Sawing shed pics or plans??

[Mike_M]

I am getting ready to build a sawing shed for our woodmizer and would like some ideas. If you have any pictures or plans I would love to look at them. I am considering a 20' x 30' roof cover. I know this is kind of small, but is all I have room for. I am planning on putting kiln tracks from my kiln into the shed so I can off bear right onto the kiln cart from the mill. Thanks for any help. Mike M.

[mike_van]

Mike, here's 3 pages of "shed" topics from FF search https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=search2

[ARKANSAWYER]

 


  This is "Wanda's" house.  It is 16 x 30 ft with 12 ft side walls.  Works great.

[Sawmill_Nick]

Here is my shed, it's 45 ft by 20 ft and I already wish it was bigger.

[thecfarm]

Sawmill_Nick,welcome to the forum.Nice looking building you have there.What are you hiding for a sawmill in there?Been sawing long?What do you saw?Update your profile to tell us where you are from and put a link for your pictures.Glad you got the pictures down pat.Good job.

[Sawmill_Nick]

thecfarm,
Thanks for the welcome.  I have a woodmizer lt40 hydraulic mill bought new in february 2007 and started sawing at that time.  Spent a lot of time this past summer sawing and building the shed for the mill.  Now I mainly cut lumber to use for myself, custom sawing, and heavy equipment trailer decking.  I do all this part time as I go to college full time as a civil engineer.

[Haytrader]

Welcome Nick.

Some of us more seasoned members didn't get along as well as you on the picture posting. Glad to see you as a member.

Haytrader

[Riles]

Making some progress now. 22 x 17.5 (any bigger gets more attention from the building inspector).

[Mobilesawyer]

I have been working in a 40x50 foot Coverall building.
I just had to liberate the building from round bale storage and poured concrete the year after.
Nice spot to work in any time of the year.

[Lud]

Boy,  that coverall looks tempting!

What's the life expectancy on those things?  How many years before you have to recover?

[schmism]

you might consider a building with trusses and a large overhang.

I recently specked out some for a friend and had an 8'overhang.  10, 12' is also doable assumeing the overall span is 30-40'.   

[mike_van]

Hey Riles, anything bigger than a dog house here gets the building inspectors attention  :D :D

[ljmathias]

Speaking personally, I like the truss approach- just got mine up last Saturday in fact: 54' span with support/load bearing mainly at 12 and 42'.  This gives a 30X60 area on slab that I'm enclosing with two 12X60 shed wings that could be free-standing with no supports.  Truss people suggested thought that if I could put some posts out on the end of some of the trussess, especially at the corners, it would sure help stabilize it.  Lots of knee braces needed and braces throughout the trusses going every which way but Sunday: slanted vertical, horizontal, off-axis and off-plane.  I may end up with more 2X4 braces at 16' each then wood in the trusses themselves (not really).

It's amazing how this thing keeps getting bigger and bigger- when I laid it out with batter boards it was one size, with the central slab in a lot bigger, and now with the walls up and trusses on, a whole lot bigger!  Lots of forum members kept saying "You can't build it too big."  Well, maybe not, but it might be close for a one-man operation.

I'll get some pictures tomorrow after it quits raining- been at it all day and I was lucky I checked the weather and got my tools all picked up yesterday.

BTW, I've been working with my old LT30 under a shed roof but with support posts at 20'- gets mighty tight loading logs and unloading timbers.  The new LT40 should fit perfectly along one side under the post-free shed roof: happy days! as one of my grandsons says.

Lj

[Mobilesawyer]

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you Lud.
I kind of lost track of this thread.
The cover on my Coverall building is guarenteed for 15 years prorated and would cost aroud 1,700.00 CDN installed to replace.
We have around 22,000. CDN into the 40x50 foot building including the concreet floor, electrics and the side walls.
The fabric is a constant concern to new buyers but I have to say mine has withstood the last seven years very well.