Tractor gets smaller home

[Wesdor]

Currently I house my tractor in a large machine shed. However, that should all change this fall when it gets to move into a new home. This is the site before anything started.

 

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We have a 400' driveway and I took the top 6" of dirt off for use in the yard. Here is the tractor moving the dirt.

 

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My brother and I put down geofabric so the rock wouldn't sink into the mud.

 

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The first bite of dirt.

 

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Here they are putting rock around the footing forms

 

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The site is on a hill and doesn't allow for easy access by cement trucks. As a result they pumped the walls.

 

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On Monday they began framing the house in nearly 100 degree heat.

 

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By Monday evening, they had the lower level work nearly completed.

 

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The decking was glued and then screwed into place.

 

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Just to show priorities, the first wall up was where they tractor will be housed.

 

[have_blue]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( My brother and I put down geofabric so he rock wouldn't sink into the mud. )</font>

If you build it, they will come... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[GerardC]

Looks like an interesting project. Any way you could try and post larger photos? Kind of tough to see any detail(s).

 

[Wesdor]

bigger photos - everyone usually complains they are too big /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I hadn't looked at them here, but did after your post. I'll try to make them bigger. They are too big to post here in their original format, so I'll go back and see what I can do.

Thanks for the observation.

 

[Wesdor]

I'll try this one and see if it is any better.

I was amused that the first walls that went up were the garage where my tractor will be "living". I told the crew that I liked their priorities.

 

[GerardC]

Perfect. Can't get'em better than that. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Wesdor]

Trusses were delivered about 3:30 this afternoon. The crew began setting the first of them. This photo was taken a little before 5:00 p.m.

This is a passive solar home. Notice the shadows on the window holes. There should be little if any sun in the windows on June 21 and the sun should shine fully into the windows on December 21.