September 8, 201213 yr Finally broke ground for my home shop 30 x 36 will post the progress, heres the start from yesterday
September 8, 201213 yr I'm with Tim! when ya gonna build the extention? Seriously, looks good. and looks like you do have room to expand if you ever need to. Enjoy retirement!
September 8, 201213 yr Ayup, that certainly IS broken ground and it seems you're well into refilling it with a shop. Room for the addition when you run out of room seems available. You ARE going to run out of room you know, retirement is a wonderful time for gathering more tools. Nice retargeting of productive time Larry. Being retired doesn't mean sitting around or it wouldn't have TIRED in it. Free to do as you wish, provided the honey do list isn't too extensive. Of course. <grin> Frosty the Lucky.
September 9, 201213 yr Frosty has a good collection of Tools (notice the capital "T"). I know I have pictures. That looks like its going to be a shop to be envious of.
September 10, 201213 yr I sure do Bryan all I need to do is finish the shop, organize what's in it and make room for the connex full. Not that I'm keeping my eyes open for more tools and equipment . . . It's a disease I tell you, a DISEASE! I like it though. When we gonna see you again? If we can get someone to critter sit Deb and I may take a road trip up your way. Deb's never been farther north than McKinley park and we have a new truck that's a joy to drive. Heck it even gets decent mileage. Frosty the Lucky.
September 11, 201213 yr I like the look of the location! What's with the big trench and then shuttering? We tend to dig to size and use the natural ground as a shutter? I'm not trying to be a wise ***! I genuinely would like to understand the reasoning in the prosess? Ian
September 11, 201213 yr I sure do Bryan all I need to do is finish the shop, organize what's in it and make room for the connex full. Not that I'm keeping my eyes open for more tools and equipment . . . It's a disease I tell you, a DISEASE! I like it though. When we gonna see you again? If we can get someone to critter sit Deb and I may take a road trip up your way. Deb's never been farther north than McKinley park and we have a new truck that's a joy to drive. Heck it even gets decent mileage. Frosty the Lucky. Frosty you are welcome any time, any time at all. I've been trying to wrangle a way to come down and visit but the universe has been against me and I haven't been able to. I tried real hard to make the July meeting and come to the big class but things didn't work out finacially. We got a used motor home and the breaks on it cost us $2200. They had to redo everything. You know you have a problem when you go to take the disk break off the axel and it breaks off in your hands and leaves the hub on the axel. I had to farm out the work and it ate up our reserve. But its all good. We have a nice motor home now. I'm taking it in to get winterized this week. Anyway, we will figure it out. Me coming down, you coming up. Fire and steel, ain't it wonderfull?
September 12, 201213 yr Shops aren't for faint hearted metal head collectors. Bigger is better...and don't solicit suggestions from the better half. :) JE
September 12, 201213 yr Author Solicit ? she's already landscaping the perimeter !....but I'm making a fancy lock for the door
September 12, 201213 yr "What's with the big trench and then shuttering? We tend to dig to size and use the natural ground as a shutter? I'm not trying to be a wise xxxx! I genuinely would like to understand the reasoning in the process? Ian " Ian, he is waaay up north, almost in Canada, so they have to dig the footing trench deep to get below the frost line, and wide to put gravel drainage around it, or the foundation will heave and crack during the brutal winters.*** ***For those of you trying to play along on the home game (international edition), we refer to those fortunate individuals who come down south for a winter tourist break to experience a few days of warmth, sunshine and snow-free ground as "snow birds". While a white Christmas is a good thing, a white Thanksgiving to white Easter begins to pale.
September 12, 201213 yr I hope you get to enjoy it for many years Larry. Congratulations on the new digs!
September 12, 201213 yr John, thanks for the explanation! for those with virtual/actual permafrost(snow birds as you so quaintly put :D ) that makes a lot of sence, much like the use of cinders in heaving clay.. I got lost 2 years ago in New York while I was trying to find Larry's place(I did'nt mind though as I got to see some great gates where John Lennon was shot!) and I was presuming that he was'nt far off the world famous New York Bedrock..
September 13, 201213 yr I want to see your drawing of where your forge and tooling is going to sit in the shop, then we can all have a chuckle as you fill up the shop and put a lean to on the outside. My wife landscaped outside my shop too, but she rarely sets a foot inside, I purposely keep a lot of dirty stuff right near the door to discourage her strolling around inside, yuk yuk!
October 27, 201213 yr Larry why are the walls SOOO high if there is no basement ? it really looks like a wast of wall and concrete for a poured wall and no basement . or is there one on the other side that i can not see ? the shop looks amazing . Sam
October 27, 201213 yr Author there is a five foot elevation change from the right front to the left rear. there was no way I could put a slab. I needed about 100 yards of fill to make it level. 5' plus 42" to the frost line = a nine foot wall in the rear, 4' in the front, so far its a monetary nightmare
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