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The $500 Shelter

Started by Jeff, November 11, 2022, 12:39:58 PM

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Jeff

We built this shelter from mostly reclaimed lumber, utility poles, and  bug killed trees. We did buy the steel for the roof, $324 box of 3" screws for $52, 2 treated 10ft 2x10s were $56 and $5 for a 42" wide window door from habitat for humanity. We also spent $40 for 3 10x12 tarps and a can of Bungy cords, for a total out of pocket, $477!

Everything else was materials we found, had, or made. I'm  lucky enough to have acquired 2000 log screws many years ago from a defunct log home builder for  $200, and that dramatically reduced our costs using about 100 of those for frame and bracing assembly.

Materials:
Front posts. Given to us when cloverland electric changed out poles on the corner in 2010

Back posts. left over cedar that did not make great sawlogs for siding, from our neighbor.

Framing: Bug killed logs and poles from our land.

Siding: Relaimed 6x6 and 6x8 bug killed  tamarack beams originally meant to replace decking on the old semi trailer bridge on Carlton creek.It sat for 4 years and lost its structural integrity so we resawed it intonplanks and boards for siding.

Front Window. Habitat for Humanity
Back window. Old school bus window fund behind a shed

This video is Wildflower and I walling it in. Oh, and the Dogs!!

$500 SHELTER using Reclaimed Lumber, Found Building Materials, and our Wood-Mizer Sawmill - YouTube
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Jeff

Also, you might notice I am a fan of square it up, put it on, then cut it off construction. Many times I am by myself, and taking the tape measure out of the equation saves alotta time., and measuring 5 times and still getting it wrong doesn't happen! :)
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21incher

Looks more like the start of a rustic guest house. Great job  thumbs-up
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Jeff

My buddy Harold says I should poor a concrete floor in it and make it a bunkhouse.  :D  It is a tractor bunkhouse!
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SwampDonkey

Nice to keep equipment dry. :)
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I finally and I mean finally put some gravel in the tractor shed.  :o Use to be a wave of water in front of me when I put the tractor in. The ruts were 4-6 inches deep.
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Jeff

It's time to stay out of the woods, and get back to working on projects left unfinished around the cabin, like my tractor shelter. I started tearing down the near useless shed next to this new one because it in a low spot. The dirt floor is a foot lower than the new shed, and they are oy 3ft apart.  I'll use as much of the old shed to finish the new, then, at some point, I'll need to build another more functional shed. Dunno. The complete plan has not yet materialized.



 

 

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Magicman

Just be careful on that ladder.  ::)
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WV Sawmiller

  I was wondering about that ladder too!

   Be careful - these guys here will talk you into adding gravel and putting a floor and extra storage racks in there before you know it. Trust me - it can happen even after years of use! 
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Jeff

So far, the only thing I used the ladder for was to heft up and rest one of the ends of my 20ft sliding door track on. The durn thing is a top mount, not a flush mount. I had to mount it to 20ft of 2×6  and then put the whole thing up there. 
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I am however going to be taking the tin off today once the dew is dried up.
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Quote from: WV Sawmiller on September 26, 2023, 09:18:58 AM
  Be careful - these guys here will talk you into adding gravel and putting a floor and extra storage racks in there before you know it. Trust me - it can happen even after years of use!
Howardd, I was just admiring my new weathered wood wall, and it took about 2 minutes to recognize I had just created WALL SPACE!!!
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Jeff

Free Steel from helping reroof an old building. Two sheets put to good use. Ill use the left over cedar shingles from my pavilion roof a few years ago, to go on up.  

 

 

 
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I missed this post when you first made it. This little building and your enclosure of it is incredible! I need to start thinking like that. I'm itching to build a greenhouse, sometime, with free-ish materials, and I really like the way you've done this. 
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Quotefor a total out of pocket, $477!
You still got $23 left to paint it... :D
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Jeff

Ready to start creating my doors. I have the poles framed and ready. So far, other than the track and trollies, all scrounged materials. Harold's burn pile may end up making my doors. Still thinking on that.



 

 
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Oh! I finished the back, but I had to go through several cans before I found another shingle nail stash. I keep all nails, but I use screws where I can. These are still screws from tearing apart my pool deck.


 
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Magicman

Well Sir, that is rightly nice !!  8)
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SwampDonkey

You're getting it into shape. ;D
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Jeff

Scavenged from a burn pile. Ill pretty them up yet. Test fit. I'll widen and add steel to the bottoms.

 

 

 
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Magicman

It's good to see Scooby Do there.  :)
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SwampDonkey

I thought it was aunt Ester's ghost. :o JK, Stacey. Aunt Ester was my great grandfather's aunt. My grandfather and my uncle were always talking about her walking the halls of the house in the after life. My grandfather's house was originally aunt Ester's place. One of the first homesteaders in that area.  We sold the house after my uncle passed away and the new owners still see aunt Ester in the halls. :)
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2020 Polaris Ranger 570 to forward firewood, Husqvarna 555 XT Pro, Stihl FS560 clearing saw and continuously thinning my ground, on the side. Grow them trees. (((o)))

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