Building a new shop in my back yard......pics

[Captain Mark]

I am taking on a new project. This will be a 24'x30' metal building with a 24'x15' carport on the front. I have never built one before. I will have the help of my nephew and neighbor, both of which are fellow firemen. Here is the progress thus far. Here is the forms for the slab. I built the pad for it a couple of years ago when we built the house.

Here is another pic after I put down the rebar. Ready for pouring.

Well, here we are ready to go to work. The truck has pulled up and we are about to gird up our loins and get after it!

Well, here it is, my first concrete slab! Not bad for a few knuckleheads that don't know any better. I saved about $2000 bucks by doing this myself.

I will order my building next week and we will get started on welding it up. I have roughed in one water line, and a drain line. I will do the electrical later. So far, so good

 

[chickentrax]

How about a little consideration for others??? :grumpy:

THUMBNAILS!!!

* If you have a problem posting pictures, there is a Quick & Dirty tutorial at Photobucket For Dummies.

BTW - This thread does not concern Buck knives. It should have been posted in the General forum.

Moderator is asleep.

 

[Captain Mark]

How about a little consideration for others??? :grumpy:

THUMBNAILS!!!

* If you have a problem posting pictures, there is a Quick & Dirty tutorial at Photobucket For Dummies.

BTW - This thread does not concern Buck knives. It should have been posted in the General forum.

Moderator has been notified.

Consideration for others? Sorry, didn't mean to upset you like I did. I posted here at the Buck forum because I like the people here. I am a Buck guy like the rest of you,and have a few friends here. I had my Buck 655 strapped to my side as I did most of this work. Not sure if you guys remember the reports I gave about my 655 and how much I love the thing, and about how hard I have been on it. It has now helped me do concrete work!

Anyway, Mr. Moderator you can ban me from the forum, or whatever....I didn't mean to break any of your rules. I was starting a new project that excited me and thought I would share. My intent was to help any of you that are interested in doing something like this yourselves. If you guys are interested in a project like this, and have any questions, I will gladly help you as much as I can. I have already learned a lot. We are gonna start welding the building together next week. I was gonna give updates of our progress, but I guess I won't do it here. Sorry again for any inconvenience.

 

[Scott Hartman]

Hi Mark, I liked the pics and your project is my backyard dream...and the more I save doing work myself....the more I have to spend on Buck knives.

 

[DaggerBlade]

Mark, He is upset because he is on a dialup and bandwith is a concern. When you post full size picts it eats up his monthly allocation of bandwith. All the mods will do is move it to the correct forum if it is in the wrong one. They certainly won't ban you for posting it here. The start of the shop looks great. Good luck as you progress.

 

[Captain Mark]

Mark, He is upset because he is on a dialup and bandwith is a concern. When you post full size picts it eats up his monthly allocation of bandwith. All the mods will do is move it to the correect forum if it is in the wrong one. They certainly won't ban you for posting it here. The start of the shop looks great. Good luck as you progress.

Oh....OK, sorry guys. I didn't even think of that!

I forgot to mention that when the shop is built, I will be setting up a couple of bench grinders. This will enable me to properly sharpen all my knives, lawn mower blades...etc.

 

[Captain Mark]

Hi Mark, I liked the pics and your project is my backyard dream...and the more I save doing work myself....the more I have to spend on Buck knives.

Exactly!

 

[chickentrax]

This will enable me to properly sharpen all my knives, lawn mower blades...etc.

Post a Buck knife in the pic, or put the Buck name in the title..."Storage shed for Buck Knives"...

Yes, I tend to get testy...I got stuck with an extra $48 monthly charge for excessive bandwidth usage...:grumpy:

And I get jumped on regularly for rules infractions...that others HERE don't even get a reminder for...

 

[Captain Mark]

I didn't even think about all that stuff. Well, here's my well used 655. Hope that helps!

 

[chickentrax]

...Thumbnails!!!...THUMBNAILS!!!... :grumpy:

Let me expound...I don't mind paying the extra $$$ for the pics I want/need...I made several large $$$ purchases on eBay this last month...I downloaded all their pics (several dozen), Gamma corrected them on my HDD, blew them up, looked closely, asked questions, and bid on the items...not all successfully...

So I don't mind that expense...I had the choice, and made the decision that the extra $$$ was worth it...

But when Forum members post large pics, I don't have a choice...and I will download and save a lot of the pics...but thumbnails give *all* members the choice to view the big'uns or not view them...

We don't all have broadband...It's not available everywhere...but dial-up is...

All I ask is a little consideration...

Thankyouverymuch!!!

(BTW: It's happened more than once that a Forum member has emailed me an extra-large pic when I'm bidding on an eBay auction...without forewarning...and I was stuck with lag and couldn't even get connected to eBay in the last three minutes to put in a final bid...so...imagine not being able to bid on a Buck knife because someone had your line tied up with a pic that you really didn't want)

 

[DaggerBlade]

I didn't have a pict of my own to try this with so I am trying this with the pict of Mark's Bucks. My first attempt at posting a pict on BF. Hopefully it will be a thumbnail..


