Design: Box #1

Just came up with this design, it should be much cheaper since wooden materials can be found easily. Metal copings can be added. Just a regular manual pad. Hopefully, we all can collect the materials needed and collect some money for the necessaries.

Update #1

The green colored sections are the ones that we're able to obtain, the purple part is the one that we need to do more thinking and decide about. I'm gonna include the full dimensions of the box on the next update. By the way, the carpenter is kind enough to cut the meranti into half, hopefully he'll be able to cut the spaces for the center bar too.

Update #2

it does look kinda small, but that's how it is for a 6ft long. when it is complete it should be 1+ deck high and the box frame will allow us to put more stuff under it to make it higher. Assuming that we're going use the 12ft planks of wood. one plank of 12ft wood would cost about $10 to $11, cost depends on the type of wood we choose.

the different colors shows the number of planks needed so, the red and blue color consists of 2 planks of 12ft. about the yellow, ermm... its a an overestimate, but i got that covered hehe. the center bars can be replaced by a thinner wood but strong enough to support the stress. lets say we're going to change the center bars with a different wood, then the cost would be different.

all in all, the cost of the box will definitely reach up to $20+ (excluding nails and other things), i think this should be cheap and small enough to be managed.