Show Us Your Wood Shed

[Vg3200p]

@sloeffle we store the wood we sell at work the same way. Great setup!! Much better than restocking multiple times. If there are any big mulch landscape type places near you they might give you old totes for free. That's what the dye for colored mulch comes in. It's how my boss gets his totes. Think we have around 70 of them give or take

 

[sloeffle]

@sloeffle we store the wood we sell at work the same way. Great setup!! Much better than restocking multiple times. If there are any big mulch landscape type places near you they might give you old totes for free. That's what the dye for colored mulch comes in. It's how my boss gets his totes. Think we have around 70 of them give or take

I agree, definitely better than touching a piece of wood three or four times before it goes into the stove. That's funny you mention mulch / landscape type places. The first twelve totes, I bought from a huge mulch company four or five years ago in Columbus. I called them a few months ago about getting some more, and the price has about doubled. I should of bought more when I got the others, live and learn. I'd like to get get to close to thirty or so totes full of wood. If something were to happen and I wouldn't be able to cut wood I'd be set for a few years.

Off topic - when I was at the mulch place ( Ohio Mulch ) picking up the totes I starting BS'ing with guy about their operation etc. He told me on a "slow" day they make 40k bags of mulch. He said they have a 100 acre "storage facility" south of Columbus. I've never seen equipment that big before, they had a pay loader there that could of picked my truck up in its bucket. The tires were taller than what I was.

 

[Ashful]

I've never seen equipment that big before, they had a pay loader there that could of picked my truck up in its bucket. The tires were taller than what I was.

One of my many summer jobs was helping on my father's surveying crews, and at least one of his customers was a large waste hauling company, who operated regional and national-scale transfer stations. I remember surveying at one facility where the equipment moving around us was so large you'd think it a miracle the operator could even see us, way down below him. Tires that seemed two stories tall, at least in my teenage memory. Downright frightening.

 

[Jaison]

Plus another row stacked behind that one. Still stacking and splitting to fill this up, this’ll be for two years from now. I got another wood shed that’s for seasoned wood ready to burn.

 

[SJT]

Newbie here. I've taken a lot of inspiration from folks on this forum and have set about building my own 8x24 shed along the fence line shown below. Timber arrived this morning

 

[Ashful]

Nice! Would love to see more of that property sometime, too!

 

[lml999]

Newbie here. I've taken a lot of inspiration from folks on this forum and have set about building my own 8x24 shed along the fence line shown below. Timber arrived this morning

That shed is not going to build itself!

(I got a delivery of 12' 2x4s this morning and I noticed the same thing...they've been sitting in the driveway since 7 am....)

 

[TreeCo]

We built our woodshed about 2005. Each section is 8' x 8'. Five bays. It is a pole shed design and the roof lumber is all from vinyl siding pallets that were 12' long. All firewood is stacked on blocks, it takes 30 blocks per bay. I've been collecting used blocks for decades! I built this exact shed in 1982 when I lived in DE and this duplicate woodshed in 2005 here in NE GA. Blocks last a long time!

 

[alber197]

Here's our woodshed built last year. Holds a little over 5 cords and already wish we had gone bigger..

 

[cahaak]

That's a huge amount of lumber for an 8 x 24. You only need lumber for the poles, joists, and purlins. And really only GT for the poles. I think I have about 1/3 that much lumber in my 8 x 24 and it will be there long after I am dead.

 

[weee123]

Nice! I did the same this year: built and filled it (18'*8' with 7.5' tall in front, 6.5' in the back). Feels good.

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Going through ideas for a wood shed and it’s been a few years of use for you but how well does the wood season packed that tight in there?

 

[stoveliker]

So far no complaints. Oak at 14 pct from the middle of the bay.

We had a warm dry summer though. (Last year I burned wood that I left on the racks as I didn't want to move it to the shed for one year).

Highbeam also says his shed, packed, works fine.

 

[Ashful]

I haven't had any trouble either, burning oak and hickory seasoned 4 summers in a shed now. The stuff in the middle isn't quite as dry as the outer face rows, but it's plenty dry enough.

