Steel Building/Tractor Barn

[linus69]

Broke ground today for a 30ftx30ftx13.5ft wall height steel I Beam building with a 12ftx12ft door. I won`t be having to fold the ROPS down anymore on the tractor soon. I will put the tractor and a bunch of other stuff in it when completed and then maybe we can get some cars in our garage.

























Paul

[GuglioLS]

That's great news Paul. I hope to someday have the time to do the same. I have WAY too many boy toys now and our ~28 Y/O (can't remember) pole barn is near (past) the end of it's life. I look forward to your progress reports and pictures.

Larry

[linus69]

Thanks Larry, it wasn`t that easy to convince the Bride that we needed this "Barn", she actually had the wild and crazy notion that I should get rid of some of my treasures. The wall panels are Fern Green and the roof panels are silver.



Paul

[roy697]

Your going to love the big door unless your heating the building. Mine pole building is 30' by 40' with a 16' wide 12' high door. I needed a place that I could back a travel trailer into plus other stuff.

[linus69]

Day two of the site prep, my friends Cat is getting quite a workout with these boulders, all the larger ones were added to the garden landscaping. We will finish the prep tomorrow and the mason will do his forms Monday and pour on Tuesday.









































Added a Flag Pole to the front lawn



Paul

[linus69]

My Mason buddy was quite pleased with the site prep that was done over the weekend and today he got the forming done, now if the weather is cooperative tomorrow is the pour.
Everyone is quite impressed with the rocks that came out of this patch of ground. A backhoe would have taken 3 weeks to do what that Cat excavator did in three days.









Paul

[linus69]

The weather was very iffy but I took the chance and ordered the concrete, 22 1/2yards total.My luck held out and the storms stayed west and south of me. The building will arrive any minute, I told the trucker he could park over nite on our property.





Paul

[roy697]

How thick is the floor?

[linus69]

The perimeter footer is supposed to be 20inby12ins thick, it turned out closer to 30ins wide by about 15ins thick, the field is 4 1/2ins thick, the concrete is 3500psi with fiber added.

[mrmikey]

That's going to be one nice shop, you'll never have to woryy about the floor short of a nuclear explosion.....Mike

[linus69]

Thanks Mike, that floor will certainly out last me I expect. My poor mason buddy spent the day yesterday cutting me straight edges with his concrete saw. The forms all bowed in the middle, it was a backhand blessing, now I have dead straight lines.
The freight company screwed me and my load was not on the bottom back of the flat bed, instead it was on the top of a mini storage building, way up out of tractor fel reach. Luckily the Cat excavator was still here and we used it to offload my building to the ground.
The trucker was a young fellow, really a horse farmer who part timed as a trucker, I greeted him with ice cold beers when he arrived at 10:30PM and salami and eggs in the morning.
That kid who is not required to even get out of his truck worked like an indentured servant, he also gave an ear full to the freight company when they complained about the time he was spending here to offload.
This all took place in near record breaking heat and humidity, it was a long morning to say the least. Now to wait until the concrete cures enough to start erecting the framework.









Paul

[red]

Paul,
the storms just came through up in NY. Temperature dropped from 93F to 69F in less than twenty minutes. Do you have an attachment for the FEL for lifting the steel beams? On the Garage Journal they were talking about a "Duct" lift for safely lifting heavy loads. Wish I knew about it when I was working with my brother lifting that heavy A/C equipment. -Ed
Link-
www.ur.com/index.php/equipment/rental/browse/view/?category=Forklifts+%26+Material+Handling&id=281&page=2

[Rich Waugh]

Twenty or so years ago I owned a sign company and did a fair bit of side work swinging trusses and air conditioners with our 80' boom truck. It didn't have a high capacity at full reach but it would easily handle trusses and ACs up to ten ton units and bigger ones at shorter reach. I got the work because we were cheaper than the crane companies, mostly because I could use that work as fill-in when the truck wasn't needed to install our own work.

[linus69]

For lifting and setting the main steel beams I hope to once again use my friends Cat and it`s 22ft of reach. All the lesser steel members can be handled by one or two people, I also plan on using my drywall lift wherever feasible to raise materials.
That storm was a welcome relief, it brought the temperature down and I was able to shut off the sprinkler that was keeping the slab wet.

Paul

[linus69]

My neighbor made the fatal mistake of stopping by to see the progress, he was immediately interested in helping and soon we had quite a bit accomplished.























Paul