Ye Old Garage

[sublime68charger]

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Got the back door trimmed out and the weather seals up also

Took me all day

But I had two trips to town for misc stuff.

 

[sublime68charger]

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Starting on the front today

Hoping that I have better progress today
And the weather doesn't rain me out

 

[sublime68charger]

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Didn't get as far as I wanted the rain slowed me down some but I did get some boards up

I'm a pretty slow with the hammer I usually measure 2x to cut once and then pre drill out my nailing holes so that the boards don't split out on me


Any way was also slow cause I was listening to the packer game.


Thanks for viewing

Sublime out

 

[hoho98925]

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You are well on your way with this build, love the before and after shots. Nicely done!

 

[sreno]

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Nice work, Sublime!

Love the car and the surrounding area, too!

Shawn

 

[Carl_WI]

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Any way was also slow cause I was listening to the packer game.

I think we all have this problem in WI. GO PACK GO!

Carl_WI

 

[sublime68charger]

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I think we all have this problem in WI. GO PACK GO!

Carl_WI

I have to say I love my DVR I set it to tape the games and then can work on weekends on various projects and watch the games later in about 1/3 the time.


I also get 2 hours of pregame talk on the radio plus the Game
and then 2 more hours of post game from the packer/badgers radio Network.

get a lot more info from the radio guy's then the talking heads on TV.

gonna be a great games this weekend go Bucky and Go Pack!!

 

[sublime68charger]

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More progress on the font of the garage this weekend

At the end of the day Saturday

I only had to make 2 unrelated trips to town burned 1 hour of probably the last 40+ day till spring. Grrrrrrr

Wasn't happy about the side trips

Also wasn't able to start till 11 due to having to chase around kids errands

 

[sublime68charger]

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Did a little better on Sunday it was colder and I had to keep moving to stay warm

Also my dad brought over his tractor with work basket on the loader made the higher up stuff go a lot faster

 

[captain14]

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Got a photo of the garden shed door/ramp in the closed position? That sounds like a good idea to save some materials?

Isn't it fortunate that skills you learn in one part of your life make things easier someplace else? The rigging of the pulley system to raise and lower your off season equipment.

 

[sublime68charger]

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Got a photo of the garden shed door/ramp in the closed position? That sounds like a good idea to save some materials?

Isn't it fortunate that skills you learn in one part of your life make things easier someplace else? The rigging of the pulley system to raise and lower your off season equipment.

I use my Ropes skills a lot. from knowing how to make simple knots with loops for anchor point's for tie down's and the pulley stuff. Heck the upper window in the garage was pulled up via a 3 to 1 rope system.

below is a couple of pics of the garden shed door in the closed position.
first is half done and the second is complete though with bad sun glare.

 

[sublime68charger]

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This weekend is prepping more for maybe trying to finish up the garage

The upper stained boards are left over from the house siding I'm pretty much out of them. They are red cedar from Home Depot pre previous owner and Home Depot is 50 miles away not just a simple side trip
But scored some free morning move tickets for movie theater up by the Home Depot so today went with wife and kids to penguins of Madagascar in morning stop at Home Depot got the boards and now out in small workshop putting on coats of stain before they go up on the garage

Pic is mid stain progress

 

[sublime68charger]

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Got the final coat of stain on the boards

Now they are just waiting to dry out

If I get good weather and time these will be going up on the front of garage to finish the front off.

 

[sublime68charger]

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Also the kids thought I needed a stocking out in the workshop
Tis the season

I only hope Santa brings me some good stuff this year!

 

[sreno]

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Keep up the good work!

That stocking might stretch enough to get some really big garage gear in there!

Shawn

 

[sublime68charger]

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Was blessed to have mid 40's for temp and had one free time got to work on the siding some more

This is about as high I wanted to go working off my ground ladder

 

[sublime68charger]

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Called in some help.

Got my dad to bring his tractor and loader with work basket setup
Its way better than just having to work out of the loader bucket

 

[sublime68charger]

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Front is all done for the winter

Sorry for the fuzzy pic but its been 40 and foggy which is good for outside work.

It beats 20 and clear and breezy any day for me


Any way here's the pic of the front

 

[sublime68charger]

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Sorry missed the pic try again

 

[sreno]

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Looking good! I wish I had access to that basket!

Shawn

 

[sublime68charger]

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Looking good! I wish I had access to that basket!

Shawn

The basket is the easy part that's only $200
For 2 of them they was the big plastic holding tank totes remove plastic holding tank Walla you have one man work basket.

It's the other $20,000 for the tractor and loader that gets you.

It's sure is handy though.

Makes snow removal a breeze nice and warm in the cab.
Though I use my atv for %80 of snow removal and only call for loader support when it's more than atv can handle

We set the trusses on the forks tied center support to back rest and lifted them up one at a time and drove in the garage and set them on top of wall sill plates and tied in to previous one took 2 days and had trusses set just me and my dad
.

