gearhead204 Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 making a little more progress the roof is on, house wrap and windows go in tomorrow, then start tinning the sides, also decided to cover the opening between buildings (eliminate a snow trap) will start framing that Friday. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-274371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmer52 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Looking goooood! 1 Quote Ken PRR Country and Charter member of the "Mack Pack" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-274372 Share on other sites More sharing options...
85snowdog Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Looks like its going to be as solid as the truck that will be parked in it. Very nice. 1 Quote Keith Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-274410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1958 F.W.D. Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 I don't see any underground potable or waste lines for the bar sink.......WTH is going on? Quote TWO STROKES ARE FOR GARDEN TOOLS Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-274436 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Vladislav Posted January 15, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 15, 2015 Congrats on the challange!The size seems very good and I hope you'll end it up soon.I went through the same story when got into a need to put Macks under the roof but hadn't so much land for such the scale. 6 Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-274440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gearhead204 Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 Ok Vlad you have definitely out done me! all steal frame work, tile roof, and brick WOW if I did that here I would have to live in it. Did you have to do that because of the neighbors are so close? or is that normal construction for you? are you taxed on the value of your buildings, or the size? Sorry about all the questions , just curiousYardo: the bar plumbing will start after the ground thaws! and the P.U.D. get their fiber optic cable moved and I get that damn pole out of my way! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-274500 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Ok Vlad you have definitely out done me! all steal frame work, tile roof, and brick WOW if I did that here I would have to live in it. Did you have to do that because of the neighbors are so close? or is that normal construction for you? are you taxed on the value of your buildings, or the size? Sorry about all the questions , just curiousYardo: the bar plumbing will start after the ground thaws! and the P.U.D. get their fiber optic cable moved and I get that damn pole out of my way! ground thawed now I know you blokes are pulling my leg ground thawed yeah right they must all think Im sillyseriously I never thought of that I have never tried to dig frozen ground never have seen it it's new to me our winters are that mild in Australia our trees dont loose there leaves or anything we dont have a season called fall we just have autumn up in the tropics were I live we dont have winter spring or summer autumn just the wet season and the dry seasonMate that sheds looking good plenty of size but always can be bigger as my dad always "you can never have to many shed's"he is such a wise old thing and seemed to get smarter as I got older funny thatPaul 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-274505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1958 F.W.D. Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 ground thawed now I know you blokes are pulling my leg ground thawed yeah right they must all think Im sillyseriously I never thought of that I have never tried to dig frozen ground never have seen it it's new to me our winters are that mild in Australia our trees dont loose there leaves or anything we dont have a season called fall we just have autumn up in the tropics were I live we dont have winter spring or summer autumn just the wet season and the dry seasonThe farther north you get in the continental United States, the deeper you are required to place your concrete footings for buildings due to the "frost line." The frost line where I am located in Pennsylvania (Near Philadelphia) is 94.1cm (minimum) deep. Quote TWO STROKES ARE FOR GARDEN TOOLS Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-274607 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post other dog Posted January 16, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 16, 2015 . 3 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-274610 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post gearhead204 Posted January 17, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 17, 2015 well if that was my crew LAY OUT would take on a whole new meaning ! there would be lots of NAILING and POUNDING and lots of WOOD but I don't think I would get too much assembly done! 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-274665 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 The farther north you get in the continental United States, the deeper you are required to place your concrete footings for buildings due to the "frost line." The frost line where I am located in Pennsylvania (Near Philadelphia) is 94.1cm (minimum) deep.ok why do they have to dig deeper for the frost line ? Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-274672 Share on other sites More sharing options...
