Recent content by fdrunner

Made some good progress the last couple weekend. My goals is have all the girls up prior to December than I'm done until spring comes. I thought about putting up the trusses/purlins up and brace everything down real good and come spring start the metal on the roof. I decided to leave it as it. I...

Man, you sure went into some detail. I suppose I'll add some detail in my garage: I added some design pictures of my garage below...hopefully people will able to open the format. Inside the building: 1.) There be an enclosed man-cave on one side of the garage...it'll be 10x20 8' ceiling...

The weather is getting a little cold here in Iowa, making installing the wall girts less enjoyable. I can tell you, my arm is about to fall off after pounding those 30D 4.5" nails in for the gradeboard and girts. Had electrical stop by today, damn updating from 100A to 200A is expensive!!!

All the holes dug (24" auger) and mixed all 103 bags of 60# bags mixed. I put in 4.5 bags in each hole which gave me the required 6-8" footing pad. Took about 2 hours to auger all the holes and about 4 hours to mix all the concrete. Several days later, my brother, father in law, and brother in...

I'm doing everything myself, besides family members helping me put the truss in the holes and plum brace them all up. When I get to the truss system more than likely I'll have someone assisting me as well.

Yep, my bad. "Girts" not girls. Yes about 6' is all treated. Non-bookshelf girt...

The special order 3-ply laminated columns, grade board, and 6 boxes of 30D galvanized ring shank nail came in and picked all the lumber for the girts and the bracing of the columns. My plan is to get in columns in next weekend and when I have time start putting up the wall girts which will be...

Well, used up all the 80T 1" road stone, and I'l low on the west side of building. I'm 6"-12" low at some location. I ordered my 3-Ply laminated columns to make up the difference and when the building is up I'll bring in more 1" road stone to bring everything up to grade. I picked up my friends...

Side note, my neighbor is having his 50x80 post frame built the same time I'm doing mine, though he's having a company out of Bloomfield do it (I believe it's called Topline). They 2 did others people post frame in our neighborhood and the workers they had were all Amish. The cost for them to...

I thought about hiring it out, but I like doing projects on my own then I know the building inside and out and if doesn't look the way I want it then it's my fault. I ended up using Menards for all my material and when I go to picked out the lumber I will hand picked everything myself instead of...

I thought about hiring it out, but I like doing projects on my own then I know the building inside and out and if doesn't look the way I want it then it's my fault. I ended up using Menards for all my material and when I go to picked out the lumber I will hand picked everything myself instead of...

Hi everyone, I started to build my 40x56x14 in Des Moines, Iowa. I've been planning on this build for a long time and with lumber prices going down I decided to start it. The build will be a slow project due to I'm doing everything solo with exception of some family and friends helping me on the...

Very NICE build. What's the pitch size of your trusses out of curiosity? How much headroom doe you have in your attic truss section?

Zmotorsports Question for you, I didn’t see any floor drains in your garage. During the winter what do you do with the water from melted snow? I’m assuming you squeegee out the water on the garage? Did you wish you had a floor drain?

Nice shop! Any particular reason only went with one instead of 2 (like two 12x10 instead 16x10)?