Sodo
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- Joined
- Apr 21, 2012
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- Location
- Cascade Mtns of WA state
- Tractor
- Kubota B-series & Mini Excavator
Bought a rental house and it has a garden shed in the back40. I'm going to build a lean-to on it and park a vehicle there (out of the seattle rain which has come with a vengeance).
Funny thing is it's been sitting on firewood, on the dirt, for 25 years at least. Basically I know the elderly folks that lived there would be the ones who put firewood under it and I KNOW they were unable to do such a feat of engineering in the last 15 years so I'm guessing 25.
I had it all planned out to lift it with the tractor but apparently it weighs more than 900 lbs! (wet). It I shoveled the moss of the roof that might help but this little floor jack does the deed. Won't shovel the roof off until I get the new roofing onsite.
Notice there is no rim joist, and each floor joist has its own pierblock, which some are concrete, but as the outside blocks pressed into the dirt were replaced with firewood as accessible.
I'm going to put it on three 6x8s. Hopefully done this afternoon. Feel like I'm polishing a turd, but I need to get a vehicle out of the rain and this is the quickest way to get a little shed.
Funny thing is it's been sitting on firewood, on the dirt, for 25 years at least. Basically I know the elderly folks that lived there would be the ones who put firewood under it and I KNOW they were unable to do such a feat of engineering in the last 15 years so I'm guessing 25.
I had it all planned out to lift it with the tractor but apparently it weighs more than 900 lbs! (wet). It I shoveled the moss of the roof that might help but this little floor jack does the deed. Won't shovel the roof off until I get the new roofing onsite.
Notice there is no rim joist, and each floor joist has its own pierblock, which some are concrete, but as the outside blocks pressed into the dirt were replaced with firewood as accessible.
I'm going to put it on three 6x8s. Hopefully done this afternoon. Feel like I'm polishing a turd, but I need to get a vehicle out of the rain and this is the quickest way to get a little shed.