So I finally talked my father in law in too getting a wood stove. He went with a Buck 18. He had about a face cord of wood to try to make it through the winter. He finally agreed with me in the importance of dry wood. So this weekend I packed the truck up with some tools and the family and we went to build him a wood shed. Its 8x12 ft and 6 ft deep. I didn't get the metal on the roof because I didn't get it ordered, but thats gonna be within the next couple of weeks. He is going to get some plastic and gravel on the base and landscape timbers to get the wood of the ground. A little stain and time to fill it up.
Nice looking shed... and good on you for getting your Father in Law to understand the importance of burning dry wood...
Nice Joe! That will suite him well. How much do you think he'll burn? 2-3 cord in your area seem about par?
Interesting that you built it to follow the contour of the land. My OCD wouldn't let me do that without leveling the ground first. But functionally, it looks great.
Yep about 2 cords is probably what he will burn. We are in east Tennessee. The weather isn't nearly as brutal as what some get. 2 or 3 flakes of snow and the cities shut down. Everybody has to run to the store to get there milk and bread for their milk sandwiches.
Trust me I am with you all the way with the leveling of the ground. However, it would have had to been done by hand and he lives on a mountain of slate rock. And the amount of digging that it would have required would have been too much. I have gotten used to building my sheds and coops on hills. We live in the mountains and there really isn't anywhere thats really flat here so we just kinda make due.
It's a great looking shed. It will provide years and years of service. Both my parents were from rural Alabama. They grew up in the depression. It was simply a way of life. I was then raised the same way. It works.
LOL! Had some friends that used to live near Dandridge. You're in a beautiful area! Milk sammiches are overrated.
Joe, it is great you convinced him about the importance of good dry wood. He will be thanking you again later for this.
Im about 45 minutes south of Dandrige. I can see the Smokey Mountains from my back porch. I am very blessed to live where I live. And I never did aquire a taste for milk sandwiches. Im more of a deer steak and potato kind guy!
4.5 cords is what that shed equates to. I think that's going to work great. After you get him on the rotation of 2 years with of dry wood, maybe start the wood the first year out of the shed, just top covered after summer. That way each year he'll have wood that's seasoned for 3 years, every year.
