Sawmill Sheds

[Bogue Chitto]

I am thinking of building a sawmill shed for my mill.  What do you have? Pictures would be nice.  As of now I have a metal or portable shed that is on wheels, but I want a permanent one. 

[Peter Drouin]

 

   maybe make one like this

  24x60   

[hackberry jake]

Or this? 18x32 

[MHineman]

  Peter Drouin, how long is the span on that opening?  What did you use for the header?
  You can saw something reallllly long on that rig.

[redbeard]

 

  

  Iam set up stationary and  went with cantliever roof need to have open cutting deck for loading big logs and odd shape stuff that dosent roll. I saw at night alot so the lights shinning down and forward works real well. I have a cover for cutting deck that I take on and off with forks, when not in use.

[Peter Drouin]

Hi MHlinman  43' door, and the head is a steel I beam 45' long.  works good for me . and this year im going to add a 16' bay next to the JD

[Bogue Chitto]

Thanks everyone.  I like your setups. 

[opticsguy]

Looks like Peters shed has a steel I beam for the open span. 

An alternative is building a box beam built out of lumber and plywood.  Might require an engineers stamp if you are getting a building permit and a good idea even if no permit.  I used a box beam spanning 24 feet in my garage to avoid any posts and to support the second floor, an easy build and high strength.

Obviously you cannot cut a beam longer than your mill which is really want you want.

[tcsmpsi]

Here's one. 


 

 

 

 

[jcbrotz]

Obviously you cannot cut a beam longer than your mill which is really want you want.

Yes you can. I have done it to many times longest being a 32 footer on my mill WM LT-40. All for customers but one is gunna be for me when I start my "shed" this year but that is another topic.

[Magicman]

Correct, there are many innovative ways to saw longer than your sawmill's specs.  The forum's search button above should uncover several methods.

[learydeere]

 

 

[eastberkshirecustoms]

learydeere, looks like someone built with the cold weather in mind. We used to have something similar to that on the circle mill shed, but it had a flip up door to roll the logs in.


redbeard,  do you have long hydraulic cylinders bracing up your shed? If so, that's too cool!

[learydeere]

Haha yea you're right there's a hundred acre field behind he and 6 months out of the year the wind is brutal so i closed the north side and left the south side open

[WDH]

If you are like me, you will need a place to store lumber, too, so take that into consideration.  I have shed roofs on each side of my workshop that extend 26 feet on either side so that I can build racks and store air dried lumber.  On the right side, a pesky scarlet oak got in the way  .

 

 

On the left side, it was a pesky white oak.

 

 

[Norm]

Ummm Danny you missed one! 

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

If you are like me, you will need a place to store lumber, too, so take that into consideration.  I have shed roofs on each side of my workshop that extend 26 feet on either side so that I can build racks and store air dried lumber.  On the right side, a pesky scarlet oak got in the way  .

 

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On the left side, it was a pesky white oak.

 

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I have to admit......I like the trees through the roof! I'll bet you've got a ton of comments on your roof.

[Kansas]

The carpenters on here could answer this one better than me. But why couldn't you simply laminate a beam. We have done it and I think they stay straighter. Its a pain to cut a beam longer than the saw will allow. It can be done; we have. Its pretty slow going. I would think some 2x12 or 14 laminated with ring shanks and some bolts would work just fine.

[learydeere]

Thats exactly what i did. I wanted a 26' door and a beam was around $1500 so i used 2x6's and staggered all the joints and put plywood between and added 150 locking screws and 10 tubes of liquid nails and ended up with a 8x12x26 for under $200

[redbeard]

There are some beam span ideas on Timber framing page, tried to find one members post on this subject it was a bridge he built. Or you can google wooden bridge beams. His post was really interesting maybe someone can link it here.