don't? why no washer?"

a cast iron thrust washer

Agreed - nice to watch the well demonstrated and explained progress. Best wishes for this project. 🙂

Or a Loctite threadlocker

... some of the tradition mobile huts in Europe and USA are being displaced by "ThOWs" (Tiny House on Wheels). This may be good or not. Keeping traditions alive is important but so too is adapting them to suit current expectations of the minimum modicum of function and comfort. One of the reseasons I celebrate this build if a "Shepards Hut" is new (old) ideas can be revisited that can inform current typologies, theories and practical applications. As an Architect, I lament that few current students, practioners and academics reference not just past aesthetic but also past materials and construction techniques. Over my 45+ year career, I have always maintained that you cannot design (as an architect) and document non-standard buildings if you don't understand standard construction methods, standard materials and standard details; to push the boundaries, you first need to understand the assumed boundaries. Also, you need to be able to think in 3D. The Canadian architech, Frank Gehry, has all all this in spades, as did Jørn Utzon Many times in my carrier I have questioned the accepted wisdom; "Why do we do this this way?". To which I invariably got the response, "But everyone does it that way!". To which I'd ask "But why?". Nearly 100% of replies (or variants) were, "because everyone else does it this way, it must be cheaper /quicker /more efficent" ~ idiots using lame excuses to justify their laziness and poor time /cost management and lack of vision. An exemplar ofthinking beyond the "accepted way buildings are designed, detailed, skinned and built" is the Canadian architect, Frank Gehry, though he is in the shadows of Jørn Utzon, who conceptualised, designed and documenter the SOH in the days before 2D & 3D CAD. Those who revisit past technologies and ideas are so important in modern architecture, design, engineering, product manufacture, etc, but most practitioners in these space have forgotten that the celebrated pinnacle we have currently assended owes it's significance to what has gone before... and that we still have more to learn from how our forebares did things (and why). Apologies for the rant, but apparently it was something I needed to express.