I posted a picture or two in other threads about a shed I'm putting up, but I thought I'd post a couple more showing a little more detail about it. It's a 8x12 pole shed. Not quite half of the wood was free from the a pile of 2x6 and 2x12 lumber someone dumped at the tree dump! A couple were too warped to use but most were in good condition. I started the project late last spring and it's been going at a snails pace since then. Now I'd like to get more of its done so I can at least get some of the equipment out of the weather before it gets bad. I used the free wood them for the wall purlins and roof joists and the beam for the open end. Just recently a job we were working on had some excess steel roofing they were just going to scrap. I mentioned that I could use them but I wasn't going to be back to our office where the project was, in time to get the sheets. Withiut me knowing a couple of my coworkers, on their lunch hour, went out and snagged the steel for me! Not knowing how many I needed they grabbed everything they had ....all 17- 12' sheets! My little shed only needed 4-8' sheets so it looks like I have plenty for another project or two! It was super nice of them to do that for me. I got around to cutting 4 of the sheets down today. I bought an Irwin carbide blade for my circular saw made for cutting steel. Worked great! I hope to work on putting these up and getting more of the siding up tomorrow and over the weekend. I'll post more pictures of the build later for anyone interested.
Prime time scrounge !! Snow should slide right off. Ell yes we're interested. !!!!!!!!!!! A new dried in wood shed it cause for celebration here A picture of a new , dried in wood shed would be, is , always will be an "Outstanding Post " !!! PS, we typically look for woodsheds in the "wood pile" I almsot missed this
Lol. OK here goes. I hand dug half of the posts and the other half I borrowed the company auger to finish them. It's an Earthquake from Menards and so far has worked good. I will give you one guess whether I liked the manual way or the auger better. Here is a picture setting a couple of the posts. On the ground is some of the lumber that I found at the tree dump. Here its starting to take shape. The overhang was a bit extreme at this stage At this point the only wood I had bought was the 4x4s.
Nice work Schlot! Looks great and that will be really nice when winter hits and so much stuff is protected!
Looking good I see you have a level in the picture, so it's square, plumb , level, & angle braced Buried post for the wind. Looks built stout ! Gonna be Awesome with a metal roof & full of wood
jeez, half houses I work on I swear guys that built them did not know what a level was for.... When I bought my house real estate agent thought I was as I spun marbles on all floor. and brought a level with me my ground is frozen now so finishing wife projects inside
Great start schlot. Wish I'd had an auger when I built mine. If I may offer a suggestion........shift some of that overhang to the rear. I hate the splashback on the back of my shed from rain and melting snow. Having some on the front helps keep rain and snow out too.
Looking great, The useful items people find at wood dumps just kills me that its there. None around these parts that I know of.
+1 Mine does the same, Keep saying I'm gonna put on a rain gutter on the back, but it's just firewood ( Did I say that out loud ? )
That auger was sweet to use! Wish I used it on all the holes. I did put on an eave extender roof trim piece on the back, hopefully it will help some.
Here I am trying to look like I know what I'm doing with the level Canadian border VT I decided to use the 2x6 as wall purlins and as with anything I build it tends to be pretty stout bogydave. I put the purlins on so there was about 9" of space between them since I decided to use T1-11 siding. That way I could keep the edge nailing spacing nice and tight with 2 nails in each purlin I decided this would be only for equipment, and not wood. A dedicated wood shed is in the future, so I trimmed off the joist but still went with an 8" overhang on the front. One thing I ran into was that I bought all the 4x4s 12 at the same time. Unfortunately I didn't get around to putting the front ones in right away so they twisted pretty bad, so I had to do some adjusting with the purlins at the front corners.
Here is after a couple pieces of siding have been installed, with Doug's help of course. I also have the eave extender trim up. It's just about a 3" extension.
Great progress - looking good! If you ever have the yen to come over to NH, I need another shed . . .
