When you have a ton of firewood, where do you keep it, in a woodshed, of course.

Looks good TH!
 
I'm no engineer, but it appears your floor isn't level.
 
Well, we deplorables just stack it -- maybe on some logs or 4x4s to keep it off the ground -- and then put pieces of roofing tin (preferably used for 30 years) on top of it and some stones, bricks, wood chunks, or concrete blocks to hold them down in stiff winds. No cutting or fasteners required.
 
Where’s your permit box, Sir?

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I stack mine on pallets in random places in the yard. Hopefully one day I’ll have enough land to embark on such projects. Looks good OP.
 
Quite the span on those joists
 
MacEntyre said:
...and they are about two dimensions light, jus' sayin'.
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I think that's "southern standard" construction. The woodshed that came with our house when we bought it in '87 looked a lot like that in terms of lumber dimensions. It had been there since probably the mid '70s when the house was built (did they even have codes then in rural NC counties?). About 20 years after we moved in, and after years of shoring it up and adding braces, pulling it back into square with the tractor, I finally tore it down and we replaced it with a shed for my wife we bought from Lowes. She keeps some firewood in there, but most of ours is stacked outdoors as previously described.

If you don't have a significant annual snow load, you can get away with a lot in terms of a woodshed. :)
 
711b said:
...after years of shoring it up and adding braces...

If you don't have a significant annual snow load, you can get away with a lot in terms of a woodshed. :)
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This one needs to be shored up and given more braces...

One ice storm mixed with snow is all it takes!
 
MacEntyre said:
This one needs to be shored up and given more braces...
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I can't disagree with this. Also, given that the rafters aren't tied to much of anything, a good wind may just lift it off into the next county. And I hope that the roofing is screwed down rather than nailed. It's amazing how much lift a good wind will provide. When I built our 20'x40' pole barn, I put hurricane ties on every truss, and have been very glad I did. That barn is going on 30 years, and we just finally had to replace the 5V on it a year ago.
 
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