DirtRoad
Well-known member
Well maybe not soon, this is going to take me forever, good thing im only 31 haha.
Me and the wife decided a year ago to sell our house and get out of the city. Me and the wife grew up in the country, dirt roads and all and we want our kids to grow up like we did.
So we sold the house, horrible experience to say the least. Terrible economy, we took a massive beating but better to take that beating while we are young i guess. We found the perfect house, perfect property, total seclusion it was exactly what we wanted.
I refused to buy a house without at least a pole barn or second garage. I ended up with a 20x40 pole barn. The original owners built this pole barn at the same time they built the house in 2001. The strange part is they never did anything with it, no electric, no work benches, no shelves.....absolutely nothing. Neighbors (if you can call them that) have told me that they have never seen anyone go into or out of the barn and the 16x8 door they never seen open.
First order of business was to get electric out there. Bought 1/0 AL direct bury from work, rented a trencher, bought a panel and all breakers i needed and got it done. Then i wired the barn and installed a **** ton of outlets and installed four 8ft T8 strip lights from home depot, i wired in pig tails from menards for them so that they would be easier to move around if i wanted to. I am going to add probably 6 more at some point.
Built an L shaped bench in what i would consider a wasted corner, its 16ft and then 8ft, pretty much the whole corner. Built just a single bench in the other corner. I have this thing about work benches, more the better, at some point the whole barn will have work benches all around it lol Built a few shelves and hung just one cupboard.
And now ive decided im not doing anything else to it until i get it insulated and finished.
Im kicking myself for not taking pics from day one.
Here is where i am now. Please excuse the clutter.
Me and the wife decided a year ago to sell our house and get out of the city. Me and the wife grew up in the country, dirt roads and all and we want our kids to grow up like we did.
So we sold the house, horrible experience to say the least. Terrible economy, we took a massive beating but better to take that beating while we are young i guess. We found the perfect house, perfect property, total seclusion it was exactly what we wanted.
I refused to buy a house without at least a pole barn or second garage. I ended up with a 20x40 pole barn. The original owners built this pole barn at the same time they built the house in 2001. The strange part is they never did anything with it, no electric, no work benches, no shelves.....absolutely nothing. Neighbors (if you can call them that) have told me that they have never seen anyone go into or out of the barn and the 16x8 door they never seen open.
First order of business was to get electric out there. Bought 1/0 AL direct bury from work, rented a trencher, bought a panel and all breakers i needed and got it done. Then i wired the barn and installed a **** ton of outlets and installed four 8ft T8 strip lights from home depot, i wired in pig tails from menards for them so that they would be easier to move around if i wanted to. I am going to add probably 6 more at some point.
Built an L shaped bench in what i would consider a wasted corner, its 16ft and then 8ft, pretty much the whole corner. Built just a single bench in the other corner. I have this thing about work benches, more the better, at some point the whole barn will have work benches all around it lol Built a few shelves and hung just one cupboard.
And now ive decided im not doing anything else to it until i get it insulated and finished.
Im kicking myself for not taking pics from day one.
Here is where i am now. Please excuse the clutter.
