Planer tells the tale

[SawyerTed]

One of my best customers uses small drying sheds similar to the drying rack Bill built. His tin is on posts and is essentially a hinged roof he can lay back out of the way for loading.  

Then he wraps his loaded drying shed in landscape fabric.  It breathes but tends to shed water and snow. The landscape fabric also shades the lumber from any sun that may filter through his shaded locations.  

He's got five or six that are 4'x8', 4x10 and 4x12.  IIRC, he uses ratchet straps instead of weight.  

[Wlmedley]

Ted,I like the hinged roof idea . I'll have to think on that for a little bit. The design committee has already overwhelmed me with ideas and I'm kind of a slow thinker. I could possibly hinge a roof off the side of the shed. At this point I'm not really interested in sawing large quantity's of lumber but what I do saw I would like to be the highest quality I can produce. With my mill I'll never be able to cut a large amount of lumber but I can cut good lumber. Figuring out how to dry it without ruining it is my next challenge. Here's what I have so far although I did add a couple ratchet straps. If I had a FIL it would be alot easier but if a frog had wings he wouldn't constantly bump his butt.

[Old Greenhorn]

Thanks fellas . A lot of good ideas here. I'll probably use a combination of all of them.

You know this one might have boomeranged a bit. I was teaching my SIL entry level milling on my manual mill yesterday and he was asking what I was doing with the stuff I have milled and the logs I have on hand. As I was running through my thoughts I glanced at my drying rack pictured earlier and realized I never sheathed the roof as I planned. It was this thread that planted that thought in my head. Since I just took that pine off my front lawn last week and have another junky pine log to dice up I thought I wouldn't get much more than 1x6's or 8's out of it. That will work out just fine for sheathing.
 But the weather has to cool down first.