However, we already knew that!
Allegedly all of that lumber weighed a thousand pounds. I don't know, I threw it around pretty easily, but I needed to make three stacks against the back fence. Once it was maybe 2 feet tall it started tipping.
I guess the ground was too uneven and\or inconsistent under the cinder blocks.
I also pulled out a bag and a half of gravel, a couple bags of fertilizer, our old computer desk hutch, and my old loft bed frame--oh, also 5 bags of concrete.
The thing is, it was supposed to snow, so I spent a while covering everything with tarps, and weighing those down with bricks.
We had the lightest dusting!
I drove the digging bar further and tried to move the significantly-emptier shed again, but:
- The rope slid off the front-right corner and was squeezing its way between the shed and the roller.
- I put the rope around the bottom of the shed and it started splitting the wood!
- The shed came off the back left roller.
Hopefully putting all four corners back on rollers would have made the difference, but I feel that I need for the ground to be frozen, and it was much warmer than before.
I absolutely need to fix my Civic, but I was trying to think of any solution besides parking a Honda back there.
I bought a farm jack.
I work during the day, make sure that my brother has dinner, and go out once or twice a week around 6, when it is getting dark. I didn't realize that it slid off the roller until tonight, so I jacked up the corner, and tried to roll the fencepost underneath, but the ground was higher, which I felt could be a problem, so I dug it out, although it was surprisingly soft.
However, I couldn't figure out how to lower the shed. I couldn't find the tag that came with it, so I looked for directions on-line. I wasted my time with videos, which didn't help me, so I went back out to try to figure it out again.
I finally lowered the shed, closed the doors, and felt confident that would be able to use the farm jack to move the shed the rest of the way. Then the neighbor over the back fence yelled "Who's there?! What are you doing?!"
"I'm in my own yard!"
"You are out there every night, messing with my fence," and some other crazy false witness.
"None of that is true!"
[something about interrupting her tweaking] [slammed door]
Nice lady!
By the way, this is the shed and fence in question. I sure want to know how she hasn't realized that the shed is now twice as far from the corner, but if I touched that fence it would fall down.
Someday I need to build a fence on our side.
Excuse me for going off-topic, but Happy New Year!
