Site Prep and Footings - 40x72 Gambrel Post Frame Episode 1

[@warpo007]

As a West Australian, please don't take your huge wide shots ands drone shots for granted. I find your countryside beautiful and fascinating and take it all in. Love seeing it all under snow. You guys probably are over it, Just like we are of having white sandy beaches in our front yards..

[@sbrunner69]

Nice reflections of life in both places. Both amazing but both unaware of the other. I wish I could show you the pictures in my mind of growing up in south Louisiana, yet a third realm, of many.

[@georgemaru8849]

P ñnñ

[@alanblasczyk1779]

A cool process to watch. I am glad you guys are filming this.

[@joshsalmons1867]

I love these videos. Construction is fun for me and I like hearing other people's perspectives. Thank you for the time you take to share this with us. I know it's not easy especially when you're busy.

[@kbaker7430]

Matt: I got so involved in the road build that I almost fell off my chair watching the first fill truck back into the road. My dog goes crazy when he hears the back up signal on a truck and he thought that someone was in the driveway bringing him a treat. Had to let him out to check even after I held him up to see what you were doing. All in all very exciting day.

[@suziqbrown7073]

This is going to be amazing to follow. The drone footage was fantastic. Thanks for taking us along

[@paulhunt598]

Enjoy the building. I moved into my 60x82 building in January. We opted for conventional 2x6 stick built on traditional concrete foundation. My shop space is 40x82 which let us save truss cost by splitting the 60' truss on the load bearing shop wall. I am 66. I never thought that my shop would become a reality. To be as young as you are and putting up this much space will be a pleasure to enjoy for decades.

[@TheRedhawke]

Looks like it will be a very nice structure. First time I’ve ever seen footings poured without being vibrated to remove voids.

[@Erik-wd6ng]

yeah i thought about that aswell and no iron net in the concrete aswell?

[@algorithmicalychallenged.291]

Thank you for your time. This was a process worth watching.

[@Fixthisbuildthat]

Awesome to see this get under way!

[@mcremona]

Thanks Brad!

[@sgsax]

I love a good post beam build. Looking forward to seeing this one go up. Thanks for sharing!

[@deconteesawyer5758]

I favor Jim Beam, but each to their own.

[@Mr.Stacey-L-SCC]

It's really great to see the aerial shots as the work is going on. Its looks to be a well thought out build. I can't wait to see how it goes up.

[@johnking8679]

I see more and more KZbinrs are using drones these days (where appropriate, of course !!) It sure enhances the video clip !!

[@jcapogna]

Matt (or Matt's editor?) do a really good job of switching around views to show what's going on.

[@johnking8679]

Firstly, Mathew - thanks so much for sharing this very interesting project !! I love watching the step-by-step process !! I know I'm excited about this, so I can imagine how you must feel !! Glad to see Donovan involved - you two make a great team !!

[@mcremona]

Thanks John!

[@dssh1970]

What the friggen Hell !!! Amazing Matt !!! Congratulations!!! I've been watching since before the bandsaw mill build and to see all your hard work paying off...well for some strange reason makes me happy for you and the family. A True Inspiration to anyone !!!

[@mcremona]

Thank you!

[@felixreali7101]

Breaking ground is always exciting! The start of a new major project! And the size of that plot for the building is perfect. Anything bigger and it would have been ridiculous, but anything smaller and it would not have been efficient. I think you got the size exactly right.

[@riccroft710]

That's some great progress, Matt. I think that building is going to be a good addition to your property.

[@williamlulay7982]

It's amazing to me how this much smaller equipment these days can do the job that took Caterpillar diesels to do in my youth, specifically clearing the field for the build site and road. I love post and beam construction. Your drone shots from far up make us humans look so insignificant in the overall landscape.

