New shop going up!

[YanmarFever]

Big day has arrived !

 

[YanmarFever]

Turnup, see the J bolts sticking up (with nuts on them) they go 20" into the concrete, then the beams get bolted onto them.
The boards are like guides to hold them during the pour,
They are a royal pain to set up because if they are a little off you're skewed.

 

[YanmarFever]

I'm not building this by myself, I'm doing some of the light work, hiring the crews and supervising the work.
Plus being the go-for, so they can keep working.
I'm to old for this, specially since I just had knee surgery yesterday.
Soon I will be back in the saddle.

 

[EddieWalker]

I'm looking forward to seeing it be built!!!!

 

[murphy1244]

I just love these build threads ! Keep the pics coming..

 

[tacticalturnip]

You must be in Florida or some similar place? I was being facetious about not recognizing palm trees; lol, I just like to remind myself I live where the air hurts to breath to avoid such things.

Very good work!

 

[TripleS]

Why the pump truck? Looks to me the trucks could get all the way to the slab.I would have saved the pump truck money if the mixers could get to the slab. 30 years ago I drove a cement mixer for a few years and about the only time we poured in a pump truck was for multiple storys. If the trucks could get to the pour they never had a pump truck. But I will say as a mixer driver having a pump truck is the easiest day at work ever.

 

[YanmarFever]

There were to many piles of soil and rocks to move, and the ground on one side slopes to much.
That's why the pump was called
It took 16 trucks loads to pour that floor !

 

[CliffordK]

It took 16 trucks loads to pour that floor !

I imagine you got the sixteen loads for the price of one discount, right?

How thick did you pour the slab?

 

[YanmarFever]

The floor is 6 to 7" thick. where the beams went its 30 inches deep for the J bolts