FINALLY!!!!

[wildkat]

We have been in the process all summer of waiting.....waiting for a shop for our trucks...it was supposed to be completed August 1. Well...guess what?

There is PROGRESS!!! Here's what I came home to today, after 2 months of looking at the materials lying in our yard....

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/Shop001.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/Shop002.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/Shop005.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/Shop006.jpg

[RebelDarlin]

Hopefully done before WINTER!

[wildkat]

Yeah, you got that right! It's so damned HARD to get anything done here, everybody is just so damned BUSY! It takes 2 YEARS to get a house built!

It's supposed to be completed in 18 DAYS...I'll believe it when I see it. Then Claude & his cousin still have to wire it...man I KNOW I married that man for a reason! :lol: :lol: :shock: :shock: He's literally a JACK OF ALL TRADES!!!

[Double L]

Good luck and it's about time! :D 8)

[wildkat]

You got that right!!

[BlooMoose]

When does "winter" usually hit, there? If it doesn't get bad until October or so...it looks like you will be sitting pretty. Once they start, they should hit it hard. Especially if htey are so busy, they are not going to want to waste any time. It will be nice!

[wildkat]

Mostly we get lucky & the real cold weather (-30's) doesn't come till late December, but we usually get a pretty decent fall. Damn we've had frost already...really sucks, cause my flowers were looking so nice!

[wildkat]

Ok, update time....

The builder tells us that the trusses are going up Monday, the door headers are in the walls are ready....and guess what? It's time for my favorite mechanic to get to work....STILL no shop to work in!

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0394.jpg

So here he is....

Servicing my truck...

Oh Oh gotta go to town for more oil!

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0406.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0390.jpg

Good thing we live in the country...his tools are piled up beside the house...

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0391.jpg

Isn't it fun to lay on a piece of cardboard in the gravel?

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0392.jpg

What a cluster...can't find anything, by the time this is all done, he's going to have TWO of everything!

Some is here....piled up IN the trailer out on the damned ROAD...they need the room to work in the yard...had to move it!

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0401.jpg



http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0396.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0395.jpg

I need more RAGS! Go get me some more rags!

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0397.jpg

It will be so nice NOT to have all these PILES of STUFF laying all over the place...

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0400.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0402.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0403.jpg

[marylandkw]

Well consider me jealous. I really wish I had a shop and someone to service my truck besides me :lol:

It really does not help that I just spent a couple of hours changing an airbag in Tropical Storm Hanna, OUTSIDE!

[repete]

build it as big as ya can , it will take alittle longer fill up :lol:

[Rev.Vassago]

WASH THAT TRUCK, DAMMIT.

[RebelDarlin]

You know it doesn't do any good to wash it until he's done working on it. :wink:

[wildkat]

WASH THAT TRUCK, DAMMIT.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Leave it to you to say THAT Rev! Believe it or not it WAS washed 2 days ago! Fall has arrived up here & it's damned near WINTER in the far north! I hit a shhhh... snow storm on my way home!

Besides...one day I'd like to see if you can keep up to me & still have time to polish your truck the way you do....somehow I doubt it! :lol: :lol: :lol:

[LadyNorthStar]

WASH THAT TRUCK, DAMMIT.

lol Spoken like a true US highway driver.


I could wash mine everyday and it would still look like that within a few hours.

[wildkat]

WASH THAT TRUCK, DAMMIT.

lol Spoken like a true US highway driver.


I could wash mine everyday and it would still look like that within a few hours.

EXACTLY, I spent 3 hours & 150$ washing & polishing only to get 50 miles out & hit rain then 150 mile (good old Fox Creek) & hit snow...so much for a clean truck! At least the bugs are pretty much done for the year!

[wildkat]

More Progress! The trusses are going UP!

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/DSCF0408.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/DSCF0409.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/DSCF0410.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/DSCF0411.jpg

[wildkat]

And...the LAST truss is going UP!!!

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0412.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0413.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0414.jpg

[Double L]

Them must be some good ole' boys cause I know them city dudes like to waste time! :lol:

[wildkat]

Yep, just some simple country folk...just like us!

[Double L]

I notice when you live around a big city alot of the contractors are union so they sit on the job and waste time cause they are getting paid to do it. But for the ones out in the woods they get it done and get it done RIGHT! :wink: Just my opinion!

