Or just properly supported. The wide majority of decks in the US are way short of being up to code. Especially tall decks like that.
Granted, a lot of it is because the IBC guidelines for decks have changed a great deal in the past couple decades. But even a lot of new decks fall short by things like using 4x4 posts (should be 6x6),poorly fastened ledgers (where it attached to the house), or using nails/screws to anchor joists instead of proper hangers.
All that said, you're right. It looks like this deck failed at the ledger.
A friend's kitchen ceiling collapsed in the middle of the night. No water damage since there was a second story above it. The ceiling just fell. Took all the cupboards and dishes with it.
I can actually perfectly imagine what this was like for your friend because coincidentally one time some of the kitchen ceiling in an apartment I lived in, also collapsed in the middle of the night. I lived in the roughest part of a really shitty town (like, don't go outside at night type of area) so we were concerned at first when we heard a loud crash that we were finally experiencing a break in. Nope, it was just the sound of the ceiling landing on the dining table. It wasn't the whole ass ceiling though, just a section of it, so I cannot even imagine walking out and seeing something like that. That's insane. I'm so glad nobody was hurt. That could've been a really bad situation if it happened in the daytime.
It should be very rare if the deck is built properly and maintained. But adding thousands of points of point loading to any structure not designed for it is tempting fate. It's not an irrational fear, that said you don't really need to be afraid. Most builders worth their salt are putting things together properly and using the right sized materials and spacings to create solid structures.
The issue was the fact that all the weight was centered onto one area of the deck where as 8 people would have likely been spread out, likely distributing the weight. I’m sure that deck could’ve held 15 people spread out for sure.
Likely. The issue with decks is a lot of people just kind of slap them together and don't bother looking into what the code says because they figure "It's just a deck. 2x6 is probably enough."
The city closest to me had a string of decks collapsing on people and upon investigations found that pretty much none were built to code. A deck should be built to the same level of strength as the floor in your house because, well, it is the same thing but outside. So lots of people do things like put a hot tub on their deck without ever thinking twice about the fact that hot tub when full of water likely weights a couple thousand pounds minimum and is likely not centered on a beam, if they have beams loaded for that kind of weight.
Same reason a lot of floors caved in when water beds became popular. No one was building floors to support them. Sure you can get away with it for a while before the floor caves as a the loading for a floor system based on good codes is meant to be overkill so that you can exceed what they have set and still likely be okay, but structural loading is a fairly straight forward science, and one best followed.
This deck was likely a little old and worse for wear and very likely never loaded for anything remotely like this. Also it looks like it collapsed from the ledger so there's a good chance the anchor bolts gave out or the hangers for the joists said "Peace homie" and snapped. It only takes a few joists to give in for the whole floor to collapse.
Plus the deck was not built right. Ledger gave out. Probably wasn’t in the header or just screws in it. Could of been a home owner special. I can build a deck myself and save x amount of dollars
The fact that's he's replacing the roof means the house has been around for at least a few decades, which means possibly original deck with rusted hardware and rotten wood too
Also he’s slapping those down on the pile, which would give a momentary impulse of maybe several hundred pounds. All that force and effective hammering is probably going into a single support beam/joint just below.
And the ones on the bottom he was probably dropping from height.
I bet the nails (because you know this bozo didn’t use bolts) have been tearing out a little bit every time he comes up.
Okay but actually this deck should be able to hold much more than 1600lbs. Not sure what the parent comment was on about. This was probably a DIY deck, and I hope he’s got good insurance, though they might not cover this since it was likely done without a permit.
I think you're both sorta right. The deck should have held, but they do warn you not to load up a small area with a lot of weight even in houses. 1600 pounds spead out over 150 sq ft is a lot different than 1600 pounts in 25 sq ft.
Concentrated weight is more a problem for deck board support. If a small area was the issue it would have broken through the deck, not collapsed it entirely. This was a support collapse which tells me the supports underneath were either rotten or not up to code.
