Thanks mom and emily for coming up this weekend to watch baby, Jess made a big dent on the boxes we have left and i got to start putting on the roof on my gym/dojo.
Category Archives: Home Gym
2nd floor progress
Home Gym – 2nd flooring laid
All positioned and tacked in place. Good view too.
Home Made Crane
Raised all the floor panels for the home gym today. Used the truck to power the crane.
The crane itself is kind of a double tri-pod nailed to the cross beams on the 2nd floor. Used a 2-pulley block & tackle 50% weight reduction lift. Even with the reduction, lifting it by hand was impossible. Luckily for me, I had welded on a nice sturdy “ramming” bumper(used to plow over small trees) to the paintball truck. Tied it to that and was able to lift the panels with ease.
Pulleys can be found at Lowes for 5 bucks each, plywood being lifted is really, really heavy stuff. basically 3 normal sheets of plywood pressed together as one. Plytanium
Home Gym Progress
Big thanks to skylar “birddog” and chris “nashorn” of l337 krew for helping tonight on the home gym! Its finally starting to look like a building. Pretty soon ill be able to start on the 2nd floor walls!
2nd floor going up
I have a little bit of gap to fix then the cross beams go into place. Should be able to stand on the 2nd floor by this weekend.
Moar Building Pics
Living the dream
Big fire, nice place to call home, lots of woods i can call my own, freedom to step outside and relax anytime i want, freedom and space to go crazy building stuff, great wife to share it all with and a kiddo on the way.. gotta say im pretty happy.
Pics
Building pics
40 2x4x8’s
6 2x4x12’s
6 2x4x16’s
1 steel door and frame assembly.
Lots of weird looks on the way home.
David P. Roberts