New Home For My Wood-Mizer LT15

WDH · September 30, 2011, 08:25:02 PM

Michael,

Filling it with lumber is exactly the plan! There will be power, and what is a snow load :D.

fat olde elf · October 01, 2011, 12:30:04 AM

Gee, the guy retires and gets a great new shed. Way to go Danny !! Happy for you.

tcsmpsi · October 01, 2011, 06:36:11 AM

Quote from: WDH on September 30, 2011, 08:25:02 PM
Michael,

Filling it with lumber is exactly the plan! There will be power, and what is a snow load :D.

Yeah...and then, one day in the too near future, it gets full. Then, all the free space and aspirations virtually limitless space and twinkle-eyed of 'that will go there, this will go here, and....suddenly!...becomes 'where in the blazes am I going to stack this?' :D

But then, you have limitless add-on potential. ;)

Ok...enough of this tomfoolery. That mighty-fine looking shed/woodcastle needs starting up. :D

Norm · October 01, 2011, 08:07:29 AM

Well I hate to be the bearer of bad news but that roof slope is never going to hold up under a heavy snow load. ;D

clww · October 01, 2011, 08:14:57 AM

Great looking and sturdy saw shed, WDH! 8)

zopi · October 01, 2011, 09:22:05 AM

I am still laughing about the snow load on georgia...WDH, you ought to put keepers on that roof to keep the snow from sliding off...better insulation you know...at these rates an icicle is worth a buck or two a foot.. lol

red · October 01, 2011, 09:25:32 AM

must be a heated roof

zopi · October 01, 2011, 09:32:04 AM

The thing about the icicles is an old yankee joke...came out of a book called a reverence for wood, by Eric Sloan...good book..

Heated roof...well, it makes sense, if you dry your stickers up in the rafters.. lol

WDH · October 01, 2011, 08:05:44 PM

That 26 guage steel is pretty stout. When the 1" blizzard howls in, I might be OK

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Paul,

Retirement is another term for spending money that you don't have :D.

zopi · October 01, 2011, 08:42:28 PM

Shedmizer..

Mooseherder · October 01, 2011, 08:44:37 PM

Shedenvy :D

ljmathias · October 03, 2011, 07:23:38 AM

You all can make fun of our "snow load" all day, but it happens. Been in Mississippi 30 years now and we've had real snow at least a couple of times- maybe even 6" last time. Dang near brought the house down it was so heavy! ;D

Lj

WDH · October 03, 2011, 07:52:00 AM

The most we had here was 13" in 1973. Normally, if it sticks at all, we get 2 to 3" at most.

tcsmpsi · October 03, 2011, 02:42:01 PM

You might end up with a major snow load as is this one...

Major East Texas snow. :D

zopi · October 03, 2011, 05:34:43 PM

What, 113 days of trie digit temps this summer? That blizzard comes through and the cattle will stick to the ground and people will freeze to death in quarter inch snow drifts...

DR Buck · October 03, 2011, 06:19:43 PM

Danny that shed is way to large for an LT 15. I think it's high time you upgrade to an LT 40 hydraulic. ;)

OneWithWood · October 03, 2011, 07:21:36 PM

Very nice shed there, Danny boy! 8)

I am glad to see you are not sitting on your duff during 'retirement' and have come up with a good plan for sanity and space...

WDH · October 03, 2011, 08:15:47 PM

Looks like I have the space, but not sure about the sanity :D.

Dave Shepard · October 03, 2011, 09:58:04 PM

You don't need any sanity, that would get in the way of an LT40 purchase. ;)

isawlogs · October 03, 2011, 10:49:16 PM

Danny you got yourself one nice shed.
I have put more then one of that type building up when I worked the high steel, every one of them I hated with a passion until one had the cross rods in them. Scary as hell to put up, those Z girders where like spaghetti and where always bolted together about a foot further then your fingers could reach... Many arenas are built like your shed , I aint worried none about da snow load. I just know you have a snow bucket hidding somewheres that you don't want us to see ;D

SwampDonkey · October 04, 2011, 04:31:59 AM

That's a nice shed there for sure. Now that you have the saw shed, maybe a new lumber shed next to it is in order. ;D

Not that I would wish it on anyone, but them 13" of wet snow can put a real hurt on a shed with that pitch. ;)

Nice investment.

isawlogs · October 04, 2011, 09:39:17 AM

Danny ,
Normaly there would be a set of cross bracing rods on two side bays to plumb and stiffen the building up , was this building drawn up with out them intentionaly or where they not put on ? Maybe they don't show up in the pics, just wondering

metalspinner · October 04, 2011, 12:56:53 PM

I agree with DR_Buck, that LT15 will look too iddy-biddy in that cavernous shed. Time to upgrade! :D

How about an overhead trolly? Tha would come in handy.

WDH · October 04, 2011, 09:18:02 PM

I can see that I should have consulted with this group to get advice before I made the move. That way, I could have spent a whack more money with an overhead conveyor system, a new hydraulic mill, a 12:12 pitch roof for max snow load, and heck, lets throw a new edger/optimizer in there as well :D.

Marcel,

The only stiffeners are cables that you can see in this pic. Also, the girder posts are reinforced with a second I-beam that you can see in the pic to provide wind resistance.

isawlogs · October 05, 2011, 12:08:34 AM

They are a nice building , those wires stiffens them up quite a bit. On the larger size buildings these would be rods with threaded ends.
I like the post stiffeners, you have one of the most solide mill sheds I have seeing on here !!!!