10x12x6 firewood shed footings?

The roof is 14' wide, and the inside space is close to 13' wide, 7' in the front and 5.5 in the back.

If you use the t-bar(?) approach, you'll be taking advantage of your clay soil. I'm on clay here. I hang tarps on the south and west sides. I really like this thing. What a step up from everything else I've done.

Bwhunter85 said:

Looking at starting the build of my firewood shed. Going to be 10 foot deep and 12 foot wide. 8 foot high in the front and 6 foot high in the back, pallet floor for now.(Building around already stacked firewood) Curious if I would be OK using these as my 4x4 footings, so it is more or less floating, instead of trying to drill down 42inches in this clay of a yard I have.

Thanks!

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those are the exact footings i used, with no problem. I put about 18 yards of gravel down though to even out that part of my yard, and packed it hard with a bobcat bucket before putting the footings down. no issues. think my house will fall down before the shed does.

Setting PT 4x4's in the ground where there is freeze thaw cycle is a complete mistake nowadays. The new p.t. compound used is not nearly the perservitive as the PT in the past. With freeze and thaw the posts rot off about 4-6" below the ground. How they make us (Ontario Canada) build pole structures now is basically pour a sonotube full of concrete that is belled out in the bottom of the hole to create a footing per say and then in the wet concrete place a post saddle. No posts in the ground anymore period. A large pole barn we use a precast system where you pour a footing then set the precast collum on top.

OK, do it your way. I hope the wind doesn't blow it over.

I built mine similar to yours. I am not out in the open but wind was a concern of mine. I used concrete tubes but only made a base like your precast footers. I think if you build it heavy enough, you should be ok. I have solid rough cut sides on a third of it and 2x6s to divide the bays. There is enough in the construction that it won't go anywhere. From the looks of it, you might be going heavy enough but might not hurt to anchor into your pallets somehow as mentioned before.

Since I have finished mine, we have had the strongest sustained winds with very strong gusts I can remember here. In 60-70mph gusts, I went out to check on it and only a little creaking, but nothing moved.