[Windwalker]

Also, up where you live, you have a much shorter construction season. If they don't get it done this year, it will take a long time before they can finish it. Or work in some pretty cold weather.

I'll bet they get the outside finished in short order, so they can have the heat on and work on the inside in comfort. :)

[wildkat]

Also, up where you live, you have a much shorter construction season. If they don't get it done this year, it will take a long time before they can finish it. Or work in some pretty cold weather.

I'll bet they get the outside finished in short order, so they can have the heat on and work on the inside in comfort. :)

Not really, we're used to the cold...our guys don't stop working outside until it's below 20 below, so that leaves about 10 months for construction.

LOL Windy, it's not COLD up here yet...we still have daytime temps of around 70F, tho I must admit the nights are starting to cool off...we had frost on Saturday night, but it wasn't a killing frost, just got rid of the bugs, now we'll have a nice fall!

It's likely we won't have heat this winter...not in the conventional sense anyway, probably be using the "Herman Nelson" for this winter. Then next spring we plan on buying a used oil furnace...free heat!

[Windwalker]

Also, up where you live, you have a much shorter construction season. If they don't get it done this year, it will take a long time before they can finish it. Or work in some pretty cold weather.

I'll bet they get the outside finished in short order, so they can have the heat on and work on the inside in comfort. :)

Not really, we're used to the cold...our guys don't stop working outside until it's below 20 below, so that leaves about 10 months for construction.

LOL Windy, it's not COLD up here yet...we still have daytime temps of around 70F, tho I must admit the nights are starting to cool off...we had frost on Saturday night, but it wasn't a killing frost, just got rid of the bugs, now we'll have a nice fall!

It's likely we won't have heat this winter...not in the conventional sense anyway, probably be using the "Herman Nelson" for this winter. Then next spring we plan on buying a used oil furnace...free heat!

Could use hydrogen and have free heat with no polution... But, then... You'd have to get rid of the used oil...

[wildkat]

Ok...more progress...talked to the builder when I got home this afternoon, he figures by the end of next week she'll be DONE!!!!

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0424.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0444.jpg

[wildkat]

Could use hydrogen and have free heat with no polution... But, then... You'd have to get rid of the used oil...

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Can't win can we...so we get rid of the oil...get a small credit from the gov't for using it instead of dumping it, or paying some hefty costs for disposing of it....way better far as I'm concerned!

[4roses]

wildkat ~ its coming together real nice. I know you must be so darn excited. It'a nice size too. I'm happy for you and your hubby ... this will make alot of things easier this winter when your working on your truck . :wink:

[wildkat]

wildkat ~ its coming together real nice. I know you must be so darn excited. It'a nice size too. I'm happy for you and your hubby ... this will make alot of things easier this winter when your working on your truck . :wink:

Yep, we tried to make it big enough to replace the old garage & have room for the trucks.

It's dimensions are 50 x 50 with 18 ft walls. The big door you see on front is 16' high x 24'wide big enough to drive both trucks in side x side, & the side doors are 10 high x 16 wide for the car, pick-up & hubby's '48. Then the last door is for the wash bay...we could have gone just 10 ft bigger it would have been nice, but this was 75,000 so we just couldn't afford to go bigger.

[wildkat]

Well here it is...complete...but for the doors. Those are supposed to be put in sometime this week!

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0460.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0461.jpg

And look at this...they FIT!!!

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0462.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0463.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/DSCF0465.jpg

[BlooMoose]

THAT IS BEAUTIFUL!! Congratulations! The trucks look perfect in there! Talk about nice! That is awesome!

[belpre122]

Wow! That's a big barn Kat.

I'm sure that my Precious will love it! :wink:

[wildkat]

Wow! That's a big barn Kat.

I'm sure that my Precious will love it! :wink:

Yep, just wish we could have afforded another 10 ft. Then it would have been purrfect! :D :D

The "boys" loved it...I wish I would have had my camera yesterday! We have 5 "shop" cats...they were busy checking it out & were all sitting in a line on the rear drives of both trucks...it was cute!

Mandy doesn't go outside...she's a house/truckin' kitty!

