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This is what supports my fishing addiction.
Just finished up this 28x42x10 pole barn, door installer will put in doors next week and approach is to be poured Friday.
I do love what I do.....
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Nice looking barn, Steve. Every day when I head to the job site I think to myself " I wish I worked in a factory". Just kidding, even though the body protests more than it did a few years ago, I still enjoy giving my customers something that will last for decades. I'm finishing up a job in Stockbridge that included drywall, 600 sf pine ceiling, 900 sf laminate floor, new windows and doors, trim and an oak stairway system. Next up is changing the floor plan on a fairly new ( 15 years old ) house, moving the stairway, moving the kitchen from the front to the back, moving the laundry from the basement to the main level, and if time permits, a new roof. Then it's off to Louisiana to catch crappie. I do love my job!
Looks good
You're right Jerry, at the end of the day I like to look at what my hands created.....I had a job as a project manager putting in 450 miles of fiber optic cable for a year and a half, and that was the worst time of my life! Great money, great benefits, fly me home every other weekend, paid expenses, truck, fuel, etc...... but all my job consisted of was managing 30 guys on 8 crews, collecting progress reports and email to corporate. At the end of the day, no satisfaction just go back to a motel and wait to begin the next day.
Our bodies hurt at the end of the day, but the immense pride in creating someone's dream far out weighs it. It's also gratifying to go past something you built many years ago and its still standing proud like a monument you've created.
You know it was only a matter of time before either Rich, or myself got online, and uttered the words.....
"I hate my job..............."
Well, maybe I should not speak for Rich, but I know he faces allot of the same challenges that I do.
Its not so much I hate it, but I hate what its become, its not the "Same" as there have been many management changes over the last bit of time @ my current employer.
I would/could gladly do it some where else, for someone who appreciated it......Slowly working on that, as i need to use caution.
I spent 5 hours last Sunday on a project for some one else, and loved every minute of it. I was/am probably more excited about it then the other person.
The sad part of being in IT, is that I will NEVER be able to see a physical structure of anything I have accomplished at work.
I think that is why I probably have more pride in my garage (Cough, 3 years to complete) BUT I did it. I tore down the old, I used a 10# hammer to break up the concrete to dispose if it.
I put in the truss's the walls, the Cripples, the roof, the electric, the siding, hung the doors, etc. I come home to see something I have DONE, but it has slowly worn off.
I know Rich doesn't like his yard, and talked about astro turf.
I HATE mowing lawn too, but when I do I LIKE it because I can see something I have done & accomplished, even though its as simple as cutting grass.
So coming from an IT guy, I envy you both.
Except that portion of you Jerry, that CANNOT Catch truck Keys.....:cool:
Back to the Barn, while I admire your work......
I like the bottom siding/what ever it is, is that for snow? protection form elements, vs siding all the way down?
Going to have to get some pointers on the post frame construction. my next (Someday) project is a garage out back.
OH, and don't get me started on that, this is so stupid......
Where I live, I have to get a building permit, OK, no problem. BUUUTTTTTt, because I have a "Attached" garage, any "Out-building" can only 10% of the lot size. So I have to apply, have neighbor approval for a (I think its called) variance.
NOW, if my garage was not attached, I could build a building as LARGE as I wanted, and as MANY as I wanted. 2 3, 94 4 building etc, just not attached.
I thought that was really stupid.
You hit the nail on the head. Been saying for 20 plus years that at the end of the day, I could fix 100 things and put out 100 fires and you see none of it. Spent the last week working on new systems untested on our network. After getting them operational, I spent the last 3 hours putting together an indepth, detail oriented user guide for everyone else to properly implement these devices. And I hate every minute of it. I've tried to pay people to push me down the stairs but so far, no joy. I even threatened to hang myself with a USB cable but that didn't work either!
I can however tell you that I have a 12X12 cabin (ok deer blind) 14 feet in the air with wrap around stairs and 1300 worth of custom windows that I am about 75% done with. My lawn still isn't mowed. Not just because I hate doing it but because I don't like moving the 11 bow targets I have out. I did look at it last night and say "man I should mow that"... then I laughed, went inside, picked up the bow, and Abby and I went out and shot. This morning, momma deer and her little one were back by the barn eating grass and clover. Now I'm glad I didn't mow it!
Aaron, first of all, you throw like a girl.
