Show us yours! Wood shed

[JP11]

I've been using the term 'toy barn'

Hoping to fit in 20 or 30 pallets around the outside edges. that's the theory anyway. Going to start looking for some pallet racking. Idea is for racks above a row of firewood. Eithe for another rack of pallets, or some off season tractor implements.

we'll see.

JP

 

[glennm]

Hey Kenster

I would want the roof ribs running the correct way for a couple of reasons. Drainage and prevent leaks. The roof will hold some snow and water, the holes where you screw it down could drip and that will rot your wood. I made my first shed the way you are suggesting and had lots of trouble. It is very easy to cut the steel, I think you will be pleased you did it?

 

[jaychino415]

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As I fill the shed with wood I slid in 2" by 8" planks to keep the blowing snow out.
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You can see the access door where the wood can be thrown into the basement. View attachment 120424The access door is in upper right part of pic. Makes it handy !

Wow! You could live in that structure. The wood stacked in there probably thinks it's on vacation.

 

[cwitham]

I have only basic carpentry skills and I'm a big believer in keeping my wood/heating expenses to a minimum. I've always kept my stacks out on the edge of our woods. They get plenty of hot wind during our summers, plus afternoon sun, but the stacks are under trees and get really messy with leaves and other debris, which hold moisture and causes some minor rot. So...I'd like to build a shed that I can move seasoned wood into, leaving green wood out in the open for a couple of years.

I'd like to use materials that I have around the property. We just had our large home reroofed after a Springtime hail storm. The old, and new, roofs are metal.
I have a great deal of the old metal panels that I kept. The panels are all 20 feet long. I will, therefore, make the shed about 20 feet wide so I don't have to cut the panels to length. This will mean that the ribs of the metal panels will lie side to side, rather than front to back, so I will need to have a slight tilt to left or right for a bit of drainage. No big deal. I have enough of these 20 ft panels to make the shed 12x15 feet deep. That's much larger than what I need for firewood so it will give me storage space to get some of my tractor implements under cover.

I have several 12 foot 2x6 planks (treated). I have a dozen or so landscaping timbers that I could use for uprights but I'm thinking treated 4x4s might be better (and would have to be purcha$ed). I've got a bunch of about 4 inch diameter cedar poles that could be used for the supports for the roof. I also have around 80 or so 18 inch and 30 inch 2x4 pieces that were used for packaging the new roofing panels. I can use these 2x4 pieces to frame the roof, and maybe use them to frame the sides.

I'm a big fan of deck blocks, having built several decks using them. So, I'll probably go that route rather than pouring cement for the support beams, and will use pallets for the floor.

The space I have in mind is on the edge of the tree line behind our house. There is a large dead oak there that I want to take down anyway. To do that, I'll have to clear out a large area of scrub oak so that I can safely access the tree. That's going to leave a large, open space once I'm done. Why not put the shed there? Easy access. Will get lots of sun and strong westerly winds. And it will meet the Bride's rule of keeping the wood out of view from the house. I'll probably need to hang a tarp in the front, at least during burn season, since it will be facing west and could have a lot of rain blown in.

Shouldn't cost me much of anything, 'cept maybe for some 4x4 posts. It won't be as fancy as some in this thread but it should do the job with little expense.

What do you think?

I too think you should cut these and install them correctly, I cut all of my metal with an angle grinder with a cutoff wheel type disc on it.

 

[McKraut]

I too think you should cut these and install them correctly, I cut all of my metal with an angle grinder with a cutoff wheel type disc on it.

I totally agree. If you're gonna build it, build it right. Cutting metal roofing is fairly easily. I used an abrasive blade in my circular saw when I built my shed. I just stacked the sheets on top of each other and sawed right through them. Good luck with your shed. You will be glad you built it.

Bob

 

[TOGO FISHER]

Here's our first wood- shed , 8x8x8 made from Cedar logs and Cedar slab wood from the local mill.

 

[raybonz]

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Here's our first wood- shed , 8x8x8 made from Cedar logs and Cedar slab wood from the local mill.

