Somewhere to grind.....

LOL thats one of the advantages to having a Neighbor that has a backhoe lol .
It isnt very deep but deep enough to run the pvc and wires and some cat6 and rg45 and maybe a phone line im going to try to put all i think i will ever need .
Im not an electricabn by any means but i was thinking of running a 8-2 from a 60 amp double pole breaker then splitting the 220 of at the building for my lights and receptacles .
I wont have a lot running at once or pulling alot at once i dont think i would like too have a meter set but thats isnt in the budget for now anyways any elctrical he lp greatley appreciated .

Airbozo man you wouldnt beleive the rain we have had latley we had a bad drought around here last year now its raining like crazy .

Looking good man. Sorry but I been on a bit of a hiatus. This work of mancaving has come a long way since I last seen it. looking very good might I add. we still need to get together somtime for some gaming. keep it up man.

Hey man long time no see Thanks i havent been able to work much latley i have been laid off for a while .I go back monday we will see how it goes and how long it will last . By the way good to see your back ,

Is it bad if you've read this thread plenty of times... know what it's about... yet every time your eye crosses the title, you think, "What game?"

lol no,Whatever keeps you thinking about it instead of passing it over .

Here is where i got too last update

This update dosent look like much but it was a lot of work and a lot of broke drill bits in my wake .
The screws i used were self drilling metal drwall screws i also tried another type but the OSB would walk up the screw and break the drilling point so i found that if i drilled the OSB to about the same size of the screws it helped a lot.
The bits i found that worked the best in that diamond plate was dewalts split tip cobalt driil bits i also used these screws too.

Here is the layer done i have one more layer im going to do plywood on top of all that running the other direction

Also my birthday is coming in a couple of weeks and i got my Birhtday presents early They were to work on Man Cave 2.0 \Modding

this is a car my wife got to add to my collection i dont know if you can really tell but it is transparent plastic or clear lol i thought it was cool .

I also thought this whole Mod\remodel\crazy idea started with not being able to dremel at night because of my wifes schedule .
So ithought why not show some pictures of Man cave 1.0 and yes im a big Jeff Grodon fan and no i dont care who likes it lol .

Also see i do plan on modding if you look at the top left you can se some of bills vinly film ,

Jeff Gordon won at Texas Motor Speedway this year. :up:

yeah now if he could get homestead out of the way lol , I would much rather see another championship though

This is looking awesome, although once its complete you should bury it and have an underground mancave. :D

lol now theres a thought that would also help with the extreme heat problem i wonder if i could some how brace the rofo to hold the dirt hmmmmmmmmm.......
That would be cool no kidding if i could keep the roof from caveing in lol .

If you didn't go to deep you might not need to reinforce it too much.

No kidding that would solve a lot of my heat problem when i get it done i may look into it .

I was thinking the same thing. Just a couple of inches of soil on top, put something up there to keep any serious weight off of it (don't want to drive over it), the roof wouldn't need much reinforcing but corrosion could be a problem.

...then it would be a REAL mancave. :D

i was thinking if i could get the building deep enough i dont know if this would be possible i could run say a sheet of steel or something over it put the dirt on that .
I know of a house not to far from here that is underground wonder if they would give a tour and shoot the bull about it lol .
I guess i have Three chocies if anyone has any exprience or expertise please dont hesitate and even if you have no clue ( Like Me ) go ahead as well .

Option one
Leave building as is build up dirt around it veru thin on top lol maybe add some kinda of small roof structure .

Option Two

Dig lets say trench like 3 or 4 foot deep and 18 to 20 ft long
then build up around that .

Option 3
Would be like say 7ft deep 20 long almost whole building underground
but it would take some kind of excavating to make it accessible talk about
yard crashers .
Oh yeah on a side note i was talking about it last night with my wife
I wish there was a smiley face for the face i got Im sure all the married guys
Here have got that look before lol . it was priceless.
I will keep looking into this is if nothing happens i dont know how far well get i need to finish it first .



A less extreme idea might be a green roof

I was just thinking that you wouldn't have to bury the whole thing, jusy dig out a hole half as high as it is, put it in place and use the dirt you dug to build up sides on it and cover the top. I like the metal-on-top idea, but something more resistant to water woudl better I think, a big sheet of fiberglass, maybe? Curve it on the top so it sends the water to the sides...

Not as impossible as it sounds, really. Sure would help with the climate control. And you'd have a storm shelter, too. :) They have tornadoes down there?

That sounds like pretty close to one of the ways i was thinking i dont know if my neghibor would want to dig that deep for me but i think the local tool renatl place rents backhoes for about $250 a day at tax time that wouldnt be too bad plus i get all day with backhoe :banana:
Yeah the weather gets pretty rough sometimes thats for sure . Nice idea

yeah I like the halfway idea too with the dirt on the sides and top. make a nice hill to play golf on too. put the green on the top of the hill and practice your chip shot! lol.

just doing a green roof wouldnt be too terrible, just throw a ladder on the side. then you could do a garden of flowers, veggies, or herbs too.

billygoat333 flowers on the mancave? lol
I wouldnt mind haveing some tomatos though

hey men like flowers too! :P or you could grow barley, and make your own beer! haha

Barley
Brilliant Brillant

Dude flowers for the wify for allowing you to build the man cave and her allowing you to spend so much time in it.:D

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Dude flowers for the wify for allowing you to build the man cave and her allowing you to spend so much time in it.:D

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Also Brilliant also i wouldnt have to buy flowers for valtines day again i could pick em :whistler:

Valentines day, Anniversary, birthday, ect.... You will have to still get her other stuff but the mancave will end up bringing your wife alot of pleasure and may be you some to...lol (not meant in a sexual way. HA)

So I totally forgot to tell you where I want my name!:facepalm: If you would like paint it right on the side...huge! nah it would be cool to have it where ever you want to put it.

