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Hi everyone...welcome to the FORDification discussion forum. There aren't many rules here, but there ARE a few suggestions/requests:
1) Please take a moment to review the various topic listings and post your question(s) in the most relevant arena. Postings which are deemed off-topic will be moved to where it would most likely be considered on-topic. This includes offers to buy, sell or trade parts or vehicles. I encourage those types of discussion...all I ask is you keep it where it belongs. If it appears there are questions which don't fit any particular category, a new topic can be added at a later date.
2) There are no filters in place here, in regards to vendors, language, etc. The honor system in policing yourself is preferred, and I strongly encourage you to act mature. This forum is not a democracy...any posting which I deem unfit for general consumption will be immediately removed. Repeat offenders will be banned from posting. I could always start with the filters, but I believe this should be a free forum...moderated with restraint, to a point, however. Which brings me to another request...
3) Please don't feed the trolls! You know the type: always stirring up trouble, swearing, or posting things of bad taste. Ignore them and they'll go away...or be banished with malice. I have no tolerance for intolerance.
4) As a courtesy to the readers, spelling and punctuation is something you probably should try to keep as accurate as possible. While a misspelled word or two is no catastrophe, if every other word is so misspelled that a reader has to study it to make out what it's supposed to be, chances are he's going to give up and move on to the next post. Also, a run-on sentence, which actually might be two or three (or more) sentences just spilling out onto the next with no breaks is equally hard to follow. Remember...PERIODS and COMMAS are your friends!...plus they're make it more likely somebody will respond to your post, since they're not such a chore to read.
Just have fun, behave yourself (for the most part) and enjoy being a part of a great group!
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willowbilly3
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Looking outside a fresh snow makes me wish I had my shop built. I have a stall borrowed to do the brake job on my 64 Ford car as soon as the parking brake cables get here. We have a swap meet coming up in a couple weeks and I am offering it for sale to get money to start my shop.
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What size shop are you building? Metal frame or wood?
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2/14/2004, 2:04 pm
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I will start with something modest that will be easy to add onto later. I am thinking a slab that will use about one load of concrete. About 24x32 probably. I haven't decided whether metal or wood. If I build it on this lot with my house I would tend to want it to match the house. With the escalation of building material prices, I will have to pencil the costs when I get ready. Most people in these parts go with metal. They cement pipe in and pour the slab around it and use pipe for the roof pitch with "C" perlin across then the metal across that. It is nice to not have to worry about snow load. If I go that route I can do it out of pocket and just do the slab and roof, then add the walls when I have the money. One other plan is to just get another loan on the house and do it right. Then I would go bigger and make room for a side lift( I hate laying under cars!!)
I would also like to put a chain fall on a double rail so it could be railed any where in the bay. Not too tough, you just mount an I beam down each side and make another carriage on rollers to move down them. The carraige then has an I beam going across with the chain hoist able to move across it. My days of brute strength and akwardness are over ( I hope ) and I want to have everything easy to manuever.
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The metal building you described is pretty much like I built mine. I used 3" line pipe for uprights. Built trusses out of 2" pipe.
4" c-purlin on the roof 36" centers. R-panel sheet metal. We dont't get just gobs of snow, but when we do I don't worry too much about it.
Mine is 30x40, only concrete so far is around inside perimeter. About 24" I poured to set up shelves, welder, air compressor etc.
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We are in the concrete business so I would start with a slab. Just cost of materials and maybe 300 or so to pay a couple finishers to lay it down. Most of our guys like little side jobs and would take care of me on that. Also have some other guys that work for a building erector that do side work and I could get them to do the erection. The overhead door will be a big expense. I can handle the wiring myself.
My last shop was small and just had a dirt floor. I just kept it covered with old carpet and changed it out whenever it needed to be. I kept a couple sheets of 3/4 plywood for the floor jack to set on. It actually didn't work that bad. I never needed a creeper as I could just lay on the carpet. I did most of the work outside then and used plywood to roll jacks and cherry pickers on. Crude but we got things done.
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I keep a bunch of pallet size cardboard.
Poor mans creeper, I guess. I've been debating on wether to get my floor done this year. I figure getting the concrete finished will be more costly since the building is already up.
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It shouldn't be a whole lot more unless they can't get into it or something.
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