[TheForge] Setting up shop (more or less)

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Re previous message...apologies, guilty....unrepentant.

We Call them lizards here and redwood lizards are enduring . They'll 
make a fine, if shaggy, structure....cheap.

Post holes..got a tractor? Rent one with a post hole digger?
I hooked up several HD garden hoses to the compressor with my biggest ( 
30#) trashy air hammer on the end of the lines. That got me to the 
driveway. I made an adapter for driving steel stakes at the same time. 
That set up, plus a home made bit or 2 ,speeds  up serial hole poking on 
a low budget.
A long bit shaft adds leverage and saves the back...pf

Andrew Vida wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
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