Frank Surber
Gold Member
- Joined
- Dec 1, 2012
- Messages
- 289
- Location
- Peacock TX
- Tractor
- John Deere 755c track Loader, John Deere 755bCase 431, Ford 2600, Taylor 25000lb forklift Ford 755 , Schramm 300 Pneumatractor, 8N Ford , Gravely 10A Kubota KH191, 1970 John Deere garden tractor with blade, 1985 John Deere 265 garden tractor Case 431
I started construction on my shop now almost exactly a year ago, working on it when time allotted
first I planted 10 steel trees as my neighbor calls them because I gave them roots and planted them as much as 8 feet in the ground to get down to a hard sub layer of blue or whiteish yellow clay
This is the roots for the corner post on the S/W corner it had such a frame work because there will be a crane mounted on it later
Not using concrete to set them in but I used several bags or Portland in each layer as I back filled the hole adding just a little water as well
Each 6 to 8" layer was compacted with my plate packer
Trust me these columns are not going anywhere especially this one
setting the pedestal base for the crane
I had 11 trusses from an old building that I tore down many of them were damaged because the building collapsed from a heavy snow fall 10 years ago so I doubled them and I repaired them then modified my fork extension boom to handle them
A friend showed up with a skytrack to help set the trusses
Later I stripped the body off of a school bus the bus body will become an office or storage
I used the chassis to make a rolling scaffold platform
I used the forks on the backhoe to raise the school bus to the top of my container
Placing the platform on the rolling scaffold
I built a Gin pole rig with a hoist and snach blocks to fly the purlin
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first I planted 10 steel trees as my neighbor calls them because I gave them roots and planted them as much as 8 feet in the ground to get down to a hard sub layer of blue or whiteish yellow clay
This is the roots for the corner post on the S/W corner it had such a frame work because there will be a crane mounted on it later
Not using concrete to set them in but I used several bags or Portland in each layer as I back filled the hole adding just a little water as well
Each 6 to 8" layer was compacted with my plate packer
Trust me these columns are not going anywhere especially this one
setting the pedestal base for the crane
I had 11 trusses from an old building that I tore down many of them were damaged because the building collapsed from a heavy snow fall 10 years ago so I doubled them and I repaired them then modified my fork extension boom to handle them
A friend showed up with a skytrack to help set the trusses
Later I stripped the body off of a school bus the bus body will become an office or storage
I used the chassis to make a rolling scaffold platform
I used the forks on the backhoe to raise the school bus to the top of my container
Placing the platform on the rolling scaffold
I built a Gin pole rig with a hoist and snach blocks to fly the purlin
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