New garage time!

[dragoneggs]

That is basically my plan to add a lean to garage on the side of my shop. Shop is tall enough to support a lean to and I would not need much, just lights and a garage door opener.

No permit for you! Hope the wrong people aren't listening.

 

[MossRoad]

Yes, I'm very deliberate in my movements when i'm up there. Wife just sent me this one.

You could always get a job with Cirque du Soleil...

 

[EddieWalker]

I must have the comprehension skills of a rock. Why are you raising the walls? How tall are they going to be? Does this mean you are no longer going for the third floor storage area? Is the long term goal still to eventually make the second floor a living space? Will their be any windows? especially where a bed will go? I guess I got caught up on the lift discussion and missed what's happening now.

 

[dodge man]

I think they, the government, shot down the third floor idea.

 

[fatjay]

Government shot down the 3rd floor, so i was limited to 2 floors and 26' overall height. With a 1:12 pitch I could make the 2nd floor 12' high. Then I can create loft storage over the bathroom and office areas. I don't know that there's going to be actaul bedrooms, that is just something I was looking at potentially down the line.

Trusses came. Having never installed trusses I had no idea what to expect. Had an extra helper in the middle nailing the trusses to the 2x4. I was on one end lining it up side to side and nailing it, once that was done middle and other end got nailed in. Overall it went pretty smooth, took about 2 hours. We didn't get the front wall finished in time so the last 4 trusses are just butted up against another truss and strapped together.

It poured the entire time and was about 50F, The last 10 days were sunny and 70 and the next 10 days are sunny and 70, but of course, the weather is crappy on the one day I'm at the mercy of the delivery.

Couple videos of the crane in action:
https://i.imgur.com/2NafdDa.mp4
https://i.imgur.com/qpLPhI0.mp4

 

[dodge man]

Looks good, I am used to seeing trusses with a steeper pitch.

 

[ovrszd]

Equipment technology amazes me.

Seeing the pics of setting the trusses with a truck boom is an example.

A good friend of mine is building a new house. I took this pic with my Drone. The person running the boom is the guy with the blue shirt standing in the middle of the pad. He even unhooked the chain by wiggling the boom. Amazing.

 

[MossRoad]

Equipment technology amazes me.

Seeing the pics of setting the trusses with a truck boom is an example.

A good friend of mine is building a new house. I took this pic with my Drone. The person running the boom is the guy with the blue shirt standing in the middle of the pad. He even unhooked the chain by wiggling the boom. Amazing.




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Several years ago I saw a remote control drywall truck. The operator had the controls on a shoulder harness and was walking around the parking lot while booming sheets of drywall up into a 4th floor window of a building. Pretty cool.

 

[ovrszd]

I think this guy's truck is known as a drywall truck. He was a professional operator. A treat to watch and video.

 

[fatjay]

Equipment technology amazes me.

Seeing the pics of setting the trusses with a truck boom is an example.

A good friend of mine is building a new house. I took this pic with my Drone. The person running the boom is the guy with the blue shirt standing in the middle of the pad. He even unhooked the chain by wiggling the boom. Amazing.




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The guy who brought my 6 pallets of block used a remote control to opperate the crane, it was pretty slick.