This was the brains behind the operation, she looks young, but she did a great job of keeping everybody lined out :o)
This little project started in 2007 when I did the dirt work. This photo is Ali and I preparing to build the concrete forms, October 2011.
This photo shows my dad relaxing in the wheel barrow minutes before the cement truck arrived, we were really fighting to beat the frozen ground.
This is my nephew and daughter hard at work in the trench two days after the concrete pour. Ali was trying her hand at straightening J-bolts, and Vinny was running the shovel.
This was March 2012. It took me nearly 8 hours to dig the foundation out with the back hoe. We had almost 4 feet of snow on the ground .
This was last Monday April 9th when we started construction.
We set the trusses on Wednesday April 11th, with the help of MANY of my friends.
Building the mezzanine in the back of the hangar.
Our unfinished house, unfinished hangar, cabin, dirt runway, and the neighbors hangar.
The back of the hangar as it sits right now.
This is the front of the hangar without the door. It should fit both the 185 and the Cub very comfortably.
It took us 8 days to frame this thing up, and I couldn’t have done a fraction of this with out my friends help. I hired Chuck and Joe Gerwig from Chuck’s Custom Construction and Dan Lathrop from Bent Nail construction. Awesome guys, and super hard workers if you need any big projects done. I also had several other good friends dedicate hours/days of the their life to this little project and it turned out to be quite a successful barn raising. I could not be happier with the out-come, they did awesome work. The project will likely go on hold for some time as the finances catch back up with the progress. In the last 6 weeks I flew more than 160 hours and framed the hangar, it’s been a productive Spring and I am super thankful, but it’s time to slow it down a bit. I only express the productivity to explain the absence on the blog not to pat myself on the back. I couldn’t have done any of this with out my friends and family … we’ve been a bit busy lately :o)