[TheForge] ot - roofing question

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

You were growing mushrooms there Terry.
The white threads are mycelia  and they make up the plant whos fruiting 
body, is  often a mushroom. Given moisture, they eat wood. Different 
species specialize in different parts of the wood. Keep it dry and they 
stop growing.

terry l. ridder wrote:
> hello;
> 
> one of the projects i was working on this weekend is re-roofing the one
> old shed that is going to become the gardening shed. this shed was built
> in the 1920's and was used for hogs in open pastures. the shed is on
> skids that have some impressive forged rings and hooks where a tractor
> or team of draft horses would latch on to shed and tow it to the next
> pasture. there were two layers of modern asphalt shingles which covered
> the original cedar shingles. i removed the cedar shingles carefully in
> an effort to salvage as many as possible. what i came across on removing
> the cedar shinglers are several large areas of a white fungus that was
> spreading out with white threads. it looked like a minature white tree
> that was spreading out under and over the cedar shingles. the planking
> under these areas looks like it has been burned. it is blackened and
> very wet. a slimey wet. some areas look like plain old dry rot. all
> checkered and crumbles at the slightest pressure.
> 
> i am just wondering about the white stuff. any shingle that had a hint
> of this white stuff on it was burned. the planking will be removed. the
> planking is mostly 1 x 7. the boards are rabbetted on alternate sides.
> 
> ascii art:
>      +---------+     +---------+
>      |         |     |         |
> +---+     +---+ +---+     +---+
> |         |     |         |
> +---------+     +---------+
> 
> given the dry rot and the fungus areas i am going to remove the planking
> and replace it with either 3/4 inch exterior plywood or 1x8 lumber
> without the rabbetting. i could set up the routing table to route a 1/2
> inch rabbet on the alternate sides.
> 
> i need to get some closeup photographs of the forged iron hardware at
> each end of the wood skid. it is amazing that they are still intact
> after all these years.
> 
>