[maryjstar89]

I have always wanted to drive in Alaska!

[4roses]

WOWWW ... that is Nice :!: ... I bet you stand outside just looking at it ... I know I would :wink:

[belpre122]

The "boys" loved it...I wish I would have had my camera yesterday! We have 5 "shop" cats...they were busy checking it out & were all sitting in a line on the rear drives of both trucks...it was cute!

Kat that would have been a great pic! Maybe they'll do it again and you can catch it? That sounds like a 'cat gang,' Kat! :P

Mandy doesn't go outside...she's a house/truckin' kitty!

Precious doesn't need to be out running with those boys! :lol: Precious is a young lady and should be behaving as one. :wink:

[wildkat]

I have always wanted to drive in Alaska!

ALASKA??? Who said I drove in Alaska? :D :D :D

The Alaska Highway is in CANADA! eh?

[Ridge Runner]

I have always wanted to drive in Alaska!

ALASKA??? Who said I drove in Alaska? :D :D :D

The Alaska Highway is in CANADA! eh?


:lol:

[wildkat]

WOWWW ... that is Nice :!: ... I bet you stand outside just looking at it ... I know I would :wink:

Yup, I sure like it...just takes some getting used to...seeing it in the yard!

[belpre122]

How's Precious?

[wildkat]

How's Precious?

She is good, like me, glad to be home...Just got back from Yellowknife...CRAP weather all the way...rain/snow mix & WIND...geez was ugly Welcome to winter in the Arctic! I think I got a couple of decent pictures...will post shortly!

[eastern ontario]

Congrats! Glad to see they've completed the structure. Very nice looking, it's worth the time you waited.

[Rev.Vassago]

Wow. I was going to tell you that it seemed way too small for what you were going to use it for, but the size in the early pictures was definitely deceiving. That's a nice size shop for the trucks. Now get to work filling it up with crap you'll never need!

[wildkat]

Wow. I was going to tell you that it seemed way too small for what you were going to use it for, but the size in the early pictures was definitely deceiving. That's a nice size shop for the trucks. Now get to work filling it up with crap you'll never need!

Oh not to worry....we have a 48ft trailer FULL of crap that needs to go in there! Hubby thinks it's too small already & thinking about adding onto it!

[daydreamer]

We have been in the process all summer of waiting.....waiting for a shop for our trucks...it was supposed to be completed August 1. Well...guess what?

There is PROGRESS!!! Here's what I came home to today, after 2 months of looking at the materials lying in our yard....

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/Shop001.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/Shop002.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/Shop005.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/Shop/Shop006.jpg

I am still learnig about how to use this web page,, more like a newbee,, any ways I am happy for you,,your shop and all sence I only know one other person on this web page,, and I Just love cat's and some of your saying,, I was woundering if ya could help me out with some info,,how long have ya been driving ?
My name is Dolores,, I went to truck driving school,5 weeks ago and didn't pass it was a local truck driving school for 3 weeks one week in class room and two for driving maneuver's,, I can do a straight back,, and paella parked but couldn't do a ally dock and down shifting needs work,, they gave me one more week of driving but still didn't pass,,I can go in March 23 to a local college but don't want to wait , I was a school bus driver for 3 years,, and they cut back on my hours so I need to go back to work ,, I am writing in hope of finding a Lady driver who would be will to take me on the road and train me,, is there any one out you may know that could help me,, I am praying ,, I have too many bills and a regular paying Job wont do,, please writ back if you can ,, I know all about other driving company that would train, me I would much rather learen from some one who be patient I truly want to do this so please write if you can
Thanks for your time Dolores
I hate to pick on you for help,, but you just sounded like ya know what your doing

[Mackman]

Are you keeping the dirt floor. Or is there plans for some concrete?