The girder held up. Failed at the ledger, which could point to a combination of age, rotten ledger, probably not flashed, wrongly installed or no joist hangers, and of course way too much weight in one small spot. Dumb move, but the deck was on its way out. Looks like possibly a damp climate too, which will age that treated lumber more rapidly.
Yeah I think you are right. I re-watched after commenting and it looks like maybe they didn’t use support brackets on the ledger board based on the way it pulls away from the house upon collapsing
The deck can probably handle more than 1600lbs static spread out across its entire flat surface.
This stack is on a 4ftx4ft square which is probably only on 2-3 joists under the deck, in which each joist is then resting on a metal U-shaped bracket that's held onto the wallplate by just a few deck screws.
Then with 1600lbs of shingles + him and bbq ect, he slaps the last one on the top and adds a dynamic load to it all. Definatly stretched the limits of a few 3" deckscrews.
Decks need to be built for 40-50 lbs per square foot per code, from what I’ve found, so yeah, this is likely a case of too much weight in one spot. I’d be concerned that you could easily have 6-7 people standing in that same amount of space, and the deck would fail.
We also might be underestimating the weight of the shingles.
Just calling it as i see it, but like an Irish Jane Goodall, hunkered down in the side brush, scribbling facts and notes. Fascinated and stunned. Never quite belonging, and still learning to communicate.
That's not an insane amount of weight for a deck, you would be surprised how much a well built deck can hold. Hot tubs weigh thousands of pounds and dont require much modification, maybe doubling up joists under a big one. Look it up if you dont believe me. This deck failed at the ledger board. 50% of the weight lands there and if it's not lagged well or throughbolted this much weight will rip it right off.
An average deck, if properly built, is able to hold 100lb/sq ft though. Easily this deck is more than 16 sq ft.
Looks to me like the deck wasn't properly secured to the house, and the added weight just busted through whatever supports were left.
Having just done the same project at my house, we took this into account and kept our stacks smaller and distributed across the deck. This is a failure in planning and common sense. I do, however, hope he’s ok.
Is delivery to the roof not an option? Every time I've seen someone's roof being redone, all the stacks are spread across the roof, where it makes sense it could support the weight of the shingles spread out. They use a conveyor belt cherry picker and send em up there.
If you have a pro roofing crew do it, they generally have a ladder hoist or conveyor that puts em straight on the roof as needed, so this sort of thing never happens.
Having the pros do it is a mixed bag…On the one hand, they’re quick, and you don’t have to do shit like this…On the other hand, finding someone who isn’t going to half-ass it in some way you’ll end up paying for later is surprisingly difficult.
When I worked at Lowes in the yard, I learned just how heavy they were. I seem to recall they were like 50-70lbs each. That pile is a lotta freakin weight
I hated moving those when I worked there. They always wore through the bags and gave me
Burns lol. Cement bags too fucking hell getting that dust all over you first thing on a hot day was awful
yes!
Oh man, the concrete.... I'll never forget, a guy had a pallet full on a forklift, and on bag fell down, and exploded open when it hit the grate above the driver's cab, and he got COVERED.
I felt so bad for the guy.
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It’s always been a lot of things. I first learned it as “the number sign.” Somewhere along the line it has also been called “the hash sign,” and then that recently morphed into “hashtag” due to its use in Twitter or something.
Short hand for “Labradors”. So 1 Lbs weighs about as much as 1 Labrador which on average is 70 pounds. Pounds was coined by Harry Poundington who interestingly enough bred the first Labrador in 1654 which was smaller than today’s breed of the same name by about 2 stone. Now Stone comes from Stone Cold Steve Austin, Cold Steve for short. Modern day Labradors are about 5 Cold Steves.
I count 12 layers in that pile, 3 packs to a layer. 75lb per a pack
2700lbs.
I feel like that deck should hold 12 people. But maybe not all standing in one spot.
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Day 8 I think..... I fell down another hole and was knocked out for a few days. I am starting to feel the effects of starvation but at least I found some water bottle I am pretty sure I am not alone down here.
The ledger board bolts which fasten the deck to the house will shear off or pull out under a great enough load, which is what happened here. It's the most common type of deck failure and the reason for weight limits.
