Just some woodshed pics

sublime68charger · December 01, 2020, 04:21:53 PM

this is my wood shed for the year its not pretty or glamour's as all the other's but as long as it blocks the wind and sheds the snow/rain.

it was a quick setup that is for sure.
level off some dirt put down a row of cement blocks put some landscape timbers on top of blocks. Put ground anchors inside of blocks and cable down the landscape timbers and the legs of the garage in a box. Put up lattice inside of pipe frame work of shed to contain any wood that wants to roll off of stack and put tarp on, Put down pallets and some 1/4 plywood in the middle for the wheel barrow to travel on and fill with wood for the year.

this is for Central Boiler 760HDX

barbender · December 01, 2020, 06:39:13 PM

Wurman, it is surprising how many miss that point on drainage. I used to do a lot of foundation drainage retros with my Grandpa. In that time and since, I've seen people throw a lot of money and effort at wet basements, I usually start with "why don't we grade the yard away from the house?"🤦🏻‍♂️

Nathan4104 · December 02, 2020, 01:40:01 PM

Quote from: sublime68charger on December 01, 2020, 04:21:53 PM
this is my wood shed for the year its not pretty or glamour's as all the other's but as long as it blocks the wind and sheds the snow/rain.

it was a quick setup that is for sure.
level off some dirt put down a row of cement blocks put some landscape timbers on top of blocks. Put ground anchors inside of blocks and cable down the landscape timbers and the legs of the garage in a box. Put up lattice inside of pipe frame work of shed to contain any wood that wants to roll off of stack and put tarp on, Put down pallets and some 1/4 plywood in the middle for the wheel barrow to travel on and fill with wood for the year.

this is for Central Boiler 760HDX

I've seen people try tarp sheds for wood and not to discourage you, but.....
Keep the end open. Both of you can. Any moisture inside (think ground) WILL condensate on the inside, then drip. It will stay humid in there is what I'm getting at.
Let the wind blow through!
Keep the snow off the roof, then away from the sides as it will cave it in either way with enough...
I loved these sheds at one time. Until I found 2 wood customers loading them up, (with greenish or rain soaked wood) closing the doors then wondering why their wood wouldn't burn a month or 2 later.

mike_belben · December 02, 2020, 03:00:21 PM

Same here. Ive tried drying firewood a lot of ways. Other than the kiln i built, nothing has been faster than piling it in the open air and sun with tin over the top thats got a slope and generous overhang.

4 months of wind and sun and itll burn pretty good. I do 2 rows.. The middle wont dry very good if you do 3 or more.

sublime68charger · December 02, 2020, 04:13:21 PM

Quote from: Nathan4104 on December 02, 2020, 01:40:01 PM
Quote from: sublime68charger on December 01, 2020, 04:21:53 PM
this is my wood shed for the year its not pretty or glamour's as all the other's but as long as it blocks the wind and sheds the snow/rain.

it was a quick setup that is for sure.
level off some dirt put down a row of cement blocks put some landscape timbers on top of blocks. Put ground anchors inside of blocks and cable down the landscape timbers and the legs of the garage in a box. Put up lattice inside of pipe frame work of shed to contain any wood that wants to roll off of stack and put tarp on, Put down pallets and some 1/4 plywood in the middle for the wheel barrow to travel on and fill with wood for the year.

this is for Central Boiler 760HDX

I've seen people try tarp sheds for wood and not to discourage you, but.....
Keep the end open. Both of you can. Any moisture inside (think ground) WILL condensate on the inside, then drip. It will stay humid in there is what I'm getting at.
Let the wind blow through!
Keep the snow off the roof, then away from the sides as it will cave it in either way with enough...
I loved these sheds at one time. Until I found 2 wood customers loading them up, (with greenish or rain soaked wood) closing the doors then wondering why their wood wouldn't burn a month or 2 later.

the wood in this shed should all be dry when it got put into this shed.
The little sticks was all cut and stacked on pallets this spring in 4' stick sections that then had sunlight and wind all summer long. 98% of said sticks have been tree tops laying on the ground the last 4 from a selective harvest done on the family wood lot or have been dead standing trees that finally fell over and got cleaned up.
so all the wood in this shed is dry and it's not like the shed is air tight at all.

sublime68charger · December 02, 2020, 04:18:09 PM

if I get 2-3 years out of this shed I'll be happy I have plans to use some old curved pool walls set up a pavilion type with the pool walls being the roof of said pavilion which should give me a 20'x16 area to store wood under. that is the plan but I gotta have the time to construct such thing and I only got the stove installed back in October and the tarp shed was quick and fast and I'm hoping that it holds up for this year at least.

mike_belben · December 02, 2020, 10:27:38 PM

Trampoline frame and tin makes a pretty good hoop house btw.

tamarackman · December 11, 2020, 05:54:11 PM

Still some work to be done:

GRANITEstateMP · September 17, 2022, 08:04:05 PM

Not sure if I wanted to add this here or in the score of the day thread. I found this shed on clist last week.

Sorry for the crummy pic. It's made of pt, sonI grabbed it to repurpose it into a wood shed.

I did need to beef up one sleeper before digging in. I'm doing this with material kicking around here and the farm, aka on the cheap!

