Shop addition starts Monday!

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Got my building permit in hand, quotes for excavation and concrete work, and most of the parts removed and fence torn down from where the new addition is going to be built. An old high school buddy of mine is going to help me build it. He owns a construction company, and has recently had some medical issues so he can't work full-time. But he knows the ins and outs of getting things done. I built the original shop myself, except for the concrete work, brick, and drywall. But this time I am going to farm more of it out since I really don't have the time to build all of it. Also, I need it built fast so I can proceed to get my Nomad painted.

I attached a pic of what's there now, and the new addition will more than double the size (adding almost 1300 sf). It's going to be on the right hand side as seen in the attached pic, and I'm planning a single 18-foot wide overhead door.

By the way, I also attached pics of my friends 55 that he's owned since junior high school. He put a Duramax and an Allison transmission in it. It has over 800 ft-lb torque. Wow!

[Troy]

Chevnut most would be happy with the existing shop you're a luck dog!!! That '55's got to be a stump puller, and the radiator is huge. Anyone with an over heating problem should look into that radiator!!!

[Run-em]

Love to hear the stories he has generated when he fills up with diesel!

[Double Nickel]

Cool that you're moving ahead with your build, and cool that someone stuffed a diesel into a shoebox. I love it!

[56-210Sedan]

Good to hear you everything is moving forward Laszlo looking forward to seeing the updates.

[Bakins]

I wish I had the room to build a shop. You gonna go into fabrication full time?

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Brian, we are still building frames and I refuse to have my Nomad in the shop with grinders, plasma cutter, sanders, and steel parts flying around. It's also really dirty in the existing shop due to all the grinding and stuff. Things get really crowded when my car is apart, and after painting it there will be lots of parts laying around to assemble. So this new shop addition will give me a nice clean place to work, and a place to store my ATV(s), and equipment I don't use regularly.

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Well I worked my butt off the past couple of days and got everything moved out, about 100 feet of cedar privacy fence removed, posts pulled out, and the shop addition staked out for Monday. My friend will be here Monday morning with a track-hoe to start digging. We should have a foundation in about a week or so, and have it backfilled in less than two weeks. I have to tear some brick and trim off the end of theshop, and there will be a door where the window now is to go between shop areas. Here's a pic of the area where the addition will be....the shop was needing a paint job anyhow.

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We haven't had rain or snow in months here, and it has been dry as a popcorn fart. But yesterday it rained and we couldn't dig. So we finished it today. Got the hole dug and the guys are supposed to set forms for the footings tomorrow. Finally, it's started!

I've been working on the interior structure of my Nomad too, so hopefully when the shop is done the car will be ready for paint.

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Footings are FINISHED!!! They're pouring the walls tomorrow. Wow, this is going fast.