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Yup, those are in the plans, i've got a couple options for pulling anchors, just need to source them relatively local if i can. Plumbed for water, future bathroom, hoperully enough room for a lean-to etc...
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Yup, those are in the plans, i've got a couple options for pulling anchors, just need to source them relatively local if i can. Plumbed for water, future bathroom, hoperully enough room for a lean-to etc...
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I put these together for the slab, couldn't find anything local so i built them with leftover material. Five in total, should be plenty. I'll cap them so they're flush with the floor after its poured.
lookin good... those anchors will work well
Looking very good indeed. Can't wait for Highlands wrenching sessions. Like when the Crustys were around!
How does the chain attach/remove? or are you going to just tuck it into the pipes?
I'm pouring concrete in the next couple weeks here if all goes well so I was thinking I might copy you...
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Thanks boys! Yup, we'll have to have a garage-mahal kegger christening!! Now that seapotato has a new eco-friendly, fuel efficient daily driver, new "Lacoste" golf shirt and penny loafers, there's no reason for him not to drive over the hump for a pint!!!
I'll snap a pic for you when i get a chance. Its just a 1/2" grade 8 bolt through one of the links welded to the base plate on the outside keeping it from pulling through and three other links welded to the bottom plate also for added security i guess...
The chain is 5/8" or 3/4", pretty big stuff, and the plate is cut in a cross patern to allow the links to go through.
Beats spending $300. for the store bought ones...
I'm debating syncing a chunk of I beam or C channel in mine flush with the surface... I could weld D rings on it for hook points or tack things to it when I was working on things so they don't move...
Thanks boys! Yup, we'll have to have a garage-mahal kegger christening!! Now that seapotato has a new eco-friendly, fuel efficient daily driver, new "Lacoste" golf shirt and penny loafers, there's no reason for him not to drive over the hump for a pint!!!
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And just for you, I'll forego the shower the day of, so it's extra spicey when you eat my shorts.
Yeah that's a good plan. Also allows you to fasten down your welding/vice table so it's solid as a frenchman's frontal lobe when you're reefing on it.
Even some chunks of train track would work if you find some lying around...( cn wouldn't miss a couple bits would they? s***, they have miles of it....)
Kinda wish I'd put in some stuff like that when I did my pad, but then, I'm such a cheap ass I used old truck parts as rebar....
... I know where there is a track near my house... I'll have to rent one of them gas powered cutoff things...
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Prep that floor!!! And when you think you're done, do it again! I rented a 400lb. dynapac, brought in and shoveled 4 tandem loads of 3/4 crush. Tamped it in in stages, along with watering to get the fines down. I've also got 80-20ft. sticks of 1/2" rebar with a 6" slab. Lets see some pics of your shop.
I'm still trying to get my s*** in order. Your shop looks like its coming together good! Why did you chose to use full rebar instead of the mesh stuff? For strength?
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I guess the majority of shop slabs are 4" and potential plans of a two post lift i opted for a thicker slab with a higher MPA to anchor to, which meant rebar was still prefered. I got the groundworks for a future bathroom, shower while i was at it too. Now i need to get to work to pay for the second half...
Lookin good man.
I'm gonna hafta throw on the white hard hat and come down and oversee...
How high are you making the ceiling inside? That's one thing I wish with mine, that I'd popped the roof up a few feet before building the addition. Kinda low and oppressive in the old section.
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Lookin good man.
I'm gonna hafta throw on the white hard hat and come down and oversee...
How high are you making the ceiling inside? That's one thing I wish with mine, that I'd popped the roof up a few feet before building the addition. Kinda low and oppressive in the old section.
come on down anytime(you should make it in record time now--speed limit anyhow!!LOL), there's usually beer in the fridge and a store on the way to the house...
I'm going with 14ft. walls, as tall as the bylaws will allow for an outbuilding. Better come soon, it won't be any fun in the shop when the rain hits.
come on down anytime(you should make it in record time now--speed limit anyhow!!LOL), there's usually beer in the fridge and a store on the way to the house...
I'm going with 14ft. walls, as tall as the bylaws will allow for an outbuilding. Better come soon, it won't be any fun in the shop when the rain hits.
Mel's down there a few times a week gettin' all learned up these days, so you'd think we'd be able to figger something out...
Actually, I'm delivering a boat down to skidney this thursday, depending what time I'm done with that, I'll see if we can stop in.
Fingers are crossed for a booming northwester, so I can shut the engine off and haul ass down there in record time...
I posted up some pics in the ontario site ... got it poured last night:
https://forum.ih8mud.com/ca-true-north-toyota-land-cruisers-ottawa/634772-barn-shop.html
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Well, you've already got me beat, you've got walls and a roof!
Have you got a stove in there for heat??
Have you got a stove in there for heat??
Nope... no stove... there was once once upon a time (The barn is about 100 years old). I have a propane jet heater from princess auto that takes the edge off the cold pretty good. I am working on tarpapering all the walls so at least the wind doesn't blow through. I also picked up a 14x14' garage door that will hopefully go in the next few weeks to cut down on the wind blowing through.
I have basic electricity 2 circuits + an extension through the wall for 220 (For welder, plasma cutter, compressor). Last winter I built the wood platform you can see in the pictures and I also hooked up the 3 8' florescent lights so I can see what I'm doing.
I have 2 work benches I built that will be getting covered with sheet metal soon and one has an 8" vice and the other a 6" vice with pipe vice on the back of it.
I have to upgrade the house panel to a 200A circuit before I can properly wire the barn (Although I've already got a sub panel in the barn I've started wiring but won't be hooking up until I upgrade the house panel) got a quote yesterday for $1200 to put up a new mast/panel for 200A ... seems like a bit much.
All in all the work shop is coming together... slowly I'll have to make a build thread for it...
I have basic electricity 2 circuits + an extension through the wall for 220 (For welder, plasma cutter, compressor). Last winter I built the wood platform you can see in the pictures and I also hooked up the 3 8' florescent lights so I can see what I'm doing.
I have 2 work benches I built that will be getting covered with sheet metal soon and one has an 8" vice and the other a 6" vice with pipe vice on the back of it.
I have to upgrade the house panel to a 200A circuit before I can properly wire the barn (Although I've already got a sub panel in the barn I've started wiring but won't be hooking up until I upgrade the house panel) got a quote yesterday for $1200 to put up a new mast/panel for 200A ... seems like a bit much.
All in all the work shop is coming together... slowly I'll have to make a build thread for it...
That's gonna be nice Steve, you'll actually have some use for tools with wheels on them again eh?
Extent of work to my shop in the last year is I finally got around to wiring a plug onto one of Cam's jumbo grow lights...I feel like I'm going to leave a hiroshima burnt shadow outline on the floor when I turn it on...
Still short a couple walls tho.
Extent of work to my shop in the last year is I finally got around to wiring a plug onto one of Cam's jumbo grow lights...I feel like I'm going to leave a hiroshima burnt shadow outline on the floor when I turn it on...
Still short a couple walls tho.
Ya I didn't realize my floor jacks wheels did anything other then skid through the gravel until now...
