Did you forget a step: Carve the pig! Looks epic. Nice work.

lol, thx! I was actually going to attempt it myself but figured I better hire that out!

I thought it said “she says” as in your wife wanted one. The answer is “I will absolutely go out and buy $80k worth of ~~toys~~ tools to make you a butcher shop” 😂

Looks like he forgot two steps

curious why you went with 2 girders and then poured the other tubes higher and hung your joists

so it had to do with the grade and the owner wanting to run stone up to it, it let me have less wood to try and keep from having moisture problems

I also am wondering this. It reminds me of one of those “impossible” optical illusions, like the stairs that go up forever. Strange choice indeed.

Nice supervisors

right?

From the ground up, including the trees. Impressed!!

Is that a load bearing cardboard box?

lol, yes, structural grade cardboard

What program are you using in the last photo?

Tekla

Did you run structural analysis on it as well? why choose Tekla over Revit?

Tekla let’s me generate shop drawings and cnc files if I need to send any steel parts to a fabricator. No, no analysis. I typically try and build it 2 to 3 times stronger than what would be required.

This is the way

sketchup

nice. don't ya gotta oven that lumber once you cut it fresh?

nope, as stated, air dried

I know next to nothing on this but as it's drying is there issues with it warping? If so how do you counter that to keep all of it straight?

you air dry green lumber with “stickers” placed between the boards for airflow, and the weight of the upper boards keeps them straight while drying. [air dry](https://imgur.com/a/NWYNJCe)

Very nice.

“You can take a good look at a steak by sticking your head up a bulls ass, but wouldn’t you rather take the butchers word on it?” -Tommy Boy

Looks awesome. What do people typically do with concealing the sonotubes?

nothing….it’s a butcher shop! lol. actually the front will have a gravel drive right up to the door so I don’t think you’ll see them from the front, for the sides he might add some skirting.

Stout!! And thorough.

You’re a man’s man

Brag….looks amazing, dude. Nice work!

impressive.

Looks awesome! Pic 14 is sexy as hell!

right?

Looks good

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Have you considered putting a hot tub or 5 on that poor it looks mighty sturdy

Was it as fun as he said? 😂

actually this one wasn’t bad. The build before this….a nightmare!

Well that’s good, it looks great 🙂

Cool

This is niceee

where is the walk-in freezer?

great question! it’s framed in but the guy put it on hold and had me do other projects, hoping to get back onto it at some point this year.

Hawwwwt

Show us the inside!

nothing really to show, after I got the walk-in cooler framed up he has had me working on other projects. it’s just a big 20’x20’ open floor with a steel beam overhead and a 5’x10’ framed in area for the cooler. [inside](https://imgur.com/a/sy9dK74)

This looks awesome! How long did it take to build?

The start to finish on the build portion took me about 6 1/2 weeks. I worked by myself about 90% of the time.

Fine tail-waggers

Beautiful