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Yep! And the roll up door is close by so they can be loaded in the back!🤣 I like the way you think!

Thanks. The availability of the crane came up right as I was planning this addition. Had it been a month or so earlier, it’d been “nice crane set up, been nice to have, but I don’t have anywhere to put it”. The stars lined up on this one for sure. The ironic part of fabrication and erecting...

Strouty, I was just kidding around with friends about having 1,000 lb capacity by using both hoists at the same time!😜😜. The design is just 500 lbs for whole crane. The two hoists is how I bought it, it was set up in a large specialty machine shop and there was multiple machines under this...

Rented a 650 lb. Capacity equipment lift to get the iron up. It took some maneuvering to get the 30’ main beams in place as the shop is only 40’ long. I marked the beams where they would intersect the support channel to minimize measuring/ marking up in the air. Used 3/4” grad 8 all thread and...

OK enough painting for a while. Time for erections. I hung a 1/4 ton electric hoist off the roof framing to stand up the columns. There just a little bit too much to stand up by hand alone. I winched it upright and walked column over to its place. When my son arrived, we carried the channel...

Looking good G. I gotta laugh though with the “I need to paint” comment!🤣

The main runners and the bridge trolleys of the crane was stored at my sons, he brought them down so I could paint and get ready to erect. The main frame is 30’ long and about 350 lbs., not something we’re going to carry around much. I’ve had this old axle off a mixer for about 20 years and have...

Catching up with the bridge crane build. I cut and welded the top plates to the columns, built the main beam with two channels creating a I beam . Cut the columns to length after measuring, marking out about three times. I was trying to get every last 1/2” of height for the crane without...

G, give The wife a hug for me and sending good wishes your way. Good to see you back here.

Just go on to your shop that’s stopped in time🤣 Picked up the columns and set up a work stand to prep for the crane support beams. These already have base plates, probably will add gussets to them. Checking to see how close the bottom of each truss is off floor and then I’ll build in...

Next main project is to get this bridge crane set up. It’s a 500 lb capacity 12’x30’ Gorbel bridge crane. A friend told me about a shop closing up and this had to go. It’s ceiling mounted in these pictures, I’ll build the cross beams and columns to make it a floor mounted. It has two bridges...

Framing up the bottom of the gable end. The old shop has PBR metal panels, I decided to have some galvalume flashing made up, basically L shape piece. I attached this to the square tube framing that I just framed in, the bottom of the flashing is 10” wide and it ends on top of a rib on the old...

On to the building. Got a call from the building supplier, they could make it out the following week, about a month earlier than expected. Hell yeah! Took four guys a day and a half to put up, they kept at it the whole time. I basically ordered a three sided building. This company will not tie...

Been slacking on updates. Here’s a few pics to bring you all up to speed. I built a temp cover over the ramp down to old shop floor to keep our Florida storms out of the shop until new building went up. Anchored aluminum angle around the edge, sealed with a poly caulk. I had aluminum planking...

She doesn’t care, she lies about anywhere in shop and on new concrete.😁

It’s just 26‘ x 40’. A little more SF than what there’s now, but 12’ walls.

On to the big day! Started with pump truck at 6:00 AM to get situated and lay out 220’ of 3” hose. I painted the bottom of skirt with white paint, made it easy to see where top of concrete should be. I made a jig to slope a recess for the roll up door. Built a L shape form for each end...

I have a platform lift that I’m going to install in the 4’x8’ pit I formed into the slab. The pit is 9” deep, allowing about 3/4” of adjustment when I install the lift. I built a steel frame to form out the pit and to give me a steel edge in the concrete. I used 3”x3” x 3/8” angle for the top...

Poured the slab on Thursday, sent pictures to building manufacture to get building released. I’ll find out erection schedule date this coming week. My last post was filling and grading the slab sub- base. I worked with the operator spot checking grade with the laser and we got it spot on. I had...

Finally I get started on the slab sub grade. Hired a local site guy to grub the addition area, fill and grade to raise elevation. I layer out where the footer starts and had him cut with bucket to rough out footer to minimize hand digging. Tomorrow finish roughing out footer, start forming...