Recent content by Spud1985

I would look for damaged box truck boxes. Like moving trucks, etc. check with local heavy duty truck shops and junkyards. I scored a 24 ft box for free. They had tried to go under a low awning and crunched the front. It was delivered on a rollback and dropped right where I needed it.

What's the story on the big bandsaw in you avatar? I have a 36" Egan of that same design, currently awaiting mechanical restoration.

Stas, great thread. It is really cool seeing other parts of the world and hearing about day to day life in your town. Looking at these pictures of your garage it looks like it was built with random materials. The blocks look to be of varying sizes and it doesn't look like the builder owned a...

A friend of a friend is doing the actual pouring and finishing of the slab for me. Not something I want to try to learn. Concrete mistakes get expensive real quick. His cash price was $1600 for labor which I didn't think was bad at all. He was very impressed by our form work. He said it is one...

Close up.

Lookin like a slab

Day 7

Day 6 was an early day. At the supply house at 6 am to get rebar chairs and tie wire. We installed #4 rebar in an 18 inch grid over the entire slab. Lots of bending and tying. Day 7 was another bent over day. We installed screed key to divide the slab. It serves multiple purposes. Give the...

End of day 5

Thank y'all very much. Grace is absolutely the coolest thing I have ever had. Never imagined how much happiness a baby could bring. I am a little ocd on somethings and so is my dad so everything is turning out beautifully with the slab work. Day 5 was more form work. Lots of bracing and...

Got a little slack on pics the next few days. Day 2 was finishing rough grading. My flat spot I cut out ended up being about 70 feet wide and 150 feet long. I'm up to my eyeballs in dirt. Day 3 was fine tuning my grade, setting up strings and digging footings. The stump bucket worked perfect...

Day 1 dirt pile.

End of day 1. Got a slow start and hit some rock. Nothing solid like granite, more like sandstone and shale. Using a Takeuchi tl8 skid steer. Around lunch time a buddy stopped by to see how progress was coming, he then brought me his homemade stump bucket to try in this hard Georgia clay. A...

Finally getting started on slab prep. Took a week of of work and started digging. I had eyeballed the grade and figured I had about 2 and a half feet of slope I was going to have to deal with. Once I established my corners and shot the grade with a laser I realized my eyeballs were off. Ended up...

Beams