Above 1200 Sq/FT The Fort!!

[bustdnukles]

This showed up on the 9th!! Now it begins!

 

[LXCam]

This showed up on the 9th!! Now it begins!

Yee-haw!!, a grownup erection set. Good luck and keep the pics coming.

 

[LopezBart]

Have fun, and good luck!

Yee-haw!!, a grownup erection set. Good luck and keep the pics coming.

Those are smaller and blue. Perhaps you were thinking of an Erector set

 

[mike93lx]

Woohoo! Please share pics of the build

 

[LXCam]

Those are smaller and blue. Perhaps you were thinking of an Erector set

Nope, I always speak with porpoise…




And you should here some of the **** they say

 

[GlennSullivan]

That's a lot of parts you got there!

 

[cvairwerks]

Fun.... BTW, I'd look at the contents of the box that was on the rear stack, as it looks to have been crushed on the one piece of dunnage.

 

[bustdnukles]

Woohoo! Please share pics of the build

Will DO!! THIS place is where I found my inspiration, its the least I can do!

 

[bustdnukles]

Fun.... BTW, I'd look at the contents of the box that was on the rear stack, as it looks to have been crushed on the one piece of dunnage.

Myself AND the Driver went over everything! He told me the last one he delivered, took a crew of FOUR, 10 hrs to off load! We did it in 3.5!! He was the best, even helped me with some damaged stuff,(poor packaging of the siding), which in turn, got 17 panels replaced!! They showed up 2 days ago, to my astonishment!!

 

[bustdnukles]

That's a lot of parts you got there!

HA! All over the front yard!! Waiting on my concrete guy! I'm on my THIRD one!! Finding good tradesmen these days is like looking for hens teeth.

 

[bustdnukles]

Here's the style AND colors! Mine is configured a little different, but you get the idea. Oh yea, 60x80x16

 

[bustdnukles]

Here's the pad! 82 F$%KIN loads of fill!!

 

[LopezBart]

Here's the pad! 82 F$%KIN loads of fill!!One

One pays one's money and makes a choice. We ended up digging down to good inorganic soil, but the site became a swimming pool. Ended up with a footing drain around the building, and daylighted it down the hill:

 

[bustdnukles]

One pays one's money and makes a choice. We ended up digging down to good inorganic soil, but the site became a swimming pool. Ended up with a footing drain around the building, and daylighted it down the hill:

I had to bring in all the fill PER county code! Errrr. I'm in a 500 yr flood zone, so they say.

 

[LopezBart]

I had to bring in all the fill PER county code! Errrr. I'm in a 500 yr flood zone, so they say.

We're just in a local minimum - otherwise the shop is at the top of the hill.

 

[GlennSullivan]

HA! All over the front yard!! Waiting on my concrete guy! I'm on my THIRD one!! Finding good tradesmen these days is like looking for hens teeth.

Unfortunately that is so true. Our society has made it so that if you work at a trade you are a second class citizen. Try and find a good machinist or machine shop.

 

[LopezBart]

Unfortunately that is so true. Our society has made it so that if you work at a trade you are a second class citizen. Try and find a good machinist or machine shop.

I've had the pleasure of working with good machinists years ago at LLNL, UC Davis, FMC Central Engineering Labs, etc. They were respected by their bosses, were skilled at their jobs, and gave this wet behind the ears engineer plenty of **** . Check out a micrometer from the Ag Engineering toolroom to check some abused shafting, and the foreman sees me and says "You know that's not a C-clamp, right?". I forgot to put the material on a drawing of a hydraulic pump drive for a hybrid car (even though I handed them the Al tubing I'd found surplus) and I get asked if I want it made of clay.

Anyway, there are plenty of good machinists around - they're probably not working in an automotive machine shop, however.

 

[bustdnukles]

Footers being dug!! WhoopWhoop!!

 

[cvairwerks]

Unfortunately that is so true. Our society has made it so that if you work at a trade you are a second class citizen. Try and find a good machinist or machine shop.

Think it's bad trying to find anyone doing machine work, try getting anything done for an an antique airplane... Most of the time, they don't even let you clear the door before slamming it on you!

 

[bustdnukles]

Steel work is complete and inspected. Pour next week!!

 

[bustdnukles]

Got the big squirt gun today!!

 

[bustdnukles]

 

[bustdnukles]

Jose on the power trowel! All the trucks are gone! Now we wait...28 DAYS! Errr! I have plenty of other stuff to do! LOL

 

[MacTexas]

Following

 

[rmack898]

Me too.

 

[Jayman17]

Looks like you have a slight lead over your neighbor's project, are they building a shop too?

 

[bustdnukles]

Looks like you have a slight lead over your neighbor's project, are they building a shop too?

You wouldn't believe me if I told ya!! Ok, I give! SOMEONE paid $1.7m for 2.1 acre w/ VERY nice house, STOCKED pond, all sorts of trees and plants, only to tear it down, fill in the pond! Thankfully they left the bamboo and myrtles that lined the perimeter. Supposedly putting up a McMansion, guest house, and small shop. Unbelievable!

 

[bustdnukles]

You wouldn't believe me if I told ya!! Ok, I give! SOMEONE paid $1.7m for 2.1 acre w/ VERY nice house, STOCKED pond, all sorts of trees and plants, only to tear it down, and fill in the pond! Thankfully they left the bamboo and myrtles that lined the perimeter. Supposedly putting up a McMansion, guest house, and small shop. Unbelievable!

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Jose on the power trowel! All the trucks are gone! Now we wait...28 DAYS! Errr! I have plenty of other stuff to do! LOL

Why are you waiting? Your engineer can tell you that concrete typically develops 90% of design strength within 24 hours. Also typically, it will far exceed the design strength when it's done curing. If you used say 3000 or 3500psi concrete it'll likely end up being well over 4000 or even 4500 psi when cured.

 

[bustdnukles]

Well, for one, I have 50,000lb machines going in here. I'm well aware of "engineers", and thirdly, it's MY shop, MY money.

 

[littlebean]

following

 

[dmittz]

You wouldn't believe me if I told ya!! Ok, I give! SOMEONE paid $1.7m for 2.1 acre w/ VERY nice house, STOCKED pond, all sorts of trees and plants, only to tear it down, fill in the pond! Thankfully they left the bamboo and myrtles that lined the perimeter. Supposedly putting up a McMansion, guest house, and small shop. Unbelievable!

That sorta thing is very common here, but its amazing regardless.

 

[bustdnukles]

Little Debby put in moat for me!!

 

[cvairwerks]

Bust: You need to edit your drone data before you post it's photos.......

 

[bustdnukles]

Bust: You need to edit your drone data before you post it's photos.......

Thanks. I got a replacement drone after it just flew away all on its own. Must be a new "feature"

 

[bustdnukles]

Making a little headway. Slow working solo.

 

[LXCam]

That next step alone is going to be a major time ****. I sure hope you got plans for an extended reach forklift and a buddy that can run it.

 

[meathooker]

Why are you waiting? Your engineer can tell you that concrete typically develops 90% of design strength within 24 hours. Also typically, it will far exceed the design strength when it's done curing. If you used say 3000 or 3500psi concrete it'll likely end up being well over 4000 or even 4500 psi when cured.

its 90% in 7 days.

 

[bustdnukles]

Some more forward progress...

 

[LXCam]

Bro that’s aggressive by yourself I’d suggest you leave the bolted connections loose on the purlins so you don’t screw yourself aligning the header with the column if you keep going. Personally I’d complete the header full span then layup your purlins after you’ve squared up the building.