Additional Sealant for Pressure Treated Lumber?

[Maurice Mcmurry]

How about casting an igloo out of secure set foam? Are rodents active in the area?

Buy expanding foam to set fences, poles and level concrete.

[Walter Mooney]

Thomas, your PT lumber supplier will likely have on hand a sealant that can and should be painted onto every cut of the lumber. It’s primarily for end grain cuts, but can and should be applied to rip faces as well. Different manufacturers have different formulations, but all PT lumber suppliers can sell you their product’s sealant.

I’d recommend that after you design the structure you dry fit it or even completely screw it together to work out any assembly difficulties, or discover one of those ‘there’s something we didn’t think about’ moments, which you don’t want to happen out there in the middle of nowhere!

Best of luck to you

[Tom M King]

Put one of those plastic rock well covers over it. They come in many sizes and colors.

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/pr...xoC2cIQAvD_BwE

[Bill Dufour]

How about fiberglass doors as side panels and a roof.
Bill D

[Doug Garson]

Put one of those plastic rock well covers over it. They come in many sizes and colors.

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/pr...xoC2cIQAvD_BwE

That's an interesting idea, maybe you could make your own using wire mesh covered with fibreglass or hypertufa in modules that could be carried up and assembled on site.

[Maurice Mcmurry]

Jeeves the family mule is a livestock guardian rather than a pack animal. Jeeves sure thinks pack mules could help with this project.

[Thomas McCurnin]

Yep Jim, We've already started up the hill drying to divert rock and mud slides. But this mountain is quite active in that regard, especially after two forest fires.

Check This Out: Same side of the mountain, and this is what we deal with nearly every heavy rain or thawing, its only a 15 second video in our little community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58SnfEdUGsw

Trying to divert these types of slides is a bit of fool's errand.

[Maurice Mcmurry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58SnfEdUGsw

Yikes! Can you hire a Chinook to air lift some armor plate?

[Allan Dozier]

That looks like what we call a cistern around here but not sure. Anyway, I think the idea of PVC boards is how I would go. They aren't cheap but it would be a one and done. I've been using them more and more on anything exposed to the ground and weather.

[Mel Fulks]

Again …I suggest the old method of gluing on canvas . Available in different weights ,but even the light ‘duck’ will last many years with
a coat of paint or epoxy. Old way was using paint as the adhesive, but I would use a water proof glue or the epoxy paint. The canvas
was used on ships into 19th century.

[Thomas McCurnin]

My outdoor porch floor was T&G 2x4s with canvas glued on it, but I think the modern equivalent, is EPDM rubber roofing membrane which is likewise glued and/or nailed to the substrate.

[Bill Dufour]

I thought pack Llamas were the more PC pack animals, cuter too.
BilL D

[Bill Dufour]

Would a plastic 55 gallon drum work. look at those plastic rubbermaid kids forts that snap together. If keep painted the plastic lasts a long time in the sun. Got an old one piece tub surround kicking around?
Bill D

https://www.littletikes.com/collecti...=manual&page=1

[Maurice Mcmurry]

I thought pack Llamas were the more PC pack animals, cuter too.
BilL D

After having several fascinating conversations with a 10th Mountain Division WWII Veterans widow this summer, I am reading about the 10th Mountain Divisions activities during WWII. They used Mules.
Llamas are cute. The family tried a Llama as a livestock guardian as well. It had a rather nasty personality. The Llama went missing one summer. I had the sad misfortune of finding it deceased.

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