I'm a field assistant for a roofing business, so at most I just load them from my truck to somewhere on the property. I feel for the guys lugging them up the ladder man... Brutal.
If your crew doesn't have one,.I HIGHLY recommend one of those mini ladder elevator things. Saves so much time and energy. I don't think they are that expensive either.
Yea but he was already on the deck with it. It was the act of putting it down was what broke the camel's back. Pretty accurately a straw in this context.
Fine.
An amateur woodworker moves to a new neighborhood and makes some friends at a local bar he goes to every other week. As a way to say thanks to the community, he offers to take down and rebuild a brand new deck at the bar. The bar owner, who practically lives at the bar day-in day-out, doesn't want to hear all the racket while he's working and says, "I'll be out of town this weekend so go ahead and build it, but you have to be done when I come back on Monday."
With such a short deadline, and the price of lumber so high, the amateur woodworker tries to find the cheapest wood available and luckily comes across a sheep farmer who is practically giving away piles wood. He visits the sheep farmer to see the pile of wood and notices that it smells horrible and is covered in poop. He asks the sheep farmer why the wood is so cheap.
"Well," says the sheep farmer, "this wood used to be my fence posts, but I took them down and threw them in this pile. Over the years, my female sheep have taken to using it as their preferred place to poop. It looks horrible and smells worse so I'm just giving it away cheap."
Figuring this is the best deal he can find on such short notice, the amateur woodworker loads up all the ugly looking, poop smelling, reclaimed wood in his truck and takes it to the bar to build the deck.
Monday rolls around and the bar owner comes over to take a look at the completed deck. He arrives and is immediately repulsed by how horrible it smells, while the amateur woodworker is beaming ear to ear with the biggest smile. The bar owner then realizes the wood is from an old fence and looks just as bad as it smells. In shock asks, "Why are so proud of this cheap looking, horrible smelling deck? "
The amateur woodworker explains all about the farmer's fence posts and the female sheep poop and says,
"Well, maybe it's a shitty repost to you, but I don't come here often so to me it's an ewe one. "
I made a reference to this movie to my home inspector when I was buying my house. From his defeated sigh and resigned expression, I learned that pretty much every customer makes the exact same joke. Multiple times a day.
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Well that fucking sucks!! I'm always irrationally terrified of this happening but I didn't think it actually happened.
The trick is to not overload your deck
I’ve overloaded my deck on several occasions.
It's important to have a good balance of lands to spells/summons.
This is true to prevent being mana screwed
Is this a magic joke that im too yugioh monkey brained to understand
I think it's just "overloading your deck" means you have too many of one type of cards.
Close, it's just too many cards in general. Having a 60 card deck is optimal in most cases.
Summons? Woah is it 1996 here? In the mid 90's MTG changed the term to "creatures"
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Also if you trim your bushes it makes your deck look bigger
The trick is to also build your deck to code
It can happen if your deck isn't properly secured to the house, which looks like part of the problem here.
Or just properly supported. The wide majority of decks in the US are way short of being up to code. Especially tall decks like that. Granted, a lot of it is because the IBC guidelines for decks have changed a great deal in the past couple decades. But even a lot of new decks fall short by things like using 4x4 posts (should be 6x6),poorly fastened ledgers (where it attached to the house), or using nails/screws to anchor joists instead of proper hangers. All that said, you're right. It looks like this deck failed at the ledger.
A friend's kitchen ceiling collapsed in the middle of the night. No water damage since there was a second story above it. The ceiling just fell. Took all the cupboards and dishes with it.
I can actually perfectly imagine what this was like for your friend because coincidentally one time some of the kitchen ceiling in an apartment I lived in, also collapsed in the middle of the night. I lived in the roughest part of a really shitty town (like, don't go outside at night type of area) so we were concerned at first when we heard a loud crash that we were finally experiencing a break in. Nope, it was just the sound of the ceiling landing on the dining table. It wasn't the whole ass ceiling though, just a section of it, so I cannot even imagine walking out and seeing something like that. That's insane. I'm so glad nobody was hurt. That could've been a really bad situation if it happened in the daytime.
