tcreeley
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If you don't want to push it over, cut it into pieces with a chainsaw and lousy old chain. Avoid the nails if you can. Do an end, then the other end. Then it will be ready to fold and go down.
DEMOLITION -- Am I CRAZY to do this??
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mapper
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See recent thread on transporting propane grills safely, potential here to remove all of the siding in about a tenth of a second. Just make sure your ignition device lets you stand wayyyyyy back
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If pulling the nails out of the siding isn't easy, cut the siding along the studs with a sawzall or circular saw, and remove in pieces. Someone else said to chain it high and pull. Can you get to the end of the ridge board and pull it from there? Or maybe from the top of the wall at a corner. Be safe how ever you do it. Jon
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See recent thread on transporting propane grills safely, potential here to remove all of the siding in about a tenth of a second. Just make sure your ignition device lets you stand wayyyyyy back
Grrreat idea. Have a cheapo grill inside and put a 10' wick through the wall. Light it and scurry away. It will just be picking up pieces after that. I think I am gpoing to build a shed and try that.
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Probably going to be more work than it seems it would be to demo it. I tore down an old mobile home over a year ago and that thing was a real job.
I think getting it on the ground on its side would be best. Then take a sawsall or chain saw and cut it up. Use pallet forks to load it directly into a trailer to haul it off.
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Explosive destruction would definitely be more fun if nobody lived near the shed. I'm thinking I will use my 3/8 galvanized cable (formerly a zip line cable) and a heavy duty snatch block; run the cable high towards the ridge line in a horizontal U-shape, terminated on one tree, snatch block slung on another tree. Cut a few studs, then "sweep" the cable through it with the tractor pulling from the snatch block. Should go down pretty well I think.