[@mkzenthusiasts]

Isn't it amazing how far you travel away from the great Mississippi River just how wide that river was when the ice age ended. I'm about 2 blocks from the base of the Bluffs in La Crosse WI if i dig down 24 inches I hit sand BUT our top soil along the bluff are fertile we are fortunate to live in such a beautiful part of this great country

[@commonsenserules7995]

Positioning the post brackets before the concrete sets up saves a whole lot of time.

[@richardlong191]

Your kids are going to love the dirt pile! Great video!

[@SeanHodgins]

That sand! I could have dug those by hand! haha All we have is beach stone and rock around here. Excited for another build series.

[@JasonPeltier]

bunch of clay in my area

[@Matlock69]

I was so excited to see the wet set brackets!! Still seeing WAAAAY too many post frames going up with 6x6s being wet set directly into concrete piers. Just not a 100 year building at that point. The 3 ply posts are also a huge plus!

[@suzylarry1]

nice to see from a green canvas to a cleared lot to post bound. It has been a very busy constant time for Matt & Donovan . First was hole in back yard to nice addition and now on to The Storage Shop.

[@robertr4193]

Nice going but I was a bit surprised to see that there was no steel rebar in the footings.

[@murrayandru7527]

Hey Matt, Your Going BIG @ Home , Enjoy It and take care of You and Family

[@glenschumannGlensWorkshop]

Thanks for showing this project. This will make your operation look bigger even though initially it is just a move, but up until now we seldom saw the evidence of all of your business.

[@plakor6133]

Learned something. The technique for stopping the auger and lifting dirt out of the hole. Thanks!

[@mikebateman8021]

Good to see it's being done right drives me not to see if somebody wet the 6x6 into the foot of the pier goes on all across the state doesn't mean it's right because they will rot out have a good build can't wait to see it done

[@Paradigm1976]

I wish my soil were that easy to deal with. It's chock full of rocks, shale and surface coal. Very cool to see the project start.

[@tomadv]

Man, this would have been an awesome collab with @rrbuildings ! Excited to see it go up!

[@comsigninc]

The skid steer operator is really good.

[@brendonlbaptiste1020]

I wish I had land like that to build on. Really Really nice.

[@gordonclark7632]

I didn't realise that Donovan was going to build this so it took a bit to identify him in the shots. I also liked the inclusion of the drone shots as it gave a good perspective of the operation.

[@garykersteiner4936]

I know you were stressing while you watched the guys doing their work. It's normal. You've spent so much time on this and you don't want anything to go wrong. Got to have faith. They can do their job and it all gonna turn out greatly

[@bay9876]

Yea! The foundations are in and set. The road is in and the land is cleared if you were doing a floating slab floor. Perfect to the slope needed to drain water from under the slab.

[@theodoranorton4779]

An interesting process. That was the only pretty cement truck I've ever seen, with all those tidy, precise workers...a bit surreal.

[@richardthornhill4630]

Nice on the ground and aerial shots. Will give you some good work space out of the weather.

[@kevincarpenter5458]

Looks good Matt. Needs to be bigger!

[@robertpearson8546]

When they were building my high school gym, they had an amazing level. It was a garden hose with clear extensions at each end. Filled with water, the two meniscuses were at the same level 200 feet apart. Try one to check the level of your warehouse.

[@seanr9416]

No vibration of the concrete?

[@mikewendeln]

We get another build with Donovan!, HELL YEAH

[@pitsnipe5559]

Beautiful piece of property.

[@alanhiggins2928]

All I can say Matt is, you must have a never ending money supply!👍

[@JasonPeltier]

A proven company can get a business loan pretty easily.

[@lancer2204]

I'm always interested to see the differences in building methods and practices in different places.

[@Mark_L]

Nice to see it all coming together! You have come a long way from a basement shop!

[@kenc2257]

Such interesting site prep. Fast progress thus far. Enjoyed the road building, also.

