Yeah. I bought those when lumber was starting to go up. I called for a price and 2 weeks later when I ordered them they were $1000 more. Cant even imagine what they would be now. :)
I believe the sonotubes were 12" diameter and they are 4' deep. The 6X6 post brackets I purchased from a small concrete company that is no longer around but I think you can get them at the big box home stores if you ask for them at the pro desk. Thanks for watching. :)
Instead of using Girts between your poles, is it OK to use framed studs like a stick build? I guess that would make it sort of a hybrid pole frame/stick build with Sono-tubes and eventually a concrete pad without footings.
You could use a traditional framed wall between the poles but I would have a perimeter footing for the wall to sit on if you don't poor a full floor before you build. I didn't have anything for a wall to sit on to support it. Hope this makes sense and thanks for watching. :)
Nice to hear from you. Feel free to share the video or tell a few friends about our channel. Word of mouth is the best way our channel grows. Thanks for watching. :)
Good job, like the way you broke it down in price. I'm looking in to building a new garage/shop soon if all goes well. Sadly, when finally saved up enough funds the darn pandemic hit and price of wood has skyrocketed!!! So now my happy place is in jeopardy for sure but will continue to fight to get it done. If can get it built, my first project will be restoring my first car I've had over 45yrs. (62' Chevy SS Impala). Again, great job on explaining what it takes to get something like this done. P.S. One more roadblock is being disabled doesn't help either, but I've always kept fighting! As one my farorite TV stars said in one his movies... Never give up, Never surrender!!!
Thank you. The price of lumber went through the roof but hopefully it will come down soon. Sounds like you have the right mindset. Don't give up, make it happen. :)
@@rubenmv91 The brand of sawmill you buy depends on how much money you want to spend and how much you are going to use it. The more you are going to use a sawmill the more I would recommend you buy a higher quality sawmill. :)
That right there is a 1968 elcamino sitting on a 2001 Tahoe 4x4 frame with a sheet metal tilt forward front end. Lots of fabrication to make it all go together. :)
Hahaha. In my book everything is for sale but it's not finished yet. I got it to the point that I could bring it up here when we moved about 3 years ago. It will be coming into the shop this winter to get some stuff finished. :)
Thanks for the breakdown, nice work! We have high winds, PNW Gorge area, gusts can go up to hurricane in the winter. You mentioned you had wind, how bad do you guys get it? Just curious if you did anything special with the metal roof for high wind !
I live 22 miles north of the Columbia river in the PNW but I have a lot of trees around my place to keep the winds down. When you purchase the metal roofing, the distributor should be able to tell you the nailing pattern to keep it down in your area. Thanks for watching. :)
I've wanted a mill for a long time...you make me want it even more now. Didn't hear you talk about the electric cost. I'm sure that is another $6-8K retail or more!
I couldn't get an estimate on electrical, only 2 electricians in town and they are booked up all the time. That and I have never paid for any electrical work to be done so I have no idea what it would be. :)
Having your own property and building things yourself, how did you get that all accomplished as far as permitting and inspection? I'm no engineer and haven't been doing construction for years on end, but I know how to build almost anything and build it really well. I wasn't sure if you had run into any issues building your shop yourself with it needing to be within an exact spec for permitting. Love the build, thanks for the breakdown!
In our county you can pull what they call a special out building permit, with this permit there are setbacks but you can build it however you want with whatever you want and only one inspection to see that you are building it where you said and the size you said. A special out building can not be meant for human inhabitance. The house plans were engineered so all I had to do is follow the engineered plans and all inspections went fine. I did have to learn how to run plumbing and electrical but all went good. :)
@@KoalityofLife I understand that your own milled lumber would need to pass their own inspection for water content, prior to be used for home construction.
@@slingerland3g In our county, any lumber used in the construction of a building meant for human inhabitance has to be building grade lumber. If you mill the lumber yourself you have to have it graded and stamped. This shop build doesn't fall under these guild lines in our county as it is not meant for human inhabitance. :)
Thanks for the cost break down. Owning and operating a sawmill would be great! I dont have enough trees to justify it though. Wonder if you'd still save money if you bought logs and milled them?
I know a few people that buy logs and mill them for a living, they make good money. So I would have to say yes, you would still save money buying logs and milling them yourself, it would just take longer for the sawmill to pay for itself. :)
Nice build. I am looking around for 6x6 brackets and you mentioned your brackets nice and beefy. Can you tell me where you got them seems like a nice price for the quality.
I got some of them at the big box store and some at another store in town. I had to look around to get enough because of the supply chain issues we have been having but I'm sure you can order them online too. Simpson strong tie CB66. Sink them into the concrete and they wont be going anywhere for a long time. lol :)
That car is fking sweet!!! I’m a big screw guy too. My buddies laugh at me but I truly believe screws are superior in every way. Want more sheer strength? Just get a thicker screw.
Thank you. Thats my "68 elCamino sitting on a 2001 Tahoe 4x4 chassis. I love to use screws, sometimes I'm in to much of a hurry and use my nailgun but I try not to. lol :)
Got a price for 36x48x16 34,000 now I'm thinking not bad after your video, 4' truss oh and over head door 14x12. Don't get the 1x4 purlins for the roof oh, is that cause your truss are 2'? Built pole barns before and was allways 2x4.
Nothing is cheap right now. The cheapest (price per square foot) composite siding at a big box store is about the same price as the cheapest metal siding you can get. Just depends on what you like. I milled all my own siding for this build and still have to mill out the batten strips but it only cost me the time, saw blades, and fuel to run the mill. :)
@@KoalityofLife I'm getting a frontier this summer have 100 acres of various wood to pull from as a kid I help my dad cut and load pulpwood never thought I'd be possibly using it for barns and out buildings
Just curious: did you count your cost of labor into your home milled lumber cost? If so how many hours and amount per hour are you calculating for your labor charge to harvest and mill your own lumber? Great video! thanks
Hahaha. I'm lucky, I have a lot of trees on my property and my neighbors have trees they want cut down so I have plenty of logs to mill into whatever I want. Thank you and thanks for watching. Share a video if you want to, We don't advertise so word of mouth is the only way our channel gets noticed. :)
Sounds like a person could pay off most of the cost of a good sawmill with the difference in a store-bought and personally installed building and milling your own lumber and doing the work yourself and only buying the material like you did. If they had access to the timber on their own property, or set up deal with arborists or power companies clearing rights-of-way, they could really make a big difference in the cost of one or more buildings like yours over time.
Our sawmill paid for itself in this one pole barn build and it's not the first thing we built using lumber we milled off our property. With the lumber prices as high as they are today it's not hard to save money milling your own lumber. It would be nice to get in with an arborist to get something other than pine. lol :)
I would have to look back to see but I'm guessing from the time I started leveling the ground for the shop build until lights went up would have been about 5 months. I milled out the lumber in that time also. :)
@@KoalityofLife just found ya today , I’ll watch your build series and all others good job . Where do u live and did u use any ash or poplar in your building ? Great job
@@toddcaskey9984 We live up in the PNW, try to keep exact locations out of it. lol Thanks for stopping by and watching our journey. Feel free to spread the word about our channel there's lots more to build. Other than the pressure treated posts, trusses, and some 6x6 top rail, the entire building is blue pine milled from our property. :)
@@toddcaskey9984 Yeah, Pacific North West. Nice, I think that's where Jimmy Diresta is. Love that channel. I have a cousin on long island. Nice place to visit but I don't know how he lives there. Totally different world.
So this might just be a little bit off topic for this video but i just noticed it in this video so i thought id tell you anyways lol But Idk why but I'm always irritated when I watch videos and I see people who put their dry erase markers and markers and pens with the writing tips pointing upwards so all the ink runs to the other end where the thing won't even write If it's needed to be used SO I'm very glad to see that you aren't one of those types of people who is irritating like that or I probably couldn't watch any longer LOL Also if you had your lathe that you've said that you want to get you could have just threaded the ends of the rebarr and saved even more money on some of those bolts LOL
Yes, the dry erase makers MUST point down, my OCD kicks in when I see people put them in a cup facing up so they can see what color the cap is. I do want a lathe and a mill and a press and a sheet metal break. I think the list is a long one, all in due time. As the channel grows so will my shop. :)
I'm pretty sure throughout this build series I have stated that I am over building this shop to make sure it lasts a long time. I know there are ways to build a shop that are way cheaper but will they last as long? Thanks for watching. :)
