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Shed Building, 2000

For example,

Woodshed Trusses.jpg (31918 bytes)  .

The truth is, there are a lot of things that happen before you get this far, but it's all pretty mundane, and the earlier stages aren't nearly as handsome.  For example, the deck of the woodshed is 8 by 16 feet, sits on six concrete posts, and is made of 2 by 6 inch "deckers" spaced a quarter inch apart to let the air flow up through the floor.  The stud walls on the three closed sides are sheathed with T-111 plywood.  And the nine trusses at the top were built of 2 by 4's in our garage.  

Each wall was built on the deck and raised by hand.  Here the 8 by 16 foot back wall is already in place, through the efforts of  Mvc-261f Dick & Deck & Sugar.jpg (43483 bytes)Carol and Dick.  Note on the right the silhouette of Sugar panting in the shade on a hot September afternoon.  She has more sense than Dick, though she doesn't own a straw hat like his.

 
Woodshed Visitor.jpg (14113 bytes) What is this guy doing on a page about shed building?  He dropped in as the first layer of staging went up, and parked on a fresh plank for a few minutes.  Some say he's in cahoots with the dreaded building inspector.
That's Dick up there in the yellow hard hat.  The reason he's so jolly is he is finishing the last course of shingles along the ridge peak. Woodshed & Dick Waves from Peak.jpg (31673 bytes)
Woodshed, Dick Points Out.jpg (29148 bytes) There.  The shingles are done.  And the builder is proud that he did not fall off the roof.  That's why he's grinning.  He has stopped to gesture in the midst of removing the roof brackets that held up the planks he stood on when he shingled the roof, as in the previous scene.  
It's breath-taking, isn't it?  The staging is gone.  The building is partly painted.  The dog is crouching to leap up and kiss you if you get close.  The tractor is all by itself unloading the first firewood to enter this hallowed hall.  Woodshed, Sugar, & Tractor.jpg (25251 bytes)

So that's how you build a woodshed.  It will hold eight full cords of wood, more than enough to keep us warm and dry for a winter.  South-facing and ventilated, this take-off on a Midwestern corn crib will dry in one season hardwood that would otherwise take two years to cure. 

It's a bit like a kiln.  Solar powered, of course.

Edited 10/30/00

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