My shop

[Darren P]

Started on May 24th 2007, Clearing grass and topsoil getting ready for the footings

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Ethan riding on the trackhoe with me

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Can't leave Valerie out,

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She still thought she was a monkey

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My Brother came over to help me dig footings that night

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Concrete going in the ditches, yes I work with Mexicans

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forming up the foundation

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[Darren P]

Ready for concrete again

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walls are poured, ready for piers and backfill

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Got it backfilled with the good red dirt and wouldn’t you know it the Drought ends that night


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It all had to come back out and I filled it with Pit Gravel,

Slab is ready to be poured, 5" thick 3500 PSI concrete and a 18" #4 Rebar mat over the entire thing.

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the building arrives, 30'wide by 50' long with 12" high end walls, If I had it to do over i would have went with a 14' tall building for the lift.

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my help is sitting down on the job

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Beams going up!

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[Darren P]

Ethan wanted to run the boom truck

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My brother and my son, not sure which one was working and which one was in the way

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Itchy pile of insulation waiting to torment me

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walls going up

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[Darren P]

the end walls are up

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kids helped the entire time, I think they could build one by their selves now.

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half of the roof is on

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I'm bringing sexy back, YEAH!!!!!!!!!

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it is now September 2007 and the doors are up

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I framed up the walls on the inside to protect the insulation from me and the kids.

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Christy must have gotten bored taking pictures because this was the last ones while it was under construction.

[mustang28027]

looking good dude,i just got done with mine wished i went bigger than a 24x25

[Darren P]

SHELVES!!!! YES!!!!!!!!

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the perfect way to spend Labor day, working for free, the amount of crap we had to move to get to this corner was unreal, way we save some of the stuff we do I'll never know.

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they must be pretty damn strong if they will support my fat ass

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Next I’ll put doors on the shelves to make them cabinets

[Darren P]

looking good dude,i just got done with mine wished i went bigger than a 24x25

Most of those pictures were from 2007, in my mind I started out at 32x32 but when My estimates went through $60,000 ( I was going to build it to match the house, brick, asphalt shingles, windows, and that was just in Material) I decided to check out some steel buildings, I have less than $25000 in it now and that includes the lift, a tig welder, and all the electrical work, I still need to pour concrete to connect it to my driveway, hopefully that will happen later this fall.

[topend]

Need a dyno now

[Darren P]

Need a dyno nowhells yeah!!!!!!!!

[topend]

so you can really tune my turd. Brian will blow you three times for payment.

[SS-ROB]

Never can have enough building room!!

[CValk76]

dude... look how little valerie was... crazy!

[Darren P]

dude... look how little valerie was... crazy!

you're telling me, she was tiny.

[Don Fuardo]

Very nice, congrats!

[Christy P]

your photographer took some cool pics!!

[Darren P]

your photographer took some cool pics!!Don't break your arm patting your self on the back.

[Trinten]

Very awesome shop man. I was planning on building a garage at my old house, thankfully I didn't get started on it since we got up-n-moved. That is frickin' sweet... now the big question... how much do you charge for bay rentals and lift use? lol

[aka paco]

ahhh one day my dream, nice shop man

[Darren P]

Very awesome shop man. I was planning on building a garage at my old house, thankfully I didn't get started on it since we got up-n-moved. That is frickin' sweet... now the big question... how much do you charge for bay rentals and lift use? lol

I can't rent the lift out, my car lives on it:(

[Darren P]

Finished the shelves on Saturday, had some help

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[alijan]

Very good work and nice effort.