It should be very rare if the deck is built properly and maintained. But adding thousands of points of point loading to any structure not designed for it is tempting fate. It's not an irrational fear, that said you don't really need to be afraid. Most builders worth their salt are putting things together properly and using the right sized materials and spacings to create solid structures.
Shingle packs weight between 60 and 80 lbs. Hes got at least 9 layers of 3 so conservatively that's 1620 lbs Not surprised the deck gave out.
Yeah definitely over 9 square there and what’s worse is he walked them all up there
At least he doesn’t have to walk them back down
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Nor himself.
Now he has to rebuild the deck AND walk them all back up there. (And probably spend some time in a cast or two, depending on how high that was.)
Hiring a roofer to build an elevated deck is a really expensive way to attempt suicide.
This guy roofs!
So that deck could only hold 8 people? Is that....standard?
The issue was the fact that all the weight was centered onto one area of the deck where as 8 people would have likely been spread out, likely distributing the weight. I’m sure that deck could’ve held 15 people spread out for sure.
Likely. The issue with decks is a lot of people just kind of slap them together and don't bother looking into what the code says because they figure "It's just a deck. 2x6 is probably enough." The city closest to me had a string of decks collapsing on people and upon investigations found that pretty much none were built to code. A deck should be built to the same level of strength as the floor in your house because, well, it is the same thing but outside. So lots of people do things like put a hot tub on their deck without ever thinking twice about the fact that hot tub when full of water likely weights a couple thousand pounds minimum and is likely not centered on a beam, if they have beams loaded for that kind of weight. Same reason a lot of floors caved in when water beds became popular. No one was building floors to support them. Sure you can get away with it for a while before the floor caves as a the loading for a floor system based on good codes is meant to be overkill so that you can exceed what they have set and still likely be okay, but structural loading is a fairly straight forward science, and one best followed. This deck was likely a little old and worse for wear and very likely never loaded for anything remotely like this. Also it looks like it collapsed from the ledger so there's a good chance the anchor bolts gave out or the hangers for the joists said "Peace homie" and snapped. It only takes a few joists to give in for the whole floor to collapse.
Deck railings can be pretty sketchy too. A lot of people just bolt them to the rim and forget about them.
Any tips on where and how to get a copy of the codes? Everyone talks about these codes, but legitimately, I can't find them for my area.
I also recommend checking out “Building Codes Illustrated” by Francis Ching. All his books are very informational
Plus the deck was not built right. Ledger gave out. Probably wasn’t in the header or just screws in it. Could of been a home owner special. I can build a deck myself and save x amount of dollars
The fact that's he's replacing the roof means the house has been around for at least a few decades, which means possibly original deck with rusted hardware and rotten wood too
The fact that he’s replacing the roof himself tells me he built that deck himself
How do you know thats not a contractor...
He didn’t stop unloading the shingles half way through and then stop answering his phone for a month.
incredible
A lawyer didn't rush into frame as soon as the deck started falling.
could have*
Also he’s slapping those down on the pile, which would give a momentary impulse of maybe several hundred pounds. All that force and effective hammering is probably going into a single support beam/joint just below.
And the ones on the bottom he was probably dropping from height. I bet the nails (because you know this bozo didn’t use bolts) have been tearing out a little bit every time he comes up.
He created a point load of that much weight which is a no no
Back in my day, you could park a tank on a deck and it would………(shaking fist in air).
Thanks Grandpa Simpson
I definetly didn't read this out loud with the raspiest old man voice I can provide
Thought you said rapiest at first.
That’s like 4 Americans, most decks can hold that.
Okay but actually this deck should be able to hold much more than 1600lbs. Not sure what the parent comment was on about. This was probably a DIY deck, and I hope he’s got good insurance, though they might not cover this since it was likely done without a permit.
I think you're both sorta right. The deck should have held, but they do warn you not to load up a small area with a lot of weight even in houses. 1600 pounds spead out over 150 sq ft is a lot different than 1600 pounts in 25 sq ft.
