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Offline Siberian

Re: ZForce 950 Height?
« Reply #15 on: December 22, 2021, 11:19:10 AM »
I decided to go a different route with storage.  I am going to build a new shed in the yard and make a dedicated home for the Zforce.

A storage facility is going to run me over $100 per month.  After 6 months , or so, I could have built something.

I'm doing the same thing, John.  Even though mine fits in the garage (barely), I may go bigger tires in the future, and I can always use more storage anyway.  There was a concrete patio by my shed, so I'm adding a lean to.  Roughly 12*20, same as the shed.  Even with the price of lumber and metal roofing going up, I'll be in about $1200 or so.  I may enclose it in the future.  The shed desperately needs a makeover too (roofing and siding), but that will have to wait til spring.
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Same here.....  I live next to a black lava ravine which happens to be my property.  Great place, but near zero level stuff.  I bought a 7' x 14' Cargo  and converted it to ATV-Ural Hauler/Camp Trailer.  It needed a place, so I borrowed the CAT436 backhoe I sold, move alot of dirt by the shed, and built a 18' x 22' "trailer-port".  It sure was handy to get that CAT436 back for a few days!  Boy, I loved that machine!

The only materials I had to buy were the 2"x8"x16's and roofing shingles.  Everything else I already had (6"x6" posts, a few concrete blocks, and used "throwaway" 4' x 8' USB sheets).  Other stuff like more concrete blocks, long green pressure-treated 5" diameter poles, Tyvek for roof, roof nails +air nail-guns, compressor + lines, metal post anchors, odd pieces of re-bar or fence posts, concrete form lumber, and so on I already had here.  Folks also gave me almost exact match of left-over siding that matched the house for the shed, white aluminum facia metal. mortar mix sacks, more concrete blocks, a small Horror-Fright cement mixer, and odds and ends.  I already had concrete flatwork tools (20 years+/- in bad times), and had built the house, 96% my work solo.  After all, construction isn't rocket science.

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Offline Jake

Re: ZForce 950 Height?
« Reply #16 on: December 22, 2021, 12:46:29 PM »
Looks great!  Appears that it might be a good spot to crush a couple cold ones in the summer heat as well.

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Offline John1960

Re: ZForce 950 Height?
« Reply #17 on: December 24, 2021, 06:09:33 AM »
Looks like some nice handy work there!  Good repurposing of materials also.

Ahh, the things we do and build for our toys!

I am counting down the weeks until the ZForce arrives at the dealership.  Keeping my fingers crossed for mid to late March.  That would be ideal.  It would leave me without a storage problem for this winter and still give me some time to throw on all the accessories (front and rear windshields, rock sliders, lower door inserts, front bumper, LED lights, mirrors…)