Building a New Shop!

[BOSSMAN]

Been a long time coming for this (10 years actually) and I'm finally breaking ground on my new shop!
Building a 40' X 63' pole barn with 14' sidewalls. I'm going to have a 40' X 40' area for my cars with a car lift and a 23' X 40' machine shop with two levels. Upper level (has scissor trusses) will be for my office and parts storage. The lower level will be divided in half - one side will be a clean room with my flow bench and the other side for machining / porting. I'm not sure what I will do with all of this space now but something tells me it will be full within a week LOL!

Here is the progress so far. We are digging footings this weekend, pouring footings early next week, and doing the block wall that weekend (weather permitting......). I will post pics as we go but thought I would post a cool "build thread" on it.

[Bob Holmes]

I didn't realize that you had that much slope. Great to see you breaking ground.

[BOSSMAN]

Yeah me either LOL. We had to dig 6' into the hill and move it over to the low side (in the back corner - fill 6'). A total of 12' difference from high spot to low spot! I now have to build a 8' block wall (13 courses) 63' long and 14' foot in on each end. I have a TON of people trying to help me out to keep the costs down for me - SO THANKFUL to have good friends!

[ls7gto]

Good for you Nick! Man, nice dirt, not a rock in sight , my land is nothing but limestone!

[TheSilverBuick]

Way cool!

[BOSSMAN]

Luckily the next door neighbor owns an excavating company. He said it was real nice dirt (alot of clay) and it compacted pretty good.

[DanStokes]

Excellent! Love to see some other idiot making the investment that I've made (repeatedly as I move from house to house). I'm guessing you know that it's too small. They always are!

Best of luck
Dan

[BOSSMAN]

HAHA no doubt Dan! I have battled with my city since September of last year. They finally approved my building in April just so happened to be near my birthday so that was a nice gift. The size of this thing is over twice what's allowable and luckily I presented a really strong case and did tons of leg work to help my odds for approval. Our location also helped out being out of everyone's view. Getting to this point has been a rough road and luckily things ended in my favor.

[dulcich]

Nick, that is awesome news. I'm sure you will put it to good use. Congrats!
-dulcich

[BOSSMAN]

Nick, that is awesome news. I'm sure you will put it to good use. Congrats!
-dulcich

Thanks Dulcich!