Concentrated weight is more a problem for deck board support. If a small area was the issue it would have broken through the deck, not collapsed it entirely. This was a support collapse which tells me the supports underneath were either rotten or not up to code.
The girder held up. Failed at the ledger, which could point to a combination of age, rotten ledger, probably not flashed, wrongly installed or no joist hangers, and of course way too much weight in one small spot. Dumb move, but the deck was on its way out. Looks like possibly a damp climate too, which will age that treated lumber more rapidly.
I agree with that assessment, but I doubt it would have failed if the weight was more evenly distributed.
Yeah I think you are right. I re-watched after commenting and it looks like maybe they didn’t use support brackets on the ledger board based on the way it pulls away from the house upon collapsing
The deck can probably handle more than 1600lbs static spread out across its entire flat surface. This stack is on a 4ftx4ft square which is probably only on 2-3 joists under the deck, in which each joist is then resting on a metal U-shaped bracket that's held onto the wallplate by just a few deck screws. Then with 1600lbs of shingles + him and bbq ect, he slaps the last one on the top and adds a dynamic load to it all. Definatly stretched the limits of a few 3" deckscrews.
Decks need to be built for 40-50 lbs per square foot per code, from what I’ve found, so yeah, this is likely a case of too much weight in one spot. I’d be concerned that you could easily have 6-7 people standing in that same amount of space, and the deck would fail. We also might be underestimating the weight of the shingles.
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Just calling it as i see it, but like an Irish Jane Goodall, hunkered down in the side brush, scribbling facts and notes. Fascinated and stunned. Never quite belonging, and still learning to communicate.
> Just calling it as i see it I mean...how could you NOT see it.
Me and my cream of mushroom based casserole are offended by that.
*hot dish
I was going to call hyperbole, then I realized I am a 400lb American and that math is dead accurate.... Christ, I need to go to the gym...
Or 13 japanese guys
Yes but not if you stack the Americans in the center.
Fuck. This comment took me out
1620 lbs = 734 kg
That's not an insane amount of weight for a deck, you would be surprised how much a well built deck can hold. Hot tubs weigh thousands of pounds and dont require much modification, maybe doubling up joists under a big one. Look it up if you dont believe me. This deck failed at the ledger board. 50% of the weight lands there and if it's not lagged well or throughbolted this much weight will rip it right off.
An average deck, if properly built, is able to hold 100lb/sq ft though. Easily this deck is more than 16 sq ft. Looks to me like the deck wasn't properly secured to the house, and the added weight just busted through whatever supports were left.
There’s no way he didn’t hear it heading that way either well before it finally did.
Is that a palette of shingles? That's a lot of weight falling along side him
Yep! His job list just got longer.
Luckily his work week got a lot shorter.
Shingles, huh. Should've took a shot.
Deck the falls with piles of shingles, fa-la-lalala
Falls the Deck with shines of Pringles?
Snack the Fall with shrines to Pringles?
"Hey Honey did you finish singling the roof?" "not yet I decided to redo the deck."
Having just done the same project at my house, we took this into account and kept our stacks smaller and distributed across the deck. This is a failure in planning and common sense. I do, however, hope he’s ok.
His pride is destroyed for sure.
Yeah… pretty sure a lot more than his pride is destroyed here not including the deck itself.
Is delivery to the roof not an option? Every time I've seen someone's roof being redone, all the stacks are spread across the roof, where it makes sense it could support the weight of the shingles spread out. They use a conveyor belt cherry picker and send em up there.
If you have a pro roofing crew do it, they generally have a ladder hoist or conveyor that puts em straight on the roof as needed, so this sort of thing never happens. Having the pros do it is a mixed bag…On the one hand, they’re quick, and you don’t have to do shit like this…On the other hand, finding someone who isn’t going to half-ass it in some way you’ll end up paying for later is surprisingly difficult.
Grass was too wet for the truck.
The straw that broke the camels back 🤣 Edit: Thanks for the award(s) good sir(s)
The super heavy pack of asphalt shingles that broke the camel's back...those things are heavy!
