Need to build another garage since I got another loader/backhoe. Figure it needs to be 20 by 30 ft at least to get both machines indoors. Can only build 200 sq ft here without permit. Have 2 surplus 10 ft by 10 ft garage doors and a bunch of lumber in piles, dont want the permit to cost more than the building.
So, idea is to build on 6×6 skid plates, concrete skid pads, 3 ea slide together 200 sq ft sections, anybody from code compliance moans I’ll just pull’em apart for awhile, got enough old truck chassis could even put 2 sections on wheels with an interlocking roof.
Anybody done anything like this, how did it work out??
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It would be easier to get the permit. What is the big deal?
Well Wayne, permit here would be close to $1000, a sixmonth wait for it, having to draw plans vs just building it (or do yu always need a drawing to work from), and probably another $400 year property tax.
Motto: keep it under the trees, that way 'dey caint see it from de air.
Too bad you live there. The permit for my 2900 square foot house was $502. I gave the building inspector two weeks to look over the plans, but he said a week was normally enough.
I had a neighbor who built a "portable" garage so he would not need a permit. Pole building using old power poles. laid other poles in between at bottom & toenailed in. When they asked him, he told them the poles on the bottom were skids, would just cut off the support poles & pull it off. They bought it.
Yep, that's what I had in mind; however, now am tending toward putting it on wheels.
Just throw a tarp over the backhoe.
A good tarp (or one every few months blue HF jobbies) would cost me more than I can build the garage for and probably take more time over the next 20 years than the time it will take to build the garage.