[@gayle4804]

I've been watching this on Donovan's channel but I will watch yours also. The 2 of you and The workers are doing a awesome job it's gonna look so Amazing

[@johnkranz4004]

Excellent job So far

[@vittoesmith1]

Of all the videos I watch you are the first one I have seen call the cardboard pipe by the name I have always know it as, Sono-Tube. Can't wait to see the progress. Keep it up.

[@michaelcolgan3182]

I tried using machine like this . I hit a rock slab two foot down no matter where I dug. I drilled anchors into the rock poured the concrete and hurricane sandy hit all was good

[@abluishgray2244]

Why no rebar in the footings? Thanks for video.

[@Avboden]

Those SVL units are great. My Dad has an SVL95 for his property, it's good fun.

[@gtuttle4]

I love watching builds like this!

[@karaDee2363]

Love your videos Matt.. This project looks like it was well planned..

[@anthonygasparini1734]

Matt you have absolutely beautiful property! Love the viewshed.

[@mcremona]

Thanks!

[@cuwest1]

A Breaking Ground Project! Thanks for sharing Matt. Love it!

[@tsmith235]

Best drone shots I've seen for a long time you're going through a lot of effort and you're doing a grand job

[@RXRSawdustStation]

Matt's Manor - 😆 Matt's Manner - 🤣 Great video! Excellent location! Nice property! Thanks, man!

[@johanhearn7720]

Love watching your process.

[@philipmasie]

Interesting to see how much goes into building a pole barn

[@troyledbetter6597]

Love the video! You make them enjoyable and easy to follow. I am anxiously awaiting the next video!

[@JimG31547]

The building is going to be really nice. Congratulations

[@Cooldaddio2]

You need RR Builders to put that post-frame up for you. They are the best.

[@dumpster1947]

Haven’t you figured it out Matt is a do-It-your-seller to the bone!

[@Cooldaddio2]

@@dumpster1947 looks like he hired a whole crew there. Hardly DIY

[@vmitchinson]

Looks to me like he hired a contractor.

[@craigb9241]

Special guest, Donovan!

[@joebeecher3919]

looking good hope next week goes well. If you sart the raising on monday it might give more regulsr posts...

[@bergmandiy]

That dirt bike jump was looking sweet! ;-)

[@pinwizz69]

Awesome, another vid with Donovan keeping Matt outta trouble like a true professional would. I'm kinda surprised they didn't use a plunge vibrator while pouring the cement into the footing tubes to get good settlement and compaction. No matter what it's going to be a real nice building for Matts new workshop with plenty of room to work. Maybe he can up size his sawmill.

[@cdouglas1942]

Agree on absence of vibrator. Even with no rebar a couple plunges per footing would do no hard.

[@deconteesawyer5758]

@@cdouglas1942 They plunged the mounting brackets in a couple times.

[@IEnjoyCreatingVideos]

Off to a great start Matt! Thank you for sharing the video with us!💖😎👍JP

[@167curly]

That mechanical auger is such a labour-saver.

[@heikovanderlaar3780]

Was surprised they didn't vibrate the concrete. When does and when doesn't it need vibrating?

[@MSmith6503]

Nice clean soil, dame where I live I think there’s more rocks in the soil then soil.

[@johncostello3162]

I would have vibrated concrete to eliminate spaces and honeycombs but California is more regulated than your area ( no steel in footings) Like the video

[@Jameson4327]

I don’t see one stick of rebar being used? they didn’t even vibrate the concrete.

[@AndresLopez-uf4ew]

I guess we all know what kind of Home Movies the poor grandkids will be watching 😂😂. I just wish I knew what ol' Donavon is thinking. It's going to be one Helluva Masterpiece when he is done. Way to go Donavon

[@truckguy6.7]

Surprised it passed the inspection, those footings don't look near big enough. Haha, wow the engineers and building inspectors are not living on the edge these days, those are massive!

[@RobinLewisMakes]

Very excited for this one!

[@garrywaters7190]

very surprised you only have 42 inch frost line out there here in connecticut we have to go 48 inch down and we don't get any where as cold as you do.

