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Old 05-16-2007, 08:24 PM
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You'd be surprised how little space you need when youre organized. See www.myrv3.com

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Old 05-16-2007, 08:31 PM
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Bill,
If you would convert that bush-hog to a belly mower, you would have more room yet.
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Old 05-17-2007, 07:26 AM
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Bill,
If you would convert that bush-hog to a belly mower, you would have more room yet.
Mel,
You're obviously a thinking kind of guy! Belly mowers are great for big lawns, but the bush hog will climb or jump over an unseen rock or stump, of which I have lots! Bucking broncos are one thing, but riding a bucking tractor with circulating cutters is more sport than I'm up for. BTW, thanks for all the contributions you make to this forum. I look forward to making your aquaintence sometime.
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Old 05-17-2007, 08:11 AM
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You'd be surprised how little space you need when youre organized. See www.myrv3.com

Rob
It's not about how little space you can get away with. We all know you can do this in a single car garage.

I've seen 7 person families living in a two bedroom house. Can it be done? Yes. . . Would they like to have more space if they could afford it? Definately!

If the question was "I have a single car garage, can I do this in a single car garage?" the answer is clearly yes.

But this guy is building a garage from the ground up. He has the option to go bigger and I believe in the long run, space to build plus resale value as well as marginally higher costs to double or triple your space really adds up to going bigger verses smaller.

In my humble opinion, if you are in a position to custom build a shop / garage to facilitate your RV build then you would want to go big enough that you could have the plane fully assembled in the shop, including wings and be able to comfortably walk around it. What you pay extra in building costs will be quickly recovered by less hanger rent by extending the amount of time you can remain in your garage building and not have to move your project to the airport.
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Old 05-17-2007, 07:21 PM
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Being able to put the airplane together at home makes all the sense in the world considering a t-hanger at my home base rents for $550 per month. I will check the specs and add a few all around. You guys are the bomb diggity.
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Old 05-17-2007, 08:24 PM
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You're obviously a thinking kind of guy! Belly mowers are great for big lawns, but the bush hog will climb or jump over an unseen rock or stump, of which I have lots! Bucking broncos are one thing, but riding a bucking tractor with circulating cutters is more sport than I'm up for. BTW, thanks for all the contributions you make to this forum. I look forward to making your aquaintence sometime.
Bill,
I have a 7' belly mower on a '41 Farmall "B". It does great. Of course I DO have flat acreage. You're right, I certainly wouldn't want to try it over stumps or rocks.
Maybe we'll meet at the Texas RV Fly-in next week.
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Old 05-18-2007, 08:31 AM
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Bill,
I have a 7' belly mower on a '41 Farmall "B". It does great. Of course I DO have flat acreage. You're right, I certainly wouldn't want to try it over stumps or rocks.
Maybe we'll meet at the Texas RV Fly-in next week.
I drove the "B" when in high school....great machine but the row crop nose gear is not bullet proof.
I was crossing a small river one day to cultivate a corn field on the other side and snapped of the front wheels off on a submerged rock. We raised the front up out of the river with a Ford N hitch, drug it up on shore and installed a new spindle which was readily available from the local Farmall dealer as these things did break now and then.
That nose gear system was slightly under designed as is the RV unit.
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Old 05-18-2007, 08:37 AM
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Never had a problem and never really thought about it. Maybe I should put the little wheels in back like on my RV-6.
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Old 05-20-2007, 08:59 PM
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Default small building garage

If you build the shop, small, put a good ladder up to solid rafters and store up there, too. It's not square feet. It's cube feet.
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Old 05-21-2007, 03:59 AM
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Default I agree with go as big as you can

I built a 20' x 24' off of the back of my existing garage and stopped at 24' only because I was at the lot line.
I have an open ceiling and used 2"x8"'s for ceiling joists for eventually putting parts of the plane up there. I'm fairly happy with this size (easy to heat)..
Make sure you plan for your paint booth size to take up some of your build area if you are going to put a paint booth in. I did.(3'x9')
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