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The first step for my shop
hiker:
Nice,,business shop or just private,,? You always do things in a Big Way,,! 😜
Frank S:
Hiker I don't know about the big way, but hopefully it will serve my purpose well enough.
It is just going to be a shop to house my personal projects and machines for now since I'm retired. However I do take in the occasional job.
I've gone about as far as I can go with it for a few days I damaged the truss which was going to be the middle truss when I had moved it out of my way previously so I have to do a little minor repair to it before I can install it.
For the past few days I had a window of opportunity that only comes along rarely My friend and his wife are visiting from Connecticut and are preparing to move to Texas so they were busy getting their car and RV registered with Texas plates getting their Texas driver's license so he helped me get the poles topped to a level height then another friend showed up with the 12" I beam and a skytrack forklift so we really got busy for a while.
He had to return the forklift yesterday evening so that was the end of it for a while but I learned that I might possibly be able to buy the forklift at a reasonable price but I want to get the beams paid off before thinking about that.
the building is 61 ft long and 68 ft wide my 45 ft house hold goods Machine shop van will be attached to the outside where the scaffolding is now which will give me more room and my 26 ft tool and bolt storage van will be attached to the rear of the building I have a 38 by 40 ft canopy that I might add over where the machine shop van will be located for parking equipment under.
Additionally I have a large school bus that I am thinking about removing the body from the chassis and lifting it up and sitting it on top of the container for storage. the concrete for the floor is going to be my biggest worry because that is a huge expenditure
DanG:
Ooo... school bus 'sky dome' for the shops second floor office!
Sorry to exaggerate but it might make a nice elevated shop office w/ storage (tornado shelter?) underneath it?
Count me in as tagging along on your project, best outcomes to you!
Frank S:
It looks like life and climate change is going to be in the way for awhile supposed to have off and on rain for the next couple of days went out in the woods today and hauled a load of deadwood to keep the home fire burning while the thermometer struggles to reach the mid 40s' And I need to get busy rebuilding a pickup engine since I already have it laying on the work bench and a box of new parts.
Going to try and order some "C" purlins for next week.
Might go ahead and build some posts for the lean-to and get that up since I otherwise have all the materials for it
SparWeb:
Holy #### I missed that monster lathe when you posted it.
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