It's carpentry but it's still a project. I've wanted one of these for awhile and finally built one over the last couple of days. I still need to add the battens and stain it but thought I would show it as is now.
The dimensions are 4' x 4', 7' studs and a 6'6" tall x 24" door opening. The quarter moon is painted on vs a cut-out and all the stock was sawn form beetle-killed Pine off my place except for the 4" x 6" ERC skids that came from logs given to me. I'll use it to store garden tools as well as some accessories.
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It will also serve in a bind if you can't make it to the house :D.
That will make a great garden shack, now you won't have to dig in the shop or another shed, you can have it all in one place next to the garden.
Allan
Danny, if he has time to remove all the tools, surely he has time to make it to the house.
Nice looking outhouse! Personally, I always thought having a non-functioning outhouse was a dangerous proposition. Better leave a note or someone might get confused. :o
Good looking garden in the background as well!
And it might trigger a nosy inspector who wants to find something wrong, depending on what stage of creeping socialism exists in the locality. Some places already have a lot of Gov't control and might not have a sense of humor. ;)
Quote from: WDH on March 29, 2013, 09:11:16 PM
It will also serve in a bind if you can't make it to the house :D.
The outhouse is not functional but there are some 5-gal plastic buckets stored in there that would suffice for a more serious occasion. For the other, well, I'm rural and the world is my urinal! ;D
Quote from: justallan1 on March 29, 2013, 09:59:43 PM
That will make a great garden shack, now you won't have to dig in the shop or another shed, you can have it all in one place next to the garden.
Allan
Thanks, Allan. I think it will work great. Someone had a thread about outhouse garden sheds here a while back and I've wanted to build one since. I saw one similar to mine next to a garden a few weeks ago and that prompted me to go to work.
Quote from: Axe Handle Hound on March 30, 2013, 08:49:22 AM
Nice looking outhouse! Personally, I always thought having a non-functioning outhouse was a dangerous proposition. Better leave a note or someone might get confused. :o
Good looking garden in the background as well!
Thanks, AHH. I'll put a lock on the door any time we have folks over who might be slightly inebriated. I wouldn't want them getting confused. :D
Thanks for the garden comment, too. A couple of years ago, that area was all trees and brush. I'm still tilling up roots but I'm hoping for a much better crop of vegetables this year. However, my potatoes got killed by the recent freeze. I'm hoping they will re-sprout. I re-planted tomatoes yesterday. The freeze got them even though I had them covered with plastic.
Quote from: beenthere on March 30, 2013, 10:40:03 AM
And it might trigger a nosy inspector who wants to find something wrong, depending on what stage of creeping socialism exists in the locality. Some places already have a lot of Gov't control and might not have a sense of humor. ;)
Very little creeping socialism in Smith County, Texas. "We say grace and we say ma'am and if you ain't into that we don't give a *DanG." Southern Baptists greatly outnumber the Socialists around here. :)
That is a neat shed, but there for a moment I thought that you had gotten a bit behind in your work. ;D
That looks awesome! :)
Quote from: clww on March 30, 2013, 06:58:33 PM
That looks awesome! :)
Well, if I happen to fall on hard times and the water gets cut off, I still have an option.
;D
Quote from: clww on March 30, 2013, 06:58:33 PM
That looks awesome! :)
Thanks. I'm pretty happy with it. Lots of nice comments already from neighbors and relatives. :D
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Thanks. I'm pretty happy with it. Lots of nice comments already from neighbors and relatives. :D
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And I can see why. Looks great.
I have no idea how you are, but if that was by my garden and someone went to use it they would have a hard time getting past all of the tools in there to use it for what they thought it was.
I have a 8x10 foot shed that has a tiller and all my garden stuff in it. I can just about walk into that.
Quote from: Tree Feller on March 30, 2013, 07:45:16 PM
Well, if I happen to fall on hard times and the water gets cut off, I still have an option.
All it would take is a shovel and you would be in business soon!
Nice job :)
Where's the vent?
Quote from: thecfarm on March 30, 2013, 08:00:31 PM
Thanks. I'm pretty happy with it. Lots of nice comments already from neighbors and relatives. :D
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And I can see why. Looks great.
I have no idea how you are, but if that was by my garden and someone went to use it they would have a hard time getting past all of the tools in there to use it for what they thought it was.
I have a 8x10 foot shed that has a tiller and all my garden stuff in it. I can just about walk into that.
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Being new, it hasn't gotten cluttered yet...heavy on the yet. I have a garden rake, a hoe, a set of post-hole diggers, a square shovel, a spade shovel, a hand spade, a couple of hand rakes, a leaf rake, a half-empty sack of 13-13-13 fertilizer, four 3' x 50' lengths of 4 mil plastic, a box of gopher bait, a box of TimBor packets and a roll of slick wire. I put a couple of 12" deep shelves at the back to hold the plastic and boxes. It's still surprisingly roomy inside.
My tiller is sitting outside with a no. 2 washtub covering the engine. I have another, larger building in progress to house it. :)
Very nice Cody!
If I put one in My yard passers by,would try to use it :D
Jim
For the other, well, I'm rural and the world is my urinal!
Growing up here on the farm, I know the sentiment but never said it so weil... makes a nice quote for your profile maybe!! :D :D :D
Prettyu well thw best dual perpus garden shed I have seen! :)
I was in a box store parking, waiting for the wife to get back when a van pulled in a parking row ahead of me opened his door and , got out and proceeded...well .....to take the world as his urinal....... Theres rural then I guess ya have urbanites...... :( ::)
Were I come from we call that a never leave deer blind.
I'm planning on building an outhouse with a Humanure Toilet.
http://humanurehandbook.com/humanure_toilet.html
http://humanurehandbook.com/humanure_basics.html
We use a slight variation of that at our camp in Colorado each year.