Need shed removed

Kamper · 04-14-2024, 06:39 AM

I'm glad OP got this handled. Doing demo can be fun, but challenging.

When I moved in 20 years ago, I 'inherited' a tottering 8X8 tool shed. I added a bit of reinforcement and used it until last year when I tore it down and had Reed's Ferry build me a small barn.

I guess I did a better job than I thought because I borrowed a bucket loader to knock down the old shed. All I accomplished was to push it around. I had to take a sawzall and cut in from the corners to weaken it enough to give in to some more hits.

upthesaukee · 04-14-2024, 08:38 AM

My Dad bought a "Sears & Roebuck" 8X12 metal storage shed back in the mid 1980s to store tools and provide cover for other items. It served us faithfully for just over 30 years. Its demise was not caused by the roof giving out, it was the very bottom of the structure that eventually rusted out. It ended up being my woodshed that would hold 5 cords of wood. Even with that, when it came time to remove the shed, I had to go out and buy a "saws-all" to cut it down and haul it off to the dump (or landfill or transfer station or whatever they call it these days).

I think we got our money's worth out of it.

Dave

Biggd · 04-14-2024, 02:29 PM

I'm in the process of building a new 10X14 shed. I have an older poorly home built 10X12 shed which I was going to tear down, but I decided instead to spruce it up and make it into a woodshed.

04-14-2024, 08:38 AM	#2
upthesaukee Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alton Bay Posts: 5,604 Blog Entries: 2 Thanks: 2,470 Thanked 1,983 Times in 1,083 Posts	Sears Shed My Dad bought a "Sears & Roebuck" 8X12 metal storage shed back in the mid 1980s to store tools and provide cover for other items. It served us faithfully for just over 30 years. Its demise was not caused by the roof giving out, it was the very bottom of the structure that eventually rusted out. It ended up being my woodshed that would hold 5 cords of wood. Even with that, when it came time to remove the shed, I had to go out and buy a "saws-all" to cut it down and haul it off to the dump (or landfill or transfer station or whatever they call it these days). I think we got our money's worth out of it. Dave __________________ I Live Here... I am always UPTHESAUKEE !!!!

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04-14-2024, 06:39 AM	#1
Kamper Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Thornton's Ferry Posts: 1,309 Thanks: 67 Thanked 172 Times in 128 Posts	I'm glad OP got this handled. Doing demo can be fun, but challenging. When I moved in 20 years ago, I 'inherited' a tottering 8X8 tool shed. I added a bit of reinforcement and used it until last year when I tore it down and had Reed's Ferry build me a small barn. I guess I did a better job than I thought because I borrowed a bucket loader to knock down the old shed. All I accomplished was to push it around. I had to take a sawzall and cut in from the corners to weaken it enough to give in to some more hits.

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04-14-2024, 02:29 PM	#3
Biggd Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2016 Location: Waltham Ma./Meredith NH Posts: 4,192 Thanks: 2,268 Thanked 1,217 Times in 776 Posts	I'm in the process of building a new 10X14 shed. I have an older poorly home built 10X12 shed which I was going to tear down, but I decided instead to spruce it up and make it into a woodshed.