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Oh I forgot to mention it's about 4 times bigger than the house, I told wife we needed it to store all of her junk:) I also told her that someday if she wanted we could sell house and live in building while we built a new home, she was a little suspicious of that line, told me she did not want...

Living out in the boon docks has it's advantages. :) Neighbors don't complain here. The overhang is nice when it's raining as I can just pull under it and enter building from side.. also park my tractor there most of the time.

4 pics of my building... 50x90ft x 16ft high with a 25x90ft covered drive through on 1 side and a 20x45ft porch on other side.. [IMG]

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I have an HD-9 also...looks to me your lift is ok, the back tires are on the rails past the approach ramp.. unless I am missing something in the pics.. if your lift is not level (slanting rearward) I can see you might have a problem, it is rare that a car would roll off a lift if it is level, I...

The guy who built my building said he does a steel 30x40x12ft with 1 overhead door and 1 service door for $20,000 erected with concrete floor and insulated ceiling.. That price is here in southwest Georgia.. so if you shop around I think $30K should do it. He also was 25% less than some of the...

I had the same problem, reason I decided to build up instead of digging out to get it level was for drainage as I did not want to be constantly fixing wash out around building with all the water draining towards it..

I have had a Bendpak HD-9 4 post for 2 years now, price was $2300 delivered from RB-Wholesale out of California.. could put one togeather now in about an 1-2 hours, need a fork lift or a bunch of strong boys to unload, I used a friends Bobcat with forks on it.. so far so good, it does come down...

The cobra is lots of fun and plenty fast, most everyone now is putting ford motors in them.

Charles I did change link. The building came from Trinity Steel in Alabama MBI in Thomasville from what I hear is high on pricing.. most of prices I got were 10,000-20,000 higher than what I paid in the end.

Willy it costs me $76,000 with concrete slab and all material and labor to erect, total of 7650 sq. ft. under roof, front porch has a finished ceiling and columns for looks, gutters on all roof areas, fully insulated with 4 service doors-3 overhead doors..dirt work I had to pay for seperately...

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Building finished-new location of pics Building was finished a couple of weeks ago, still have to do wiring, plumbing etc. Took about 10 days to erect. Enclosed area 50 x 90ft x 16ft-front porch 45 x 20ft-lean to 25 x 90 ft See pics here. Hopefully you don't have to sign up to see at this...

If it helps you feel better about building on fill dirt, every home here in area of Florida where I have a house is built on fill dirt usually about 4-5ft high due to water tables and septic tank, been that way for many years and I have not seen one with any serious problems.

I had the same problem I put in a pond and used dirt to build pad with, some places almost 15ft high. Dirt was compacted as it was dropped off by pan, tractor and pan weighed over 70,000 lbs. then as it was dropped it was graded immediately with a box blade so it was always a thin layer of dirt...