The Project Pad

First we need access.

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Then we need a place.



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Gotta have some rock in there

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speeding-g60 wrote:Gotta have some rock in there

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Looks nice. Expanding shop space ?

Forgot the rock. Literally forgot to budget for it. And forgot to post those pix haha


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Afterthought wrote:

speeding-g60 wrote:Gotta have some rock in there

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Looks nice. Expanding shop space ?

Putting up 40x60x12 pole barn yes. The now space of 24x48 is small small stuffed full and overflowing.

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Well I accounted for some rock for the base of the building but I totally didn't account for the rock for the driveway over 300 ft plus since it's the first road I've ever cut I went a little deeper than I probably should have but you know what it ain't never going to go nowhere.

I had him back in and drop a load then I would spread it out before he got back 14 loads on one day 210 tons.

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So then the building arrived well the framework for it did. The sheet metal came a few days later

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And it starts. As they are placing the entry door Gable wall I mentioned that it looked small already and could they extended another Bay and they laughed and said nope.

that little blue spec is the Chubster BTW.



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then i am doing this as a little journal type of thing.

1 shot every ten seconds, time lapse. 11 MP per shot, 29.97 fps, GoPro Hero 2.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=GT0jAv9f6QE[/youtube]

day 2. notice the clouds movement and different direction. also notice the rain in the pan down low, see it wet then evaporate. pretty cool shit.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=_wBODRV2h0s[/youtube]

After day two we went up on their lift to check out the stuff. Someone was scared to death for a bit. and we werent even very high. peak is like 17 foot and change, lift goes to 26 feet! (we went later for sure )



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day three.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=s8HKHctPbQA[/youtube]

Yeah I got the machine up there after levelling it out.



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day 4.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=T21LaQ-LJTY[/youtube]

Roof is on.

Also came up on some left over wire to feed power to the new building.

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day 5 progress. They left today for the week as they have family obligations at home. plus they didnt want to drive trailer with lift thru the horrible Portland traffic at rush hour in the evening.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=wKFQV4PPjzU[/youtube]

Weekend comes and I learned the power of the overspray when I painted the soffits before the siding goes on.

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Great Project. Great camera work!

You have a hell of a piece of property there

Grillage wrote:Great Project. Great camera work!

You have a hell of a piece of property there

thank you on all fronts. yeah its peaceful (aside from one hell of an annoyance to one side; long story so i will refrain lol).

5.03 acres, flat mostly. used to be a dairy this whole valley, they call it the Chelatchie Prairie. no shit this is the view on a nice day from the entire front of the house.

2979 sq ft (576 of it 24x24 stick built) manufactured home. 24x48 shop. 250' wide 875' deep. $206k when i got it, Zillow says ~$500k-ish now but county records just bumped it to $299k and that dont include this building.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtXJdqoTRdM[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FG25pbMbTc[/youtube]

I tried to do a parking area and i did 6-8" deep, landscape fabric and then filled with 5/8- with fines but it sank. I'm thinking I should have done like you did and put the bigger rock under first .

Been following along on IG, you've been making excellent progress (as you tend to do).

Afterthought wrote:I tried to do a parking area and i did 6-8" deep, landscape fabric and then filled with 5/8- with fines but it sank. I'm thinking I should have done like you did and put the bigger rock under first .

i went much deeper than planned (not on purpose), but i did 1-1/4" minus for the road base. on the road fabric, the plastic/nylon type not felt. i have been told you will lose it if you do smaller rock. just works right thru the fabric.

the shop base is 3" minus and its a bitch when grading the 1" minus screenings because large boulders really make a dent in the progress haha.

if had to do over, i would use the 1-1/4" minnus on everything then MAYBE cap the road in 5/8" minus. i prefer 3/4" minus but thats a Portland thing, not up here in WA for some odd reason. the Portland rock is much nicer in my 15 yrs plus experience.

mine has been proof rolled for the driveway by the loaded dumptrucks backing in further and further each time. i will maybe be getting a small 4 foot roller machine this weekend to really roll it out properly.

ITS GOOD TO HAVE FRIENDS WITH EQUIPMENT THAT ARE WILLING TO LOAN TO YOU!!!!

i did originally just drive one of my trucks back and forth and back and forth and so on. did an ok job of it i guess.