Its true that your space can NEVER be big enough, except for MODERNBEAT and his warehouses. I am adding a wing that is 40 feet across to store cars and give me more working space inside my shop. It will be 20' deep.I have 4" pipes for support columns. Saturday I got a 30' I-beam, 2 18' channel beams and a 20' 6" piece of 8" pipe. I got a nice stack of roofing tin, metal studs, some stainless steel and a piece of thick stainless that is 4' by 10'. All free. I still need more but I can begin and more free materials will show up. First shot is where the addition will be.
This shot shows one way I haul really long pieces. Sometimes I use a headache rack and extend long stuff over the cab.
After a 30' load, 20' seems short. No need to talk to me about the legality of my loads. The entire 40 by 135 building came home on that 14' frailer I also brought home 14 30' wood trusses with this truck/trailer.
Back in the early 70's I bought some 20 foot long 2x12s to make a water bed frame and hauled them home with my '62 VW Bug. I set them on the ground at the lumber yard, drove over them and then lifted them up and tied them to the bottoms of the bumpers under the car! (only had to go about 6 blocks)
I'm finalizing the plans to add 10 feet and another story to my garage... I am sure i can fill up all the extra space in no time!
I laid out the addition to my shop 14' x 34', post & beam with slab & tin roof, this is going to be my dirty work area for cutting, grinding, body work and be able to close off a portion of the building will be a paint booth. still wont be big enough.
I just got re-asigned to a new job yesterday, there's an existing building that will be coming down, I'm going to check it for scrounge today. no lifts in this one but several rollup doors and I hear there's an electric hoist on a beam and trolley? for the Seattle guys it's the Qinton Instruments Building at Westlake and Denny. the one with the lifts (Blue Flame job) was a remodel, they pulled the heads off the lifts and filled them with concrete. nobody wanted them. Paul
[ QUOTE ] 20' 2 x 12s would make a helluva waterbed. Was it for orgies? [/ QUOTE ] Yes and no...It was a king size so it was 7' x 6'(?) and I cut a side and end out of each and had a lot left over, but it was the only length they had long enough to economically get two sides out of one stick. I finger lapped the corners and the next shorter lumber would have been a lousy 3" too short. Orgy? dozens of them....
We've got a company in Atlanta that rolls gutters in their shop for the small contractors doing one piece installations. I laughed as a Nissan PU pulled out with a couple 48' pieces on top and they said a guy came the day before and bought 63' pieces! I imagine most of these get bent against a lightpole before they get where they were going.
Did kind of the same thing last weekend. 25 foot TGI's on a 16 foot trailer. Last 2 months building a 24 x 36 garage out of 8x8x16 brick. Should be done in a few weeks then its time for the garage warming party.
[ QUOTE ] In November, enjenjo and I hauled a 28' semi trailer body home on his 17' utility trailer. [/ QUOTE ] Yer ALL a buncha SCOFFLAWS!! haha (hi frank)
[ QUOTE ] Yer ALL a buncha SCOFFLAWS!! haha (hi frank) [/ QUOTE ] Hey it had lights and only hung off the back of the trailer about 5'. It also had a chase vehicle. I only breaks the laws I choose. I am more of a delinqent than a scofflaw. howdy back at ya.
[ QUOTE ] I hope you all got permits! [/ QUOTE ] Permits - we don't need no stinkin permits!!! I have to pull one since the licensing board would not like too much if i don't.
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