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Free garage
My neighbor gave me this. It only took a week to get it braced up and on the trailer. The sill plates were completely rotted away and the walls floppy. I did it with no help except flaggers to block traffic.
Vintage Fords deserve a vintage garage.
Vintage Fords deserve a vintage garage.
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Thanks!
I also had a huge dead elm tree where the garage sits. I had it taken down but it took 2 days to dig out the stump and pack the dirt back in. I had a hole 30 feet wide and 8 feet deep.
I also had a huge dead elm tree where the garage sits. I had it taken down but it took 2 days to dig out the stump and pack the dirt back in. I had a hole 30 feet wide and 8 feet deep.
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That's a nice score. I'd love to have someone donate a garage to me. If they live close enough, I wouldn't even have to move it.
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That is it's new setting. I didn't get any before pictures. I'll get new sill plates on before I lower it. Then pour a floor in it. And many of you are thinking why didn't I pour the slab first; well 2 reasons, first it's much easier to make the slab fit an old crooked building this way and second is I didn't want to back the building over a green slab and risk damage. Also the building needed moved sooner and I had to focus on the move first.
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Working on it while still up on the trailer. I bought 20 footers a week or so ago, a couple of them almost crawled off the trailer as they dried out. Sill plates will be double, 2x4 and a 2x6 like original only modern lumber and not the full dimension 1920s stuff.
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It's now sitting down on 6x8 blocks. Next phase is to get it on 4" cinder blocks and pour a floor in it. Then get rid of the trolley doors, frame in the front for a walk in and a roll up. Wiring, insulation, sheeting....hope to have it all done by fall.
Then I will have room for some things I've been wanting like an English wheel.
Then I will have room for some things I've been wanting like an English wheel.