- To begin with, cut all of the lengths of wood provided in the cut-list:
- 1x Shipping Pallet: 100cm x 120cm
4x Vertical Supports: 86cm x 5cm x 10cm
4x Depth Cross Beams: 100cm x 5cm x 10cm
4x Length Cross Beams:110cm x 2cm x 10cm
4x Angled supports: 91.5cm x 2cm x 10cm cut at 22.5°
2x Median Vertical Supports: 62cm x 4cm x 6cm
- 1x Shipping Pallet: 100cm x 120cm
- Next remove the center boards from your pallet so that it retains the outer frame with the center support.
- Begin by Assembling the cube’s sides:
- Begin this by laying 2 of your length cross beams, lengthwise against the two longest edges of your shipping pallet, so that they are resting on their narrowest side. These two pieces of wood are simply acting as spacers for this step and will not be screwed to anything at the moment.
- Take your two of your vertical support beams and put them, alongside the two length cross beams, on the shipping pallet so that they also rest on their narrowest side.
- Now place two of your depth cross beams ON TOP OF your vertical support beams so that they are resting on their widest face. These four beams should make a rectangle measuring 86x100cm (34x39”). Screw the two depth cross beams to the vertical support beams using 2 of your screws for each corner.
- Repeat the previous instructions so that you end up with two rectangular frames.
- Measure and mark the center of each of the length cross beams which make up the rectangular frames of each side.
- Place one of the median vertical supports where you just marked on either side and toe-nail two screws through each end of the median vertical supports and into the length cross beams.
- Now take two of the angled supports and screw them into your square frame so that they create an A-frame which meets in the center of the top length cross beam, right above the median vertical support.
- With your two rectangular frames assembled, stand them up at either of the short ends of the shipping pallet and screw your 4 length cross beams to them in order to construct a box frame which matches the footprint of the shipping pallet. You should use 2 screws for attaching each end of the length cross beam to the rectangular frame and the whole structure at this point should measure 100cm deep x 120cm wide x 100cm tall (40”x48”x40”).
- Using 6 screws, toe-nail the 2 bottom length cross beams and the 2 bottom depth cross beams to the surface of the shipping pallet so that they are securely fastened.
- With all of the previous steps complete, the result should be a rectangular cuboid with an a-frame on either side. Now would be also be a good time to paint, stain, varnish or weatherproof your farm cube.