[wildkat]

I am still learnig about how to use this web page,, more like a newbee,, any ways I am happy for you,,your shop and all sence I only know one other person on this web page,, and I Just love cat's and some of your saying,, I was woundering if ya could help me out with some info,,how long have ya been driving ?
My name is Dolores,, I went to truck driving school,5 weeks ago and didn't pass it was a local truck driving school for 3 weeks one week in class room and two for driving maneuver's,, I can do a straight back,, and paella parked but couldn't do a ally dock and down shifting needs work,, they gave me one more week of driving but still didn't pass,,I can go in March 23 to a local college but don't want to wait , I was a school bus driver for 3 years,, and they cut back on my hours so I need to go back to work ,, I am writing in hope of finding a Lady driver who would be will to take me on the road and train me,, is there any one out you may know that could help me,, I am praying ,, I have too many bills and a regular paying Job wont do,, please writ back if you can ,, I know all about other driving company that would train, me I would much rather learen from some one who be patient I truly want to do this so please write if you can
Thanks for your time Dolores
I hate to pick on you for help,, but you just sounded like ya know what your doing

Welcome Dolores, I definitely have been at this a long time, but unfortunately I can't really help in the training department as I am in Canada, but for general trucking advise I'm always happy to answer any questions I can.

Best advise I can give you right now is try to find a reputable company that would be willing to train you. I understand that many of the larger companies have woman trainers now. RebelDarlin & 4forRoses would likely be your best help in that department.

[wildkat]

Are you keeping the dirt floor. Or is there plans for some concrete?

Right now the floor is packed gravel...4 damned loads of it! But yes, we are hoping to get "some" concrete next year. Since to accommodate the weight of the trucks the concrete has to be a minimum of 6" thick, we just couldn't afford the 25,000$ for it this year. But if things go well AFTER we get the furnace...then concrete will be the next item on the adgenda.

[wildkat]

Someone was asking about the "shop" cats?

Here they are...

There's Minnie & Pearl...take your pick, even I'm not sure which is which some days!

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/The%20Brood/MinniePearl.jpg

Dave...

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/The%20Brood/Dave2.jpg

Dicky...

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/The%20Brood/Dicky.jpg

and...Last but certainly not least .... Diesel..

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/The%20Brood/Diesel.jpg

Then... of all things... I found two feral cats living in the WAY back yard that have been showing up for food & shelter lately, but they haven't stood still long enough for me to get their picture!

[Orangetxguy]

Where are the picx of the completed shop?? Them kitties look spoiled.

[Mackman]

Right now the floor is packed gravel...4 damned loads of it! But yes, we are hoping to get "some" concrete next year. Since to accommodate the weight of the trucks the concrete has to be a minimum of 6" thick, we just couldn't afford the 25,000$ for it this year. But if things go well AFTER we get the furnace...then concrete will be the next item on the adgenda.

I know concrete is alot of $$$.

Anyway it is a really really nice barn. Good luck with it.:thumbsup:

[wildkat]

Where are the picx of the completed shop?? Them kitties look spoiled.

I just realized I didn't do that? Will remedy today!

[wildkat]

I know concrete is alot of $$$.

Anyway it is a really really nice barn. Good luck with it.:thumbsup:

It is Mackman & since we've already sunk nearly 100k into it...

and thanks!

[wildkat]

OK here it is...finishes!

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/katparadis/DSCF0753.jpg

[belpre122]

It is Mackman & since we've already sunk nearly 100k into it...

and thanks!

Wow Kat! 100K? Sure is a nice garage. I'm just wondering what types of uses you have planned for it. (that slippery sliding ice/snow driving must pay pretty good;))

Be sure to keep Dickey, Dave and the boys away from Precious! :thumbsup:

[wildkat]

Wow Kat! 100K? Sure is a nice garage. I'm just wondering what types of uses you have planned for it. (that slippery sliding ice/snow driving must pay pretty good;))

Be sure to keep Dickey, Dave and the boys away from Precious! :thumbsup:

yeah...shops this size are pricey, specially when you go with 18 foot walls, total insulation & the whole gammit. Mostly just a barn for the trucks...and hubby has a B I G carpentry habit, so it's mostly his "doghouse"! :lol: :lol:

No to worry about Mandy...she's fixed now, so has no interest in "boys" LOL

[belpre122]

No to worry about Mandy...she's fixed now, so has no interest in "boys" LOL

OK Kat, I'll have to take your word for it. I'm fixed also but I'm still interested.......just sayin.':lol:

I missed the picture of Diesel the first time through your post. When I first saw the pic, I thought that it said Big Diesel!:rofl:

Great pics! Just don't let harleypiper see them. He's banned from our kitty cat club.;)