Cleaning out dads machine shed
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Topic: Cleaning out dads machine shed
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Subject: Cleaning out dads machine shed
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2021 at 8:34pm
| Started the actual cleaning out this morning. About 9:00 the man showed up with a dumpster. It was about 1/2 the size I wanted. But it was the only one I could find. Shed is full of junk. Mom and dad were children of the depression. So they saved lots of stuff. Amish crew is coming later in the week to tear it down and move it. Lots of wood been in there 30+ years, rotting in place. No the roof don't leak. A lot of this stuff was dumped by others. Older sister and I got it about half done, stopped at 1:00 this afternoon, she was afraid I'd have a heat stroke and I was afraid she would. After all she's 4 years older than me. We decided to burn all the wood that doesn't have nails or some other sort of metal attached. If we do that we should have plenty of room in this small dumpster. I think the guy said it was a 20 yard box. Grand son said he'd help tomorrow as older sister has to head back to St Paul tomorrow. If we can get started by 8:00 am we should be able to get it done tomorrow. Guy showed up with the cat to build the new crick crossing too. That will be a huge improvement, |
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Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2021 at 9:57pm
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Even though it is a chore... it can be fun to get it done. ------------- Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2021 at 6:07am
| Be careful today is sposed to be hotter. Woke up to 74 degrees and the windows are fogged over |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 26 Aug 2021 at 4:57pm
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A friend had an excavator come out, dug a hole, and pushed his old barn in to it, then covered it over. Quickest easiest way to take care of it. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 26 Aug 2021 at 8:17pm
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Dad and mom's barn was like that. Lots of old scrap wood and everything under the sun was in there. Must have been 50 five gallon plastic buckets too. I made a burn pile, keep pile and scrap metal pile. The burn pile was over my head by the time I torched it. Took all week. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 26 Aug 2021 at 10:27pm
I spent 5 days cleaning this out, finished at noon yesterday. Amish guys started tearing it down today. Its going to the neighbors farm.
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Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2021 at 8:45pm
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I know the feeling. My mother in law sold her house and she was a pack rat at minimum. We filled a 20 yard dumpster several times... ------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |