Trucks sure are fun - a little demo work (pics)

[Steve St.Laurent]

Had to tear down a shed that was falling apart today, seemed like a perfect opportunity to play with the truck #ad
!! Demo sure is fun! I needed to get out a little aggression after talking with the fuel supplier on the phone today ( https://www.turbodieselregister.com/ubb//Forum5/HTML/001162.html ). Honestly though, using the sledge to punch holes through the walls for the chain was better therapy - I just imagined that shmucks face right where I was aiming for!

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-Steve St. Laurent - President of the Great Lakes TDR
'98 QC LB (CMNSPWR), 4x4, ISB, 5sp, 4. 10 LSD, TST Powermax3, 275hp RV injectors, Joe Donnelly modifed Sachs Clutch, SS ladder bars, SW fuel pressure gauge, BD exhaust brake, Isspro turbo temp monitor, front Draw-Tite receiver, rear Draw-Tite class V receiver, BFG 285/75R16 AT KO's, (all the common stuff clipped)

[This message has been edited by Steve St. Laurent (edited 05-09-2001). ]

 

[bigkid59]

Reminds me of something I did about 15 years ago.
The Transportation Manager for the company I was the Maintenance Manager for lived in a condo where they had a wooden bridge that crossed the entry road into tne condos. This bridge was only for looks and was rarely used. After several years it became unsafe, mainly due to the wood rotting. Their insurance company informed the owners association that the bridge had to go. My friend was the treasurer of the condo owners association and it became his job to get bids on removing the bridge. He asked me for suggestions and I suggested that he and I bid on the job. We bid $1250 to remove the bridge.

Here is where it gets good. I borrowed the equipment we needed from the shop at work. We mentioned this project to the General Manager at work and he said that if we would let him have the cypress lumber and any steel parts of the bridge that he would help us. We then found one of our truck drivers who wanted all the large timbers. We set this up for a Saturday morning at 7:00. Everyone showed up and we got started. I disconnected the wiring to the few lights on the bridge. I then notched the 12"x12" posts with a chain saw. The truck driver had come in his brothers GMC tractor with a 40' flatbed. A good pull with that tractor on a chain soon had the bridge on the ground. He had also brought help to load the timbers.

Within 3 hours the only materials left for us to dispose of fit nicely on my small flatbed trailer. We were done with everything, including cleaning up the area, by early afternoon. I drove home and made a visit the next morning to the county dump with the load on my trailer.

Not bad income for such a short time. Had plenty of free help, especially in getting rid of the material.


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92 D250 Auto Trans-Currently stock except for TCI special torque convertor. Now adding 16cm turbo housing, complete 4" exhaust, tachometer, pyrometer, and transmission temperature gauge. Injectors in the near future.
Also have 1984 Volvo D260 with inline 6 diesel made by Volkswagen.

 

[Papa Joe]

Shed ???!!!! In Idaho, that would have been a rental #ad

 

[TomGolden]

Or if ya moved that thing over to Jackson, Wyoming, you could get $2000 a month for rent in it!

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Doh - I should have been more careful with it and hauled it to you guys huh? Oh well, tell you what I can make em and haul em out to you guys and we'll split the rental income! #ad


-Steve

 

[fest3er]

Originally posted by Steve St. Laurent:
Had to tear down a shed that was falling apart today, seemed like a perfect opportunity to play with the truck ...

I tried to use my truck to pull down a 10x12 shed once. I did a fair bit of prep work, like removing the side sheathing to greatly weaken the structure. I used a logging chain connected to a stud up under the roof peak. 4-low, eased on the go-pedal, and the rear end started going up. Hmmm. Weren't going to be so easy. I tried whumping it. Still wouldn't budge. So I backed up, gave myself about 2 feet of slack, then got it up to about 3 MPH, and it gave 'way. Well, sort-of. I looked back and that darn shed was still standing. I looked at the end of the chain, and there was a 16" length of pressure-treated 4x4 there, coarsely sheared out of the vertical stud.

You see, the shed was built with 6 vertical 4x4s, each set in 2-4 cubic feet of concrete. And 4x4s around the floor and around the roof. I had to cut half through the verticals before I could pull the shed down! I found out about the concrete when I tried to pull the 4x4 stumps out of the ground. I thought I was going to rip the Class IV receiver off the frame!

So I learned something about demolishing old sheds that day. Sometimes 'tis easier to splash #2 around the interior and toss in a flame. (I didn't do this because I didn't *really* want the 150 year-old oak tree above the shed going up in flames, too. )

Also, I learned that a can of starting fluid can be used to effectively and efficiently roast the hundreds of squatter carpenter ants without burning much of anything else.

Fest3er