Thats not how you pull a shed down... (pics)
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Tampon said:
No, mainly to the FiL, his idea, I literally thought "play it cool Ben, play it cool. Don't be too excited or you will scare him off"
When I said it was a good idea, perfectly safe and the quickest way, his face lit up like a fat kid with a cookie. He couldn't believe someone was giving him the go ahead.
When it actually started roaring ( like a small aeroplane ), MiL came out and we both shot round in panic ( we were putting out the fence at this point ) and without saying a word, like two kids, down played it.
Imagine coming out of you house to this ( and if you look the pergola is just about to catch with her favorite rose)
With two blokes with a tiny hose, trying to put out the bay tree saying "Hi, you good?, want a hand with something?" in their most calm voices.
She is owed a few hairy b
ks of steel points as well.
PMSL this is the best thing I have read on PH for years lol! Well done!When I said it was a good idea, perfectly safe and the quickest way, his face lit up like a fat kid with a cookie. He couldn't believe someone was giving him the go ahead.
When it actually started roaring ( like a small aeroplane ), MiL came out and we both shot round in panic ( we were putting out the fence at this point ) and without saying a word, like two kids, down played it.
Imagine coming out of you house to this ( and if you look the pergola is just about to catch with her favorite rose)
With two blokes with a tiny hose, trying to put out the bay tree saying "Hi, you good?, want a hand with something?" in their most calm voices.
She is owed a few hairy b
ks of steel points as well.Edited by Tampon on Sunday 20th May 22:05
Tampon said:
Suppose it is a massive bump, but I have been searching on google for a drill fuel pump and one of my old posts on PH came up. From that thread this was linked. I reread it and found myself giggling.
Thought some new members might like a bit of lesson in demolition...
Hmmmmm.......Thought some new members might like a bit of lesson in demolition...
I think I know what's coming in the sequel "Shed 2" ...........
Tampon said:
With two blokes with a tiny hose, trying to put out the bay tree saying "Hi, you good?, want a hand with something?" in their most calm voices.
Excellent. This is precisely the way to handle such situations.I'm thinking of changing a curtain rail in my house - could you two help with that? I have loads of petrol.
brilliant!
Has seriously got me thinking about one of these....
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/190747411933?limghl...
Has seriously got me thinking about one of these....
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/190747411933?limghl...
irocfan said:
brilliant!
Has seriously got me thinking about one of these....
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/190747411933?limghl...
DO NOT DO THIS...........Has seriously got me thinking about one of these....
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/190747411933?limghl...
Some 30 years ago my ex father in law lent me his paraffin fuelled weed burner to get rid of some weeeds in my garden.
A couple of years earlier I had transplanted a screen of conifer trees, about 8 ft high numbering about 12, to the bottom of the garden and had kept the b'stards alive through two years by watering every day.
Every single effing day !!
The garden was looking lovely apart from some weeds that needed eradicating. What could go wrong?
Well after filling the fuel tank with parafin and pumping like a good 'un on the fuel pump, nowt happened.
Then I fiddled with the valve and nothing happened.
Then I fiddled with the valve a bit more and "whoosh" a jet of flame appeared from the end of the flame gun about 15 metres long and engulfed the conifers, and the fence they were against.
A WW2 flamethrower would have cleared out a machine gun nest with that burst of incendiary.
After 20 minutes of weedy garden hose action by the neighbours on both sides and myself the fence was saved but I had 12 cremated conifers and a badly singed fence.
I asked the FiL " WTF ?" and he said,
" Oh yes the valve in that is a bit iffy.............."
So please stay away from the fire. Remember what your mother told you
"Burny, burny".
Cheers,
Tony
Tampon said:
I kid you not, FiL and I are talking about pulling down a couple of other sheds on the other side of the garden at the moment and rebuilding one big one.
Where are the matches...
Well you've done it once and nothing went wrong. That's a 100% safety record, so I can't see any reason not to continue with a totally safe method of shed demolition. Crack on!Where are the matches...
(Oh, and pics please!)
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