The Silver Buick wants a garage.

[Schtauffer]

Re: The Silver Buick wants a garage.

4" of concrete with rebar is pretty standard around here for residential garages.

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: The Silver Buick wants a garage.

That's the best news I've heard all day! I'm from CA, so everything there is overkill for earthquakes.

I'm working on a picture(s) right now, so maybe I'll have something to post later tonight.

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: The Silver Buick wants a garage.

Ok BBR, here is what I have so far. I did an extreme 12 foot wall drop behind the house, and it did come out extreme :o

The totals are:
12% ramp
Cut 1068 cu. yds.
Fill 345 cu yds. So I have an excess 723 cu yds :P So good news is I don't need a 12ft drop, which should mean a less steep ramp.

I was hoping the pictures were going to upload larger.

Orange is the rough house shape, and the fence line is the same as the other picture. The blue boxes are a rough outline of two shop dimensions, larger one is 40x60 and the inner one is 30x60. Of course it can slide around the yard. There is an unnecessary ridge on the ramp, it would take more time than I cared to remove it.


This is the same picture with the original contours turned on, the purple is the cut material, red is the ramp cut (no I didn't double dip, I fixed the overlap prior to the calcs but before I snapped the screen shot), the brown is the fill. Orange and Blue are the same as above.

We want more pictures! haha



From looking at this image, I'd really think hard about cutting back into the slope and making 1 wall of the shop a retaining wall. Then use the excavated material as fill for the access road. Then again it's tough to envision stuff without any sort of scale associated with it.

Just looking at this makes me want to have all your data and start throwing building pads in there to see what fits and works. lol

[CTX-SLPR]

Re: The Silver Buick wants a garage.

I'm for the idea of backing it up to the retaining wall. It'd be insulation and would allow you a flat area in front of the garage to park things or work on them when your floor space inside is tied up, which will happen.

[Monk]

Re: The Silver Buick wants a garage.

4" of concrete with rebar is pretty standard around here for residential garages.

Same here........lot of guys will use
a six sack mix as well for added strength

some will substitute fiberglass additive
for rebar

[Scott Liggett]

Re: The Silver Buick wants a garage.

Borrow a shovel and dump truck from work a couple evenings and I bet you'd have a level back yard in one weekend.

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: The Silver Buick wants a garage.

That line of thought invoked quite the entertaining conversation about borrowing our big loader :D Determined that our L-1850 weighs at least 210 tons (420,000lbs), and that driving it down the highway nothing could stop it. A fully loaded 18-wheeler, weighing in at what, 45 tons, rig included? So a head on collision of a truck going 75mph and the L-1850 going maybe 10mph we figure would barely slow down the L-1850. Figuring the L-1850 lifts 45 tons of rock at a time, the loading bucket out front is pretty beefy and we figure more than capable of taking an impact of an 18-wheeler.

[Scott Liggett]

Re: The Silver Buick wants a garage.

No argument here on who'd when a game of chicken. The discussion should be how to get one from the mine to the house without the police seeing, or half the town feeling it rolling by.

[milner351]

Re: The Silver Buick wants a garage.

I can only imagine the Ely news reporting on that little stunt...

"Ely resident arrested for destroying the road in front of his home with construction equipment"

[BBR]

Re: The Silver Buick wants a garage.

Just tell them you are taking it home to change the oil and rotate the tires.

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: The Silver Buick wants a garage.

I can take the back road, only about 5 to 8 miles of highway 6 and doesn't go through town at all. I can take a dirt road from highway 6 outside of town and go right to my backyard ;D

Rotate the tires, each one weighs 6,000lbs, not including the chains put on the front tires :o

[milner351]

Re: The Silver Buick wants a garage.

Randal - do you have access to any more "normal" sized loaders?

I mean what's the fun of using that big monster - it would only take a few of those huge bucket fulls to do the whole job! ;D

[BBR]

Re: The Silver Buick wants a garage.

Here's a *rough* sketch of what I was thinking. I would think any of your cut banks are going to need some sort of retaining wall, why not kill two birds with one wall. lol The green being a reinforced cinder block wall or something.



Of course I would not undertake such a project unless I was 100% committed to living in Ely for many years. Ever thought about moving to a different house with less relief and more space? OR building a shop on a lot somewhere else in town?

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: The Silver Buick wants a garage.

I'm going to rent a Cat 420E backhoe, it should be more than sufficient to do the work. May take two days pending the final volume numbers.

On another front, I was kinda down on the cost of concrete and thinking it was going to be a project killer, then this morning I realized my volume math was wrong, and with a 6" slab at the rate the local concrete company billed the mine (which general consensus thinks they gouged the mine) will cost me around $7000. The back of my mind is preparing for being ok with $10,000 in concrete, so anything less is alright wit me. I'll work the final details later.

On another note, just picked up my welder from the UPS depot, it's in my posession out in the Jeep ;D


BBR, that is HUGE! That's practically a 75x50 building! :D

[BBR]

Re: The Silver Buick wants a garage.

haha It's actually a 40x60 with a 1' retaining wall and 10' drive. Like I said, it's rough.