[@vmitchinson]

Here in Edmonton footings required to buried 4.5 feet(54") deep. Our temperatures go down to minus 40

[@richardbrooks3229]

Matt. Looks like a fun project. I was just curious about how they were measuring to put in the wet set post brackets. It looked too me like when they were setting them they measured from one bracket to the next. As a retired toolmaker and avid woodworker I know there is such a thing as cumulative error when you measure this way. Was there some other method they were using that was just not shown in the video. You made a point that the post locations were very critical on this type of construction. Love what you do on your channel and you do so many amazing things. Keep up the good work

[@edwardsimmons3721]

What a great space for a shop.

[@robertpearson8546]

Could you explain more about the laser system used to insure that all the tubes are at the proper depth and level?

[@justatim8143]

Your road base looks a lot different then ours here in Pittsburgh, Pa. which is made from lime stone 1" to dust and yours looks like dirty stone and sand. I also watch RR Buildings and he does a lot of pole barns and some into houses. I like the fact that you have wide tubes and go deep but like the footer and formed walls more as they are at least 1foot higher the ground level.

[@inambaguum]

Agreed...I'm not really sure how this would work as a road base but I'm not in the upper midwest...maybe it's different there. Out here (VA) roadbase is usually pretty heavy stone to keep it from washing out, then the finer stuff goes on top.

[@rjc305]

Very impressive build. Nice work on the video also!

[@patrickodonnell7111]

RR buildings collaboration would have been nice to see. Just like Diresta did.

[@3cl1]

That's some good looking dirt you have.

[@markpostgate]

Looking forward to this series!

[@bigjarn]

nice onward and upward progress!

[@davecurda2350]

Very exciting time for you 👍

[@2ddw]

No rebar in the sonotubes? I would have thought otherwise...

[@themanfromnam8446]

Why didn't you compact the road before you put the base down?

[@judithfairchild8620]

I've seen finished pole barns. To see how it's done is very interesting. If I were 10 or so years younger I would have gone into the construction business. But I'm the last generation of women who were told that kind of work isn't for girls. I wanted to take shop and not home mec. I wasn't allowed to. So construction work has always interested me.

[@elainedegoede6276]

Wow that was cool to watch.🥰

[@jcapogna]

It's interesting that the road is dirt and gravel and not just gravel. Is that an advantage or is it just a cheaper material?

[@donavanshomes]

They are putting down road mix or recycle class 5 it does not have any soil mix in it or vey little

[@doofusmaguilacutee4998]

No rebar in the piers? No vibration/consolidation of the concrete?

[@cdouglas1942]

Surprised to see the sonotubes go all the way down. I know R&R Buildings just use them to form the top of the footing that's above grade, which would seem to provide improved uplift resistance. Not a code issue apparently however.

[@holyearth61]

How come you didn't put re-bar in your tubes, the only place you have it is at the end of you brackets ?

[@SteveP-vm1uc]

WOW!! As fast as you are growing, I think you should have doubled the size of this barn.. Well, I guess there is plenty of room to build another... ;)

[@vmitchinson]

You should have vibrated all the concrete piles to eliminate any honey combs. When you leave openings, water will collect, freeze and break the concrete. Over time the concrete will return to gravel.

[@SciPunk215]

Very cool. It's amazing what can be done in such a short time with enough machinery and an experienced crew. I didn't see much compaction on that road, or any drainage. I'm sure it's a billion times better than the topsoil and grass, but is it good enough for long term use?

[@idontthinkso666]

Let's be honest, it was a quick & dirty road. Over time it will fail, but if it only sees "light duty" with one man traffic, hopefully Matt can do repairs and keep it maintained.

[@joshuahasson9687]

Was rebar placed in the footings (aside from the post brackets I mean)?

[@mcremona]

No

[@donaldtrabeaux5235]

Looks awesome Matt

[@reese8752]

How do you get away with no rebar in your piers?