$83 !?!?!?!?

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Re: $83 !?!?!?!?

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Last Spring I built an extended "shed" off the side of my Garage/Shop to keep my new Kubota tractor covered.
I just came across the costs again, and it was $2500 for the entire build.
All screws with plywood roof and walls, treated posts, metal siding and roof. Not cheap, but the tractor cost much more...
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Nice one, Russ. Good idea with the cement footings. I couldn't do that with mine.
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Thanks Greg.
Added challenge was doing that by myself while recovering from shoulder surgery.
"If I can make steam locomotives, I can make a shed."
''Used some creative lifting and positioning methods. Physics is good.
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NP317 wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2023 1:18 am Thanks Greg.
Added challenge was doing that by myself while recovering from shoulder surgery.
"If I can make steam locomotives, I can make a shed."
''Used some creative lifting and positioning methods. Physics is good.
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I get that. My shoulder is bad but no surgery. The plywood weighed 60 lbs. per sheet. Isn't it fun to try to hold it in place and fasten it at the same time? Thanks to whoever invented deck screws. Below is a photo of the old shed. What doesn't show is the lean to the left caused by the termites eating the supporting 4x4s. Also what doesn't show well is that on the wall to the far left there is a line of oleander right up against the shed that can't be trimmed as they are there to hide the shed from the house. The second photo shows the octopus of impediments around the old well that were grabbing at my feet any time I moved through there. There was an abundance of Navy language on this. As Mark Twain said, "Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."

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Yea, it was time for a rebuild.
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Last time I used my town's transfer site oh, maybe 8 years ago, the minimum charge was CDN$ 10.

And I objected to that strenuously.

Now I take things apart and break it up if necessary, and put it in the picked-up garbage.
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We're allowed to burn brush and collected vegetation when fire risk is low.
Permit is available over the phone from the regional fire department.

I don't know if it's allowed to burn used timber on the pile; but no one told me it isn't.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=35j_kWEJI6U

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The problem with burning used lumber is you don't know for sure what kind of treatment or paint it might have on it. Toxic fumes and contaminating ground water are possibilities.
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