We'll need to straighten the right bay's purlins a little at the front next spring. Not something I'm going to deal with this fall or winter though. I don't know who was measuring, but it was off on the right side.
Thank you! Next project will probably be redoing the garden shed. I'd love to say the next project will be a bigger detached garage, and it might be, but I'd hire that out, at least a majority of the work.
More work today on it. I added diagonal bracing at the top corners. I have a couple more to do but all the ones in the back are finished. You just can't see most of that work. I put up the right side outside wall, but I think I'll cut the spacing between the boards from 5.5" down to 3.5". That will put a gap between the 1x6 and the 2x6 side brace. I put up the 4x8 plywood as a wall I figured I had it, and might as well use it. Tomorrow I can make the other inside wall, do more bracing, start filling the shed, moving wood up to the patio, and build a ramp to get the tractor under the roof in the right bay.
Thank you! Thanks to everyone here! I appreciate all the comments and advice! Very relieved. Now I need to get motivated to get some more work done on it today.
Ok. Motivation happened. I got more upper corner bracing done. That's a face cord of mostly sugar maple, with a little ash in there too. I don't like to put more than a face cord in the trailer to haul on the lawn. Those narrow trailer tires will dig in to my lawn. This was uncovered since I split it this past winter so I wanted to get it under cover. It's going to rain tomorrow so I wanted to get some wood into the shed and get the tractor under a roof. I've got another half load of the sugar maple left to get under cover. Maybe I'll get that done tomorrow evening if it isn't raining then. I also didn't want to put too much in the shed as I don't have a back wall brace on yet. I don't know if I'm going to put more than the 2x6 mid beam on the back of each bay anyways. The wood when stacked like it is, can't go anywhere, especially with a 2x6 up 4 feet from the floor. What's nice is that trailer is the same level as the floor of the shed, so I can walk right off the deck into the trailer bed and back really easily. Didn't plan on that, but that's a nice feature.
The wife said no more wood brought home until I get the shed up. Well... I saw some mulberry and ash free for the taking recently, very close too. It was not even bucked and left in length. Which is great as we all know what happens when others cut the wood up.... Hmmmm.
Horkn I see you have horizontal boards on the right side of the shed. Wouldn't that allow for wood to poke out of or fall out of the shed? The walls I built in my wood shed are vertical where I stack the wood.
Hayden loves running around in the wood shed. He's already got a good part of our king sized bed, plus the "timeshare", a big wire crate with his dog bed. It's called the timeshare because Badger goes into it and sleeps in there too. Badger isn't a crate dog. He hated the crate as a pup the few times we tried to crate him. So it's pretty funny that he goes in all on his own. Now a really warm spot, that will happen this week. Probably Thursday night as it will get cold enough then.
Yeah, they are 5.5" wide boards and currently 5.5" wide gaps. I'm going to re space them to be 3.5" gaps using 2x4 chunks the tall way. As they are, I really don't think any splits will fall through, but I don't want the visual effect with that 2x6 that is a structural beam that just happened to line up with having no gap between it and the 1x6 below it. My guy that sharpens my chains has a portable mill and 3/4" rough milled ash already cut up. I think most of it isn't that long. I'll find out what he has and what he wants. If he's got enough, and at the right price, I my on do the whole outside of the shed with it, vertically or horizontal. Depends what he has.
The guy wants $15 for 3/4" thick 8" wide and 10' long ash boards. Pass. I can buy 8' pine 1x4"s for $2 at Menards. 12' ers are $4 and 6 footers are like 1.75 each. I'll need to do the math, as to how many I'd need, but it's certainly less than the ash.
Absolutely. As I'm sure you know they are really extremely well built. It used to tow a full cord at a time of green high BTU hardwood up the hills at my parents old house. With a slammer insert and a non efficient add on wood burner for the duct system in a 4000 sq ft house with 20' cathedral ceilings, that house are firewood like you'd imagine. The original ( well almost original) kt17 series 2 engine lasted until about 2 years ago. I swapped in a magnum 18 when the kt17 broke a rod. I've got a thread here on FHC about it. Here it is Ariens GT17 garden tractor repower My father bought it new in 84. I have driven the GT17 since a couple years after he got it. So that tractor and I go way back. It will probably outlast me. It's already 36 yrs old.
I would worry that 1 x boards wouldn't take the pressure of the stack across an 8' span if the stack really shifted so that it was trying to "blow it out" the side...unless you plan to crib against the walls. My racks are 4' wide and 5.5' tall, the uprights are PT 2x4's and they bulge out pretty good when the rack has been loaded up for a few months or more, even with the top tied together with plumbers tape...hasn't broke yet, but I bet one will sooner or later. See if I can find a pic...ok, here...they were still brand new in this pic.