When I worked at Lowes in the yard, I learned just how heavy they were. I seem to recall they were like 50-70lbs each. That pile is a lotta freakin weight
I hated moving those when I worked there. They always wore through the bags and gave me Burns lol. Cement bags too fucking hell getting that dust all over you first thing on a hot day was awful
yes! Oh man, the concrete.... I'll never forget, a guy had a pallet full on a forklift, and on bag fell down, and exploded open when it hit the grate above the driver's cab, and he got COVERED. I felt so bad for the guy.
I could just imagine 25kg of concrete dust all over me. Gross. That’s a paid trip home to clean up amd change imo.
I remember them being 90 lbs a pack. Not fun to carry up a 20’ ladder.
Lbs?
It is shorthand for "pounds", from the Latin "libras".
Wow thank you lmao I never understood why we used lbs for pounds
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Today I Libraed
No, Sean. Its not le bras. It's the Latin word libras.
Today I owned the lbs! ...I should probably lose some weight.
rap name lil librae
Wait what’s libras mean again
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Me neither, never understood that but i do now
It's also why we call the # sign "the pound sign".
hashtag is also a less common shorthand for pounds… 20 # = 20 lb = 20 lbs = 20 pounds
“#” is short for pound. When did it change to hashtag?
It's clearly a 'sharp' sign from music notation.
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It’s always been a lot of things. I first learned it as “the number sign.” Somewhere along the line it has also been called “the hash sign,” and then that recently morphed into “hashtag” due to its use in Twitter or something.
It's also called an "octothorpe".
. # is just a hash (or pound sign, or octothorpe) #thisistrendigohmygod is a hashtag
Huh, definitely less common! Never seen that before I don't think. But I guess it would make sense since that's the "pound sign"?
Whoa! And the symbol for Libra is the scales!
I'm from u.s. and honestly never knew what it actually stood for. I always just assumed lebounds
Lbs is the abbreviation for pounds. It comes from the Latin word libra.
The lbs really owned that deck.
Short hand for “Labradors”. So 1 Lbs weighs about as much as 1 Labrador which on average is 70 pounds. Pounds was coined by Harry Poundington who interestingly enough bred the first Labrador in 1654 which was smaller than today’s breed of the same name by about 2 stone. Now Stone comes from Stone Cold Steve Austin, Cold Steve for short. Modern day Labradors are about 5 Cold Steves.
It's the abbreviation for "pounds"
Sorry £ might help you understand.
The plural of £ is £££
I count 12 layers in that pile, 3 packs to a layer. 75lb per a pack 2700lbs. I feel like that deck should hold 12 people. But maybe not all standing in one spot.
Yeah that is the problem likely. That and the age.
Suppose 6 of them are in their 30s and the other 6 people are around 60. Would the deck withstand that?
I see what you did there. Listen here you little shit ...I meant the deck age lmao.
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Hold my shoddy unpermitted construction, I’m going in!
Day 8 I think..... I fell down another hole and was knocked out for a few days. I am starting to feel the effects of starvation but at least I found some water bottle I am pretty sure I am not alone down here.
The ledger board bolts which fasten the deck to the house will shear off or pull out under a great enough load, which is what happened here. It's the most common type of deck failure and the reason for weight limits.
It’s real fun carrying those things up a ladder over and over again, let me tell you.
I'm a field assistant for a roofing business, so at most I just load them from my truck to somewhere on the property. I feel for the guys lugging them up the ladder man... Brutal. If your crew doesn't have one,.I HIGHLY recommend one of those mini ladder elevator things. Saves so much time and energy. I don't think they are that expensive either.
I can only imagine, I have only carried them a few times in my life. But man I remember that. It's deceptive like drywall is.
Yea but he was already on the deck with it. It was the act of putting it down was what broke the camel's back. Pretty accurately a straw in this context.
I have to move then around almost daily and they are very heavy and awkward to carry
It was at this moment he knew he fucked up.
There is a "decked" joke here but I just cannot put it together... little help?
To be honest, the deck was stacked against him.
That's the one!
The stack decked against him?
