My summer vacation.

[Thumpin455]

Goats sleep inside now, tools aren't under tarps, and I have to go get the lift soon. Needs wiring, gables sheeted, insulation, windows and doors, and steel siding, but I can knock that out quick.

[squirrel]

fantastic!

[Thumpin455]

Tell my body it can stop hurting now.

[STINEY]

That's fantastic news! Mammoth amount of work.....I'm guessing mostly done by one individual?

[Dan Barlow]

Congrats . Looks good .

[Deaf Bob]

Welcome back stranger!

[tedly]

So glad to hear from you Todd!

[Dan Barlow]

And yes I was worried about you . Going silent and all .

[Thumpin455]

Yeah mostly by me, had some help with pouring the concrete(3guys X 1 day), putting the roof up(2 guys- Sunday to today), and making the poles and getting the forms started (1 guy 9 days total ) and some help moving trees on random days.

Went silent because I was doing 16 hr days, internet service is sketchy at best, and all I've done this summer is what it takes to build a 32x48 yourself on a very tight budget. My blue Formula has more money in it than this shop does. I hurt everywhere, and have for months now. Here is where I live since mid September. I did this and made it livable in a bit less than a week. Waiting for the phone company to bore under the highway so I can get internet service.

[DanStokes]

Todd, I'm SO glad to hear from you! We all worried about you greatly but it looks like your life is finally coming, more or less, together.

Sorry that you hurt. As I age, a good day in the shop often results in the following day being stiff - but I can take a day off if I want to. I hope you can have the perspective to take joy in your accomplishments but I know it's difficult when you're in pain.

Rock on

Dan

[SuperBuickGuy]

wow, you've done good!

[TheSilverBuick]

Wow indeed! Well done and welcome back!

[Barry Donovan]

great work.
some friends and I built a tiny cabin out of cedar fence poles, one at a time from leftover stuff at the local mill. A chainsaw did the main beams out of logs in the area.
I would not believe what that was worth today, 30 years later, perhaps with some north moss growing on one of the walls...big addons.


I am very inspired to go buy my first shack with a recent v.a. home loan certificate.

I lived in something smaller than those 2 containers.. a 1945 8 foot outside dimension mobile trailer, with 1.5 inch thick walls.. 4 years. Furnace at 100k btu within 8 feet maximum distance.

good job on the garage!

[tardis454]

Damn! you been busy! Glad to see you Todd! Welcome back!!!

[mike343sharpstick]

Looks like a great start, and the hard part appears to be over! I was just In your lovely Peninsula last weekend with some friends riding the Moss Lake single track ORV trail just a few miles north of Big Bay De Noc. Each visit I'm amazed at how much of a wilderness it is up there, the Hiawatha National Forest is a beautiful place.
It was great how the temperature dropped some 20 degrees the day before we got there, I think it got as low as 23 at night, great tenting weather!