Just another wood shed.

[EODMSgt]

I've had some questions about this shed in the past and don't want to hack anyone else's threads with a bunch of pics & answers so I figured I would post stuff here.

It was built ten years ago so the dimensions are no longer in my memory banks, however I can grab a tape measure and get any dimensions anyone wants. It holds close to 8 cords (total) at 16" lengths.

And yes, being a good New Englander, when I couldn't move the boulder (after digging down over three feet with no end in sight), I just built the shed around it.

 

[EODMSgt]

And it's still going strong ten years later.

 

[Bad LP]

Thank you kindly. I spoke with my landscaper yesterday who has a place up by me in Maine who owns a portable bandsaw mill who will most likely cut my timbers and siding. He bought it to build his massive barn. I'll have to outsource 2 24 footers for the bottom but that's easy with either the hemlock mill 2 towns away or my local yard.

Hemlock is plentiful around me but there is no Eastern White Pine.

 

[SpaceBus]

Thank you kindly. I spoke with my landscaper yesterday who has a place up by me in Maine who owns a portable bandsaw mill who will most likely cut my timbers and siding. He bought it to build his massive barn. I'll have to outsource 2 24 footers for the bottom but that's easy with either the hemlock mill 2 towns away or my local yard.

Hemlock is plentiful around me but there is no Eastern White Pine.

We have a handful of maples, a few poplars, some birch, and the other 90% of the trees on our land are Balsam Fir and Spruce. A week or so ago we were walking the edges of our land and were thrilled to find three mature white cedars. There's no pine on our land, but a few miles down the road by the river you can't go without seeing white pine.

 

[Simonkenton]

Bless my soul, you are a good carpenter. That is some nice timber framing.
Do the sticks on the bottom get well-dried on that gravel?

 

[EODMSgt]

Bless my soul, you are a good carpenter. That is some nice timber framing.
Do the sticks on the bottom get well-dried on that gravel?

Thank you however I can't take credit for the bulk of the work. I was still on the road all the time when I had this built so I had Tamworth Lumber do the plans, milling and put up the framework. I did the finish work but I can't take credit for their work. I highly recommend them to anyone in the area.

As for the bottom row of wood on the gravel, 9 out of 10 years I have not had any issues pulling the bottom row off and it going right in the wood stove. This season, with 7 months of snow cover and a lot of rain before and after, I found that some of the bottom pieces were a bit damp. I just tipped them up and let them air dry for a few days and they were fine.

 

[peakbagger]

Hemlock is fine wood for timber framing as long as its cut wet and erected wet. Once it dries its twists a bit and locks the joints together and is very hard. I helped erect a timber frame old school (no crane, just blocks and tackles and mostly hand tools) about 30 years ago and its still solid as the day it was built.

 

[Simonkenton]

OK, I was wondering if that gravel floor might get some wood a little damp.
I built my woodshed with a wooden floor, just like on a house except built 2 1/2 times stronger than the building code.
My floor is 16 inches or more above the ground so I get air circulation under the floor.

Anyway sounds like that is a minor difference.
I build log cabins and do a lot of timber frame work, and that is some nice carpentry on your woodshed.

 

[Microduck17]

Great shed. I need to build one some some day soon.

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[mar13]

What were your dimensions? It looks like if not full with wood, one could also hang kayaks or surfboards in the shed to keep them out of the sun.

 

[EODMSgt]

What were your dimensions? It looks like if not full with wood, one could also hang kayaks or surfboards in the shed to keep them out of the sun.

The shed is 18' wide by 10' deep.