Hey i can br pretty darn big because your the only one that wants there name on it lol

Finally i have something to update on man cave 2.0.
I like one small piece tongue and groove OSB and the floor will be done well except for wha tever i put on it paint or maybe a rug lol dont know about that .

I would like to get electricity too it soon but Im almost there i would love t obe using it now the little bench Man cave 1.0 is pretty crowded but i have seen amazing mods basically done on patio tables so thats no excuse.

I want to Apologize for the pictures i would like to have cleaned it out before i took pictures but after hurting mt back the doctor said No working lol .

Looks like you'll me modding out there before the first snowfall! Nice.

Man i hope so if i have to i can run a drop cord out there i have been all this time anyway .
really all i like is wiring painting inside and out and moving things around and getting it setup if .
Which is still a lot oh i still will have to do the TBCS theme too on the outside.
Thanks man .

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Looks like you'll me modding out there before the first snowfall! Nice.

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snow?!?!? wtf are you talking about. We dont get snow in alabama. we have 5 months of blistering heat 1 month of sinus problems 5 months of freezing wet nasty and 1 month alergies with more sinus problems. Seriously it snows like 1 day a year and then about every 3-4 years it snows so ahrd the state is shut down. He might be modding in it before it gets the freezing wet nasty season. hehehe. Ask Liquid and Kayin both. They know what I am talking about.:D

lol i coudnt have sais it any better myself it suppose to rain here all week rained all day yesterday and half today then got so hot i got some mowing done after work lol

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snow?!?!? wtf are you talking about. We dont get snow in alabama. we have 5 months of blistering heat 1 month of sinus problems 5 months of freezing wet nasty and 1 month alergies with more sinus problems. Seriously it snows like 1 day a year and then about every 3-4 years it snows so ahrd the state is shut down. He might be modding in it before it gets the freezing wet nasty season. hehehe. Ask Liquid and Kayin both. They know what I am talking about.:D

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Sounds like Maryland...

I worked on the Man cave 2.0 this weekend i took a step back to hopefully take two forward lol
Here is the disclaimer what the man that did this work did is an idiot do not i repeat do not do this at home he is a grown man .

Who knew better but was in hurry no wonder his back is bad he should have found some help what he did was very , very unsafe he is not good he was lucky lol .
Ok enough of that i took the pegboard on the back wall down i like it but i find i always put to much on the hooks and cant find it anyway so i did this

which this should help with storage the dumb part was see the jacks holding it in place .

Basically i had to slide onto of the base cabinet then lift one side up put the jack under the repeat then hold against the wall while i screwed it down very dumb of me also i had to load it on the truck out of our storage building by myself.

Then unload it lol that sucked It was a display cabinet they had when i started the like 16 yrs ago.
They gave it to me so i thought it has helped get a lot of stuff off the floor and out of the way i am going to really try to work on it.

I need some where to work on motor head Thanks all for the support .

those cabinets are saweet!! this thing is gonna be effin tits by the time you are done. :D

(can I say tits on the board? kind of a grey word... lol)

lol he said ti... thanks i will have to change the pulls on the bottom cabinet the yhave flowers on them i have never even seen those pull in the pull room ever 'ever and i have seen some pulls in my day lol

nice kitchen...wait a sec? This isn't a kitchen!
Nice job so far, love the work

Will

Hey thanks i would not mind a microwave and a mini fridge lol

On an even lighter note i remeber when i first started talking with SGTM about our trucks.
Then posting the kitten pics which was an accident the first ones where there under the building i didnt notice till i posted it .

It just came to me how can any self respecting man of southern decent not post a picture of his Truck or his dog but post pics of kittens and i call it a mancave lol so here goes i really need a better camera and to take some time to practice

really really needs a waxing lol

I present Gus the who knows what bread part Lab part basset hound and who knows what else

Action shot i wish i had the camera to take pics hes a blast to play fetch with

I almost forgot he hates the Mower I mean hates it he set a trap for me imagine hitting that at mach 1 one the mower or felt like it when i hit it

A update i dint do a lot to the mancave this weekend i did some cleaning and organizing .
I bought something a couple weeks ago didn't really have the money well ok i used the plastic but, It is something i think is really needed i know i am cramped for space and This worklog will be on going after the cave is finished .
I plan to build somethings for it . What i bought was this

It will be perfect when i need the space i can roll it out also i can bolt my dremel drill press attachment to it .
Also when i get well hope to get Benchtop Drillpress ,Grinder,Scrollsaw so it should be very helpful since it slides i can cut plexi with the miter saw .

I was wanting to wait till i got it wired to do anything else but i think every little thing i can get done will help in the end .
I know before i as k this no one is responsible for what i do but me .

Is there anyone that is an Electrician or Knowledgeable in wiring i have some questions if you dont mind pm me if you had rather do that than post it here .
Thanks all hope to have a more progress update soon if nothing happens .

ooo, nice miter saw. those things come in REAL handy. :up:

I can do some simple wiring, lol but nothing too extensive :think:

yeah that was a birhtday present from my wife it being a "10" sliding compound Miter Saw for $200 it is Great it is a Kobalt if you cant make it out .

I have used the $600 dewalt which a better saw no denying that and "12".
This will do all i need even has a laser sight at our Lowes there on sale for $175