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Your chicken shed garden turned out fine! I love tubs planted & had a friend that had several planted around her yard & grew strawberries in bathtub. 1 or 2 like yours had water & minnows & water flowers on top. Not water lilies something else. I had forgotten, she was in her 90's & died about 10 years ago. She planted everything, Styrofoam containers- like ice chests,ice cream makers, Colman Coolers, canning pot, double stainless steel sink was on some kind of stand & had lettuce in it,looked so natural. I loved visiting her, she always sent you home with slip from something or plants she dug up! Jan

Wow Jeanne...things ARE looking good in your "shed" garden! Your tipsy buckets look so good...I need to move mine, they are getting too much shade where they are. LOVE the windmill and the million bells is HUGE and GORGEOUS! So many cool accessories..the galvanized containers and the wheel with the zinnias in it are great. What is the tall plant growing right next to your shed...the one with big leaves and tall stalks? Looks really cool! TFS~

You could determine the angle to make the ramp by the same principle. Assuming the bottom lip of your deck is flat, the lowest point on your mower is between the two wheels and the ramp will be longer than the wheelbase of your mower you can calculate the angle between the shed and the ramp that will cause the deck to strike. It will basically be an inverse tangent function (also called arctangent). Measure the distance between the two wheels, let's say it is 48". The point where the deck will come closest to the threshold should be at the midpoint between your wheels, 24", assuming the deck lip is the same height from the ground all the way around. Measure the height to your deck from this midpoint, let's say 4". Take the inverse tangent of this ratio, tan(-1)(4/24)=9.46 deg, where tan(-1) is arctangent. Now that tells you the relationship in angles between the two right triangles formed between the deck midpoint, the point on the floor at the midpoint and both wheels. The 9.46 is not your final angle but the angles in relation to the shed floor and ramp. To find the angle from the floor to the ramp you double the arctan angle and subtract from 180. 180-(2)(9.46)= ~161 deg. That would be the angle between the shed floor and ramp. So your formula would be something like 180 - (2)(arctan(y/x)), where y is the height to the lip of the deck at the midpoint and x is half the distance between the front and rear wheel.