3R Home and Barn Project

[EddieWalker]

Rob,

The house is looking awesome. I'm enjoying all your pics and looking forward to more. I didn't understand how the one inch bolts worked. What did they fasten to? and how?

On your shop, what was the massive footing for?

Are the guys using generators for power? your generator? or is the solar system powerful enough for them to run their tools?

Are you doing anything to keep all those cement trucks away from your trees? I've lost a few from compression of the soil around the root base and see barriers put up around trees on jobsites all the time. Guess you are done with cement trucks now anyway. LOLl

Have you spent any time working on this years food plot?

Eddie

[sandman2234]

Mr Jimi,
That extra rebar he used is to keep the place from crumbling as the nearest fault moves. He is in California, after all. I don't remember the last time we had a earthquake tremor in Orange Park, Fl...
He probably also plans on moving some metal moving machinery in, which usually needs a fairly strong base under it.
3RRRL, Looks good from here!!!
David from jax

[3RRL]

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.

[dfkrug]

Rob:

Very nice pix, as usual. (And very nice 50KB sizes, too!)

That's a lot of wood.....how do you plan to mitigate for woodpeckers,
termites, and wood-boring beetles? Big problems here in CA.

Concrete is up to about $120/cy for 5-sack here in the Santa Cruz
Mtns. How far is your readi-mix plant, and what do they charge for
mud in your area?

[hunterridgefarm]

Rob,

Things are looking good! What do they estimate on having it under roof 2-3 weeks?

I am kind of like you on the pictures. I have taken more on my house but have not had time to load and post. Hope to get to it in the next day or two.

I have not had as many concrete trucks as you. I had 3-4 trucks pour the basement and will have several more scheduled in the next few weeks.

Keep the pics coming. I have been watching Blog Cabin on HGTV or DIY, can't remember which, but they are building a log cabin the the TN mountains and have it documented from land clearing to finished work. Nice little log cabin. I thuoght about yours while I was watching. Of course the Blog Cabin would look like a shack beside yours .

David

[3RRL]

Dave and David, thank you.
You guys have to understand I am not building this myself and I have a general contractor doing it all for me. I am only involved in land clearing, site prep, road maintenance and an unlimited amount of cash flow. I don't know didly squat about construction work as you've seen from the solar shed I built myself. Someone said all it needed was a big "Snoopy" lying on the roof.

What I did do is give him (the contractor) key points about the home and barn that I needed to achieve and he designed accordingly. I also asked questions when there were alternatives to my wants. As far as the construction methods and materials used, that's up to him to tell me. The only thing I know is this thing costs more than my tractor mods. If it was me, everything would be bolted together with SHCS and surface ground after milling ... lol ... all square and parallel to withing .001".

[3RRL]

Here are some photos of the garage slab pour. They had 2 trucks come in for this one and only 4 guys instead of 10 this time. It was actually poured 2 days before the barn. Again, Roy was in charge of finishing the concrete work.
They checked for proper drainage slope before finishing it up.



These are some shots of when they were finishing. They used that "soft cut" saw to cut it after they snapped the lines. Also shown is how the garage is located in proximity to the home. Some of these photos were taken from the first floor of the home. As usual, I am only there to admire and check out their work...looks good to me?
Does it look good?

[Brad_Blazer]

Wow Rob it's all going together fast!

Your barn slab design is pretty similar to the one under my steel building - monolithic slab / grade beam with smaller piers to support the end wall columns and larger piers under the full span columns. Your's look more massive - probably for the seismic loads, and I used welded wire cloth instead of a rebar grid. On mine the toughest reactive load to design for was lift due to wind which was over 5000lb for each full span column . That's a lot of concrete to tie in! Mine also had the diagonal "hairpins" around the anchor bolts.

Looks like the finishers are giving you nice flat slabs. On mine - I got what I paid for ha ha but it works for me.

Brad

[3RRL]

Thanks Brad, but like I said, it's the contractor's work and not mine. That's probably why it looks so good. I think I got a good contractor and his crew is excellent.

I'll be going up tomorrow at 6:00 am to pick up a 5,000 gallon water tank in Hanford. It's about 80 miles from my property but they wanted $750 to ship it. So I'm driving the Blazer up towing my trailer and haul it myself. It's 10' in diameter and about 12' tall. It should fit lying down in my trailer. I'm gonna set it in place with the Kama (what else) on that concrete circle by the well.

I invited the fire marshal up to visit my place. I asked him to look at the spot he wanted the fire hydrant placed and also about the clearing work I've done. I also asked if my road would meet his specs and if the trees needed more trimming. I told him I wanted him to be able to save my house in case of a wildfire. He liked that I asked all these questions and we spent several hours together. I even told him we had 9 culverts to divert the run off, but one was still partly plugged from a couple years ago. You guys remember when I posted that? Anyway, he offered to clean it out with his fire engine hose for free. He did it and that was great. I invited him up for a steak dinner after that. I think he will keep me in mind if (when) a fire breaks out.

[EddieWalker]

Cleaning culverts out with a fire hose is cheating!!!!!!!!! NOT FAIR. hahaha

Seriously, that's pretty cool of him to do that for you. Where are the pics?

Eddie