Juego de demolicion

The closer I get to the house, more and more screws simply won't come out.  At first, I was just prying the boards off with a crowbar, but the crowbar kept getting stuck, and then I'd have pull out the other crowbar to unstick the first one, and then I couldn't get the second one out, and so on.  Each board, instead of taking a minute or two to remove, was taking ten. 

This, obviously, was an untenable state of affairs.  So I figured out a slightly different method of getting the boards off - I went underneath and started cutting the screws off with the sawzall.  It's still slower than being able to unscrew the screws, but I have a system now that allows me to remove them reasonably fast.  I smack the prybar between the screws that hold the decking to the joist, which gives me enough room to slide the sawzall blade in there, and then I just cut the screws.  Once I have all the decking separated from the joist, I can then remove the joist.

This, obviously, leads to a somewhat precarious bit of footing.  Both Steph and I nearly walked off the supported section about four times.  Pretty soon we're not going to be able to go out my "door"!

Another plug for a sawzall - if you own a home and you ever do any work on it, you need one of these. 
And, if you get yourself a juego de demolicion it'll cut through screws, nails, wood, pretty much anything you care to throw at it.  I couldn't do this job without it.