3R Home and Barn Project

[hunterridgefarm]

Hello Rob!

Lets start with the Garden shed...since I have to build one this winter. Hopefully start in the next month or two.

David

 

[PAGUY]

See, Rob, you and Loretta are super celebrities here at TBN. Your fans look forward to you sharing your lives with the rest of us. : )

 

[3RRL]

See, Rob, you and Loretta are super celebrities here at TBN. Your fans look forward to you sharing your lives with the rest of us. : )

Yes, it is awesome indeed!
First, I want to express my thanks to all my long time (and new) friends here on TBN. I only wish I had been more faithful in posting more on a regular basis. Although I can say I have been busy working, I have no excuse for it.
I'll start with the garden shed then...

I'll try to load up some photos each day for the story.
This one starts a couple years ago when Loretta wanted a shed next to her garden for "her" stuff. Of course I said I would build one but it had to have a "little" space for the spray trailer and chainsaw cart and all her sprayers that were now in "my" barn, lol. So she agreed and I started on it last year by grading an area right next to her garden.

I will post photos of the completed shed first so you can see what it turned out like.
Then I can go back to all the stages of building it, and re-live all the small challenges that we encountered. So here is her finished shed. It's 10' x 20' and sits on a re-enforced concrete slab. The first 2 pictures show the rear of the shed which faces her garden. It has a sink and an awning for outside work.

The last 2 are of the front with a roll up door which, BTW, is what I designed the shed around!! It was salvaged from an old shed down south that was damaged, and it was just too good to throw away. You may have noticed some huge boulders around the shed? Some I moved, and some I didn't because I couldn't! Also, I used both tractors many many times during the build, but I'm not sure if there are a lot of tractor photos. I realize it's a requirement for the forum.

 

[3RRL]

Hmmm, look like the clickable thumbnails are larger now
Anybody know how to get them smaller like they used to be? I still use Photobucket for my photos and share from there.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Rob, very very nice. :thumbsup: Good to hear that one of us is making headway.

 

[3RRL]

The inside of the shed is pretty basic.
She wanted a couple of working benches so I made two 8 foot long ones out of 2 x 12's and used all-thread to bolt them together to get about 22" wide. There is plenty of room for shelving, but that's not done yet. Also, note the small drain in the right corner of the floor so she could wash down if needed.

I used a lot of scrap lumber for the inside, so you can see the headers on the windows and doors are all different thickness, or height. They are solid 4 x 6 or 8 or even 12 ... whatever I had as scrap pieces.
Oops, I still have to fix those hanging electrical cords for the lights.

Here is a picture of her sink on the patio.
It has a drain that starts in the concrete (as does the interior one), and it simply drains out to her garden. She only has cold water available for her potting and clean up...no hot water.
I also used scrap for supports and welded up my own steel brackets to attach them. All the interior and exterior electrical lines are inside pvc, and she has her own little breaker box on the wall.

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[3RRL]

These photos below shows the roll-up door I had.
My son Tommy, who moved in with us right about then just cracked up that I would spend all this time working designing the shed just to use an old roll-up door on that side. Note that it is off-sett to the building because of those giant boulders on the wall.
I had pulled one out already...barely. I could hardly budge it it with my Kama tractor. It weighed approx 4 tons, so all I could do was to chain and drag it it away. I decided to leave the others and just build around them.

 

[jinman]

:laughing: Now that's what I call building with the least environmental impact. When nature gives you lemons, make lemonade.:thumbsup:

 

[3RRL]

Thanks Jim !!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I say build you a crawl space between those rocks and use it as a storm cellar.