Thanks, guys...I am excited.
Mr. Jimi,
I don't know know a thing about preparing the site for rebar or (Eddie) the size of the footings. David is correct that I will be moving in heavy metal cutting machinery for my machine shop so I told them I wanted a thick concrete floor and what the purpose would be.
To answer some of your questions Eddie,
Footings...see above.
The guys are using my solar power for everything except their machines that have gas engines on it. So far it's been working flawlessly and guess what...the back up generator has not had to come one ever so far.
I did not even think about the cement trucks around my Oak trees at all.
Thanks for pointing that out. However from what I saw, none of them were very close to the Oaks anyway, so that is just pure luck. They had 11 trucks to pour the footings and basement on the house. Then there were 2 trucks for the garage foundation and 7 trucks for the barn. (They told me) they were all topped off at 9-1/2 yards. Then there should be one more or two trucks later to pour the pad in front of the garage and my walkways (sidewalks) around the home.
And last, No on the food plot. I tried to irrigate it during the Summer with timers but the polypipe I used burst under pressure when the water was sitting in the polypipe. It got so hot that there were "bubbles" where the plastic elasticized and blew up. So I disconnected the system. I will have to bury schedule 40 pvc and start over again. The pressure is also too high for polypipe at over 60 psi since it's about 150' lower than the well. When it got hot here (110 degrees F+) the water sitting in the pipe had to be scalding as we found out for our camp shower.
It's deer season now and when I was smoothing my road two nice bucks, 4x4 muleys ran in front of me.