Recent content by Kma4444

Must have gotten carried away with the word ditch, a little proofreading wouldn't hurt now would it? HA! Carried away, like me, today, carrying the steel siding in 15mph winds, yay.

I didn't price the trusses. I probably wouldn't want to at this point ya know. I doubt there would be any significant difference over what I spent doing it with the extra trusses. Might very well have been cheaper. Would definitely been easier and quicker.

I don't think the idea of the cables will help, they sound to me like they will add to the vertical load at the center of the beam as the cables are actually being held up by the center of the beam. If you replaced the cables with solid supports, think a truss running the length of your beam...

The site didn't require a lot of work as far as leveling. So we tilled it up to loosen it so we could move it around. Then we leveled it and spread the 19 tons of gravel and compacted it. Ended up with at least 4" of gravel all around. I asked the concrete company and they said no rebar was...

So today, I had some hands available so I started with the enclosing of my fancy gazebo. Went pretty well I think. This is my skylight, I am going to leave this gap at the peak of the roof and cover it with a clear panel of some kind, still debating the cheap fiberglass or something a little...

So I spent three weeks in Denmark, working on race cars. Almost didn't get out of the shop at all. Pretty much all I can tell you about the country is that the electrical outlets are funny and the light switches all work backwards, bizarre!!! So I got back and the concrete polishers were just...

The walls are 10' this limits the door to the height I built for it's opening. The door will end up around 9'5" tall and about 11' wide. It will be two doors hinged in the middle. I thought I would prefer the look of the two doors and sealing them will be easy. Work has stopped for the moment as...

The siding and roofing is sitting there on the trailer, but until I get past the inspection, I am hesitant to install any of it. Hopefully tomorrow.

And here it is, with the girts all done and the slab backfilled

There was lots of digging and filling of ruts, all in all quite an ordeal. But the finishers did a great job, working until 9pm and I have a nice slab.

As you can see, the yard wasn't too bad,,,,,,,, yet. Have you ever seen a cement truck smoke the tires, I have. It finally pulled it back and we filled the ruts with wood and everything else we had so the truck could pull up to the shop before the concrete hardened. It had been about two hours...

Well, the brakes were a bad idea. This took a little extra help A chain and an extra duty strap. The chain broke so it was just the strap this time, I, as before, got well away.

More from the concrete extravaganza; The first truck gets out OK and the second one tries to get in; That's as far as he got at first.......... After lots of digging and stuff we got him out of the ditch and he jumped through it the next time,,,, GOOD until he got up in the yard and...

Hey all, sorry for the terribly slow response, but it seems that getting cement trucks stuck in your side yard, on top of the phone lines, is hard on the DSL. I am on the south side of Macon here,very astute, the best exit is the last one on 475. I would not recommend the Blackberry farms plans...