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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> Concrete work can easily be done a little at a time with one man.

Absolutely. Although better with one woman, one man. The floor of our 
shed, about sixteen by twenty, has a concrete floor made in four by 
four sections. Chris mixed the concrete, I poured it onto tamped and 
soaked gravel base, screeded and then finished it. One square at a 
time. It was later backed onto by the concrete block delivery truck. 
Not one single crack. Twenty years later, still no cracks. TVO, 
dammit, you hear me?, concrete does NOT have to crack!

> By stick-built walls you don't mean one stud at a time, do you?

No, I mean it as putting a wall together on the slab or deck, one 
stick at a time, then lifting the frame.

> Up here they've been 2x6s for a couple decades.

For space that will be conditioned I would always use at least two by 
sixes. By the way, I have recently been working my way through my old 
Fine Homebuilding magazines and reread the article by Canadian 
engineer Joe Lstiburek, the guy who is given credit for air-tight 
design, and in that article he shows how studs on twenty-four inch 
spacing plus using a single top plate and single header over doors 
and windows is sound construction and saves money and time.

>  Installing said sheathing afterward isn't bad at ground level but 
> on ladders or scaffolding can be a pain in more places than your butt.

Yeah, for solo building lower is far safer and easier. For my next 
project after the metal shop building I will likely use an Amish crew 
to frame and sheath the level above the wood shop below. Did I 
mention that I don't do well with heights? Falling is how I died last 
time and I have still not worked my way through it.

> Roof trusses aren't all that heavy . . . Oh, maybe we have a crane 
> also? Or a backhoe! that's it, we have a backhoe don't we Gene?:)

The backhoe makes me feel like Superbuilder. I haven't used it so far 
for serious lifting but it won't be long.

> Same with drywall, pain in the butt for one man without a jack, 
> especially ceilings.

I sheetrocked one house. It was my first and last.