Seasons and Sheds



The sight of falling leaves and changing colors has caused a new urgency when it comes to finishing up the outside repairs and painting that must be done.
Fortunately the building shown in the picture below will need only some inside cleaning.


This was our first small shed. It is only about 6 feet wide by 8 feet long and 9 feet high. We have a larger pole barn but this small shed that was on our property in Emlenton, Pennsylvania seemed like something that we would like to have in the backyard here in Ohio. Sunday mornings are the best moving days. We borrowed a low flat trailer and packed plenty of straps and boards for moving and stabilizing the building. A come-along  and  some planks were all that were needed to load the shed. It came straight up the planks and after nailing boards to the shingles to keep them from blowing away on Interstate 80 and using numerous straps and reinforcements we bought it home and placed it on old concrete and barnstone supports. There is less traffic on the roads on Sundays but we certainly did get a lot of strange looks from other drivers.  The shed needed only painting and cleaning to make it a usable tool shed for our garden tools. This was one of our easiest sheds to move. We love to have uneventful days.

The construction of this building is very interesting. It surely was made by a backyard carpenter. There is a base with a floor but there are no side or end supports or upright two by four boards at all. The random width siding is secured to the horizontal base boards and to a horizontal row of two by four horizontal boards near the roof. The roof does have a slightly more solid construction. This shed is the one that started us out looking for more little sheds to move.

There will be more stories about the other 6 sheds soon.

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