 

[weee123]

Awesome thanks for the feedback guys. I’m looking at building myself one that’ll hold at least 2 years (5 cord), maybe more and was worried about the center seasoning properly. As of now the woods stacked uncovered on pallets

 

[stoveliker]

Any shed will improve on that, regardless of how optimal the design of the shed is, imo.

 

[BIGChrisNH]

Love seeing all these woodsheds in different shapes and sizes depending on what folks need or have space for. After having our woodshed now for a couple of seasons, all I can say is I wish I built one 15 years ago. So much unnecessary fussing with tarps. At the time I built mine it cost me about $700 for materials, but considering it will last the rest of my lifetime it's well worth it. For anybody on the fence, just build it you won't be sorry.

 

[lml999]

That's a huge amount of lumber for an 8 x 24. You only need lumber for the poles, joists, and purlins. And really only GT for the poles. I think I have about 1/3 that much lumber in my 8 x 24 and it will be there long after I am dead.

Dude, if all we wanted to do was to keep our wood dry, we'd toss it in the garage or put it on pallets covered with tarps. Building a wood shed is a project, an opportunity to overbuild a simple structure, to buy new tools, to try out new carpentry approaches, to leave a mark on the hillside for eternity (especially if you way overbuild it!). Personally, I'm pretty darn proud of myself each time I step into my new wood shed, and I do that a couple of times a day! Talk about a regular ego boost!

 

[lml999]

Starting to fill the wood shed that I built last fall. The two bins on the left hold scrounged wood from my property and a neighbor's, the one on the right was a full cord delivered by a local guy. His price of $200 delivered was just too good to ignore, and the delivery measured exactly one cord. (I'm getting three more cords from him) I thought each bin would hold roughly a cord...looks like stacking high will allow me to fit almost a cord and a half in each...

I'm so glad I built this shed...it's a game changer...the 2x4 racks and tarps was getting really old. Oh...and my wife helped me stack yesterday. I must have done something right.

 

[VermontColdNights]

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Almost 75 ft long, 8 bins that hold 1.5 cords of wood each. Top covered with tin roofing material. Flooring is oak pallets.

Building it was very easy. 6 ft long ground timbers as the posts and 2x4's as the dividers and to hold the wood up in the back. The ground timbers are put into 6x6/4x4 concrete deck blocks from Menards and its all held together with 3" long wood nails:

https://www.menards.com/main/building-materials/concrete-cement-masonry/construction-concrete-blocks/4x4-6x6-deck-block/1794278/p-1502778698449.htm

I also have extra oak pallets in the yard for storage and two 8 ft long metal racks with covers.

Fantastic! How wide are the bays, are the pallets sitting directly on the ground, and did you use any sort of bracing in addition to the back pieces?

 

[stovexxx]

My wood shed 😎

 

[JamesGuido]

My wood shed 😎
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some good looking wood there!

 

[lml999]

Starting to fill the wood shed that I built last fall. The two bins on the left hold scrounged wood from my property and a neighbor's, the one on the right was a full cord delivered by a local guy. His price of $200 delivered was just too good to ignore, and the delivery measured exactly one cord. (I'm getting three more cords from him) I thought each bin would hold roughly a cord...looks like stacking high will allow me to fit almost a cord and a half in each...

I'm so glad I built this shed...it's a game changer...the 2x4 racks and tarps was getting really old. Oh...and my wife helped me stack yesterday. I must have done something right.

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Making some progress...

 

[Ashful]

Making some progress...

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That'll make a nice solar kiln if you tarp the sides in summer.

 

[lml999]

That'll make a nice solar kiln if you tarp the sides in summer.

That's a really interesting idea, thanks! I've got a couple of clear tarps for the front, so it won't be *too* ugly.

I think I'll stick a remote temp sensor in there, and then compare moisture content with splits from this one and from a bin on the other side of the storage shed. Very interesting...

Now...how do I explain this to my wife?

 

[Ashful]

That's a really interesting idea, thanks! I've got a couple of clear tarps for the front, so it won't be *too* ugly.

I think I'll stick a remote temp sensor in there, and then compare moisture content with splits from this one and from a bin on the other side of the storage shed. Very interesting...

Now...how do I explain this to my wife?

Put your old Trans Am up on blocks in the yard on the other side of the house, and she'll never even notice the wood shed!