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| What Can Go Wrong?; For Gardeners | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 17 2016, 11:38 AM (112 Views) | |
| Catseye | Sep 17 2016, 11:38 AM Post #1 |
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Pisa-Carp
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See This? Subtract the kid. I have a shed almost exactly like this except with a flat roof. It looks just like an outhouse; I think it was meant for garden tools and so on. It's leaning like this only much worse, cuz somebody didn't fix it like they should've. It's pretty rotten. Mine though seems like it's leaning on a latticework of three deadfall branches, each about the diameter of a grapefruit. I'd like to take it down and then disassemble it and do -- I don't know, something -- with the lumber. I'd welcome your insight into this question: Is it a good idea to lasso the one branch that looks like supporting the greatest weight with a clothesline and, from a distance, pull on it until everything falls down with a great crash? I can't think of anything that can go wrong (i.e. hurt me), but am I not considering something that I should be? Thank you. |
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| Mikhailoh | Sep 17 2016, 11:52 AM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Is it near the unused woods? Just throw the boards back there and let them rot. Or have a bonfire, right there, even better, if you can. Yeah, pulling the support out might work if you can stay clear of the falling shed. I'd put a pulling rope around each of them though. You really don't know which one is holding it up, and once one is gone you don't want to have to get in there again. Might have to pull out all three. |
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| Larry | Sep 17 2016, 12:38 PM Post #3 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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Watch out for the snakes. |
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| Mikhailoh | Sep 17 2016, 12:46 PM Post #4 |
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| Jolly | Sep 17 2016, 01:48 PM Post #5 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Forget about the lumber. It ain't worth it. I priced out the material for a 12x16 the other day. $1500 will about do it. Edited by Jolly, Sep 17 2016, 01:48 PM.
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| Mikhailoh | Sep 17 2016, 01:55 PM Post #6 |
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Yep. You would end more than that in time, money and aggravation trying to make the old wood do something new. |
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| Catseye | Sep 17 2016, 02:17 PM Post #7 |
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Thanks to all of you. Mik: Thanks for the vote of confidence on my idea for disposal, and especially thanks for your suggestion to rope all three branches. I wouldn't have thought of that. Larry: Always. There are snakes around here. A couple of visitors have seen black snakes, one saw what he thought was a mountain rattler, and I moiself once opened up an old apple crate and found one of those snakes that people confuse with a coral snake, which I guess was a scarlet king snake and of course was totally terrifying, coral or no coral. It was a snake, for god's sake. I'm a goil , I don't do that sh!t. Jolly: I have no intention to replace the shed; I just want it gone as an eyesore. When I said 'do something with it' I meant by way of disposal. |
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| Mikhailoh | Sep 17 2016, 03:12 PM Post #8 |
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Fire. |
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| Steve Miller | Sep 18 2016, 05:46 PM Post #9 |
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Bull-Carp
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If you put on Craigslist you may get taken down and hauled Off for free. Designers pay a lot of money for genuine weathered wood like that. |
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Wag more Bark less | |
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| Mikhailoh | Sep 18 2016, 05:54 PM Post #10 |
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Very true. I hate the stuff, myself. |
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| Catseye | Sep 18 2016, 06:01 PM Post #11 |
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Pisa-Carp
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Wow, great idea, Steve. Thanks! The wood may be too poor, but I'll look at it with that in mind.
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