I grabbed some real low grade boards up at the farm, a couple twisty pt 2x4s I had and some leftover nails from some other projects.

got it done. Its not a beauty, neither am I, but it should hold a cord plus, and should outlast my ole pallets that I'm starting to go away from

Just got to add a few pt 4x4s under it and put it in place...oh, and fill it!
Shed was $100, maybe $25 in gas to get there, everything else was on hand, pretty happy with that! Well, maybe another $25, me and son did go out to lunch on the way home from grabbing it last week ;D

I have plans for a bigger shed, sometime this fall, but this was too good a deal to pass up

GRANITEstateMP · November 12, 2022, 03:59:39 PM

Got the shed 3/4 full before getting pulled off to other chores today

Still haven't had time to start building the big shed yet. 1 project at a time

GRANITEstateMP · April 17, 2023, 07:26:57 PM

Finally got to building the new woodshed. My buddy gets all the credit, he has a bunch similar, they use them for horse run ins, sheds, etc. We built them inside his shop on a super windy day, glad to be inside!

both outer walls ready to go up

got it standing on its own. Then we started on the next one and got some boards on the rear of the first one

I wasn't as good at remembering to take pics as I should have been :(

this was as far as we made it on day 1, had to move them out so he could get his rigs out the next day!

GRANITEstateMP · April 17, 2023, 07:29:56 PM

I was REALLY lax the next time when we finished off and moved my shed home. Probably good we didn't take any pics of moving it...

just got to put it in it new home, maybe that is a tomorrow project? Oh, and the fill it!

barbender · April 17, 2023, 08:49:37 PM

Lol yeah maybe it's better you didn't document the move, those pictures could be used against you in a court of law😁

Looks like it came out great👍

GRANITEstateMP · April 17, 2023, 10:23:34 PM

barbender, we were a strong in lower than legal limit, and maybe just a tickle bit wide...maybe

barbender · April 18, 2023, 12:01:16 AM

It sounds like it all balanced out then😁

cutterboy · April 18, 2023, 06:59:22 AM

Nice job Gstate.

GRANITEstateMP · November 17, 2023, 06:12:29 PM

Something is wrong with my first big firewood shed. I dumped wood in front of it, but it hasn't stacked itself..... YET

GRANITEstateMP · November 17, 2023, 06:22:59 PM

Out with the old and in with the new. My firewood pallets have about reached the end of there useful life. Time to flatten the area out for a new shed.

As you can see the pallet had a bit of lean going on

trimmed up some branches and brush

and moved a racks worth of wood

we got the shed onto the property, now to move some material. I was recycled from a leach field replacement down the road.

level is a relative term

moved into place right before dark and rain last weekend

leveled up the shed and my buddy and me got the tin on. I need to borrow the skid steer and put a bit of 1.5in crusher in as a finish floor. After that time for wood!

I'd really like a 3rd shed, but I may need to build something to keep the wife happy first...maybe

cutterboy · November 18, 2023, 07:50:02 AM

Hey GsMP, I've noticed that those self loading wood sheds don't work very well. :D
Nice looking wood shed and a good place for you to sleep if you don't build something nice for your wife pretty soon. ;)
But seriously, good job with the wood sheds, nice to have firewood under cover.

GRANITEstateMP · November 18, 2023, 06:57:42 PM

cutter,

I've got a plan! I left some cookies in the shed tonight, we'll see if thrst helps the stacking elfs???

My buddy is the man with a plan behind these sheds. They are simple enough that even I feel like I'm contributing during the build! Best part is I'm into them pretty cheap too. We try to do 2 sheds at a whack. My buddy provided the logs, I traded a great local guy his labor on milling toward his cordwood, we both ended up happy. My only real "costs" were the fastners and tin roof. It's around $100 in hardware and $300 in roofing and screws.

I better fill the first two sheds before I try for number 3, or I'll be needing a floor, front door and a stove when wifie gives me the boot!

Wlmedley · November 19, 2023, 05:07:26 PM

Built this woodshed last winter thinking I might be able to sell it.Priced at $1000 and haven't had any takers so I moved it off my concrete build area and as soon as I split another 1/2 cord to finish filling my old shed I'll probably start filling this one.Not going to give it away and can't ever have to much wood.People around here don't burn wood like they used to.Don't know if they've gotten lazy or smart :laugh:

Don P · November 19, 2023, 05:09:20 PM

We built this shed this week. Needed a firewood shed now and lumber drying shed, really now but looking like later. I had three 8x16x18' beams from a job that fell thru so that made a nice start. The next beam will sit on top of the right end of this one and we'll keep going making a 3 bay shed... next time we're flush, metal roofing is around a buck a square foot here. DB went with Hawaiian blue. We gapped the vertical siding 2" between planks to let the air thru.

Wlmedley · November 19, 2023, 05:47:36 PM

Don ,if I had been smart I wouldn't have put battens on my shed.I sided it with green poplar siding and it had some pretty good gaps between the boards after they dried .Being I thought someone might buy it I made the mistake of building it for style not service kind of like Aunt Polly's spectacles.

GRANITEstateMP · November 20, 2023, 01:23:43 PM

My siding went up.green, waiting for the preordered air gaps to shoe up soon. I'll take all the drying aid I can get

GRANITEstateMP · December 16, 2023, 09:25:56 PM

The elfs never showed up to fill the shed, maybe they went on strike? Me and my dad got most of the forth cord in today. I think I'll do 1 more over sized cord into this shed, giving me a strong 5 cords, then start filling the other new shed

After putting up the last of that cord, I started cleaning up a few of my old pallet racks, wow, that shed came right on time. All the racks I went to move were junk! The burn pile is much bigger now, I guess that means I'll have to pencil shed 3 in after my next project is complete...