SockeyeSummer
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Well, I finally got started on my 32x48' timberframe shop this week. We've had a fair amount of snow and a late spring that has kind of delayed our start, but now we are underway!
We set concrete tapered piers last fall. They are set down four feet, spaced at 12 ft for the side walls. We didnt get a chance to do the dirt work but will do that after the two side walls and roof are up. The front and back piers will be poured in place, when the ground thaws enough. A 6" slab will be poured then too.
The rafter trusses are massive, and they are complete at my contractors wood lot. They are Douglas Fir along with the 6x12 wall posts.
Inside will be well insulated and sheet rocked but all the timbers will be visible. Heat will be a toyo diesel stove, and possibly a coal stove down the road. There will be a 12 ft deep loft across the back.
Electric will all be done through conduit.
Outside will be metal siding.
Two 12x12' (or 11') garage doors, whichever fits best with the trusses inside, haven't figured that out yet.
Possibly a 12' shed Lean-to the length of one side.
Shop will be used for working on and storing trucks, tractor, four-wheelers, snow machine etc. along with metal work/fab and such.
Hoping to have it closed in by June 1st, then I gotta go to work for 3 months (commercial fisherman) and finish up in the fall. Pic is mowing the brush on the old Kubota.
We set concrete tapered piers last fall. They are set down four feet, spaced at 12 ft for the side walls. We didnt get a chance to do the dirt work but will do that after the two side walls and roof are up. The front and back piers will be poured in place, when the ground thaws enough. A 6" slab will be poured then too.
The rafter trusses are massive, and they are complete at my contractors wood lot. They are Douglas Fir along with the 6x12 wall posts.
Inside will be well insulated and sheet rocked but all the timbers will be visible. Heat will be a toyo diesel stove, and possibly a coal stove down the road. There will be a 12 ft deep loft across the back.
Electric will all be done through conduit.
Outside will be metal siding.
Two 12x12' (or 11') garage doors, whichever fits best with the trusses inside, haven't figured that out yet.
Possibly a 12' shed Lean-to the length of one side.
Shop will be used for working on and storing trucks, tractor, four-wheelers, snow machine etc. along with metal work/fab and such.
Hoping to have it closed in by June 1st, then I gotta go to work for 3 months (commercial fisherman) and finish up in the fall. Pic is mowing the brush on the old Kubota.
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now there's some extreme building conditions, looking forward to checking your build out 
