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Assess Slope and Place Temporary Supports

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What happens here

Upon initial placement, the shed is found to be sitting on a steep grade, causing it to lean significantly. The host explains the challenge of the terrain, noting a drop of about 20 feet down the hill. To counteract this, workers immediately begin placing concrete blocks as temporary supports beneath the shed's low side. This initial stabilization is critical to prevent the building from sliding further down the wet, misty ground, emphasizing the need for careful consideration of water runoff and moisture away from the structure.

Goal: The shed is placed on a noticeable grade, with the back side significantly lower than the front. Workers place initial concrete blocks under the shed as temporary supports to prevent it from sliding further down the wet, sloped hill.

Tools and materials

  • Concrete Blocks

What they say

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cool footage of that so guys here's our corn garden that's our chicken processing equipment right there and this is our tobacco barn and right here is where we're going to put this building the reason we got a Dutch barn type building and a building of this size is because we need the size but we want to be able to move this building if we ever decide to so the good thing about this versus a permanent structure like what we have right over here is that this building can be moved at any time from now on as long as the flooring isn't rotten in it and we're going to have it on a slope a downhill slope when we really have to think about water so we didn't want to put it over a dip because we don't want water to pool up underneath this we want water to flow out from it away from it and keep water away cuz moisture is the enemy of anything on the farm you sliding right off the trailer here so what these guys will do is set a block down and they'll get a bite on this and they'll lift it and shift it and lift it and shift it until they get it in the position where they're grumpy farmer guy wants it alright we got a problem the building is leaning very very harshly that way so we're gonna almost fell in the hole again so he's gonna zip out and around and hopefully not spin up the field and we're gonna lift up the other side you get a better view of what's going on here from the backside so this thing is very very very off level and off center right now and it'll be probably 18 inches high in the back and probably 4 inches or 6 inches high in the front so you can see this right here he's backing on up here and that apparatus on the front basically slides back and forth or the apparatus on the rear of this trailer slides back and forth they're gonna lift it up and pull it back up the hill because when they set it it started sliding down the hill it's really wet this morning and this is really steep

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