[TheForge] Setting up shop (more or less)

[Andrew Vida]

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> Bob:
> I don't know how much slack social pressures offer you, but;
> the place that sell garage doors usually have old ones to give away. A 
> truck load of those could  be cobbled into a cheap, quick shop...pf

	Not a bad idea.  Here's another: if you live anywhere near a sawmill, 
go visit and see what they will sell their drops for.  I get mine for 
$12 a truckload - all I can pile on or until the tires  blow or the 
springs pop.  OK they are flat on one side only, but that should be no 
problem.  There are construction methods that will let you make a nice 
enough wall with them.  Mine come anywhere up to 20' long.  I am just 
starting on my goat fencing and pen.  The compensating factor in this 
case is that I have to dig about 100 x 2' deep post holes in this 
wonderful West Virginia red shale clay, which is like concrete.  And of 
course Mom had to throw in the glacial till factor, so huge boulders are 
everywhere.  Digging here == misery and lots of sore parts.

	Anyhow, if you have a mill nearby, give them a holler and see what they 
want for the drops.  Most of the outbuildings around here are made from 
those and locust posts.  Not the purdiest, but they seem to work really 
well.

	-Andy