Even after the rearrangement of the shop after the first of the year, we are still just too tight for the work we are doing. So we have decided to add on to the side of the shop. I am planning on adding 12' by 32' to the current shop which is 24'x32. I am afraid it will still be too small but I guess you can never get them large enough.

 

We had a maple tree die and had to take it down so the shop is going where the tree was. About all we have been removing are roots. The digging has been quite hard.

 

 

Even with all of the lines located, my son hit the gas line that was going to the shop. Fortunately it was going to have to be relocated anyway so we just turned it off at the meter and will deal with it when we finish. My Internet line came right through the middle of where we were going to be digging, but AT&T came out and made a temporary connection for me till we get this done and them they will come back and do a permanent connection. This way I don't lose my Internet at home.

 

 

My son have been running the CAT and I got on it a while Monday afternoon and squared up the area a little bit. We are going to get a backhoe in there this coming weekend and should get it all ready to have the concrete people in to form up and get it ready to pour.

 

 

So at least with everything else we are doing, we also have the area outside the shop tore up, but it should be better in the near future.

 

More to come as we get the shop ready.

 

 

Looking Good John!

 

Hopefully you will have things  built when Tami and I make our July road tip. :-)

 

You know, maybe you should have "Ron B" come out and do some of that grading for you. I hear he is a real wizard dealing with tractors and such. :-)

I was thinking I would save part of this for when you all come so you could help with the roofing.

I think we need to have an old fashioned Amish barn raising John. 

Whoa! Great scotts! You are going all out there Mister! How cool John, and how exciting, so what are going to fill the extra space with!

Whoa! Great scotts! You are going all out there Mister! How cool John, and how exciting, so what are going to fill the extra space with!

 

John,

Stuff, Stuff, & More Stuff!

Whoa! Great scotts! You are going all out there Mister! How cool John, and how exciting, so what are going to fill the extra space with!

John, we are planning on adding a finishing room and an area to store some lumber here. I also plan on moving the dust collector and air compressor out in the addition to clear up some room and remove the noise from the shop.

So now that it has dried out for a week and the temps are in the 90's, the backhoe guy can't come and wants me to get someone else.

 

So I am calling around to find another person to finish getting the area ready for concrete.

 

First question they all ask is just like we are when a customer calls, "When do you want it, yesterday?". Well yea, of course, I am just like everyone else, I want it now.

 

Hopefully this guy will be able to get it next week, of course the rain will probably move back in by then with the tropical storm in the gulf.

 

 

So now that it has dried out for a week and the temps are in the 90's, the backhoe guy can't come and wants me to get someone else.

 

So I am calling around to find another person to finish getting the area ready for concrete.

 

First question they all ask is just like we are when a customer calls, "When do you want it, yesterday?". Well yea, of course, I am just like everyone else, I want it now.

 

Hopefully this guy will be able to get it next week, of course the rain will probably move back in by then with the tropical storm in the gulf.

John,

What? You don't have a backhoe?

90's YUK!

It's bad enough around here with the temps in the 60's and rain, rain, rain.