The Mossy Shipyard by Bryan Woods - 1:1

[Bryan Woods]

The time is finally here for a permanent Shipyard! I’ve hired a contractor to erect a pole structure by my design. 
 

It’s 12’x16’ with a 6/12 pitch salt box style. 
I didn’t realize at the time, there would be a 6”x6” post in the middle of the right side door. I started thinking if I needed that big of space to get something in. It would probably be heavier than I wanted to lift anyway. So that went away:-)

 

My part of the build is clearing the site, which I’ve worked a couple of days getting it ready.

 

 

 

 

This is a shot from the back side, after it is built. The next things I am responsible for doing, kinda make me feel like I’m going back to work:-) I’ve got to get a 100’ of service cable out of the garage, into the root filled ground and up in side the ship yard. The worst is yet to come. Since it’s being built in the deep woods, no one is willing to pour the concrete pad with out bringing a cement truck up here on our paved drive. So my wife and I are going to mix and pour the concrete with 80lb bags.

 

That’s making my back hurt just  looking at it:-)

[Bryan Woods]

Framing materials for the shipyard showed up today!

 

 

We’ll have to see how much gets done today.

[ccoyle]

18 minutes ago, Bryan Woods said:

Framing materials for the shipyard showed up today!

Looks to me like with a minimum of modification, your shipyard could double as a permanent deer stand. 🤔

[barkeater]

Congratulation. I redid part of a barn two years ago for my workshop and love it. 

Rich

[Bryan Woods]

26 minutes ago, ccoyle said:

permanent deer stand.

 They are so use to us, it wouldn’t be a challenge:-)

[Bryan Woods]

They did have trouble getting the trailer close enough. He had to go back down the drive and back up:-/

 

[Bryan Woods]

Three young men’s progress today.

 

 

Tomorrow I’ll start running the electric service cable to it.

[Bryan Woods]

Yesterday we had a productive day. With my wife’s help we got the ditch dug conduit run , cable installed and the ditch filled.

 

 

 

Then I spent the day cleaning up the dirt piles left behind from all the post holes that were dug. It’s supposed to rain for the next 5 or 6 days. The soil is mostly clay, when it’s stepped on it packs down hard. After the rain it would be impossible to work. So I packed the dirt in the cracks at the bottom to prevent the gravel from rolling out.

 

 

Today I’ll just need to get the cable run in the trusses of the garage and over to the electrical panel. After that we’ll be waiting for the gravel to get delivered.

[Bryan Woods]

The framers showed up again today. It’s starting to take shape.

 

 

 

Lucky Me! It’s supposed to rain for the next 5 days. That means the guys bringing the gravel can’t dig on their other jobs and can squeeze me in. I might be wheelbarrowing in the rain for a few days.

Thanks for all the likes!

[Bryan Woods]

Well we got the rain… still coming down. We have a county wide power outage. So probably no gravel today. This creek is normally dry, it only fills with rain water from all the ridges. This morning I walked down hoping it hasn’t started uncovering the counties main water line. I can deal with no power for a while but no water is a completely different story:-)