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.
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