I shopped around - Mueller, Versatube, and several companies that advertised in the local weekly Greensheet-type advertising paper. All comments, suggestions, and ideas are welcome. I'll update as work progresses, and add some photos.

Since it would take 5-6 weeks for the building to be delivered, I also started the ball rolling on the concrete work - got a few dump truck loads of road base dropped off and rented a Bobcat to level the site for the slab. Late October 2013 I put down my deposit and ordered the building - 40 x 60 x 16, three roll up doors (12x14, two 10x10,) two walk doors, insulation on walls and roof, three huge skylights. I know some guys that know some guys, and was able to work a deal with some of them to do most of the labor that I didn't know anything about (building forms, spreading/smoothing the concrete itself, etc) as long as I supplied the materials and did what work I could. When our youngest kid graduated high school, we decided it was time to move out to the country and get some elbow room.Ħ acres gives me room to play and build, so I decided a 2400 sq ft (60 x 40x 16) building would be more than large enough to hold all of my vehicles (currently a toyhauler travel trailer, an extended cab truck, small tractor, several ATV's, an old Bronco, a classic Porsche, and way too many parts) and tools and still have room to work on them without being cramped.Īfter reading though several of the shop build threads on this site and some others, and getting quotes from several different types of building companies, I decided to go with a Mueller 'red iron' metal building - there is a local outlet near me (Bastrop, Tx), the price was about the same as a pole barn or Versatube, and I've heard good things about them.Ĭoncrete prices about gave me a heart attack when I got some quotes for a slab, but those were start-to-finish with the contractor doing everything. I put up with a 2 car garage (that also served as a laundry room and storage) as a workshop for 20 years, I just got tired of moving 3 or 4 things out of the way just to get at the one thing I wanted to work on, and crawling under vehicles supported on jackstands all the time isn't as easy or as much fun when you're in your late 40s as it used to be. Fisher Price, Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Tonka, Nylint, Aurora AFX slot cars, Lionel trains, tricycles, bicycles, lawn mowers, go karts, ATV's, cars, trucks, tractors, trailers.you get the idea. Welcome to.the Gearhead Garage.Įver since I can remember, I was taking things apart to see how they worked, and (usually) putting them back together. All my friends and family say I'm the biggest gearhead they know, so now that I finally have the space and the money to build me a real shop, picking a name for it was easy.

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