Fire wood storage building?

FTG-05 · Mar 28, 2017

Pics of my two wood sheds. I built out on each side of my pole barn - very easy construction. The only help I needed was a friend with the roof (I don't do roofs); easy-peasy with the 3' wide steel roofing panels.

Pics of Wood shed #1:

Wood shed #2:

Side pic of both of them; wood shed #1 on the right, wood shed #2 on the left:

henerythe8th · Mar 30, 2017

I have been using the carports from Costco for multiple use sheds for several years.
For around $250 I can buy the frame with tarp covers and use it for a couple of years like that. That gets me a 10'x20'x about 10' peak height place to put things out of the weather.
When the tarps are toast I skin them with metal roofing. Sometimes used, sometimes new.
I stake them to the ground with 1-1/4" or 1-1/2" EMT x about 20" and pin through the stakes -- been through some AMAZING wind storms (though no tornadoes) and never had an issue with attempting to blow away.

I have also tired of moving my firewood by hand over and over. I try to split and load into apple bins all of my firewood as it comes off the truck/trailer. From there, the bins are moved with the forks on my mod'd FEL. When I need a bin at the house I fetch it from the woodshed and stack the empty bin outside.
Apple bins are about 4'x4'x2'. So about a 1/4 cord/bin.
I stack two bins side-by-side in my woodshed 3 tall and can place 5 rows like that.
I leave one 10' end open. The other 3 are enclosed.

rt014 · Mar 31, 2017

This is my wood shed (built about 2 years ago). It holds about 18 cords with room to spare for storing the tractor, rotary cutter and ATV trailer. Only 2 out of the 4 'bays' are fully loaded. The other 2 bays just have log 'walls'.

conkli48 · Apr 20, 2017

Looks nice, I like the overall design of it. I need to get going on something like this for my self. I dont burn wood for heat, but I always like to have it on hand and a nice looking shed like this makes a couple stacks of wood, look nicer as well as keep it dry.

mcfarmall · Apr 20, 2017

I have 4 wood sheds made from 8' tall sections of pallet rack. I the top end of one leg off about 16" down and when the rack is assembled I built a simple shed type roof with pole barn metal for a covering. Throw 2-48" x 48" pallets down on the beams and you have a rack that will hold around 1.7 cords up off the ground and sheltered from the rain. On the inside of the uprights I attached some old chain link fencing to keep the firewood from simply falling out the open spaces...works AWESOME!!

John_Mc · Apr 21, 2017

mcfarmall - your description sounds interesting. Any pictures?

hawkeye08 · Apr 21, 2017

henerythe8th said:
I have been using the carports from Costco for multiple use sheds for several years.
For around $250 I can buy the frame with tarp covers and use it for a couple of years like that. That gets me a 10'x20'x about 10' peak height place to put things out of the weather.
When the tarps are toast I skin them with metal roofing. Sometimes used, sometimes new.
I stake them to the ground with 1-1/4" or 1-1/2" EMT x about 20" and pin through the stakes -- been through some AMAZING wind storms (though no tornadoes) and never had an issue with attempting to blow away.

I have also tired of moving my firewood by hand over and over. I try to split and load into apple bins all of my firewood as it comes off the truck/trailer. From there, the bins are moved with the forks on my mod'd FEL. When I need a bin at the house I fetch it from the woodshed and stack the empty bin outside.
Apple bins are about 4'x4'x2'. So about a 1/4 cord/bin.
I stack two bins side-by-side in my woodshed 3 tall and can place 5 rows like that.
I leave one 10' end open. The other 3 are enclosed.

I would like pictures of one that you put metal roof on... what did you use across the framing to attach the metal to? I have one that I was thinking of doing that.

Gordon Gould · Apr 22, 2017

The base on my wood shed was an experiment. I wanted something simple but we have a lot of frost up here and the ground really moves and buckles in the winter. I picked an undisturbed spot and made a 10' X 16' base frame from 6x6 PT. Then I leveled it up with flat stones where needed. Once it was level I filled it with 3/4" crushed rock. It has been there now for 12 years and to my surprise it is still straight as an arrow. Holds 8 cord. Two years worth for us.

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