I used the quick and dirty PhotoBucket for Dummies and it worked. So I am obviously a Dummy. Trax thanks for the photo "education". I could be really dangerous now.

 

[110 Dave]

...Thumbnails!!!...THUMBNAILS!!!... :grumpy:

Let me expound...I don't mind paying the extra $$$ for the pics I want/need...I made several large $$$ purchases on eBay this last month...I downloaded all their pics (several dozen), Gamma corrected them on my HDD, blew them up, looked closely, asked questions, and bid on the items...not all successfully...

So I don't mind that expense...I had the choice, and made the decision that the extra $$$ was worth it...

But when Forum members post large pics, I don't have a choice...and I will download and save a lot of the pics...but thumbnails give *all* members the choice to view the big'uns or not view them...

We don't all have broadband...It's not available everywhere...but dial-up is...

All I ask is a little consideration...

Thankyouverymuch!!!

(BTW: It's happened more than once that a Forum member has emailed me an extra-large pic when I'm bidding on an eBay auction...without forewarning...and I was stuck with lag and couldn't even get connected to eBay in the last three minutes to put in a final bid...so...imagine not being able to bid on a Buck knife because someone had your line tied up with a pic that you really didn't want)

trax i can simpithze wit ya...
in fla shotty diel up long time to load
no extra charges but time
and i dont post nails myself ...
my appolgies

 

[110 Dave]

Post a Buck knife in the pic, or put the Buck name in the title..."Storage shed for Buck Knives"...
Yes, I tend to get testy...I got stuck with an extra $48 monthly charge for excessive bandwidth usage...:grumpy:
And I get jumped on regularly for rules infractions...that others HERE don't even get a reminder for...

yea i didnot even get a warming 30 points on my posting priv's
maby a non knife pict thread ?
i got picts i would like to post but arenot
knife related ...

oh and by the way looks like a good foundation for a shop!
got a pole barn started in fla looks like pole headge

i went to the knifepicture thread and too much chater to find all thepicts
a " wow / sweet / jellous / ect "
but who am i ta complain
yea maby i needs a alter ego?

 

[Allan Molstad]

I dont know much of anything at all about building a shop..
But I can point out errors in what the guy who must have built the shop I use must have made 20 years ago.

The thing I have learned?
Pack the floor!
I see in the cracks in my own shop's cement floor that it is pointless to dump tons of cement onto the ground if you didnt get rid of the black dirt and then pack the sand.
I have had to bang out a few sections of my cement floor , and when I flipped the cement sections over to toss away I saw signs that the guy who did my shop floor cement work had dumped cement right on top of grass????,

there were sticks and grass prints in the cement.


And when I say you need to pack , I mean "pack" I mean to rent one of them big push packers and go over the sand in layers...pack-pack-pack...

Then, rebar the stuffing out of it!

 

[chickentrax]

I was gonna give updates of our progress, but I guess I won't do it here...

Doing it here is OK if the mods don't move it...but you can go back over your posts and sub in thumbnails from PhotoBucket or SmugMug or wherever you posted them...there's a crude tut at - Photobucket For Dummies telling how.

I went through [almost] all my old posts and subbed in thumbnails for the big pics. It helps.

FWIW, I made a major buy on eBay, and am counting nickels so I can drive down to Georgia and pay for it. And gas. And motel. And get back. Truthfully, I scrounged all my quarters, dimes, nickels, and even pennies and got an extra $36 for the gas...not even a full tankful at $3 a gal, but it's a start...

 

[Buckaholic]

Captain Mark...

That guy has a 110 in it's sheath under that AFD shirt...right???

Cool job. Sure doesn't look like your first pour.

 

[chickentrax]

Around here, they don't pour on the bare earth...they lay at least 4 inches of crushed stone first, then the rebar...

 

[Allan Molstad]

Around here, they don't pour on the bare earth...they lay at least 4 inches of crushed stone first, then the rebar...

Yes, I dont know what the building codes are where a person may live, but mostly you have to show that you got down below the top soil and then put in enough bedding.

I think my shop was built before modern building codes and they got away with dumping cement right onto grass.

 

[Captain Mark]

First I'm gonna learn how to do thumbnails! instead of big pics.

Next, we are not in a city jurisdiction, so we are kinda winging it! The pad we built this slab on was built about 2 years ago when we built our house. You can see my pond at the back of my place. We used the hard red clay from the pond site to build the pad for my house, and for this spot. The last couple of years the clay has gotten hard as rock. There is about 2 to 3 feet of hard clay here and very level. There was a little grass growing on there and we poured right on top of it. Hope that's not a problem. Oh well, it's just my storage building. I did put lots of steel in it. Maybe that will help.

The guy in the Addison shirt is me, and yes I had my Nighthawk all day!

My buddy with the Richardson Fire shirt was using his trusty Bucktool. We're both Buck guys.

 

[Scott Hartman]

I want pavilion or carport, for my forges, a fire pit and a smoker and pic-nic tables and chairs, a shady spot to relax and drink a beer Well, those dreams got mailed to the IRS early last week :thumbdn: .