All the wood is old crossarms from work, the roofing came was in my brother in laws barn when he bought his place. The arms we just trash but if you take your time you can get good ones. 20 bucks for the roofing and the rest of the cost was screws. It's a little out of square but these where my helpers. and my supervisor slept in his stroller most of the time he was around.
Stinny what is your height on the front and your roof pitch. Think i will draw me a sketch and price out materials.. Love the little shed that is attached.
That shed was here when we bought the place and was at a different angle. My son and I swung it parallel to the stonewall behind and I added the woodshed to it, matching the top of my new rafters to the top of the old shingles on the shed. That way, my metal roofing stayed the same all the way across. I still have to add a piece of trim that goes across the top front. That front header is about 8 feet up and the back is around 6.
A good supervisor lets his men work, and doesn't push them too hard! Nice work on the shed. My building skills are slightly less than desirable. If I even attempt to build the shed this year, it will prolly result in me losing my temper and throwing inanimate objects across the yard ( just ask my shovel about the ground mole incident of 2014).
Looks great. I wish I had snagged about 30 8 footers and a dozen 10's before I retired. They are the best for cheap buildings.
Frank, that is the way with most pictures. We usually click on "thumbnail" which posts smaller pictures. In this way we also help the forum by not taking up as much space.
If you have the "wanna n' gonna" attitude along with the funds needed, there are plenty of folks on here, myself included, who would be happy to help with tips and tricks along the way, if you needed them. You could build a house, from all of the basics you'll learn and do building a woodshed.
On the shed posted by the OP, I can't help but notice it needs some eave troughs. I've seen others post pictures of wood sheds and I see that water will come down where they will be standing while getting wood out. There is something about winter that happens most years; it freezes. Water turns very hard at that time and it tends to get a bit slippery. In addition, what if it is raining when someone wants to get wood. Even a light rain would make a fellow feel like he is being dunked with roof water falling on him. Another thing you fellows might consider is a carport. The steel carports that are for sale it seem almost everywhere. I've seen a few and they work out really nice. Swags put one up last year so you could look up his thread where he loaded it. In our case, we considered putting up a carport for our car and then stacking wood around on the 3 sides. In the end we did not do that but still may. What we did was to buy a carport but also added sides, windows, walk-in door and 2 overhead doors. We stack 2 1/2 or up to 3 cord of wood in it during October and usually by the end of burning season it is all gone so we have that space to use in the summer months. Here are pictures of the wood inside and both ends of the carport/barn.
I was thinking along the same lines as the pre-fab carports. Another idea would be a horse run-in that you see at those shed places. This 9x16 is in my area for $1700. (Without the tack room pictured) other sizes avail too.
First class firewood shed Stinny. You should show them the cool plastic/PVC curtains too. What do you do in that little building attachment?
Here's a wide shot of mine. The uprights are powerpoles buried 3ft deep, the cross beams are cull 2x12's i got from a lumber yard and the roof is made of 5x10 skids with a billboard tarp on top for waterproofing. Each section is roughly 9x16 inside the poles. It aint pretty but it get's the job done. Not to mention it's gonna take a bulldozer to take the dang thing down.
10x50 about 20 cords I'm not much of a carpenter, so I figured there wasn't much point in starting with nice straight and square lumber, cause the shed wasn't going to end up either straight or square. I had a supervisor too An uglies bin in the middle Here's the roof going on The roof is not finished yet.
Here is a little shed I drew up for someone on another forum... can be adjusted to different sizes.... this is what I do for a living.
Basically what I did, except it's 10' deep and no purlins. I did OSB and shingles. Pretty much the only differences. Oh, and mine has a 1' overhang front and back. Bogy's is very cool....but he seems to be AWOL lately. The thought of dealing with tarps and ice and snow makes me cringe now that I have the shed.
I would appreciate that! I'm not even sure where to begin. Sometimes I feel like I could do it, other times it seems too overwhelming.
