My shop build

[STx]

The digging didn't take long at all, to once I got the pit started, I'd just pull the mini-ex down in it and scrape the sides down. I could get about 60 - 70 yards loose in an hour and then I could load and move about 3 x 8 yard loads an hour. Spreading, leveling and compacting took up the majority of the dirt work time.

It took me about a month to get all the dirt work done but, that wasn't working every day, I had delays due to weather or equipment. It was probably only about 8-10 actual working days.

I do sometimes wish I'd gone a little larger on the mini-ex, other times it's just right. I only had $15k to spend though, this was the largest newish machine I could find in that budget and I didn't want to finance something to go larger.

 

[smokinmad]

So, did you load with a loader? Those lil' excavators are handy, would like one myself.

Doing it the cheaper way always does take longer, unless you got 10 kids. lol...You did a good job, looks nice, wish I had one....

 

[STx]

Yes, I loaded with the tractor. Would've taken forever to load with the mini-ex, I did try doing that with one load, took almost an hour.

Thanks, it was a lot if work, still a lot to do, it's coming along though. Sure beats being outside.

 

[mopardude318]

Nice project!!! I made the stupid mistake of trying to build a 24x32 shop on a hill side. Which is causing me to have a 10 ft tall 3 sided retaining wall engineered around the whole **** thing. LOL

 

[smokinmad]

Nice project!!! I made the stupid mistake of trying to build a 24x32 shop on a hill side. Which is causing me to have a 10 ft tall 3 sided retaining wall engineered around the whole **** thing. LOL

Ya know that could be a good thing....Lets say you stayed 10' away from your shed.. all you would have to do is add a "lean-to roof" from shed and fastened to top of wall..WaaLaa..instant Addition....lol

 

[STx]

Not making the big progress on it that I was but, I finally got around to installing the other 9 lights I bought. 15 of these in now at 10,000 lumens each. It's a lot better than it was with just 6 but, I could probably add another 10 - 12. I'm going to hold off until I get the mezzanine in though and see how adding the lighting for it and the downstairs affects things first.

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[PhysAssist]

Not making the big progress on it that I was but, I finally got around to installing the other 9 lights I bought. 15 of these in now at 10,000 lumens each. It's a lot better than it was with just 6 but, I could probably add another 10 - 12. I'm going to hold off until I get the mezzanine in though and see how adding the lighting for it and the downstairs affects things first.

Hi STx,

Don't feel too bad about the slow-down.

It seems to me that once a building has been enclosed, wired, and even partly lighted- it's suddenly not just functional for use, it is somehow now suddenly become so indispensable that it's hard to stop using it long enough to finish it.

We lived in our current house from 1994 to 2012 w/o any large outbuildings- we just had a 6'x8' toolshed, and a wood shed that started at 4" x `12', and was eventually expanded with a 12' x 10' lean-to addition- all made of salvaged/scavenged or repurposed materials [except for fasteners ].

We bought our 2011 B2320 in 7/2011, and put up a 10' x 20' Shelter Logic temporary garage, because my SWMBO's "new baby" couldn't be left out in the weather, so by 12/2012, we had our 45' x 30 pole barn up, and enclosed.

[It was a big family joke that she got a tractor, the tractor got a barn, and I got nothing- but the bills...]

It took until 10/2014 to get our concrete floor poured, and required a full day of moving everything out so that we could manage it.

We temporarily ran some heavy extension cords out to it to use for lights etc, and didn't finally get it officially wired until 4/2016, and then I got all the lighting up before the end of the month-

XC for the back corner, where everything had been pushed to make room for the electricians- and that still isn't done.

There have just been too many other projects that need to use the barn, to allow me to do any more work on it yet.

Keep us posted when you do more, I for one, am really interested in your progress.

P.A.