Recent content by papabone

Believe me when I say Im very tired after building it. I hope I never have to do it again. Was worse than building my house there in 1986. Then I just watched contractors as they worked. When I built the garage everyone watched me as i did all the work.

Nice Garage It reminds me of my build so much. Heck to build on a hill.

Decided the cover over the compressor just wasn’t worth the trouble. I figured because compressors aren’t that expensive anymore that I would just replace the compressor or the motor when it wore out. The one shown has been out there the last four years and it keeps pumping air. Everything is...

The beams were planned for strucural as well as for moving things around. The poles were set during foundation work and located so that the I beam would be over the front of a vehicle for engine, etc lifting. The Jibb Crane/Center post was a part of that structure. The Jibb crane moves 360...

Yes I built all the work benches from scratch.

One more time should do it.

Well i will get all of these eventually.

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Started this Life Dream Garage in Winter of 2005 building the 18' High Keystone Block wall. I live on a pretty good hill so this was my way of reclaiming a bit of level ground and a place where my crews could work when paying work was slow. 95% of the construction I did myself for therapeutic...