Might want to consider installing tie down points before you pour the concrete. These can be used to chain down items or used as pulling points to straighten out bent items. Simple to make and put a metal cover over them. If you need more info, I will send a PM. John.
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That's actually not a bad idea. Years ago one of my friends fathers put 6 trailer house anchors down spaced just enough to put a larg truck in between them with some room. We straightened my trucks frame with it after chaining it down and using jacks to push and pull it back into shape.:biggrin: Drove that truck for 7 or so years after that and never had a problem.
LOL! The redneck version is to drill for expansion bolts for a particular need, then smack em loose and refill the holes with hyd. cement afterwards.
I recall a certain Road Runner that didn't remind me I was coming to an unmarked T in the road!:redface: Once I found my way outa the field and home, I looped chains around the front bumper mounts and jacked up under the cowl area. Then I just jumped on the rear bumper till the doors weren't folded over the front fenders anymore!
That poor thing ate a dumptruck with no tail lights one rainy night a few months later
Good thing there weren't passengers! The motor was in the front seat and the trans in the back! groumoutis
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We have a lot of Amish in my neck of the corn field and I have a Amish guy that is going to build a pole barn garage with concrete floor and high ceilings for 15k. That is with one man door and two overhead doors with one being a ceiling hugger for the lift. This guy built my in laws garage and the quality of the the work is amazing. The mitres in the trusses are spot on, you can't slip a playing car between the boards. The best part is he built the in laws 24 x 30 garage in 2 and a half days. If you have any Amish around you might want to look into having them do it.
We had an existing 20x40 shop here and added another 20x40 to it a few years ago. It's metal and with the posts and sheet metal it was right around 2500 and we did the labor our selves. If a slab is ever put in it we decided on a 6" slab and pricing the concrete was under 3K. Of course, we do all the labor ourselves.
If I was building a 40x40 from scratch, wiring insulation ect would be around 15K or so.
If I was building a 40x40 from scratch, wiring insulation ect would be around 15K or so.
