This took the longest to build
but it is the biggest!

It's almost ready for the final pour for the main room.  One more piece of #5 rebar needs to be put in the trenches, positioned and tied down.

The two side rooms are poured and the doorways are set and lintel blocks are laid as a first coarse.  They will be filled with rebar and concrete before the walls go up.

I hired a friend of mine to lay the block.  He taught me how to be his "Mudman".  I found out the hard way that the Mudman does the hard labor.   He did a fine job.   

The walls are done and now it's time to fill the holes every four feet as well as the top coarse of lintel block  with rebar and concrete.

I couldn't find any pictures of me building the trusses but here's some of them going up.   That's me holding the end of the truss as it's being lowered into place by the crane.

The roof is on and shingled.  The siding isn't painted yet but the main doors are built & set. Now they're closed...

The main room floor is done.  It's six inches thick in the middle with 3.000 psi mix.   The footer is two feet wide by two feet deep.  Overall it's 40' 8" X 51' 4".

The walls are going up.  Every place you see black on the bottom of the wall is where concrete and rebar will fill the wall all the way to the top.

Joe was called out of town for work on the 8 foot level so I used what he had taught me about laying block to finish the walls from the 8 foot to the 12 foot level.

To do this job, I bought a pre-mixed yard of concrete at a time in this trailer.   Check out my plastic garbage bag apron.  It kept the concrete from burning me.  

We worked well into the night setting the trusses with 4 300 watt flood lights.  They are on 16 inch centers with  over 2000 nails in each truss & measure 53'6' X 10'8"

...And now they're open!  They roll on 6" "V" grove cast iron wheels that ride on 3" angle iron set in concrete.