TractorJeff
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Yes, the old saw guy where I used to buy my chains had carbide tooth chain. Made me up one for cutting stump roots. Price at the time wasn't bad!
garage destruction
- Thread starter Kaizen
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First day down. Really only six actual working hours before I was spent. Because I have a wood floor I don’t think I will have enough room in the thirty yard dumpster I got. Whole roof nicely stacked is less then half. Half of the roof was plywood. The other half was 4/4 pine sheathing. Such a difference in weight!!
Plan of pulling it in was modified. I cut the first square at the ridge and pushed that out. Relatively went well. No injuries.
Yes all solo.
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Plan of pulling it in was modified. I cut the first square at the ridge and pushed that out. Relatively went well. No injuries.
Yes all solo.
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Second day I was still beat. Got two walls down and in the container
Third day it was pouring but ended up getting the last down. Fourth I started work on the floor. Still was hurting and it was not cooperating. They were 2.5 inch thick and nailed in with five inch nails. The substructure broke as I pried and I knew I was almost out of container room. Ended up making cuts in the bays and making a seesaw to get pieces out.
Packed as much as I could in the dumpster as the price per extra ton was half what my town dump costs.
Approximately 100 vs 200. Total weight was 3.58 tons. So about 625. If I take to dump probably another 200.
Call it about 900 and about 15 man hours. Four guys could probably do it in a day.
This garage was different then modern structures. Actually had 4x4 sheathing, then clapboards, then ply and some vinyl. So for a similar modern built the weight would be much less.
Spent about 60 bucks in sawzall demo blades. I was not impressed with the higher cost Milwaukee brand. Only lasted a little longer. Surprisingly both brands kind of turned to junk if I hit a nail.
Going to see how the rest burns. Some had lots of oil from 100 years of drips. Wish I could have got it up in one piece. Super dense old growth. Heavy like a sipping wet new pt board.
Hope this helps someone in the future.
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Third day it was pouring but ended up getting the last down. Fourth I started work on the floor. Still was hurting and it was not cooperating. They were 2.5 inch thick and nailed in with five inch nails. The substructure broke as I pried and I knew I was almost out of container room. Ended up making cuts in the bays and making a seesaw to get pieces out.
Packed as much as I could in the dumpster as the price per extra ton was half what my town dump costs.
Approximately 100 vs 200. Total weight was 3.58 tons. So about 625. If I take to dump probably another 200.
Call it about 900 and about 15 man hours. Four guys could probably do it in a day.
This garage was different then modern structures. Actually had 4x4 sheathing, then clapboards, then ply and some vinyl. So for a similar modern built the weight would be much less.
Spent about 60 bucks in sawzall demo blades. I was not impressed with the higher cost Milwaukee brand. Only lasted a little longer. Surprisingly both brands kind of turned to junk if I hit a nail.
Going to see how the rest burns. Some had lots of oil from 100 years of drips. Wish I could have got it up in one piece. Super dense old growth. Heavy like a sipping wet new pt board.
Hope this helps someone in the future.
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couch67
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wow nice job Kaizen. That looks like a big job for one person. On the bright side of it raining, would help keep the dust down when tearing up that floor. God knows what those floor boards have seen in 80+ years!
Yea not to mention the dirt under them. Thousands of animals over the years. God knows what kind of microbes are in it.
It was cool finding things as I took it apart. Found a shipping label in the back of one piece from 1935 from a Boston fish distributor. Looks like they used the shipping crate for interior walls. Saved some stuff for the new garage wall art.
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larry4406
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Now quickly build new on the same footprint!