Love your wood shelter! Looks great with all the cedar log slabs.. How expensive was it to build a shelter like that?

Ray

 

[TOGO FISHER]

Love your wood shelter! Looks great with all the cedar log slabs.. How expensive was it to build a shelter like that?

Ray

I cut the logs from my property and bought the slab wood for 30 bucks from a local one man lumber mill. The steel for the roof was recycled and so it ended up more sweat than money.

As usual its not big enough - !

Thanks for taking a look as it.

 

[raybonz]

I cut the logs from my property and bought the slab wood for 30 bucks from a local one man lumber mill. The steel for the roof was recycled and so it ended up more sweat than money.

As usual its not big enough - !

Thanks for taking a look as it.

Love it! For that kind of money you could expand.. The rustic looks of the shelter makes it blend into a wooded area nicely and you can't touch what it cost you either..

 

[Smoke Signals]

Just built it. Holds 4 cords or so. A lot of the material was used so it didn't have to buy much.

 

[Lance]

Started with just the stacks out back, then built the lean closest to the house. Don't have to carry very far to the stove in the house. Next on list is to add boards with air space between to keep snow and rain out, but still let air pass thru.

 

[raybonz]

Started with just the stacks out back, then built the lean closest to the house. Don't have to carry very far to the stove in the house. Next on list is to add boards with air space between to keep snow and rain out, but still let air pass thru.
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Great looking setup!

 

[DaveGunter]

Spruce logs and pallets free, steel roofing and screws to hold everything together $200. 4 cords in there.

 

[raybonz]

Spruce logs and pallets free, steel roofing and screws to hold everything together $200. 4 cords in there.
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Very impressive for short money Dave!

 

[firefighterjake]

Spruce logs and pallets free, steel roofing and screws to hold everything together $200. 4 cords in there.
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I like it . . . cheap, practical and it looks good. Liking the rustic look.

 

[raybonz]

I like it . . . cheap, practical and it looks good. Liking the rustic look.

Totally impressed that this was built for around the price of good tarps which are worth little.. This might be my favorite cost effective shelter yet!

Ray

 

[hand]

Nice looking sheds on this thread. Here is a video of mine.

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[Woodman37]

Here is one of my stacks. It's not a shed but i plan on building one soon.

 

[reddogtrkr]

Nice shed Angus. There are a few good size rounds in there on the left. Do you burn those rounds just as they are? What do you burn in? What type of wood you got in there?

 

[Gasifier]

Wo, wo, Wow. Nice reddogtrkr. Nice

 

[albert1029]

has the look of a vintage shed like grandpa had....awesome...

 

[bassJAM]

After realizing the wood I've stored in my detached garage hasn't dried very much in the past year and a half, I'm trying a different approach for 2015-16. Just finished the roof with the help of my gf over the weekend. I'm very impressed with how solid these are. I was concerned my first attempt at standing rows would be blown over by a storm so I took them down, but I can walk on top of this thing!

 

[Ashful]

Beautiful stacks! However, I've never seen reports on how well Holzhausen dry versus traditional covered stacks, in the same location. I may be surprised, but it always looks to me like there must be a lot of wood in the center that might not dry so well, particularly if leaves and other debris get jammed up in the hausen over the course of a few years' drying time.

 

[Gasifier]

After realizing the wood I've stored in my detached garage hasn't dried very much in the past year and a half, I'm trying a different approach for 2015-16. Just finished the roof with the help of my gf over the weekend. I'm very impressed with how solid these are. I was concerned my first attempt at standing rows would be blown over by a storm so I took them down, but I can walk on top of this thing!

I will bet your wood will dry better like that OUTSIDE than it did in regular stacks INSIDE. Nice work.

 

[bassJAM]

Thanks for the compliments! Most of the wood in the inside if this particular Holzhausen is ash, so I'm not as concerned about it fully drying out. I also didn't stack the wood inside of it, I just tossed it in so there's more open space which hopefully will lead to as much airflow as possible. Regardless, it will be world's better than having the wood inside my shed like Gasifier mentioned. Just about the time I finished stacking 6 cords in there, I realized it was probably a bad idea.