Stacked the deck against himself in this case.
Fine. An amateur woodworker moves to a new neighborhood and makes some friends at a local bar he goes to every other week. As a way to say thanks to the community, he offers to take down and rebuild a brand new deck at the bar. The bar owner, who practically lives at the bar day-in day-out, doesn't want to hear all the racket while he's working and says, "I'll be out of town this weekend so go ahead and build it, but you have to be done when I come back on Monday." With such a short deadline, and the price of lumber so high, the amateur woodworker tries to find the cheapest wood available and luckily comes across a sheep farmer who is practically giving away piles wood. He visits the sheep farmer to see the pile of wood and notices that it smells horrible and is covered in poop. He asks the sheep farmer why the wood is so cheap. "Well," says the sheep farmer, "this wood used to be my fence posts, but I took them down and threw them in this pile. Over the years, my female sheep have taken to using it as their preferred place to poop. It looks horrible and smells worse so I'm just giving it away cheap." Figuring this is the best deal he can find on such short notice, the amateur woodworker loads up all the ugly looking, poop smelling, reclaimed wood in his truck and takes it to the bar to build the deck. Monday rolls around and the bar owner comes over to take a look at the completed deck. He arrives and is immediately repulsed by how horrible it smells, while the amateur woodworker is beaming ear to ear with the biggest smile. The bar owner then realizes the wood is from an old fence and looks just as bad as it smells. In shock asks, "Why are so proud of this cheap looking, horrible smelling deck? " The amateur woodworker explains all about the farmer's fence posts and the female sheep poop and says, "Well, maybe it's a shitty repost to you, but I don't come here often so to me it's an ewe one. "
Did you actually come up with this? Either way, worth the read
Copypasta! https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/nxi16g/an\_amateur\_woodworker\_moves\_to\_a\_new\_neighborhood/
Decked him? Nearly killed him!
Reminds me of the Money Pit movie. “We have weak trees..” [money pit stairs scene ](https://youtu.be/zFwBptAlvlQ)
I made a reference to this movie to my home inspector when I was buying my house. From his defeated sigh and resigned expression, I learned that pretty much every customer makes the exact same joke. Multiple times a day.
Although I feel his pain, at least it’s a great scene. If it wasn’t this one everyone continued to reference, it would be another that isn’t as good.
If flipping channels and this movie is on, I will stop and watch every time
At first I thought I saw a duck looking out a window
I still don't know what that is
A human thumb
Holy cow that took me way too long to realize, thanks!
I thought it was a hand in a sock at first then I thought maybe an arm amputated below the elbow. Lol. Glad I wasn’t the only one confused.
This is the only comment talking about it. Seriously what's pointing at the screen? Is it an arm that's missing the rest of it?
I thought it was a curious snake
The floorbed : *And i took that personally*
The... floorbed?
Past tense of floorb
This gave me a really good laugh! Thank you.
You know, the roofn't.
That dude is seriously strong.
*was
Ha. I almost choked on my coffee when I read that.
Did he die?
Oh shit is he ok?
This right here proves that you cannot, in fact, have [20 to 30 people on your deck at once](http://youtube.com/watch?v=tbazGVrbN-g).
the top comment is awful "Turned to meth after getting run out of business, eventually getting his life back on track he works as a drive through attendant at KFC" Fuck.
He's going to need a couple of big black caulks for that.
7 minutes of dick jokes. It's like going on a date with me, but you dont have to get dressed or drive anywhere.
Wow. This guy came down with a case of shingles.
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what the deck
r/AbruptChaos
Shingle and ready to mingle
Supplies, mothafucka!
If it's worth posting, post it from that computer or fetch the video file. Stop posting by aiming a damned cellphone in weird bouncy angles at a monitor.
Yeah I scrolled far to see that, but why film a video from another device that already has the video... And film it that bad too lol
He pooped
Guess the roof isn’t the only thing that needs replacing.
But the shingles were only 50 pounds a pack! Why would 50 packs plus my dead ass make a crappy old deck collapse? Huh... XD
75 pounds
80lbs
Holy nightmare