 

[sublime68charger]

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Today also found a expedition being under taken right out in front of the garage
Here's the 2 thrill seekers getting started

 

[sublime68charger]

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And there bounty after 2 hours of of excavation of there rocks

Bunch of mini dinasour bones

Only had 1 thrill seeker left at this point.
I had to fix both there hammers with a elec tape wrap to keep the heads on.

Any way thanks for looking

Sublime out

 

[1bad69ss]

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You did a great job on the garage so far!
I have a friend that has a lime green Charger. The mean green machine nice car!

 

[Denwood]

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Wow, talk about building from scratch...er, recycled garage. Some years back my Dad and I literally dis-assembled a small house that was free for the taking. That's when I discovered (much to my dismay for a whole summer...) this tool:

The shop that we built from the material for my Dad is 1800 sq/ft 32x32 with a full second story. My shop, not so big.

The Tonka trucks on pic one sure do communicate a lot about your family before even digging into the thread. I like to play with the larger versions now

The "sustainable" approach is sometimes a lot harder, so my hat is off to you for making use of an old structure to create something new. I'll be following your thread

 

[sublime68charger]

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Denwood,

Where did you get that tool?
I've never seen something like that how does it work and what task's does it excel at?

thanks

Sublime

looking more at the pic is that 2 different tools a small one and then a bigger one with the small one sitting on top at a angle of the larger one?

 

[Denwood]

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It's a nail puller. There are two tools shown, so ignore the smaller "claw". The blue handle incorporates a slide hammer. You set it over a nail head, give the slide hammer a few hits and the "claw" sneaks under each side of the nail head. Crank back on the foot and the nail comes out. I became quite an expert with this tool disassembling a ship lap house.

If you are pulling apart structure and want to save the material, this tool works pretty awesome. No idea where my dad found it, but this is going back 35 years. There are newer versions out there.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/_mobile/home/reviews/hand-tools/4274987

 

[Dan_inthewind]

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I spent a summer on the business end of one of those nail pullers years ago. Still do not want to tear down another house board by board even after all these years.

 

[Denwood]

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My "summer with nail puller" was memorable. Sweat, bugs, heat...and then the fun of building the garage 20 miles away. You would never guess though looking at the new shop..35 years old, clad in natural stone from the build site itself. Sublime, your shop certainly is shaping up beautifully.

 

[sublime68charger]

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Thanks den wood I may have to get one of them

Heck I been getting by with a regular old cats paw all these years.

 

[sublime68charger]

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Today was cold outside so not much work out in the garage but due have some pics to post up of what I did work on.

First is upstairs storage I took out the first center support 2x6 of my truss closet to the window to give me more working room when putting things in the attic via the window opening. Before the center 2x6 came out I ran 2 vertical 2x6 off set of the middle and put in a collar tie on each side of the rafter where the center 2x6 was removed the pic is standing up in the attic looking out towards the window. I'm 6'3" and if I tilt head towards middlie I can walk without hitting the rafters

 

[sublime68charger]

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This is a up close of the collar ties I put on where the 2x6 vertical was removed
2x4 on this side and the other is more like a 3x3

 

[sublime68charger]

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Back in post 38 shows my winter wood stove.
Today I started on the insert through the wall for the stove pipe. I'm gonna just go out through the window.

This is what I started with.

Some tin scraps and a section with a 8" round cut out.

 

[little d]

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Outstanding job, love to watch these old buildings brought back.

 

[sublime68charger]

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Little d thanks for the kind words

This was more like old building torn down and the walls leaned against a tree for 3 years and then put back together into what you see now.

It was a 20 x 20 shed at one time
The original back wall got cut in half and added to the side walls. After I trimmed out what was rotten due to 3 years of weathering did a lot of fixing most sills top and bottom are refurb 2x4 put on when the walls where horizontal
Before getting placed vertical.
I wish I had pics of that process but didn't take any back then

 

[sublime68charger]

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Took some side and front pics of the garage today

This is the upper side the wood stove pipe will be coming out the back window when I get the chance to put it in.

 

[sublime68charger]

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This is the lower side and the front of the garage.

You can see the small back opening that is just plastic is the home for a wall mount 220 volt ac unit that I have. When I actually have power ran to shed I might even put the ac unit in the wall.

Thanks for looking sublime out

 

[bgarrett]

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your garage is looking good!
your wifes rusty shed needs paint tho

 

[sublime68charger]

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your garage is looking good!
your wifes rusty shed needs paint tho

Painting her rusty shed will be her job!

Will probably get a coat in the spring

Any recommandation's? For paint

thanks for posting.

 

[sublime68charger]

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Got the atvs out and went on a quick trail ride today.