[TheForge] Setting up shop (more or less)

[Larry Brown]

When I lived down there in WV one house I lived in was made of those drops. 
Was shingled over outside with sheetrock inside, you could hardly tell.
The locust posts last a long time in the soil down there.
Larry Brown


At 07:27 AM 5/29/2008 -0400, you 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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