Old Guy, I love the wooden boat. Here's one I am building with my dad:
She's not going to have so much power as yours, measured in square feet instead of cubic inches.
I spent about a decade as an FOH mixer and production manager for a few country bands. I have lots of experience with shady power. To do it right you need a real genny. Not something you find at Home Depot. But if this is a party, with a "Mustang Sally" band rather than a concert with a lot...
Lowes had them branded by Task Force for about ten seconds a few years ago. The one I picked up had a flaw and the two blades collided and destroyed themselves. Giant pieces of blade flew everywhere. I took it back. By the time I got it back, they didn't even stock them anymore and the return...
This is the big barn on our place. Its kind of a hybrid stick frame/ timber construction. I've never seen anything like it. I figure it to be about 60 years old. It needs some refreshing for sure.
I was in a tour bus in a small quake in CA once. It woke me up and I thought our driver had died behind the wheel and we were jumping curbs. I rolled out of my bunk and ran to the front of the bus and jumped in the driver's seat and floored the brakes. It took my mind a good minute to grok...
I don't know 427, I chopped my building in half with a stud wall and all the windows are in one room. The other has none and there is not a day that I don't wish I had ordered more of them.
I am near Houston TX. It's a really nice building. Went through Hurricane Ike, about 30 miles from the eye, with no trouble. I have a commercial kitchen and dairy parlor in there.
Here's a couple pics:
My pole barn was 24K
24*30 interior with slab insulated with that bubble foil stuff
24*24 covered area with no slab
4 windows
4 Doors
1 10 foot roll up
All work done by manufacturer including concrete. I had to do the pad prep.