Just some woodshed pics

[ButchC]

I admire member Woodshed's building every time he posts a picture of it. I can only wish I had that talent. Here is mine, I built the back half 2 years ago and the front last summer. I think it is done now other than adding one sliding door to the open end to help keep the snow out. We burn about half sawmill slab which is obtained very cheaply and half cut split wood. The Woodmaster 4400 is on season 14, no leaks and running the original TACO 011 pump, fingers are now crossed.  Repairs have been one blower motor, one snap disk and had to replace the stack last year. This is the second installation for it as we moved 5 years ago, both had the 4400 half in the shed. It is curreny 225' from the basement wall. Good house keeping is practiced around the stove. Insurance guy was here for some storm damage and be suggested a fire proof material to the right of the stove, other than that he gave it a thumbs up. 


 

 

 

 

[thecfarm]

I like it!!! Your wood is out of the weather.

[barbender]

I like it too! My insurance company won't let me set my owb up like that👎

[hedgerow]

Nice setup Butch. I ended up with a Garn because my insurance company wouldn't let me have a OWB in a shed like that. I didn't want to stand outside and load the boiler all the time and I wanted to be able to have a dump trailer full of wood in the shed to load the boiler. So I bought a Garn that was UL listed for inside and put it in a small shed in my pole shed. Its nice to stand inside out of the elements while loading. Just a side note I really like that homemade firewood processor you built. Have a good winter. Its been a whole lot nicer here than a year ago. 

[Logging logginglogging]

Don't ask the insurance co... just do it.... who insures a wood shed?

[Wood Shed]

ButchC,
Once you have a woodshed you wonder how we ever got along without one but we did.  I like your large doors and how your OWB is setting in the woodshed.  IF I ran heat to my old barn where my shop is it would be a 200-300ft. run at least, do not see that ever happening.

My OWB is in standby for now while we are away, left circulator pump run and backup oil boiler (in house)  running and hopefully will keep things from freezing.  

[Oliver05262]

I built this last summer; got it full of wood now. Still working off the pile in the back of the shop. Just burn wood to heat the shop, but I do have a stove in the basement of the house for emergency. Overbuilt by a lot, but I decided I'm only going around this life once, and I'll do it right.
8' X 16'-- the back wall is 6'high. Stone pad underneath with 3 -- 6" X 6" sleepers. PT floor framing with 2X8 hemlock deck boards. The rest is pine with a steel roof.
 

[cutterboy]

Oliver, that's a nice looking shed. Great job. Nice looking country as well.

[Bruno of NH]

Oliver
Great looking shed 
Wonderful work

[WV Sawmiller]

   I built mine 2 years ago. Nothing as fancy as the rest here but it was cheap to build. Locust uprights off my property and lumber sawed on my mill off my place. Roof is 12' X 15' GalvAlum from my feed dealer and other than nails only expense incurred.


 

[chet]

Hard ta believe it's been already 20 years since I built this one.  

[stanwelch]

Real nice yoopershed chet 8)

[mart]

Here's mine. I used to have just some pallets and the side and ends open. The old pallets were getting bad and dangerous to walk on. The flooring and siding is all cottonwood. The joists are all spruce treated with Copper Green. I have it full now. Holds right at 5.5 cord.

[Wood Shed]

mart,

Your elevated floor is a great idea, wish I had done that on my wood shed, the drying process would be so much faster.

[mart]

Thanks. My old floor was just pallets on the ground. After my foot went through one last winter I resolved to build a better floor. Then figured a nice floor ought to have some siding. The prevailing wind comes from opposite direction, hitting the back of the shed. 

[JJinAK]

@mart- Nice looking shed.  What are the dimensions?

JJ

[mart]

It is 6.5 wide and 16 foot long. Low side is 6.5 foot high, 8 foot on the high side.

[PoginyHill]

Adding to the variety of woodsheds out there. Built this a couple years ago when I put in our OWB. Burn about 12 cord/year. Currently have about 24 cords in there with enough room to garage my tractor. The outside "walls" total about 12 cords and I like to leave those to keep the worst of the weather out. Firewood sets on 4X4s. Has collected some water during winter thaw and in the spring, but working on better drainage. We'll see if this year is better. (notice the drain grate along edge in front of tractor)




 

 

[thecfarm]

Probably too late now, but a foot of gravel would solve the water problems.
I want to build something next year. A foot of gravel will be going down first. One thing I know, start out high, it never goes up.

[PoginyHill]

Probably too late now, but a foot of gravel would solve the water problems.

I put two loads of gravel down, which was about 12". One end is about ground level (was lower) and the other above grade (was level). Not an issue with thawed ground, but the frozen stuff is a different story in winter and spring. I have one last thing to do this fall to divert surface water. Hoping it'll be the final fix.

[cutterboy]

PoginyHill, that is a humdinger of a woodshed. Very nice.

[mike_belben]

Thats a heck of a woodpile!


Just throwing this out there.. Im on clay that doesnt perc at all, so its like what you guys deal with when frozen, all the time.  


Drainage here is by surface slope runoff or evaporation only so ya really gotta get it right the first time.  Dont flatten the base then gravel it. Youll just have standing water.  Flat clay is a trainwreck. Standing water creates a bottomless slake soup.  


Shape your base dirt to have a sink and drainage path from the interior, like an above ground swimming pool with a cherry stem.   And either berms or trenches to redirect any higher elevation runoff into your exit path.  I do the finishing touches in the pouring rain to be certain it works.  


Then put down a coarse rock with lots of voids. I like 1-3 inch base.   level and compact it.  Now put down a breathable fabric to keep the fines and mud and bark from filling the voids and stopping this drainage.  Its like building on a brillo pad sorta.  Spread the crusher run ontop, level and compact.  

[PoginyHill]

Thanks, Cutterboy. it was a fun project.
I hear ya, Mike. I live on heavy clay as well. You'd think I have dealing with it down pat by now. Unfortunately no. It's still teaching me "who's the boss" every day.

[Wudman]

I remember walking into my first day of "Road Location" class in college.  The Professor was Thomas ("Doc") Walbridge.  He was an old industry guy that made his way to academia.  He wrote on the board.........

"There are three keys to a good road;
1. Drainage
2. Drainage
3. Drainage"

After 30 years in the business, I will add a fourth.  That is sunlight.  Sunshine is cheaper than rock. ;D

Wudman 

[Wood Shed]

If I ever get my woodshed emptied I will be adding gravel and 4x4's, really like that idea.