dstig1
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- Joined
- Apr 7, 2010
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- W Wisc
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- Kubota L5240 HSTC, JD X738 Mower, (Kubota L3130 HST - sold)
Time to revive this. I've been going crazy getting ready to start the build as a result of the first rounds of quotes I got late winter. Not surprisingly, everything came in too high to make it happen as planned, so I have been scrambling with redesign and got the cost down to manageable. Building permit was submitted a few weeks back and it is basically all ready except I am still waiting for the septic permit to come in. They can't issue the bldg permit without that and the plumber was a bit slow getting it in, so I probably have another couple weeks to go on that.
In the mean time, the big part of the redesign was to remove the shop building that was attached to the house and move to a much simpler detached building to save cost. But that meant I had to clear another section of trees... I thought I was done with that... So we spent a couple weekends earlier in May getting that done. Here's a few pics of the new log pile, brush pile, and the clearing. I may have the excavator come in soon to start digging out stumps and prep the pad area to get moving.
I'll show the design changes a bit later. This area is going to hold the 32x80' shop building. Shop is going up first to act as a staging/storage area for the house. It is just about the only other decent flat spot on the land, so that is why it is there. The brush pile has grown from this pic as we later cleared the ROW for the electric and gas. It's been raining so dang much, I'm not sure when the pile will be dry enough to burn. And it's right in the way. GRRR
I'm quite sure this whole process is going to drive me insane, as keeping up with all the details already is driving me nutz...:confused2:
In the mean time, the big part of the redesign was to remove the shop building that was attached to the house and move to a much simpler detached building to save cost. But that meant I had to clear another section of trees... I thought I was done with that... So we spent a couple weekends earlier in May getting that done. Here's a few pics of the new log pile, brush pile, and the clearing. I may have the excavator come in soon to start digging out stumps and prep the pad area to get moving.
I'll show the design changes a bit later. This area is going to hold the 32x80' shop building. Shop is going up first to act as a staging/storage area for the house. It is just about the only other decent flat spot on the land, so that is why it is there. The brush pile has grown from this pic as we later cleared the ROW for the electric and gas. It's been raining so dang much, I'm not sure when the pile will be dry enough to burn. And it's right in the way. GRRR
I'm quite sure this whole process is going to drive me insane, as keeping up with all the details already is driving me nutz...:confused2: