My friend has an outdoor boiler and asked if I would help design and build a covered woodshed for him. He's a great guy so of course I said yes. He really liked my outdoor bar build and wanted something similar but on a larger scale for his boiler wood. He will be clearing up the piles in his yard and filling up the shed this winter. We raced to beat the cold but we didn't need to it hast gotten all that cold and has hardly snowed at all this year. We had a few major challenges such as grade being 17" off from the front left to the back right so we ended up deciding to use taller posts. The design changed a lot in process from a wood shed into a woodshed with covered trailer parking on the south end for his dump trailer and firewood on the north end. It was originally going to be 12' x 16' and ended up 12 'x 26' with a 12/2 pitch on the roof in the end. He decided he will fix the grade next year and pour a stone bed inside. That led to a few changes as well. I used a brain breaking amount of math to determine post locations based on where he wants access points in the future. Theres a really good method I've used on a few other builds called rise and run to get a perfectly square layout and it paid off on his woodshed. We started to dig the holes with a hand electric post hole digger that a friend owns and it usually works well but this soil was absolutely rock hard and full of field stones so on a whim I called a rental place on a Sunday and they where actually open! Skid steer to the rescue! We poured concrete around the posts then covered the holes back in after it set. The structure is rock solid with no play at all.
Nice build guys. Yeah digging is my least favorite task where needed. I rented a two man unit when i built my deck years backs and with our rocky soil it was still a major PITA. Hoping your brain heals up soon Pete. Cant have a moderator down and out!
Thanks! The post hole digger my friend bought was an earthquake brand cheap little Chinese unit. It has a clutch so it doesn't twirl you around but it will still give ya whiplash when it hits a rock even with two people on it. I decided from now on RENTAL all the way! That thing chucks rocks lol
When I use to build pole barns, we had a job where it must have been an old farm waste pit.. One hole hit a tire down about 2 feet. We thought the other trash we were hitting was a pita until that hole.
Looks good Pete! You want to talk about PITA hole drilling...my employer had a solar field built on an old landfill...and just so we are all on the same page here...that's about 10 acres of just about anything, but plenty of construction debris...and lots of concrete! Those poor saps that got stuck with drilling the anchor holes...thousands of anchor holes...they were out there for weeks...even through Thanksgiving, because they were contractors, and very, very, behind.
I had that happen on my bar build there’s a corner with some kind of concrete slab that’s so thick I I couldn’t drill through it and I wasn’t about to dig it up so It became a corner foundation mount
Round here we have a service you can call before you did. Usually advisable especially when using equipment. Michigan Utility Notification Center - MISS DIG System
Nope no gas lines, power lines or water lines it’s been checked and it’s way out by the field in the country. It’s also not in a drainfield or septic field.
Couple years ago I was helping dig holes for a deck for a friend. the 811 had been called and all. we’d been pulling concrete chunk fill out of holes etc for a lot of them. the last one, it wasn’t a concrete chunk…..
