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Mr. Overalls, thanks for the reply.. I am going with chicken house insulation as well. My trusses have surface rust on them but are sturdy and structurally sound. The legs are heavy 6" channel. Marty, My son and I have spent tons of time together lately both anticipating and dreaming about...

Not what I wanted to hear... The building is half built... Pouring more would be out of the question. I reckon I may just have to live with it. I'm going to bring a concrete guy over to get eye balls on it and give me his opinion.

Ok, I went against some advice and poured my floor myself with some help from family. I just couldn't afford what anyone wanted to charge for the pour. The finished turned out ok but we did it in 3 different pours and the seams look terrible. In fact one seem is probably 1/4" uneven. Can I...

The wife said she wanted eaves on this building..... So I'm putting eaves on this building.

Finished up the frame this week. My wife's uncle is going to help me frame the end walls with the door openings. I figure that's pretty important and would be better with someone experienced leading the way. Plans call for 5 overhead doors. 3 on the front (12x10, 9x8 and 9x8) and 2 on the...

DO NOT try to bolt these together then lift them up!! The way to do it is raise each side up and then bolt them together at the top. These are designed to hold a load straight down but not sideways.

We had to weld on some tabs to the sides of the trusses to screw the girts on. They are about ready to raise!

Bailey hanging out while we were welding. Safety first!

This spring when I started taking a good look at where we were at, I realized that the guy I bought the material from had shorted me lumber AND insulation. I was supposed to get enough of both to do the building plus 40 extra 2x4's and 1600 square ft of insulation for the floor. As it stood, I...

We got the floor done late last fall and my oldest son had some medical issues and lots of unexpected expenses popped up. Christmas was also approaching so I decided to shelve the shop until spring. the pad sat there lonely all winter until we recently got back on the project. The chicken barn...

And the last 10x40 section. In retrospect, the finish turned out ok, it's just a shop so I can live with it. But The seams aren't that great.. in fact, they are terrible. I'm going to be cussing myself every time I try to roll over that center seam on a creeper.

Insulation and PEX for the second pour.

Power troweling by headlight..

My youngest son, brother, dad, father-in-law and some of my son's friends all chipped in when the concrete arrived. After a hard day and lots of help from the truck driver (which earned him a $100 tip) we got the first pour done and decided 20x40 was a little much to tackle. We would attempt the...

Down goes the insulation and the first sections of PEX

The building will be 40x40 but I didn't dare pour that much concrete at once with my limited knowledge, experience and crew so we formed up a 20x40 section for the first pour.

Back to shop building.... After 20 loads of fill and hiring a friend to build the dirt pad, we finally started building the forms for the concrete.

My 57 and my father-in-law's Henry J at our local track. Pretty sure this was the HAMB drags.

Recent road trip.

My father-in-law's 55 Chevy and my 18 year old son's 62 Biscayne.