As we painfully remember, my 30' x 40' tent collapsed in the winter of 2012. Since then I have been cobbling together little shelters and dreaming about a new garage. Well last week my dream sort of came true.
My neighbour had a garage that didn't have a building permit and well, it had to go. This was a two bay garage measuring 24 feet wide and 32 feet deep. All I had to do was move it!
The week of Sept 24th was looking good. Clear, warm with no rain in the forecast. My friend Mic agreed to give me a hand along with a few others as they had time.
I was up bright and early on the Thursday morning, up on the roof taking the shingles off. I got 1/2 of the roof done when Mic showed up. A few moments later Blaze made it and together we got all the shingles off and 7/8 of the aspenite sheets off. These were particularly difficult to get off because the nails tended to pull through and we had to use levers and prybars to get the sheeting up without splitting it. By 4 PM we were done for the day. Blaze and I had gone back to get his hay wagon. The wagon is ten feet wide and twenty feet long and the plan is to load the sheeting, trusses and walls on it for transport.
Friday morning I was back at it early. I got most of the sheeting off the roof and onto the ground before Mic showed up and Charles and Jack came to help. We got the rest of the sheeting off the roof and started to remove the trusses. First the soffets had to come off though which Jack was a master at. Once Mic removed the lumber joining the trusses together we knocked the nails out where the trusses were attached to the walls. Like a row of dominos, they all tumbled against one another. Mic and I pulled them, one by one, and as they flipped over Charles and Jack grabbed them and loaded them onto the wagon. With the wagon full took the roof materials away.
No one was available on the weekend so next Monday we were back at it. Mic, Blaze and Dave joined me as we took the walls down. First came the front. I had changed the forks onto the tractor and they just fit between the seperator between the two front doors. I lifted and pulled back with the trailer while Mic used the sledge to knock out the front. In no time at all I had the front of the garage on to the wagon. That worked well!
With the rest of the guys there I decided that at 32 feet, the side walls were too long to load on the wagon and, more importantly, too heavy to lift. I used a dull blade on the chainsaw and cut the sidewalls in two. Using the tractor to balance the wall, we pried them off the concrete base and dropped them onto the garage floor. With the tractor holding one end and 3 guys on the other we backed the walls out and loaded them on the wagon. I was ready to quit with half the walls down but the mantra, "We have the guys so do it now" kept getting repeated so we took down both side walls and the back as well.
Finally with the garage totally down and the wagon fully loaded we headed out. What a day!
My neighbour had a garage that didn't have a building permit and well, it had to go. This was a two bay garage measuring 24 feet wide and 32 feet deep. All I had to do was move it!
The week of Sept 24th was looking good. Clear, warm with no rain in the forecast. My friend Mic agreed to give me a hand along with a few others as they had time.
I was up bright and early on the Thursday morning, up on the roof taking the shingles off. I got 1/2 of the roof done when Mic showed up. A few moments later Blaze made it and together we got all the shingles off and 7/8 of the aspenite sheets off. These were particularly difficult to get off because the nails tended to pull through and we had to use levers and prybars to get the sheeting up without splitting it. By 4 PM we were done for the day. Blaze and I had gone back to get his hay wagon. The wagon is ten feet wide and twenty feet long and the plan is to load the sheeting, trusses and walls on it for transport.
Friday morning I was back at it early. I got most of the sheeting off the roof and onto the ground before Mic showed up and Charles and Jack came to help. We got the rest of the sheeting off the roof and started to remove the trusses. First the soffets had to come off though which Jack was a master at. Once Mic removed the lumber joining the trusses together we knocked the nails out where the trusses were attached to the walls. Like a row of dominos, they all tumbled against one another. Mic and I pulled them, one by one, and as they flipped over Charles and Jack grabbed them and loaded them onto the wagon. With the wagon full took the roof materials away.
No one was available on the weekend so next Monday we were back at it. Mic, Blaze and Dave joined me as we took the walls down. First came the front. I had changed the forks onto the tractor and they just fit between the seperator between the two front doors. I lifted and pulled back with the trailer while Mic used the sledge to knock out the front. In no time at all I had the front of the garage on to the wagon. That worked well!
With the rest of the guys there I decided that at 32 feet, the side walls were too long to load on the wagon and, more importantly, too heavy to lift. I used a dull blade on the chainsaw and cut the sidewalls in two. Using the tractor to balance the wall, we pried them off the concrete base and dropped them onto the garage floor. With the tractor holding one end and 3 guys on the other we backed the walls out and loaded them on the wagon. I was ready to quit with half the walls down but the mantra, "We have the guys so do it now" kept getting repeated so we took down both side walls and the back as well.
Finally with the garage totally down and the wagon fully loaded we headed out. What a day!
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