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We rented a Takekuchi track loader to drill the pier holes. There's sixteen in the main pad. I also used it to drill the holes for the drill stem posts for the canopy. The piers are eight feet deep and the Take worked great for putting those heavy pieces of drill stem into their holes. I don't know what they weigh but they're three and a half inches in diameter with about a one and a quarter center hole for mud and water flow.

One of the neat things about the Take is I could run all over that pad and not hurt a beam. Too kewel for words. The drill stem is damaged material. One end or the other is messed up. So I put the messed up end down. That way when it comes to framing up the canopy I can screw on an extension with no problem.

This will be weekly updates it seems. That's because there's no internet up there where I'm at. So I'll post progress reports and pictures when I come home. This next week I'll be doing the forming and the rebar. My wife will be at home doing home stuff this week. So I'll be on my own, with the weiner dog of course.

I need to let the engineers in on a secret. This is in the country. It's a farm shed and there's no permits, drawings, or real plan. I will be doing this thing my way. Some of the fun stuff will be designing ways to raise the walls about three feet higher than they were originally designed. Another will be designing and installing the canopy. One of the fun things we're considering is the doors to the main room will be all double slides that will over lap when opening.

I will be doing most of it by myself most of the time. I will bring in a crew to handle the concrete pour and finish when I have it formed and ready for concrete. Between a hundred and forty and a hundred and fifty yards of concrete kind of pour doesn't interest me.