32 x 44 Man Cave

[Blue_Runner]

I've been working on this project for what seems like an eternity. Had to clear a lot of trees behind my house, burn brush piles, etc.

The plan is for a 25' x 36' attached garage and a 32' x 44' detached building with a single 16' x 10' garage door and 12' ceiling height. I'm going to shed off the right side aka build a "lean-to" the whole 44' length out to about 16' or so for some cheap additional dry space. At this point all grading is done, the foundation is in for the garage and the footing dug and poured for the building. Next step is laying the block for the building and then framing will commence.

Here are some pics.....and a sneak peak at the type of activities that will take place under the lean-to.

I have never had a place to store anything "manly" including my boat. Always had to keep lawnmowers, boats, etc. under tarps. In the pics you'll see an little old vintage 1970's Leonard building that served as my temporary man cave for the last few years. I'll be glad to see it go! Full of junk right now.

The heavy equipment unearthed a nice kirk corner-knotch arrowhead which I graciously picked up to add to my collection.

Finally a place to turn the boat around.

Manly activities...in progress!!

 

[c_mccann]

Nice! Good Stuff, that bbq pic just made me hungry for lunch..! That is a very thick forest around you....

 

[Cobra4B]

Nice to have land like that... subscribed.

 

[Blue_Runner]

Thanks. It is a pine thicket surrounded by hardwoods sitting on gently sloping hills with small creeks at the bottoms.

 

[PCO6]

Looks like a good project. I'd be keeping any arrow heads you find in your pocket though until you are done. I had a project once where after about two years of chasing down our approvals, on the first day that we dug we hit a pile of human bones. Lucky for us they turned out to be from an unsolved murder that occurred about 25 years earlier. If it had been an Indian burial ground it would have likely delayed us for another two years!

 

[Blue_Runner]

We're done digging, thankfully. I have a great respect for our original inhabitants.

No Native American burial sites were harmed during the making of this post.

 

[James E]

Lucky for us they turned out to be from an unsolved murder that occurred about 25 years earlier.

I find this statement strangely amusing. I guess my sense of humor is pretty dark, eh?

What's the story there? Did they catch the murderer--or better yet, did the property owner turn out to be the murderer and he had just forgotten where he had left that body?

 

[PCO6]

I find this statement strangely amusing. I guess my sense of humor is pretty dark, eh?

What's the story there? Did they catch the murderer--or better yet, did the property owner turn out to be the murderer and he had just forgotten where he had left that body?

True story. It happened in about 1985 when I was a Planning Consultant to a land development company. Our client had owned the land for about 15 years. We took the development application through the usual approval process. When we finally got the approval to strip and grade the land the contractor made the grizzly dicovery. We had a standard archaeological study done as part of the approval process and it came up negative. Our first thought though was that it was a native burial ground. The police questioned us and the land owner but we didn't know anything. We learned later that they determined who the body was but I don't think they ever caught the culprit.

I am with a land development company now and we find all kinds of strange things on our land. Environmental dumping is common. Marijuana plantations are fairly common and we have had to deal with a few grow ops. A few years ago we about 30 cubic metres of animal carcasses dumped on one of our properties. The Ministry of Natural Resources did catch and prosecute the culprits in that case.

Back to the OP, we deal with a lot of native and other archaeological issues related to our development projects and I too have a great respect for the history of our area. The archaeological approval process here is somewhat out of our control. If our consultants locate artifacts, and they often do, they basically deal with the Province, not us, from that point on, which is the way it should be.

 

[jktruck150]

Mmmm, meat! Looking good so far!!

 

[Blue_Runner]

It has been slow but making some progress. Got the block laid & framing to commence next week:

Here is the back of the house:

And.....some pics from this past weekend's cookout: