The side shelves on my Weber finally bit the dust. My grill is old,
it has the wooden slat shelves, the wood was so rotten that ther ewas
no way to reattach with new screws. The new shelves are some sort of
plastic. I called Weber and they wanted $30 for each side shelf in
plastic.... with the bottom shelf and the swing-up shelf they wanted
just under $200 + shipping... I said phooey on that. For under $3
worth of treated wood lumber from Lowes I sawed and replaced the slats
on both side shelves in under an hour (there was nothing wrong with
the metal brackets), I had to add a few screws as some of teh
originals had fallen out and are lost... that's how I realized there
was a problem, I noticed a couple of screw on teh ground.

Look how rotten the old slats:
http://i35.tinypic.com/11immxk.jpg

Better than new:
http://i36.tinypic.com/imueya.jpg

Been feeding my handsome boy and his twin sister since they were tiny
fawns, this is their third year:
http://i37.tinypic.com/157ggn9.jpg
http://i36.tinypic.com/6s71on.jpg

"Sheldon" > wrote in message
...
> The side shelves on my Weber finally bit the dust. My grill is old,
> it has the wooden slat shelves, the wood was so rotten that ther ewas
> no way to reattach with new screws. The new shelves are some sort of
> plastic. I called Weber and they wanted $30 for each side shelf in
> plastic.... with the bottom shelf and the swing-up shelf they wanted
> just under $200 + shipping... I said phooey on that. For under $3
> worth of treated wood lumber from Lowes I sawed and replaced the slats
> on both side shelves in under an hour (there was nothing wrong with
> the metal brackets), I had to add a few screws as some of teh
> originals had fallen out and are lost... that's how I realized there
> was a problem, I noticed a couple of screw on teh ground.
>
> Look how rotten the old slats:
> http://i35.tinypic.com/11immxk.jpg
>
> Better than new:
> http://i36.tinypic.com/imueya.jpg
>
> Been feeding my handsome boy and his twin sister since they were tiny
> fawns, this is their third year:
> http://i37.tinypic.com/157ggn9.jpg
> http://i36.tinypic.com/6s71on.jpg

Cute.

What do you feed them?

Dimitri

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:48:01 -0700 (PDT), Sheldon >
wrote:

>Been feeding my handsome boy and his twin sister since they were tiny
>fawns, this is their third year:
>http://i37.tinypic.com/157ggn9.jpg
>http://i36.tinypic.com/6s71on.jpg

Oh those look adorable. We don't have deer here but I would love it.
You are so lucky! thanks for the photos.

aloha,
Cea
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"Sheldon" > wrote in message
...
> The side shelves on my Weber finally bit the dust. My grill is old,
> it has the wooden slat shelves, the wood was so rotten that ther ewas
> no way to reattach with new screws. The new shelves are some sort of
> plastic. I called Weber and they wanted $30 for each side shelf in
> plastic.... with the bottom shelf and the swing-up shelf they wanted
> just under $200 + shipping... I said phooey on that. For under $3
> worth of treated wood lumber from Lowes I sawed and replaced the slats
> on both side shelves in under an hour (there was nothing wrong with
> the metal brackets), I had to add a few screws as some of teh
> originals had fallen out and are lost... that's how I realized there
> was a problem, I noticed a couple of screw on teh ground.
>
> Look how rotten the old slats:
> http://i35.tinypic.com/11immxk.jpg
>
> Better than new:
> http://i36.tinypic.com/imueya.jpg
>
> Been feeding my handsome boy and his twin sister since they were tiny
> fawns, this is their third year:
> http://i37.tinypic.com/157ggn9.jpg
> http://i36.tinypic.com/6s71on.jpg

Grill + deer = hmmmmmm?
Just kidding! Nice job on the Weber. We have a resident deer herd also but
they don't get that close.

Sheldon wrote:

> Look how rotten the old slats:
> http://i35.tinypic.com/11immxk.jpg

It took me a minute to see the OLD slats in the background!
I was thinking, "If he's bitching about those, he's got some serious
perfection issues!"

Nice repair job...

Dave

Sheldon > wrote in

> Been feeding my handsome boy and his twin sister since they
> were tiny fawns, this is their third year:
> http://i37.tinypic.com/157ggn9.jpg
> http://i36.tinypic.com/6s71on.jpg


Beautiful.

