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Before the excavator arrives to clear some spots for the garden space, the chicken coop and the parking pad, we needed to remove the the red eye sore left by the former owner. I could have just had the excavator push into the brush pile but upon inspection there was a lot of good/salvageable wood so I opted to disassemble piece by piece.













 
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Good job recycling materials! That's a ton of useful stuff for new projects! And yeah, OSB is lousy stuff when exposed to weather. As you discovered, cheap sheds use it to stabilize the structure as opposed to cladding it, which is lazy construction.

Still, I would have given big-ugly-red-shed a second look. Dry storage is gold! Clad with roughcut spruce in a board and batten style? Bigger skids underneath? Pretty good tool shed or outhouse.

Regardless, I'm glad you didn't push it onto the burn pile!
 
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