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Whoops! It's not missing its roof; it's upside down! Rita flipped my tool shed. All the spare lumber, etc has now been cleaned out and the building is awaiting a brilliant plan to bring it upright again. Any ideas???
Ideally, two boom trucks or cranes- one to lift, one to turn. Failing that? Winch it over on the strongest side first. If you have the luxury of two winches, place at opposite ends, and use one to pull and the other to control the pull so it does not slam down hard.
In other words, the primary winch pulls it over, the opposite lets out cable under power to keep the load from getting away.
It wouldn't hurt to rig a few temporary "X" braces of lumber to stiffen the structure, especially the opening, which looks like the weakest side.
The building probably weighs no more than say, 500 pounds. The beam across the front is a 2 X 10 and the whole building was put together with 3" deck screws for the most part(probably helped hold it together?). Anyway, I was thinking about tying onto the beam(maybe in a couple places) and lift the whole building while several able bodied helpers guide the lift. If I can clear the overhang, I can maybe pull this off without buckling the tin at the edge; that is no worse than it already is. A little hammer putty can straighten it out now. Amazing to me still, how the building survived pretty much intact, albeit inverted.
Anyway, any additional thoughts would be appreciated.
FGS