Moving a shed
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buckeyefarmer
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Who keeps piling all this stuff on our properties????
I must have 8 old rotors I kept as weights but never used. Old ceiling fans that quit working. Lots of empty boxes. I flatten old cardboard, put them down first then build fire on top so burning cardboard doesn’t fly away. Shed still has scrap lumber inside, leftover shingles, roofing paper.
Outside shed has the parts for a 24ft above ground pool, someone gave it to me , I tore it down and I never put it up. It also has buckets of building sand. Someone gave it to me and I was going to use to mix concrete and never did. The plastic buckets are disintegrating, even though they’ve been out of the sun.
There’s also some old double hung windows, again given to me. Was going to use them when I built my barn, and didn’t. Do you see a pattern?
EddieWalker
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I'm glad that I'm not alone. I built a shed last year to put everything that I've been storing next to my shop, and I think I threw more of it away then I kept. Some of what I was saving really made me wonder about my brain!!!!
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Having been retired 10 years I have more time to spend on not so critical projects. So I finally get around to using that "thing" I saved 20 years ago.
I think in retirement I am at about 50%. 50% of those "things" I will use. 50% never. Before retirement years it was more like 20% use, 80% never.
I had an unprecedented opportunity to cull things 3 years ago when I moved off a property I had owned and lived on for 40 years.
So that might also contribute to my 50% success rate now....
I think in retirement I am at about 50%. 50% of those "things" I will use. 50% never. Before retirement years it was more like 20% use, 80% never.
I had an unprecedented opportunity to cull things 3 years ago when I moved off a property I had owned and lived on for 40 years.
So that might also contribute to my 50% success rate now....
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Speaking of seeing a building move being entertaining:
We have lots of Amish around here--LOTS!!
There was an operating Amish sawmill shed on the south side of a rural gravel road, couple miles from here. It was probably 30' by 50'
I don't know why it became imperative that it be moved to the NORTH side of the road, but it was.
Those industrious fellas nailed grab bars all around the interior, about knee high, as well as a couple across the 30' foot dimension, braced to the roof, I guess.
A friend came upon them on moving day. Seems that on a signal, about a hundred of these guys bent down, picked up the building and moved it 20 feet or so, then set it down to rest and re-aim. All my buddy could see is 200 legs and feet sticking out under the sidewall, walking across the field, across the road, into the driveway and onto the new location. When they rested, not a one of them was visible, just when they lifted and moved. He said it looked funny as all get out.
I didn't see any of this, only the former location that had a shed, then the empty space on the south side after the move, and the shed in its new location.
The sawmill is operating to this day.
We have lots of Amish around here--LOTS!!
There was an operating Amish sawmill shed on the south side of a rural gravel road, couple miles from here. It was probably 30' by 50'
I don't know why it became imperative that it be moved to the NORTH side of the road, but it was.
Those industrious fellas nailed grab bars all around the interior, about knee high, as well as a couple across the 30' foot dimension, braced to the roof, I guess.
A friend came upon them on moving day. Seems that on a signal, about a hundred of these guys bent down, picked up the building and moved it 20 feet or so, then set it down to rest and re-aim. All my buddy could see is 200 legs and feet sticking out under the sidewall, walking across the field, across the road, into the driveway and onto the new location. When they rested, not a one of them was visible, just when they lifted and moved. He said it looked funny as all get out.
I didn't see any of this, only the former location that had a shed, then the empty space on the south side after the move, and the shed in its new location.
The sawmill is operating to this day.
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buckeyefarmer
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What to do with 32 buckets of sand.
Build a sandbox?