Last week I actually signed on the building, but there was a little scare with planning and zoning that we finally got resolved today, so I decided to post the details on my pending building. I had planned on waiting until I had my building up, and then post in the pictures section, but the suspense is killing me, and I had to add mine to the list of pending projects. :) I'm not acutally in the schedule until Mar/April time frame of 2006! That's how far out Morton is in this area. The fact that I have to wait though, isn't an all bad thing. I have a LOT of land to clear AND level (I've included some of the pics of the current site).

I'm mainly building it to store my fifth wheel, and my dad's fifth wheel, and have a TON of extra room for a wood shop (seperate area), and a metal shop, and whatever else I can dream up.

Morton Building series 100
Ivory or Beige / Burgundy trim and roof
42' x 72' x 14'
1 - 20' x 14' SINGLE sliding door (metal framed)
1 - 10' x 10' roll-up
1 - 36" walk door
4 - Skylites on a staggered pattern
NO insulation. It does get cold here, but I'll have the main area that I'll be in when it's cold insulated well. That saves me having to insulate the whole building.
May still be adding a window and a eyebrow over the door area. Haven't yet decided.

I'll do the concrete and wiring after the fact.

Here's some pics of the current site. You can't really tell a lot from these pics because it looks mostly like a forest and ragweed patch, which it mostly is, but this is what we have to clear off. There's around 40 trees that need to come down, mostly elm trees, and some hedge trees. Then we have to scrape off somewhere around 2'-3' of dirt to get the site level.

It's gonna be a long hard winter. I can tell already. ):h

Darrin

Sounds great.
Get the site preparation information from Morton. I believe it is in the owner's manual which they should provide for you so you can properly prep the site to make certain you don't violate any of the high wind warranty stipulations. We cut into the earth and built up soil to basically make a sloped area flat for my building, and we had to compact the earth with a big "sheep's foot" compactor. My excavation contractor understood all that because he does commercial work, but frankly it was foreign language to me at the time. Since you'll be building on "disturbed" soil, you'll need to do this.
I left a good 15 ft flat perimeter around the whole building and much of it has gravel so I can drive around all sides. It also was mandated in the manual so Morton could easily and safely erect the building.
Looks like you'll have some more firewood ):h
Jim

Sounds great.
Get the site preparation information from Morton. I believe it is in the owner's manual which they should provide for you so you can properly prep the site to make certain you don't violate any of the high wind warranty stipulations. We cut into the earth and built up soil to basically make a sloped area flat for my building, and we had to compact the earth with a big "sheep's foot" compactor. My excavation contractor understood all that because he does commercial work, but frankly it was foreign language to me at the time. Since you'll be building on "disturbed" soil, you'll need to do this.
I left a good 15 ft flat perimeter around the whole building and much of it has gravel so I can drive around all sides. It also was mandated in the manual so Morton could easily and safely erect the building.
Looks like you'll have some more firewood ):h
Jim

You're killing me on the firewood thing!!! ):h I've got plenty, but you can never have too much!!!

I did get that site prep paper from Morton, and I plan on having all of the levelling done by a local professional contractor. I have access to some big equipment that we're going to use to take the trees out with, but I don't have a transom and the goodies to make sure that babies level.

My wind warranty had better not be an issue. My building will be COMPLETELY surrounded by trees on three sides. The east side is the only side that will have exposure, and the wind hardly ever blows from the east here, and typically when it does, it means something bad is going to happen like a tornado. Wind doesn't much matter at that point.

I'm also taking your advice from another post, and working my butt off to get my site prepped early. I'll call them when I'm ready, and hopefully I can get moved up on the list...
Darrin

Darrin, the other thing they will want is plenty of room to come in the the big tractor trailer and unload components all over the place. Since I had a huge former horse pasture which he could drive through with the big truck, they loved my location. The equipment they have is really impressive, I hope they have the same for you and you get to watch. They unhook the tractor from the trailer, then the tractor converts into a material handler fork lift with big forks that unfold out the back past the tandem dualies of the tractor, and they drive in reverse up to the sides of the trailer and unload the various components and drop them all over in piles. Then the construction crew uses their tractor with front end loader which has fork tines and they pick up what they need and move it into position. You can tell they have done this before!
I know they can work with less space, but they love having lots.
Good luck,
Jim

Darrin, the other thing they will want is plenty of room to come in the the big tractor trailer and unload components all over the place. ....

Yeah, I saw those requirements on the sheet. When we talked about it, my salesman kind of looked the other way. I'm hoping that doesn't become an issue. I'm glad that you clued me in on the unloading. I'll have to make sure that I'm here for that!!!

Darrin