Secondly, I think the bottom portion is just for eye appeal, something to break up the horizontal lines. Looks like vinyl board and baton but I could be wrong. You see that wainscoat on a lot of steel sided buildings.
While I wouldn't trade jobs with you, this isn't all fame and fortune. Today I was working on a pole barn that a tree came down on. The home owner told me the overgrown trees and brush had been cut down and the damaged roof osb and trusses had been removed, all I need to do is put it back together. With high hopes and a happy heart, I pulled onto the site. Having the brush cut down meant he cut it shin high and left the cut off part laying where it fell. Having the plywood off and trusses removed meant he dropped everything either inside the barn or around the perimeter, right where I had to work. To top it off, the coons have found his barn and decided it would make a perfect toilet. The first couple of hours today were spent picking up shingles, osb, chunks of truss material and coon crap and hauling it to the dumpster. Oh, and muttering some choice words every time I found a "cut down " tree with my shin. But at the end of the day I could see what I had accomplished so it worked out just fine.
Rich, I don't mind mowing. Usually 1 1/2 hrs and I'm done. For me that's just about right. any more and it would be too much. Don't mind canning 'maters either.
No construction crew tonight so corner trim and window trim is out. I'll run hurricane clips and some electrical tonight. Yes, gotta have solar.
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But, I guess when you get to see stuff like this, it is worth it.
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Aaron the bottom 3' is Fabral steel siding. Homeowner wanted to break up all the horizontal vinyl.....and it really sets this building apart from the "norm"
This project also had limitations, they could have a separate un attached building which could not have a footprint size exceeding 1200 sq. Ft of building size......we could have gone up with a second story however. They can build a attached to the house garage later.....any size they want as long as its attached to the house. Go figure......
Jerry that scenario sounds familiar, been there too! But as a old boy up in da UP once told me " you do what you do best"
Rich, nice cabin! Can I come over and hang out with you in that high rise apartment in the sky? I'll bring snacks!
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Heck yes. Snacks work. I sleep a lot when I'm in one of these things. Bow hunting is my thing so I'll refrain from hunting out of it. But it makes a nice base camp within 250 yards of 4 different stands. Course, I can see them all from the windows
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That layout to see other blinds reminded me of years ago.....
Cell phone wrecked allot of good times.......
When I used to hunt up in Mancelona we used Midland hand held radios to communicate.
We used each persons beard color as call signs......
Red Beard, Grey Beard, Black Beards, we could see each other's blinds.
Was a great time, allot of deep thought went into those conversations.
One year it was about the Russian conspiracy of Figure Skating......
Not one dang person knew about figure skating, but we were experts on the radios......
One of the best times ever........
Best words ever spoken over those radios was Grandma @ the Cabin/Base Camp.....
Bacon & Eggs are ready..........
Was like a MMA match through the woods to get there first.....
I miss those days.......
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I can hear it now......
Ginger beard come and get yer eggs and grits!
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FEAR THE GINGER BEARD......
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The conspiracy of Russian figure skating made me laugh! When I ventured out on my own, dad and I used radios.
We still do from time to time but he is deaf so I get to repeat myself or talk to the wall.
I'm salt and pepper beard now!
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So you grow up big and strong and don't throw like a girl.Quote:
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nice garage Steve. I always have a hard time fining the patience to finish trim work right...... thus , I am not a builder :)
rich, that deer blind looks about the same size as mine, but I sure do not have any bucks that big around!!!
here is my (deer blind)
Hey Hillary,
Tell that lie long enough, and people might believe it..........
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John,
I remember when you built that. My last one was built from leftover materials from other jobs. 8x8 and 16 feet in the air.
I stopped looking at the materials receipts for this one!
Of course, I have tons of odds and ends but never what I need. I guess when you no longer do that side work it can happen. Almost all my passload batteries were bad. Three drill batteries bad. 2 full boxes of passload 8's but only 1 strip of 16's. 10 lbs of 8 hand pins but a dozen 16's. Generator is too small to push my compressor so the roofing gun and coils couldn't be used and, as luck would have it, only a lb of roofing hand pins. Nickle and dime stuff.
I hate finish work. I am good at it but also nit picky and like to be perfect. I have to remind myself of what it is but less than perfection bothers me a lot.
No one notices the three 8 points behind that buck photo! Here is another one to drool over.
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Rich and John, those are some very impressive deer blinds/ apartments/ mother in law rooms! I keep saying someday I'll build one but it hasn't happened yet.
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