[music] 00:05 speaker 1: gidday, knuckleheads. uncleknackers here, and have i got a project for you. sometimes i get an idea for a project,and i just can't wait to start it, and with christmas just around the corner, and a scorchinghot australian summer upon us, the timing couldn't be more perfect. so, what i haveplanned is to transform this classic 1970s
average woodworking bench height, esky or cooler into a raised or elevated rustic,timber cooler box made out of old fence palings. and it's going to look absolutely fantastic.now, the first thing you need to do is to remove all the old hardware off the esky orthe cooler because we need a blank canvass to work with.
00:53 s1: now, with all the hardware taken off, it's now time to workout what size you wanna build your cooler box. i'm going to make mine the length ofthe cooler box here, or the esky, with an added 300 millimetres or 12 inches on eitherend, which all up is about 1150 millimetres or about 45 inches. and that'll give you somewhereto put your stubby or your bowl of chips or something like that. and the height, whatyou do is you take the lid off, and you want the height of the esky plus some. and me,i've gone about 480 millimetres in depth, which is about 19 inches. okay, let's startbuilding these panels. okay. we need to cut enough timber to make two panels for the frontand the back, and each panel has five palings. so that'll be 10 all up. we need to cut themat 1150 millimetres long or roughly 45 inches.
so, let's do that. 02:08 s1: now, we also need to cut three supportsfor each panel. now, i'm just using this old hardwood rail from the paling fence. and weneed three of those cut at 475 millimetres each. just be careful when cutting the oldrail as there's always a truck load of nails in it. so, just be careful. 02:39 s1: now, to save some time, i've pre-assembledthese side panels. and you can see the supports are in. there's one there, one in the middle,and one down the other end. you'll also notice that the end support is a palings of widthback from the end, that way when the side goes in, it finishes up nice and fresh, justlike that. and to nail the palings off, just
grab a hammer or a nail gun and bang away.i should also say too that it's a good idea before you assemble everything to give thoseold palings a bit of a sand. it's gonna be easier in the long run. [pause] 03:29 s1: and now we just need to nail thesides off. 03:50 s1: beautiful. so, there's the box allmade. looks pretty good, doesn't it? now, all i need to do is to attach the legs. andto make the leg, all i'm doing is getting two palings, running some glue down one edge,and then nailing the other on top, just like that. and i've pre-made some. and the lengthof these legs is 830 millimetres which is
about i think it's 33 inches. and then onthe bottom of those legs, i'm going to put some casters so we can move this bad boy around.i'm just going to nail these legs on. 04:50 s1: so, here she all is with the legsin place. now, just to get away from the chunkiness of the leg, wanna add a bit of a splay, somethinggo in 45 millimetres from the edge and run a line up to about 30 millimetres from theunderside of the box here. and that'll give us a nice angle. 05:21 s1: so, there you have it. and i mustsay, it's looking pretty good. now the next stage is to put the top on it using theseold palings once again. but before you do that, you need to install these supports,one on the end, one there, one there, and
one there. now, the two supports in the middlehere are offset from the center because i want to install the esky or the cooler andi don't want those supports to be in the way. and just as a quick side note, this wouldmake a fantastic elevated herb garden. next video perhaps. and now it's time to nail thetop off. 06:09 s1: with the tabletop now put on, it'snow time to cut a hole for our cooler or our esky. so place it where you want to put iton the tabletop, trace around it with a pencil, and then cut it out with a jigsaw. 06:36 s1: so there you have it, the esky,or the cooler, has been inserted into the hole that i've just cut. now all we need todo is to add some support beneath this to
stop it from sliding all the way through.so if we go down here, we just need to run some supports underneath the esky, got a nailinto the side over there, and that'll stop this from falling through. so with the lidall i've done is that i've framed around the outside edge of it this small [07:04] ____railing. and, once you open it up, you've got your esky. close it down again, just hingeit at the back, put some palings across the top, and we're done. 07:17 s1: how good does that look? i cladthe top with small fence palings, and then ran one around the outside edge as well, justto cover up that old hardwood rail. and for the handle, all i did was cut down the oldhandle from the esky that's inside here, and
it works like an absolute charm. and becausemy lid is set back from the edge of the cooler box, i used a really good set of cabin hinges,they're absolute rippers, and cabin is c-a-b-i-n. get a set. now you don't want little kids,or even big kids for that matter, jamming their fingers underneath this lid, so to fixthat problem, all i did was cut a stick of timber, screwed it to the side of the lid,chiselled a small hole into the cooler box top, and all you do is place that stick intothat hole, and there you go, no more squished fingers. how cool is that? now to make thisbig unit a bit more mobile, i'm going to screw these casters to the bottom of the legs. makesure you pre-drill the holes first because, otherwise, you'll split the leg.
08:35 s1: now for drainage, all i did wasget some 25 mil poly pipe, i drilled a 25 mil hole into the side here, and ran the pipestraight through, and attached it to the outlet on the esky, or the cooler box. i ran thepipe out and then cut the flush with this surface here. and then this tap just screwedbeautifully into the end of that poly pipe with some silicon, and the job was done. howeasy is that? and now it's time for a few finishing touches. i've got a really coolold surfing sign which i'll screw to the front. i've got a couple of bottle openers because,seriously, what's a rustic old cooler box without a bottle opener or two? so i've gotone here that i've painted up and sanded back to make look a bit old. and this one here,which is possibly the coolest and most manliest
bottle opener of all, is an old spanner, andall i've done is cut one of those lugs off, and that gives it the perfect angle to opena bottle. what an absolute ripper! 09:56 s1: so how much did all this cost? wellthe wheels cost 16, the tap was seven, and the hinges were 10, so 16 divided by the 10,carry the nine, with the hypotenuse, that comes up with 33 dollars. how cheap is that,for this? now how good does that look? and it even comes stocked, ready for action. whata top project, great tip knackers! and as per usual, if you found this video useful,subscribe to my channel, the button's down there. thums up, the button's down there aswell. and don't go just yet, because there'll be a couple of photos going backwards andforwards of this little baby in various stages
of construction. anyway, i better get stuckinto a couple of those coldies. so till next time, i'm out of here. cheers!