After getting the storage trailer about 95% done I had to turn my attention towards the old shed. I had already pulled the door loose and used most of the plywood and 2x4's for shelving in the trailer. Since I want to get to the point where I no longer have to worry about trimming grass around the shed or worry about the ole lady having to go around the whole site when cutting grass on the lawn tractor I decided to tackle this little job swiftly.
A sledgehammer made quick work of the OSB plywood walls, knocking them loose pretty easily. All of these went onto the burn pile as they were broken and jacked up along the bottoms and of course since I did use a sledgehammer, most of the boards didn't exactly come out, well, intact. With the plywood gone, I was able to actually able to rock the whole frame with the roof assembly on top helping me out. A little rocking finally weakened the joints enough to make the whole thing just fall over, almost perfectly with no real damage to any of the 2x4's. With the shed officially down, I went ahead and started breaking everything up, using a small sledgehammer and a crowbar. Since the shed was built using nails, it was actually easier than if we had used wood screws to assemble the thing. First the studded walls were broken down, then the roof was stripped of the sheet metal then OSB (of which two sheets were salvagable), then the roof frame was broken down. Lastly the base was broken down into the individual 2x10 boards and 2x4s that held them. The cinderblocks that the shed sat on actually came in handy as supports for the front of the trailer under the hitch. With the actual shed fully broken down and all salvageable materials staged by the storage trailer, the next thing was removing all of the shit that was stored around the old shed. This included buckets and drums and bulk PVC pipe ranging from small pipes up to 6" pipes. An old storm door from the house and a metal shelf were also moved. A couple of aquariums were staged among the appliances that were removed from the camper trailer as we will most likely end up selling those things for cheap just to move them. In the mean time I raked up a bunch of pine needles that were accumulated on the shed's roof but swept aside prior to disassembly. These pine needle bundles were stuffed under the scrap wood/brush pile and doused with old motor oil and the whole mess was fired as I moved stuff from the old shed site. Some old buckets and a plastic crawfish trap were thrown on the fire as they were sun rotted and no longer viable. With the site finally cleared of everything that was around the shed we can now move on to the next stage, which is using the salvaged materials from the shed, as well as figuring what to do with the buckets and drums that were stored behind the shed. The plastic drums are to be used to build a water collection setup that will be connected to the drain line that I currently routed out from the side of the house after we remodeled the bathroom and installed a walk-in shower in place of the old bathtub.
I've already cooked up some future plans, immediate in fact, for the materials salvaged from the old shed. I've been looking at remaking the fuel storage shed in another spot that is more behind the storage trailer, in the old dog yard area. Currently in order to get to the fuel shed I have to walk all the way around and behind the garden. I plan on building the shed in the old dog yard area after removing the section of fence that is behind the storage trailer going from the driveway to the garden. This will allow us to be able to walk straight to the fuel shed. Of course I have other plans for the whole dog yard area, including moving the portable garage over there and staging a mini scrap/junk yard. There's many great plans for that area, but first, we have to clean the area up....
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