Recent content by SouthernGemini

I want to become a fabricator just so I can try to replicate your awesome table!

TIME FOR THE STEEL! Pic 215 by Southern Gemini, on Flickr Pic 216 by Southern Gemini, on Flickr Pic 217 by Southern Gemini, on Flickr Pic 219 by Southern Gemini, on Flickr That's me standing there for size comparison. I am 5'11" and those corner posts are 26 ft high off the concrete. The slab...

Here is what is set into the concrete and the posts will be welded to it. It is 9 inch x 9 inch steel that is one inch thick with 8 J studs welded to the bottom. The J studs are 5/8 inch diameter and 8 inches long. Pic 158 by Southern Gemini, on Flickr I hated to remove these trees (I enjoy...

With the stem wall mostly filled it was time to start back filling. BTW, you don't want to fill the stem wall to the top all the way b/c the future concrete will fall into those spaces and lock in better. In some areas you may be near or at the top but leave some depth in there. Also, we had...

To avoid paying a pumper truck for a mere perimeter of 30ft x 30ft square only 12 inches wide and about 3 ft tall I picked up some railroad ties and made an approach so we could dump pretty much everywhere needed via only the cement truck. Pic 133 by Southern Gemini, on Flickr Pic 134 by...

:rolleyes: The day was December 4 2017 and I suppose it was the first time it hit me 'there is no turning back!!' The pumper truck was a local guy referred to me by Bass Concrete and he was great. The cost was just under $1,000 but necessary. I will need to use a pumper truck when I do the...

I needed to attach the new footing to the existing home by drilling holes into the existing footing and using epoxy with 5/8 rebar to tie in. Pic 097 by Southern Gemini, on Flickr Pic 099 by Southern Gemini, on Flickr Pic 101 by Southern Gemini, on Flickr The existing home will tie in to this...

The basic premise is this: A 2ft by 2ft footing with 5/8 rebar will be at grade and below. On top of the footing is a 'stem wall' if you will that will rise 44 inches above grade. Where I live the building code requires living areas to be at least 36 ft above sea level. My existing home is at...

Thanks for joining DoctorDirt. It's good to hear from other Kobelco fans b/c down here in South Louisiana I don't across many of them. This is my first time using it for a bigger digging project and there are many pictures showing my work. The bucket pins are way loose and need refitting but...

I have been really busy with the project but thankfully I have loads of pictures. This first picture was taken about a week after the last one I posted 12 months ago. Pic 041 by Southern Gemini, on Flickr My yard and driveway was getting torn up so added some gravel. I paid $325 for 14 yards...

Thanks Sean Buick! It makes the event a bit more fun. Now that Christmas is here things have slowed down so I have time to post. I put together an area to hold air 'things' for next season although my current air chair developed a leak. I've learned that rain will hit the dirt on the ground...

I appreciate how you cut your eave around the tree. I love my trees and my carport was very close to a large pine that I would NOT cut down. I built my eave around the tree and my friends thought I was silly. 7 years later it looks great but the tree has grown in width some so I needed to cut...

The pad is getting closer to the 37 feet level that I would like it. I added some dirt and pressed it with the excavator as close as I could get it then went back to the compactor. Pic 031 by Southern Gemini, on Flickr Pic 035 by Southern Gemini, on Flickr Pic 038 by Southern Gemini, on Flickr

Hello everyone, It is time to start the main part of my building thread which is the garage and house portion. I have a tendency to work on more than one project at a time but this is the big one. The main one. The one that I am already spending too much money on. Three plus years ago my...

Thanks so much for putting detailed pics of the 'pan on beam' method of concrete floor. I am is discussions with my structural steel guy currently and this is the method we are going with. I investigated different methods and the simplicity and ability to overbuild with this type of assembly...