I love your videos and congratulations on being married! I would like to add a note of safety: I've known several unfortunate souls who worked with their wedding bands on. If you were severely injured in one lost their ring finger with injuries involving their wedding band. Consider getting a silicone band which still isn't 100% safe or wearing your wedding band under your shirt on a chain that doesn't hang out of your shirt, or hang a coat hook on the entryway leaving your home to your shop so you get in the habit of taking it off when you leave and putting it on when you come back in from working in your shop.
At one time I had thought I'd seen all of your videos. Looking back on this one and several others I see I was wrong. So here's to a rag n bone brown marathon
I really like the build. I have something very similar but, I admit, I purchased a kit from "The Metal store". This cost £311 approx. and comes cut to length and with the fittings & timber. The timber I ended up with wasn't very good, but I came to an arrangement with them so all is well. The reason for buying the kit was simply that it was more cost effective than buying the components separately. I do not work for this company, it is just that some of your viewers may want to take this route. The table is 1500mm long, 670mm deep and 760mm high and each bench is 1200mm long, 220mm deep and 500mm high.
They look great mate. I really like 'em. I think a neat way to get round the clearance of the 90 elbows would be to use a couple of Key Clamps double lug brackets each end, fixed to the underside of your table top. They do different stand off lengths but the shallow ones would lift he table top a couple mm clear. And wood give a floating table top look. Would mean buying yet more clamps though!! Tidy though mate.
Hi Keith, another nice project. The paint should be OK on the weathered galvanizing, but something like "T-Wash" would help the paint adhere to the new fittings. Unless of course you used the Hammerite primer for galvanized metal.
Lol I know what you mean I just built my own house opened the front door about three weeks ago and there was this massive hornet must of beet 3” long I’m sure it was looking at me lol keep up the good work Austin
I never comment but watch all of your videos and enjoy them so much. I do small restoration projects and the way you explain what you're doing and why is awesome. Please keep doing what you're doing!
Also you're the reason I upgraded to a track saw from my old circular saw. Every time I use it I send a little gratitude from Pennsylvania across the ocean to you!
Nice, utilitarian design. Easily adapted to any wood. But pressure treated lumber. Working with it is one thing (mask and gloves), but heeding the warnings about washing your hands carefully after handling it, I don’t use it for any surface that people will be in contact with - including kids and play equipment - whether or not it is painted or otherwise sealed. My opinion for what it’s worth. Thanks for the video!
My favourite RU-vidr! With my favourite cat! Borrowing from Alec Steele, Less yack yack, more cat cat 🐈😺 Maybe a weekly episode what he's been up to during the week! 👍
I didn t expect to be so beautiful . They came out very nice especially when you paint them black . If you have pipes left you should do more projects . Cool job !!!!!!!!!!
Great project. Thank you for sharing. One could also router out a rectangle at each bottom corner, that would inset the tabletop and then there is no need to drill into the pipe and add washers. Just an idea.
Good work. Nice. I like that. I made a security fence frame round my cellar steps in this tubing so nobody does a dive into a deep hole in icy weather ... and you are right. The fittings are pricey. The tubing itself cost much less than I had expected it to.
Looks to have passed the quality control of, inspector Dylan...👌🏽 Looks heaps better painted, nice build, mate.👍🏽 Demolition yards might be the way to go to save some dollars, too.
I think it looks great - much nicer than a picnic table or standard garden table. The black is sharp against the wood - very nice. And I like how you over-built it - is much prefer it was strong and going to last than be easily broken in a few years. I had no idea that kind of metal was so easy to assemble. I’ve seen similar metal used around construction sites in scaffolding - might be another cheap way to get it secondhand. Great job!
My parents had a bench of similar construction, though top was railway sleepers, when we cleared their house about 10 years ago the bench had been there 40 years, we left it there, it's probably still in service.
great job, again, Keith. this is one of my favorites of yours, even though i've been subscribed for years and you have made some more impressive things in the past. i just like the simplicity, durability, and use-ability of this project. i've been wanting to use pipes and fittings for some projects but the cost for new parts makes it not worth the effort. a friend made a pipe & fittings lamp and spent around USD $400, for example. glad you could use salvaged pieces once again. keep up the great work! very inspiring!
That’s a really nice set Keith. Quality assured and hard wearing too. Those hornets make a racket. We had one flying about near the house a couple of years ago and it almost deafened me for how loud it was lol great video mate
Loving the project Keith. There’s a place near me called themetalstore that supply the pipe and fittings (I’ve used some in my workshop for shelving). I’m lucky enough to be able to collect, so not sure on postage, but they do cut tubing to length for free, so saves on some work.
Nice strong build, very modern look. Even though you have pressure treated wood, a soaking of Boiled Linseed Oil or similar (BLO stinks when freshly applied) would help waterproof the surface & endgrain against rain absorbing into the wood & hopefully prevent moss growth. Enjoy your summer days out there. Hope that wasn't " murder hornets" been mentioned on Google news earlier this year. Poison enough to kill mice, wouldn't want to get stung!
Would have much preferred to trench out the underside of the end planks, allowing them to all sit level, no? Regardless, an excellent project and I am really tempted to use this design myself in my garden in the coming weeks - with your permission. I will email you pictures when it's done :)
Interesting solution to the corner bracket issue! I'd probably have just routed the underside of the boards on the corner. I've looked at using scaffold boards before, and the price has always surprised me! It's odd there isnt a bigger second-hand or reclaimed market for them.
"Fixings," in Texas, are the side dishes at a buffet or large meal where you serve yourself like a family gathering. For example, "Get yourself some fried chicken and some fixings."
Looks nice! It ties in with your black downspouts really well. Might want to put a grey translucent stain on the wood once it has a chance to breathe to tie into the house color a bit, but overall a very nice looking and solid build. Nice flossing!
Came out really good. I used some of that tubing to make drop bolts for my drive ways gates. Bet that would of cost you a bit if you had to buy so result it was mainly free
Enjoyable upcycling of materials. Out of curiosity, how much would it have cost you to build the bench and table out of some sort of rot resistant wood such as cedar or other fencing wood?
awesome project! would steal it to make my own this summer for my parents house :D oh, can you tell me the exact name of that ''grip table'' by milwaukee that you used to lock the pipes while cutting them? thanks!
Huh. It never actually occured to me that countries with different currencies would call those types of stores different names. Dollar Store, Pound Shop, etc. I wonder if Yen Den is a thing? Haha. Project came out great!
hi I wouldn't have used standard wood screw in this metal as it would strip out overtime you should have used a metal self tapper these are very cheap to buy
I like this table and benches. It does look like it will last a long time. Do you have plans to build a patio cover for this area in the future? It seems to be an excellent place for a cover, but the price of lumber at this time makes a cover a project for a later date, doesn't it?
That is cool , i recently made a table for outside out of super thick sleepers for the top , all good but the middle one is split ( not all the way ) , any ideas how to fix it , filler did not do a good job .
Most of all you are using scraps for this job You're recycling so you spend some money to get the rest is job done the whole object of the job you did today was to make something nice and save money on it objective secured Looks awesome If you can can you make another one and send it to Tampa Florida 👍🏻🍻🍺🍕