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| Breaking ground! |
Leveling the ground. |
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| Starting the footings. |
Setting the forms. |
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| Taking time out to celebrate our
birthdays. Our birthdays are two days apart. |
Taking more time out to crush a few cars at
my friend Dean's in Ridgecrest. |
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| By now it is spring and time to get
cracking again. |
Unfortunately, I did not get any photos of
the slab being poured. Here we are preparing the forms for the
stem (retaining) wall. Total amount of concrete was 84 yards. |
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| The east stem wall has just been
poured. My niece is setting the anchor bolts and doing some touch
up. |
The west stem wall has now been
poured. Once it sets, we can start erecting the arches. |
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| Disaster! We had managed to get two
arches up and tied off the day before. It was just not strong
enough to take the weight of the snow that fell. About 6" of
very wet snow. |
Had several diversions and could not work
much on the building for a couple of months. Once I got going again, it
went up pretty fast. Thanks to lots of help from friends. |
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| Took the crew out to dinner and a bit of
relaxation. |
Nearing completion! |
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| Getting ready to hoist the door into
place. This is a 14' high door so this was no easy task. It
weighed over 600#. |
All closed up! All that is left is to
add the trim and other finishing touches. |