Building Wood Shed - Need Help Calculating Beam Size That Holds Roof Up

[civilian]

Added the braces this afternoon. I'm really pleased how everything turned out. Its raining all day today, and the firewood is staying dry.

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Does the rain blow in that you have your wood crates covered? Also what roof pitch did you use? My new garage is set up with a ledger board already installed for a future lean to also. Jon

 

[BoylermanCT]

The shed roof extends 2 feet past the wood cages, so it would have to really be blowing to get them too wet. The cages have tarps from being outside for the past 6 months.

The roof is about 1.5/12. I designed it 2/12, but when building it decided it was more important to fit the tractor under it than a 2/12 roof. I knew one day I would not be paying attention and hit the left side of the roof with the tractor's ROPS. Decided to raise the roof 4 inches.

Good thinking about adding the header during initial construction. We had to remove 1 1/2 courses of log siding to add the header.