Building My Home - 9 Acres In Anza, CA

[dragoneggs]

Subscribed... good luck with your build!

 

[MF283]

Nice, looks like you've been real busy, will follow as well.

Ronnie

 

[lennyzx11]

I was about to say maybe get an Rv instead of fixing up the old place and tie it into the utilities there. Then I saw your toy hauler.

My son is into the Samurai rock crawling up in Colorado Springs also with a tintop and a prototype blower on it.

Welcome from a fairly new guy here. You won't believe the wealth of knowledge on here.

Search is your friend in the archives also. This board has been up for a while and a lot of good info in the past posts.

Lenny

 

[Haoleguy]

Congrats Jason. The fixer upper looks like it maybe an adobe building...is that the case? I would imagine that adobe like construction would provide a nice thermal envelope for summer or winter. Is Anza considered high desert country? What do you want to do with the acreage?

BTW - I hope they never turn Camp Pendleton into public tract homes. That would be a disaster.

 

[flusher]

Neat stuff.
I went through that process in 2004 at the northern end of CA. Looked at over 50 properties, all of them virgin land. Finally bought 10 acres outside Corning CA (flat pasture, two dozen old almond trees, about 120 miles North of Sacramento). Put a new 1800 sq ft doublewide house, driveway, well, septic and a 24 x 42 ft steel shop building on the site for starters. Sold the place 10 years later at age 73.

Good luck

 

[sikmusicfreak8]

Jason,
How is your backhoe handling the 36 inch bucket? Seems a little big for it. Bradco states biggest my 511 backhoe can handle is a 30 cleanout bucket.
hugs, Brandi

Haven't had a chance to use it much yet, but I plan on using it for cleanup, shaping, I did actually dig a ramp down to my dads basement addition, seemed to handle it fine. They sold buckets up to 40" for these, I just got lucky and found a 36" for a good price.

 

[sikmusicfreak8]

I was about to say maybe get an Rv instead of fixing up the old place and tie it into the utilities there. Then I saw your toy hauler.

My son is into the Samurai rock crawling up in Colorado Springs also with a tintop and a prototype blower on it.

Welcome from a fairly new guy here. You won't believe the wealth of knowledge on here.

Search is your friend in the archives also. This board has been up for a while and a lot of good info in the past posts.

Lenny

I have been searching through archives for awhile, love this site, great knowledge, great people.

And I could stay in the trailer, and right now I do on the weekends, but the house will be a fun project, and having a guest home will be awesome.

I've always loved Samurais! Finally got around to my motor swap this last season. I put it a VW TDI 1.9 turbo diesel. Ditched the YJ springs and 3 linked the front on coilovers. Still have to 4 link the rear and install the elockers and finish up the cosmetics so I can paint it again, but will probably wait til next season. Had some custom gauge overlays created for it, love me some diesel!

 

[davrow]

Jason, congrats on getting some land out here! I'm down the road in Lake Riverside Estates. With all those toys and a new homestead to build you are going to be real busy for a long, happy time!

I'll be keeping an eye on this thread. :thumbsup:

 

[greenmojo]

More pics!

 

[sikmusicfreak8]

Ill be up there on Friday. Plan on getting some drone footage and more pics of where else I have cleared. Didn't realize its been awhile since I snapped some pics, looks much better right now.