12'x8' footprint with a 9'-10' roof. 24" roof overhang on the low side, and about 20" on the high side. Holds about 7 cords, or about 1.5 years of heat for my house. If the design looks a little "off" it's because I used a lot of recycled materials, including broken down wooden shipping crates, metal roofing scraps left over from my pole barn build almost a decade ago, and a lot of treated lumber that has been sitting in my garage for years and was anything but straight. I did buy 16' 4x6 posts which I dropped 4 feet in the ground and set in Quikrete. 2x12s for the truss headers was an overkill, but I already had them on hand and they sure did stiffen up the frame. I didn't feel like notching the trusses so I used lag bolts to attach one to each side of the posts, and used truss hangers for the ones in between posts. 2x6 trusses with broken down shipping crates on top of them for the roof, then the patchwork of metal on top. Only thing left to do is to finish adding trim around the roof edge (like the black piece of metal in the photo.) The wood is just stacked on the ground with a few IBC cages inside for the hard to stack pieces. It's pretty basic but only cost about $300 in lumber not counting a bunch of stuff I already had on hand. Should keep the snow and rain off the wood in the winter.
Looks fantastic from here. So much nicer than my shed, oh wait, I'm too lazy to build one. It does look great on my end and maybe someday can build my own.
Thanks, everyone. I'd like to have all my wood under a roof. But a shed big enough to hold 35-40 cords would be quite a project. I ought to be able to double this one in size next year by building the mirror image next to it with a ridge cap to connect the two halves of the roof.
I love it! Nice job in using repurposed materials. Have some minor finishing touches to do on mine yet even though its 3/4 full of wood.
$ 300 in lumber to hold 7 cords is way cheaper per cord than my woodshed I built a couple of years ago cost me. Nice job!
Nice! Certainly nothing wrong with a scrounged materials shed! Here's mine from a few years ago...then I did one for my sister the next year too! Is third time a charm? Yet another woodshed build...