85snowdog Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Paul, when the ground freezes it expands. Clay can expand more than sandy ground. Your footings need to be on ground you know won't freeze. If the ground under your footing freezes, it will raise the footing, screwing up foundation walls and the structure that's on it.Our frost line is 121.9 cm or 4 ft. I put water services down 5 ft.Keith Quote Keith Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-274675 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1958 F.W.D. Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 oh yeah I forgot to mention water and sewer lines, they have to be as deep, if not deeper than the frost line or else they will freeze too. The more north you are, the colder it gets (duh) and the deeper that the frost line has to be. 1 Quote TWO STROKES ARE FOR GARDEN TOOLS Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-274702 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Vladislav Posted January 17, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 17, 2015 Ok Vlad you have definitely out done me! all steal frame work, tile roof, and brick WOW if I did that here I would have to live in it. Did you have to do that because of the neighbors are so close? or is that normal construction for you? are you taxed on the value of your buildings, or the size? Sorry about all the questions , just curiousYardo: the bar plumbing will start after the ground thaws! and the P.U.D. get their fiber optic cable moved and I get that damn pole out of my way! No, I'm not so far from you.My size went only for 2 trucks and some good space to work. The area is not too much, the above picture was made from the back fence point and the camera made it appears larger than it is. And a house is planned to be build in the center. With a garage for trucks in the ground floor though A normal way to build is of concrete foam blocks or bricks covered with wooden roof structure and sheet metal on the top. If man want a big factory type of building he uses steel beam structure with sandwich panels steel-mineral wool-steel. Easy to grow up and good insulation. As for me I wanted to cover a wide space (9 meters, about 27 feet) but have a loft to keep parts. Also I like to have strong steel beams above a room to put hoist or winch when pull out an engine. So wanted I-beams anyway. To the moment I didn't plan to have insulation (extra cost) but wanted to keep ability to do it in the future. Due to a possible snow load I had to build everything strong enough. I'm educated as a mechanical engineer but not a constructor. So contstructions seems to me as a hobby. It was interesting to make a steel structure building I have never done before. So I made basic load math, bought I-beams and welded them into the exact parts with flanges to bolt up together. Couple of words about the foundation. Here is a clay. The freeze level is near 1meter, maybe 1.5. But when you build a house it used to be warm inside and it also warm up the concrete. I planned the shed cold. So dug out the slot in the ground of 2 meters deep and of 0.4 meter wide around all the perimeter , put 0.3 meter of sand on the bottom and than filled it up with solid concrete off 4 mixer trucks. So now it's possible to build 3 storey stone house on it. As for the bricks there's a trick. To make it nice-looking (and to make a training to build a house of the same style in the future) I have done just a front wall of bricks. The rest is sheet metal.Taxes... I pay nothing at the moment because it's not registered officially Hope I'll contnue the same for some more years. They must be payed by a cost. But you NEVER know here what the law WILL BE tomorrow.So shouldn't be too fast to be legal. Again, you here CAN'T be 100% legal (F**k!!!) 6 Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-274718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 thanks for the explanation on the frost line something we have no problem with out here Looking good there Vlad hows that sleeper coming along for the R model ?Paul Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-274739 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladislav Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 The sleeper is doing not bad. The body work is almost done and it's waiting to go to the paint shop. Just have no finished pics in the 'puter.The other thing is bothered me. I'd like to paint the cab doors and the hood to put that all on the truck. But can't figure out on wich one. There's a reason to put on the better and the running one. Than I would be able to take the second one apart to work out the cab, it's better. But than I'd like to continue with the axles and the frame. And that second (parts) truck has one of the rails pear-shaped due to the accident.So I would need to part out the main (driving) truck also Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-274745 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gearhead204 Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 Vlad: thanks for the explanation , that makes more since! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-274815 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Glad to hear its all coming together ok Vlad I hadnt seen anything for some time seeyaPaul Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-274824 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post gearhead204 Posted February 1, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 1, 2015 well made a little more progress doors on siding on and added a stem wall then connected the new to the ugly 8 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-276923 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post gearhead204 Posted February 1, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 1, 2015 the weather was too nice today so I gave the tractor a bath and serviced it and some of the little guys were glad to see some sunshine as well. 5 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-276925 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1958 F.W.D. Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 mmmmmmmmmm future prime rib....mmmmmmmmmmm 1 Quote TWO STROKES ARE FOR GARDEN TOOLS Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-276931 Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 You building is looking good! 1 Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-276956 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 nice and shiny, healthy little poddy with a serious look on it's facePaul Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-276981 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladislav Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 I would say "the great palace for the Mack kingdom" And his smile is too worth to see.. 1 Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-276982 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 I would say "the great palace for the Mack kingdom" And his smile is too worth to see..never no Vlad he might start his own state Mack'sville Paul 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/38195-new-shop-challanges/page/3/#findComment-277022 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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