The Silver Buick wants a garage.

[TheSilverBuick]

420 Cat. 8ft wide bucket.

*And Mark, he *gasp* drove it 9 miles down the highway here! Then did it again back!

[Scott Liggett]

Wow. A terraced back yard. Hopefully, you don't get too much rain in the spring or you may get mud slide.

[TheSilverBuick]

We're a desert and there is drainage.


I forgot to upload pictures of the Backhoe.

Five minutes in he had taken out a couple trees.


Then the last bit was grading the ramp.

[BOOOGHAR]

420 IT E - I hate'm. E = Extending Stick

[TheSilverBuick]

We have a 420D in my department. It works pretty hard. When it breaks, I never know if the down time is long because our mechanic's aren't really backhoe mechanics (light vehicle shop instead of the main equipment shop) or if it's the machine itself is that problematic.

This one looked pretty brand spankin new. I know it was bought this year, but not sure when.

[HoosierL98GTA]

For ideas only - obviously this guy has endless money - but ideas none the less:

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=12234

Oh my there went 13/4 hrs. of my life. Couldn't stop!

[milner351]

Nice work Randal! That guy is GOOD to get all that dirt moved and leveled in 3 hours! Yowza - money well spent for sure.

Have you considered putting up two buildings on two terraces? One for storage only - maybe even a corrugated metal round top style, no heat, electric, etc, just "covered parking" basically - cold storage.

The other being the work shop - concrete floor, insulated, full electrical system, air compressor, furnace, etc. Perhaps put the work shop closer to the house to make the runs of wire, etc, shorter. 12 ft walls so a hoist could be installed. If you're working on one care at a time, there's no sense in heating and insulating a giant building -especially with your excavating challenges - can you make one terrace big enough for a 32x40? That would be a good work shop size and not cost a fortune, even a 24x32 would beat the heck out of your car port!

[DanStokes]

My 30x40 is big enough - barely. It's all the lot they would let me cover. But you have a SERIOUS amount of land there - I say "go for it". Cool to see you're making some headway. Don't forget to meet hurricane standards - um - never mind.......

Dan

[Stich496]

who needs a house with a shop that big

[milner351]

One of the smartest guys I know lives under the radar. Built a pole building on agrictulture zoned land. Built a 1600 square foot appartment "loft" inside the pole building - no windows on the sides, only the back of the building which can't be seen from any roads.

From the road it looks like a typical pole barn. In the back yard, he's got a hot tub, deck, couple sliding glass doors, balcony, the works, it's a 3 bedroom 2 bath loft with a full kitchen and hard wood floors, he built it all himself. Walk out the back door to a staircase that leads down to the shop - the rest of the pole building is his shop. Two post lift on one side. Underneath the loft is his office and a bathroom for the shop. Nice set up - and super cheap property taxes since it's an ag building. Not a permit was pulled for the inside of the building, the last inspector to see it saw a metal shell with a concrete floor.