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Unread 10-21-2010, 03:08 PM
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I've been working on this project for what seems like an eternity. Had to clear a lot of trees behind my house, burn brush piles, etc.

The plan is for a 25' x 36' attached garage and a 32' x 44' detached building with a single 16' x 10' garage door and 12' ceiling height. I'm going to shed off the right side aka build a "lean-to" the whole 44' length out to about 16' or so for some cheap additional dry space. At this point all grading is done, the foundation is in for the garage and the footing dug and poured for the building. Next step is laying the block for the building and then framing will commence.

Here are some pics.....and a sneak peak at the type of activities that will take place under the lean-to.

I have never had a place to store anything "manly" including my V. Always had to keep lawnmowers, boats, etc. under tarps. In the pics you'll see an little old vintage 1970's Leonard building that served as my temporary man cave for the last few years. I'll be glad to see it go! Full of junk right now.















The heavy equipment unearthed a nice kirk corner-knotch arrowhead which I graciously picked up to add to my collection.



Finally a place to turn the boat around.







Manly activities...in progress!!





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Unread 10-21-2010, 03:47 PM
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Nice. Talk about wide open spaces. That's a nice view. Aint nothin like that down here.

What's this grill type thing a smoker of sort?

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The pics are a little deceptive....I should probably explain. The wide open shot showing the rock smoker is at my buddy's dad's house. We recently finished it up. It is my old concrete block smoker all dolled up with the fake stone and such. The other smoker full of meat is my dad's old smoker that he made years ago. That pic is from new years. He made one like it for me, which I have posted pics of before. The smokers are designed to use wood coals shoveled from what we call a burn-down barrel. We like to use oak and hickory, because of its abundance in our area, and smoke mostly pork ribs, loins, chicken, and deer meat. In the case of the stone smoker they made a brick burndown and stuck the fake rock on it too. A few pieces fell off from the initial heat. I think my buddy stuck em back on the other day. That is my dutch oven though. It was full of baked beans, onions, bell and jalapeno peppers from my garden & of course bacon.
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Blue Whens the grand opening... Im jealous... looks like a great project, If I had something like that with an internet connection I'd never leave..... I could make some nifty projects as I'm sure your gonna , Best of luck with it.


Keep the pics of progress coming!!!!!
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DUDE!!!!!! That is totally AWESOME!!! I cannot wait to bring my boat down there to work on it... When do you think it will be ready?
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Nice. I'm gonna need to learn to make baked beans. Never liked them till I went to KC and had some at Jacks Stacks.

In any case sounds like a garage warming party in the works.
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Congrats, garages are great. I remember when I bought my last house, I also added a nice garage. It was exciting.

Now, it's pretty much full...
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Congrats, garages are great. I remember when I bought my last house, I also added a nice garage. It was exciting.

Now, it's pretty much full...
Then it's time to move to a newer, larger garage..... Errr..... Newer, larger house for the family...ya, that's it.. larger house for the family....
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Awesome.....soooo jealous
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Man I'd give my left nut for a piece of property with some size to it.....The only thing I truly miss from my living (albeit brief) in SC was the 6 acre lot that we had.... Moved back up north and have a house half the size and a 50' x 150' lot....and paid twice the price to boot!..

Good luck with the project ...keeps the pics coming.
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