It arrived by truck one day.
Talking of butt ugly.....here is the gorgeous container-delivery-man!
He did a great job unloading it onto the supporting tyres with rims that G scored from the reuse shop at the local tip.
This is what it looks like now -
We scoured the local area for old corrugated iron.
When we saw a decrepit old shed we tried to find out who owned it and asked if we could take the iron.
We struck gold the first time with this beauty -
Unfortunately the old farmer who gladly let us demolish his old shed, (which was in fact the original cottage on his farm) died a couple of weeks ago, but his memory lives on through this side -
and the roof corner pieces which were the ridge bits from old Snow's shed.
G made a wooden frame to attach the iron -
but we still didn't have enough sheets of iron, so off we went on another iron-hunting trip.
Eventually we found the owner of this -
and on another hot day G climbed on it and removed nails and I stood around and tried to be helpful - collected the nails and things like that.
We found a few more sheets at the wonderful local re-use shop at the tip - narrowly missing out on about 15 excellent sheets there.
Anyway these longer sheets were perfect for the roof -
With the door open you can see the wooden battens.
The door posed a greater problem as we still had to be able to operate the handles!
G solved this - No screws into the container itself. All done by wedging and screwing wood bits in various places...
....and screwing on spacer sections to avoid interference with the metal bars...
...and to hold the battens that hold the iron which is screwed on.
These virtually new leather belts, judiciously cut up to hold the iron that covers the handles, were on special at the Red Cross op shop yesterday...$1.50 each! We'll be back there today no doubt.
Looks great I reckon!
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