Building on a budget (zero) Rafter size

[Southside]

I can think of countless old buildings that were built like what you are doing that survived massive piles of snow growing up. As long as the roof kept the water off the lumber they never moved.

[Walnut Beast]

Looking good 👍 

[Ianab]

As long as the roof kept the water off the lumber they never moved.

That's the important thing for long term life. Keep wood dry and it stays intact for centuries. Let it get damp, and the clock starts ticking. Then some last 2 years, some last 30, but eventually the rot gets them.  

[Old Greenhorn]

Looks great Jeff! What's the spacing on the rafters, I think I missed that? What is your plan for purlins? Have any siding planned, or is that next year? You could hang tarps to keep the snow drifts to a minimum inside, just for the winter. I hear it can snow up there.

[Jeff]

I had cut one decent spruce log into full 6 by heavy 6/4 because the log size lent itself to that. My plan this morning is to split them into 3"  wide to use for purlins.  The rafters ended up around, 38" center to center. Im thinking the purlins every 2ft.

That is exactly my plan. If I can't get walls up before the weather croaks out on me, i have the big heavy duty tarp I covered everything with last winter. If I can get purlins up for the walls, I could use that for this year.

[Jeff]

Tomorrow I'll start triming ends. Have to saw perlins for the walls yet.



 

[Don P]

Make the upper one on the back wall a 2x12 

[Jeff]

Im actually thinking about cutting full 2" thick stock and plating the whole back wall. I can see a quad coming in hot, plus a solid wall will make a heck of a header.

[Jeff]

Hey, how about this. I put in a 2x6 treated bottom plate as a sill, then make a log wall on top of that? 3 side some more spruce and lag em in. I have a few hundred of those log screws.

[Jeff]

Back wall is 3" tamarack. I sawed the 6x6s in 2018  on my old property. Hauled the cedar home and built a fence leaving the tamarack for Gary. He never used it and it had been dead stacked 4 years. He said try it. Believe it or not, it was still plenty solid for this .


 

[Jeff]

We have roofage!



 

[Old Greenhorn]

 
You've needed that for a while. That HAS to feel pretty good!

[Don P]

Jeff, on the back wall, if you run angle braces from the center of the overhead beam out each way to either post then nail each siding board to those as you install them it'll help rack brace and support the roof.

[thecfarm]

Is that the end you will be driving into?
Nice picture. Did you paint them clouds? 

[sawmilllawyer]

Jeff, Looks like a pretty clean build site, or a cleaned up build site!!!Looks beefy enough for me but we don't get snow like that down here just high winds and ice storms, mainly.Keep up the good work.

[Jeff]

I have plans for diagonal bracing as I put the walls in. Found a $5 door at habitat that is going to be repurposed as part of a wall. 
There will be a slider that opens past that wall. Ill try to build the door to look like the door panel. The rest of the wall will be sided with the old 6/4 tamarack.

Mock-up.


 

 

 

 

[Jeff]

Here is da video

[barbender]

That's a great looking shed👍👍

[Jeff]

Coming along.  
This was end of day today. Cleaning ends up, trim, I still plan on some substantial diagonal bracing, then tarps for doors for this winter. Picked some up at harbor freight in the soo. I'm  ready for this to be done. Thought I broke my hand earlier, but it seems to be better after working all day with it.

 

 

 

 

 

[Old Greenhorn]

That looks SUPER! I love the way the door/window/wall came out. You have such a good eye for stuff like that!