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buckeyefarmer
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Wow, hope that wasn’t the final place for the barn, it wasn’t even level.
Moving a shed
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Wow, hope that wasn’t the final place for the barn, it wasn’t even level.
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You could set it down a little out of level then dig new tube footings next to each 6x6. Block the barn up to level it. After footings dry, place new 6x6 inside of the existing barn wall’s 6x6’s and bolt them to each other with several 3/4” bolts. I did this on another barn I rescued back in 2012. All the 4x6 posts rotted off and the barn was lying on its side walls. I lifted it onto blocks until all walls were level again, then sistered new 6x6’s inside on new footings.
Worked out very well. Used a backhoe FEL curl function to lift and level barn. Not as big as the one the Amish moved. Maybe about 1/3 that size.
Worked out very well. Used a backhoe FEL curl function to lift and level barn. Not as big as the one the Amish moved. Maybe about 1/3 that size.
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I've never seen anything like that. It was very impressive!!!
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I bet a crane company quoted an insane price with multiple cranes and multiple semis and a very long prep and execution timeline. The Amish were having a family reunion and took 30 minutes out of their day to get er done!
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It's a little harder to see, but there was an insane amount of money spent on that move. Then add in the fact that every Amish family for miles around were zero productive that day and made no income. But then maybe the contractor paid each man a handsome sum to participate? In that case the insane price level was met.
Amish don't think outside the box. They can't. They are stuck inside the box with little resources beyond the grip of their hand.
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Little more cleaned out this weekend. More frozen firewood out of the old woodshed so it can thaw.. Burned more scrap wood tonight.
Found a few more t posts I didn’t know I had.
Found a few more t posts I didn’t know I had.
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You don't have as much snow on the ground as I thought you would. How are you missing the storms roaring into the NE???
Is the one coming mid week going to hit you? It's gonna slide by me to the South.
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Last one was south east of us. We got a dusting. This week we are getting rain , supposed to warm up to 50s Thursday, then temps drop to teens again Saturday as the rain ends.
We still have some ice from a few weeks back in shady areas.
Today got to 33°, so I got a stack of pallets out of the open shed while ground is still frozen.
I burned more junk wood last night.
Today was trash day, a few bags of trash disappeared.
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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?
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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?