"sandi" > wrote in message
...
> Sheldon > wrote in
>
>> Been feeding my handsome boy and his twin sister since they
>> were tiny fawns, this is their third year:
>> http://i37.tinypic.com/157ggn9.jpg
>> http://i36.tinypic.com/6s71on.jpg
>
>
> Beautiful.
>

It really is! I have a job to do to take apart an old gas grill so I can
put it out for the metal pickup. It's beyond the type of repair that
Sheldon did.

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:48:01 -0700 (PDT), Sheldon >
wrote:

>Look how rotten the old slats:
>http://i35.tinypic.com/11immxk.jpg

I will assume your *rotten* slats are those things I see in the
background.


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

Sheldon wrote:
> The side shelves on my Weber finally bit the dust. My grill is old,
> it has the wooden slat shelves, the wood was so rotten that ther ewas
> no way to reattach with new screws. The new shelves are some sort of
> plastic. I called Weber and they wanted $30 for each side shelf in
> plastic.... with the bottom shelf and the swing-up shelf they wanted
> just under $200 + shipping... I said phooey on that. For under $3
> worth of treated wood lumber from Lowes I sawed and replaced the slats
> on both side shelves in under an hour (there was nothing wrong with
> the metal brackets), I had to add a few screws as some of teh
> originals had fallen out and are lost... that's how I realized there
> was a problem, I noticed a couple of screw on teh ground.
>
> Look how rotten the old slats:
> http://i35.tinypic.com/11immxk.jpg
>
> Better than new:
> http://i36.tinypic.com/imueya.jpg
>
> Been feeding my handsome boy and his twin sister since they were tiny
> fawns, this is their third year:
> http://i37.tinypic.com/157ggn9.jpg
> http://i36.tinypic.com/6s71on.jpg

Nice grill repair, Sheldon! (And the deer are beautiful, too.) :~)

kili

Sheldon wrote:
> The side shelves on my Weber finally bit the dust.


> For under $3
> worth of treated wood lumber from Lowes I sawed and replaced the slats
> on both side shelves in under an hour (there was nothing wrong with
> the metal brackets),


They look better than the originals, Sheldon. Nice job.

How high a fence does it take to keep the deer out of your garden?

When we lived in New England we had a 50x150 foot garden in the field
behind our house so we were able to grow almost everything in enough
volume to share with the critters.

One year the woodchucks got greedy in the corn so the following year we
built a 6 foot high wire fence around the corn area. To our surprise,
they soon tunneled their way under the fence into the very middle of the
corn rows.

My husband and a neighbor solved the problem with two lawn chairs, a
hose, beer, and two shotguns. They sat in the chairs, flooded the
tunnels from the far side with the hose, drank the beer, and fired the
guns as the ugly critters came out into the corn. (For those who have
never seen one, a woodchuck looks exactly like a gigantic rat.)

We still found whole corn stalks with the corn stripped off, abandoned
in the field and nearby woods that winter. Raccoons. Somehow we didn't
mind sharing the crop with them. Raccoons are cute and very smart.

gloria p

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>,
Sheldon > wrote:

> The side shelves on my Weber finally bit the dust. My grill is old,
> it has the wooden slat shelves, the wood was so rotten that ther ewas
> no way to reattach with new screws. The new shelves are some sort of
> plastic. I called Weber and they wanted $30 for each side shelf in
> plastic.... with the bottom shelf and the swing-up shelf they wanted
> just under $200 + shipping... I said phooey on that. For under $3
> worth of treated wood lumber from Lowes I sawed and replaced the slats
> on both side shelves in under an hour (there was nothing wrong with
> the metal brackets), I had to add a few screws as some of teh
> originals had fallen out and are lost... that's how I realized there
> was a problem, I noticed a couple of screw on teh ground.
>
> Look how rotten the old slats:
> http://i35.tinypic.com/11immxk.jpg
>
> Better than new:
> http://i36.tinypic.com/imueya.jpg
>
> Been feeding my handsome boy and his twin sister since they were tiny
> fawns, this is their third year:
> http://i37.tinypic.com/157ggn9.jpg
> http://i36.tinypic.com/6s71on.jpg

Nice series. :-)

Do be careful tho' of that boy deer when he finally goes into rut!
One reason we went into wildlife rescue is because we could always count
on critters to be just what they were...

We expected to get clawed and bit. <g>

Deer will be deer. Never make the mistake of anthropomorphizing them...
--
Peace! Om

"He who has the gold makes the rules"
--Om

"He who has the guns can get the gold."
-- Steve Rothstein