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I just finished up a new wood shed yesterday. It should hold a hair over 3 cord by volume. We have a larger one further towards the pasture but this one is close to the house so the wife had “requirements” for aesthetics. Now comes the chore of moving wood to fill it for this winter.

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ssilver07 said:
I just finished up a new wood shed yesterday. It should hold a hair over 3 cord by volume. We have a larger one further towards the pasture but this one is close to the house so the wife had “requirements” for aesthetics. Now comes the chore of moving wood to fill it for this winter.
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Beautiful shed!
 
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lml999 said:
Three weeks later, the wood shed is pretty much done. I still need to put some dividers in, to keep the wood separate and provide some airflow. The side walls are all repurposed decking from a deck revamp last year. The right side wall is solid as it will be part of the storage shed, and the storage shed itself will have the same footprint as the wood shed. The roof is clear poly, to let light in. I'll post a cleaned up photo next week...the site is still work in progress, and a neighbor dropped some trees last week, so I had to pause the build and rescue some oak (freshly cut on the left) from the chipper! Each of the three slots should take over a full cord.


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Looks amazing! Don't forget side braces.
 
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Beautiful shed. I really like the neo-timberframe styling. Have you thought about routing a 3/4" x 45° chamfer on each edge of those four front posts, stopped maybe 10" from the top and 16" from the bottom? It would be appropriate for a timberframe in this style, and could take that shed from "very nice" to "beautiful" in no more than 10 minutes with a good 1/2" router.

Alternatively, if you're painting it and if the posts are wide enough, reducing the chamfers to 3/16" width and then adding three flutes to the front edge of each post could turn it into a work of art. But I wouldn't paint that, if it were mine.
 
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Ashful said:
Beautiful shed. I really like the neo-timberframe styling. Have you thought about routing a 3/4" x 45° chamfer on each edge of those four front posts, stopped maybe 10" from the top and 16" from the bottom? It would be appropriate for a timberframe in this style, and could take that shed from "very nice" to "beautiful" in no more than 10 minutes with a good 1/2" router.

Alternatively, if you're painting it and if the posts are wide enough, reducing the chamfers to 3/16" width and then adding three flutes to the front edge of each post could turn it into a work of art. But I wouldn't paint that, if it were mine.
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@Ashful Thank you for the comments and the suggestion. I just happen to have bought a new DeWalt 20V router and have been looking for something to do with it. :)

I typically pick up a new tool with each project, and for this one I also picked up a 20V sawzall and that was pretty useful for cutting the post joints.

Taking the hard edge off those front posts is a great idea! The shed is going to stay natural, no painting.
 
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I have a lot in town, where I live. I have access to a lot of dead wood behind my house. But its on a side hill kinda, and Im not in real good shape to be honest. If I NEED the wood, ill climb the hill and cut, I have a chainsaw. For now I have about 4 times this much wood, and a small stack of splits from last year, and 3/4 tank of oil. I hope itll be good for most of the winter.....
 
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Seanbear said:
I have a lot in town, where I live. I have access to a lot of dead wood behind my house. But its on a side hill kinda, and Im not in real good shape to be honest. If I NEED the wood, ill climb the hill and cut, I have a chainsaw. For now I have about 4 times this much wood, and a small stack of splits from last year, and 3/4 tank of oil. I hope itll be good for most of the winter.....
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When I try to tell my wife to come help me with the wood gathering and processing, which in my case is on a relatively large scale for a homeowner, she reminds me that "this isn't exercise, it's just abusing your body." ;lol

I have enough aches and pains every morning that I know she is right, processing firewood is not the healthiest form of exercise one can find.
 
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Maybe not healthy, but FUN I think. Granted, a lot of wood is harder to deal with, but go one piece at a time. In my mind, we are all doing the planet a favor by removing dead, sometimes dangerous trees from our forests. Im lucky enough to live in a small town, just big enough for me, probably 7000 people tops. I find that cutting kindling is relaxing sometimes. Abusing your body, lol.....that made me smile!
 
Removing dead wood from forests is very detrimental to the planet, i.e. to biodiversity. Dead wood is what sustains a large part of forest life. (Dead leaves and mast are the other major parts.)

On the other hand, burning fossil fuels is too. So I burn wood that has been cut down for other reasons. Yes, it was alive. But someone made the choice to cut it down. That is -for me- an ideal situation.

No way around impacting our environment when we use resources.
 
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Removing dead wood greatly reduces the spread of wildfires. Look at what happens out west in places where they stopped permitting people to do that. Something tells me your biodiverse bugs cheerfully munching away on dead firewood don't fare so well in a wildfire.
 
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1. the person noting that is in PA, not the west.
2. Wildfires are actually quite beneficial for nature. This has been well-established. (Though of course this only holds if wildfires are happening often enough so the fire intensity does not get too high due to too much fuel, burning everything, and of course if wild fires don't burn up homes etc. which is bad for nature.)
 
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2. Wildfires are actually quite beneficial for nature. This has been well-established. (Though of course this only holds if wildfires are happening often enough so the fire intensity does not get too high due to too much fuel, burning everything, and of course if wild fires don't burn up homes etc. which is bad for nature.)
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Reminds me of the old Carlin bit. "The plan will be fine! We are effed, but the planet will be fine!"
 
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Wisdomoak159#19 said:
Just about got my garage full. Will be time to start an outdoor pile for t
Next year. After my last scrounge and gonna drop 2 big ash trees for a buddy this weekend I will definitely be out of room. I'm gonna hate putting g good wood outside under a tarp lol.

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Time to schedule a stacking party! Pizza and beer at half time, at the end you'll have a neat stack that takes up less space and seasons better/faster.
 
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lml999 said:
Time to schedule a stacking party! Pizza and beer at half time, at the end you'll have a neat stack that takes up less space and seasons better/faster.
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First half of the stacks will be neat and plumb. Second half will depend on the quality and strength of said beer.

On the other hand, if your volunteers are novice, the gained experience over the first few hours may compensate for the effects of the beer.
 
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Ashful said:
First half of the stacks will be neat and plumb. Second half will depend on the quality and strength of said beer.

On the other hand, if your volunteers are novice, the gained experience over the first few hours may compensate for the effects of the beer.
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Well...

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As someone who went to a professional beer drinking school...and now can't drink alcohol, I have to say that the stout and some of the other beers are pretty darn good! :)
 
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I did not know there was something as a beer drinking school.
Most of us learn that pretty well without any formal education...

Beer making though, is a different story (given the witches brews I've had, made by hobbying friends).
 
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lml999 said:
Time to schedule a stacking party! Pizza and beer at half time, at the end you'll have a neat stack that takes up less space and seasons better/faster.
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Honestly don't know how I would even begin to stack this pile. Most of the pieces are short and fat. Lots of weirdo shaped uglies in there to. Maybe I will try to stack my outside pile and see how it goes.
 
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