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The first step for my shop
Frank S:
Thanks KS; yeah it is a project. Now that I have the columns up I'm getting antsy to start hanging trusses but since the man lift has not showed up for me to do some repairs on it I am concentrating on scaffolding Erecting scaffolding by yourself is never fun especially having to go 3 sections tall I've been using the boom extension on the forks to lift the sections a lot safer than trying to carry them up and balance my self while trying to heft them in place but it is still a lot of climbing up and down.
I have some of the columns buried deeper than others so they are a little short some I can cut off to get the height I want but the others I will have to weld on to them or I will have to settle for less finished floor to truss height that expected.
Had I done this building like I did all of the pre engineered buildings I have built I would have already had it erected by now even by myself but it would have cost me a few tens or thousands of dollars that I don't have to have done it that way. In the end it would have still just been a big steel box that would do the same thing as this one will shelter from wind rain cold and the sun. If I had sold all of my used materials for scrap it would have only yielded enough to pour concrete footers then I wouldn't have money or materials. Besides I am more of an upcycle reuse type of guy anyway.
Mary B:
Any chance of hiring a day laborer to help? Or are you trying to keep things semi private so nobody knows what you have?
Going to be nice once it is finished!
Frank S:
--- Quote from: Mary B on April 20, 2019, 03:57:45 PM ---Any chance of hiring a day laborer to help? Or are you trying to keep things semi private so nobody knows what you have?
Going to be nice once it is finished!
--- End quote ---
Not much privacy if constructing the tallest building for 15 miles in any direction, except for an abandoned cotton gin.
School's about to be out soon so when it comes to that point I am hoping to hire half the graduating class to help for a few days. That will only be about 4 guys who live in town the rest live out on the farms and will already have more than they can do. But there is no guarantee those 4 don't already have summer work lined up. I have a couple buds and a couple retired neighbors who have volunteered to help but haven't asked them to come over yet. I knd of want to get as much stuff pre prepared as possible so everyone's time won't be spent on menial things.
Frank S:
I can hardly believe it is late September and nothing has been accomplished on my shop since April. Farr too much life gets in my way at times but on a lighter note there have been several significant tool acquisitions and even had to build a monster of a gantry a frame to unload one of them
Frank S:
Finally getting a little more done on the shop
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