This past weekend, I decided to do a project that has been on my list for awhile. When I originally built the woodshed, I made it 24' long x 6' wide. I process my wood to 20" lengths, and three rows 6.5' high came out to 6 full cords. A typical winter I burn between 7 and 8 cords, so I immediately regretted not making it bigger. I had to set a couple footings. Ideally I should have used 4' deep sonotubes, but I really didn't want to go through all the extra work. I also used these style blocks for the existing woodshed which is a couple years old now, having gone through a full winter and with multiple thousands of lbs in it for months on end. Once the blocks were strung straight, and leveled, the frame went pretty quickly. All finished up ready to go I do still need to do the dripedge, shingles, and trim coil brown metal
I was even able to fill it up on Sunday morning. I started at 7am, and by 10:05 Id stacked the 2 cords plus the little extra I had to redo from the old ends. That was with stopping for breakfast for about 15-20 minutes. The 1/3rd cord Kioti fork box sure came in handy
This pleases me. Hope you stayed hydrated! This was a helluva project for such an intensely hot weekend.
Once trimmed out one would never know it was added onto. Nice thing is if you ever decide to go bigger, it can go both left and/or right with the same sized bays. Bacon and eggs look tasty! Are those mini blueberry muffins?
Yes it was. At 7am it was about 70 degrees, by 10am it was up to 80 and climbing. I was hell bent on finishing early.
Nice! Cant beat home made. How were those roof shingles to get apart? PITA breaking the seals although can be easier in the hot weather.
At first i couldnt understand why you wrapped the trim with coil, but with shingles there was no way to project to protect it like you would with metal roofing unless you plumb cut the end, but i like the look of the square ended rafter. Very eye appealing structure.
That's got to be a satisfying way to spend the weekend! So this must be a shed just for what you are going to burn this upcoming winter...the rest of your "3 year plan" inventory is stacked elsewhere?
I have another 8 cords in IBC totes for this winter. See here for that thread No more playing around This woodshed wood will be for winter of 21/22. Its mostly Oak other than the yellow wood in the row nearest the front which is Pine. I'm not sure what I will do for my third year. I'm thinking more IBC totes, depending on how I like that system. Definitely less handling of wood.
