At this point in time I've managed to put together several oil buckets with which to stack on top of the shelf of the fuel shed. Of course I didn't have enough old motor oil to use to fill the buckets all the way like I wanted to so I had to cut the oil with the old gas that I pulled from the regular gas drum in the old fuel shed. The last few gallons had a lot of sediment and trash in it that I wasn't going to put into any of the vehicles let alone in a piece of powered equipment. I ended up also changing the oil on the ole lady's vehicle so I can get another jug of oil available for the drums. I ended up having to partially fill three of the five buckets with an old oil/gas mixture. The gas would help soak further into the wood than the oil would by itself. I have one bucket that I couldn't put any oil in but I did put some of the old gas inside to at least get started on the "treatment" of the wood. I did put the buckets in place on the shelf just to put everything to use as intended.
I did have an idea about the siding on the shed, based on what I seen on a video regarding a small survival cabin. The idea involves using pallet boards to make a form of siding, tacked onto the stud walls in an overlapping manner to look like traditional siding. This idea appealed to me based on the idea that I still have a shitload of old pallets stacked up in the back end of the lot that I can salvage the boards from. This would actually kill two birds with one stone as I can get the fuel shed covered up and use up the old pallets, helping to clear that area prematurely. Since the boards are free the only expense would be for the oversized brad nails for my smaller nailgun, which is pretty cheap, compared to having to buy six full sized plywood boards to cover the shed. With this work done and me at the point where I really can't do much else without buying anything I of course moved to something else. In this case I moved on to removing the fence and cleaning up the yard. I had already started pulling the fence apart from one section in order to open up the yard when I was initially building the fuel shed so I just continued on with pulling the chain link from the three wood posts in the ground. This wasn't really difficult, the hammer made quick work of the U-tacks that held the chain link to the posts. I had to cut one string of the chain link where the fencing met with the garden fence so as to eliminate the difficult task of trying to remove the fence with another fence mated against it. With the sections of chain link pulled free and rolled up I pulled the 3ft high shitty sections of chicken wire fence that was in place before the chain link was put up. This all came down easier than if I had to mess with the garden fence since that fence wasn't planned for removal. With the fence removed all together along with the pipes running along the top of the fence posts I was able to pull the T posts from the ground then use the electric chain saw to cut the wood posts at ground level. A few large weeds also had to go. Lastly I moved the large PVC pipes and other sections of smaller pipes I had stored against the old fence as well as the stacked buckets and drums that were clustered against the garden fence and the old fence. All the buckets and pipes and drums were stored against the wood fence near the fuel shed, at least temporarily. With the whole fence line removed along with the other crap, the area is opened up for further development. On a side note I did have to do a little repair on the S10 as one of the control arms that I recently replaced was defective. The bushings wore out and spun loose in the control arm so there was excessive play in the piece. I ordered a new pair of arms and received them this past Friday. I went ahead and installed the bad arm since it was the bad unit and held the other one in reserve in case the other one decides to go bad as well. A little gathering of some veggies and some general yard cleanup rounded off everything.
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