Some of our friends from the greatest cul-de-sac ever are moving to Farmington, Maine. Although they have tried to convince us to move with them...there is even a volleyball coaching job available, we decided to take their wood shed and wood instead. For all of you that have come to visit in the winter this should be a welcome sight.
After a lot of hard work from Chance the shed is about half full and as you can see, there is still a lot of wood to move. Can't wait for the snow!
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BITE YOUR TONGUE about the snow. Do you remember last winter? Nonstop snow. It lasted forever.Christmas? Snow. New Year's? Snow. The girl's birthdays? Snow. Easter? Snow!
When we put that into position, I knew there was something different about how it should be set up, but couldn't think of it at the time.
Mind you, I think it is probably fine just the way it is. Those ladderframe 2x4s are a little heavier and bigger than standard, and I think they are strong enough to support any concievable load.
But - To make the setup the strongest it can be, the outboard sawhorses should be moved toward the middle by ~ 1 1/2 foot or so.
Try to imagine what it would take to load up the structure to failure - If I were to try to make it happen, I would cut up a suitable amount of railroad rail, into firewood lengths, and stack 'em in there. Would that suffice? I dunno ... Funny how ones intuition on forces and strengths of materials is scant when it gets beyond a human scale, and deteriorates further as the numbers rise. That is why there's 'mechanical engineering' - so that those questions can be answered precisely.
But don't look to me for the analysis -not today anyhow. I'd rather find a nice beach somewhere, to hunker down ... 'shrewdly rip the tops out of 6 or 8 budweisers and smoke off a pack of king Marlboros ... Maybe think a bit! Stomp through tribes of wild sandpeckers, saltsuckers, whorehoppers ... stupid little birds, and here and there a wooly reject, gimping along in the distance ...'
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