What did you do with your weekend?

So i bought this shed. I got a good deal so i really couldnt pass it up. The only problem. its 10x20 feet. it weighs a ton. Well, actually it weighs almost two tons. The guy I that was paid to drop it “on the spot” didn’t, (as you can see from the picture above). It rested 100 feet from where it needed to be. Which by the way is way back in the woods on a level spot I created. It was dropped off about 2 weeks ago. I couldn’t sleep the first night it was there. I have neighbors you know. I felt like Homer Simpson. Im the guy bringing down the property values. You know its bad when all your neigbors are like… “can I help you with that” Which was fine and all except one guy was holding a gasoline can when he asked me. (whats that about?)

The first thing we did was use a block and tackle with 2 pullies on each side. We hooked up a 1,500 lbs winch. By my math that increases the work by 4X so theoretically we could pull 6,000 lbs. Our problem, too much strech in the line. We would pull in 25 feet of winch cable and only move the shead 4 inches. Then you would have to release and reset. When we hooked it up to the truck instead it just snapped stuff. We moved it 2 feet over 4 hours.

I knew that we needed beefier equipment. A static rope or a chain. So we borrowed a big ass pully. I mean 18 inches in diamiter and 7 inches wide big. It claimed to be rated for 8000 lbs safe working load. We also got a big rope, supposedly good for 25,000 lbs. I was like, “perfect.” I figured we could hang the thing from a tree 10 feet off the ground if we wanted to with this stuff.
The progress pictures follow.



you can see that it moved in relation to the basketball hoop and the green patch where it rested.



You cant get good help. Rich and my father playing in the snow.

There was lots of digging, jacking, adjusting of PVCs, you can see how much fun it was.


you can see the yellow rope in the foreground, it goes left up to a pully that is slung around a tree and then back down to the shed.



That’s charles, (my neighbor), and his rhino. He had a 3000 lbs winch on the front of his machine that we used to steer the back end of the shed around trees and so forth. Our biggest struggle was that the shed was 10 feet wide and we had 12 feet total between obstacles. We could not have gotten this done without charles.

In the immediate foreground is the leveled QP pad that rich and I constructed. I taught myself how to run a backhoe. Its not intuitive.


my father jacking things up and contemplating PVC.



7 hours after we began, the shed is in the background in its final resting spot. Rich and my brother discuss what excuses they will use next time I call and ask them for a hand.

Spamalot

how romantical.

We went in to the city to see Spamalot tonight. I would recomend it highly.
"Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony." Dennis



Pa and tater.

Banff - Canada

Tracy ... what a ham.

remember, you can click on any picture to blow it up.



The back of Lake Louise. The back reminds me of Snowbird more than Vail.


I'm the one in the yellow.


our travel buddies, julie and pete.