40X120 pole building adventure

Missionman60 · Oct 18, 2016

I have been a long time lurker and thought it was time to share my build experience. As have many others here on GJ I have made do over the years with what I had available at the time in the houses we have owned. After I lost my wife a couple of years ago it shook me to my core and woke me up to the fact that life is short and you have to start doing the things that you have dreamed of or always planned to do. So I found that piece of property we had always been looking for but never got around to buying and have started my dream building.I am not sure on how to attach pictures so that will be a work in progress, I have uploaded some to an album but cant seem to get it the post :dunno:

cbacres · Oct 18, 2016

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First of all, sorry for your loss, I couldn't even imagine.

Welcome to GJ, as you know and are trying, we like pictures.
I use Tapatalk, it has been the easiest way for me to post photos. Just download the app and go to town.

Look forward to your build.

Missionman60 · Oct 18, 2016

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I use Tapatalk but don't know how to post pictures here either, ill try this.

Hmmm were to start, 10 acres of trees!

Missionman60 · Oct 18, 2016

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That was easy! Okay we will try a few more,

Property from Google Earth

Clearing a trail to get to the back of the property

Missionman60 · Oct 18, 2016

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Have to make it wide enough to get Emmy down (the Motorhome aka The Emerald Queen)

Okay made it back to the "Crack Shack", let the real work begin[emoji15]

Missionman60 · Oct 18, 2016

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Sneak peek of what's coming, well the residence side, ya know the small side.

Missionman60 · Oct 18, 2016

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cbacres said:
First of all, sorry for your loss, I couldn't even imagine.

Welcome to GJ, as you know and are trying, we like pictures.

I use Tapatalk, it has been the easiest way for me to post photos. Just download the app and go to town.

Look forward to your build.

Thank you for the tip on TT, it is quite easy once I figured it out.

Missionman60 · Oct 18, 2016

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Time to widen and clean up the trail in,

What a mess left by previous owners or squatters

Thats a little better

Time to set up camp and relax a bit

Missionman60 · Oct 18, 2016

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Had to post numbers on the gate post so they can find me if I drop a tree on my head and have to call 911

Called in the big guns to get the heavy work done,

Took a few days but they cleared a little over an acre right in the middle of the 10

cbacres · Oct 18, 2016

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Is your property bounded by the tracks and road?

Looks like your going to have a nice little compound.

How far do you have to run electric? Check with power company and see if they'll run underground and use a pad mount transformer, no overhead lines. When I ran power on mine, I installed the conduit and power co. came in and pulled cable. Didn't cost all that much. Well worth it.

Missionman60 · Oct 18, 2016

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cbacres said:
Is your property bounded by the tracks and road?

Looks like your going to have a nice little compound.

How far do you have to run electric? Check with power company and see if they'll run underground and use a pad mount transformer, no overhead lines. When I ran power on mine, I installed the conduit and power co. came in and pulled cable. Didn't cost all that much. Well worth it.

Yes I back to the RR track, I love trains so thats a plus, and the old county dirt road. The local utility won't do underground so the plan is to have them put in 2 poles to get it on the property and I will do the underground and build the pad for the meter can.

rmack898 · Oct 18, 2016

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Sorry to hear of your loss.

It looks like you found a great piece of property to build on. I'm looking forward to watching this build.

Jeepster04 · Oct 18, 2016

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Looks like an awesome place to build. Away from people! Excited to see it come together!

Missionman60 · Oct 19, 2016

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Time to get the building pad done

Trenching for the water main

Trench for the underground power, the pud made me cut an alley through the trees over to the driveway to bury the power lines.

Missionman60 · Oct 23, 2016

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Have a great local dirt guy that is building the pad for us. He had to move a lot of dirt to get this pad built.

Picked up the cable from the electric co op to do the underground to the rack. Running 2" conduit 200 ft to where I will build the rack.

53PontiacSD · Oct 23, 2016

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What part of North Texas are you in? Looks like a great out of the way place to build your dream. Please keep us posted.

ADSR · Oct 23, 2016

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awesome start!

Missionman60 · Oct 25, 2016

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Got the rack built for the meter can and main breaker, also the temp mounting spot for the RV power box so we can plug Emmy in.

Power co. Said we have to clear 20ft for them to be able to bring the poles in, so I'm not happy about it but no other way if I want power. We cleared the area next to the entrance just down far enough for them to set the 2 poles.

So after digging the trench and getting the poles set but before we could get the cable laid we had a few gully washers here in East Texas and the trench filled with mud and silt. Had to re dig the 200ft + trench and the 300 ft trench for the water supply. Didn't get any pictures was too busy trying to get it done before the next storm came in.

Got the conduit in and the cable run then buried. Wired the meter can, now the temp RV box

Look the materials showed up!

Missionman60 · Oct 25, 2016

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About 3 weeks later the crew shows up to start the build, without a tractor! They didn't want to pay the price to rent one so I ended up letting them use my MF 40B.....but its going to cost them [emoji16]

Front row seat from under the awning of Emmy [emoji482] it was only 101 out[emoji51]

Not a bad first day [emoji4]

GLTHFJ60 · Oct 25, 2016

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Nice!!

Missionman60 · Oct 25, 2016

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53PontiacSD said:
What part of North Texas are you in? Looks like a great out of the way place to build your dream. Please keep us posted.

Thanks for the visit, current city house is near Denton in N TX but this project is at out place out in East Texas south of Elkhart

Missionman60 · Oct 25, 2016

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GLTHFJ60 said:
Nice!!

Thank you, its been a struggle dealing with contractors and weather.

GLTHFJ60 · Oct 25, 2016

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Missionman60 said:
Thank you, its been a struggle dealing with contractors and weather.

I can imagine, but the pain now will be worth it in the end! Wish I had 10 acres of land!!

Missionman60 · Oct 25, 2016

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GLTHFJ60 said:
I can imagine, but the pain now will be worth it in the end! Wish I had 10 acres of land!!

Yes, looking forward to the contractor finishing the shell so I can get to work on finishing out the interior on my time schedule [emoji1303]

Missionman60 · Oct 27, 2016

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The trusses have arrived

Starting to take shape

Last one up

Starting to frame the porches

Looks A Lot bigger than it did on paper [emoji38]

Chris705 · Oct 27, 2016

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"Looks A Lot bigger than it did on paper"

Expect to change that thought many times as you get it closed in....put up interior finishes, frame out for the living side of your build.....etc. Then wait til you move all your "stuff" in...

Anyway looks nice and "BIG"...is your temp RV power on yet?

Missionman60 · Oct 30, 2016

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Chris705 said:
"Looks A Lot bigger than it did on paper"

Expect to change that thought many times as you get it closed in....put up interior finishes, frame out for the living side of your build.....etc. Then wait til you move all your "stuff" in...

Anyway looks nice and "BIG"...is your temp RV power on yet?

Thanks for the visit, yes the temp RV power is in so no more running the genny [emoji1303]

the GOAT · Oct 30, 2016

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What are you thinking...pocket doors? NO.

Missionman60 · Oct 30, 2016

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Plumbing stub out

Stub out only took them about 4 hours start to finish, local crew does great work.

The dirt work finished inside and plastic down, wire in place ready for concrete!

930dreamer · Oct 30, 2016

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I always liked driving on 380, great looking build.

Missionman60 · Oct 31, 2016

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Well 2 months of weather delays and after several scheduled pours and no shows by the contractor, we have the pour scheduled in the morning. I have to re trench for the water line to the yard faucet so the crew can have access to water, well if it actually happens.

Missionman60 · Oct 31, 2016

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I have been trying to get the build thread up to date as this building was started in June, I should have everything caught up in a week or so with the progress.

Pump truck arrives at 6:00am

Let the pour begin[emoji16] 4" 3000psi with fiber

Overall I'm happy with the results, they had a crew of 12 and it took them most of the day to pour and finish 74 yards of concrete.

GLTHFJ60 · Oct 31, 2016

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74 yards of concrete!! Holy cow. Looking great!

hilomx6 · Oct 31, 2016

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awesome I just finished my 40 x100

Jo Diesel · Oct 31, 2016

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Subscribed. Glad I found this one before you got done. I like to see progress.

runt262 · Oct 31, 2016

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What is the benefit of burying poles into the ground, the pouring concrete vs pouring concrete, then mounting the poles on top of the concrete?

Is there a projected life span of those posts when they're buried like that?

Missionman60 · Oct 31, 2016

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Jo Diesel said:
Subscribed. Glad I found this one before you got done. I like to see progress.

Thanks for stopping by, its a long way from being done. At the moment its just a shell or blank canvas as it were [emoji2]

Missionman60 · Oct 31, 2016

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runt262 said:
What is the benefit of burying poles into the ground, the pouring concrete vs pouring concrete, then mounting the poles on top of the concrete?

Is there a projected life span of those posts when they're buried like that?

Runt262 I don't have a good answer for you this is the only way I've seen a pole building done[emoji848] The one we had done at my Dads place in eastern WA 35 yrs ago is still just as solid as it was the day it was built do e the same way.

Missionman60 · Oct 31, 2016

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GLTHFJ60 said:
74 yards of concrete!! Holy cow. Looking great!

Thank you, getting pretty pumped to start my portion of the build, everything inside [emoji16]

Missionman60 · Oct 31, 2016

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Finally the the sheeting is going up

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