Building a Sawmill Shed | Install Rafters and Metal Roofing + Total Project Cost

[Music] that [Music] I'm [Music] all right we're back out here working on the Sawmill shed and we have accomplished a lot so far last time we got the posts and the beams up and we also got some additional bracing done Eric right now is working on spacing the rafters we're hoping that those go up by the end of today keep in tally of what we're doing out here and we are on day five of the project and we are on our third gallon of gas on The Sawmill so not too bad but we do have more wood to cut moving along here I just got the whole um I guess section on this part of the be where we're going to put our Rafters our Rafters are 2 in by 6 in so they're nice and sturdy and we're going to do them every 2 feet so 24 in on Center and then a couple of them I think maybe we some of these beams meet we're going to double them up we got up some bracing yesterday which we've never done before we've never cut 45 degree angles and put these things in on these back ones I don't know if we actually needed these ones so you put these in when you have like a long span and you can't put a post in the ground but we did the front which I'll show you and it looks so good that we want to put these ones here these ones are 5 1/2 in x 5 and 1/2 in and we use these really cool lag screws I think these are 8 in on this one but check out the front ones we put in big beefy ones the front is where we needed it so we did 10 in I think these are still called lag screws or lag bolts something like that we did half they're half inch thick and they're 10 in long and then these beans themselves I think these are 4 feet on the long end and we had to do that because this is a sawmill shed so you need to bring long logs in here we have it's almost 20 20 ft right here this man in a perfect world you could put like a beam right in the center but that's just not going to work so when you put these supports in it takes the weight off of that point and it kind of redirects it into this post so essentially we have like another post right here turned out really good yesterday we were also busy cutting all of our Rafters we got a stack of them over here got a little snow last night but like I said these are 2x sixes I think we cut like 21 of them and these are cut at a little over 16 feet um they're not all the way ready to use yet what we have to do is we have to go along and we have to make sure that both sides are completely Square so we'll do that on the mitera and then we'll take our measurement and I believe our measurement is going to be just under 16 ft we're using 16t metal roofing for that back section I'm going to climb up on the tall section here we got to get the snow off it and we got to get that one marked off and I guess it's time to start working on the rafters [Music] oh no [Applause] honey perfect there's our notch on the back so we'll be left with 16 in over the back 16 and 1 half inches plus the roof so we'll be left with about 19 in of coverage on that back side they're about 5 and 1 half Ines because our posts are 5 and2 in so this will go right to the front of the post and they should be 1 in you mean the beam 1 in deep yeah the beam 1 in deep holy cow hle on the front almost couching your in so then if I mark it like this and I cut on the outside of my line should be good now got all 21 of our Rafters cut and we decided to notch these ones this time around in the past we've just left the uh 2x sixes or whatever we were using um kind of not notched so I have like a little example here if this is the beam you could imagine um this is the rafter and let's just use this as an example for like the back part of it you can see that all that pressure is on one corner and when we did our last lane two we noticed after a few Winters that the heavy wet snow over time kind of tweaks the rafters and it tweaks the actual beam too as well so that's why we notched it Eric's not a huge fan of doing that because it does compromise the wood just a little bit you can see it takes away from some of the uh the girth we say you can see how this one that he cut is going to fit nice and snug on the beam so we shouldn't have shouldn't have issues with twisting we don't actually get really wet heavy snow here or a lot of it so it's honestly not really a concern but we wanted to try that this time around and then he's just going to toenail him in and our roof is going to be I think it's like a 312 pitch and that means that it's going to have a slight slope to it so we're going for about a 3ft difference so the top is is going to be much closer to 10 ft and then the back is going to be much closer to 7 ft and we're hoping that maybe some snow will Shed off of that we don't really know we usually keep our roofs a little bit flatter than that so we're going to get these Raptors [Applause] up okay there should be a line that has number two oh Sho there guys [Music] [Music] is okay see what it looks like the rafters are up that was an accomplishment it's starting to look like a structure now so we used the winch on the players and we had to hook to the right of that big Beam for some reason the building was just like leaning back a little bit but we pulled it straight and then we nailed all the rafters in and it's holding exactly where we want it one of the other things we want to do on this structure is it's not just going to be a lean to like this it's going to actually have a little overhang out the front we're going to build that out of 2x4s uh not today probably in a couple days but tonight what we do want to do is our posts where we anchored them into those little uh anchor brackets in the concrete they're just nailed in right now we've got some big bolts we're going to put in there so we're going to try to drill those out get the bolts in and hopefully it would be nice to get on the roof again and we're going to put some one bu down so we can screw the metal roofing into that it actually looks like a house now you know what I mean the house for The Sawmill is it's so pretty that's once you get the Raptors up it looks good does that look straight Full Throttle oh yeah you don't have to you don't have to push it all now it pulls it keep [Music] going is right there that'll have to work trying to say if I want to cut these off now or just measure them all later and then cut them probably probably tomorrow want to walk I [Music] hope or you could just Ste right here after another long day outside we have gravitated back towards the cabin and we are ready to make a dinner and we have something delicious on the menu we are making a creamy chicken soup with Noki added to it we had to process some roosters recently we hatched out a bunch of chicks this spring or actually for this summer and we just have too many roosters right now so we're processing them slowly I had two cooking down and we have a bunch of stock and some of the meat left we also have gorgeous produce we were able to get some produce from a few local farms and then also a few folks down the road from us and when I say local I actually mean like a few hours away but it is still awesome produce so these are potatoes got some gorgeous parsnips here and a lot of that's going to be going into the soup and I are lucky to have a lot of canned food that we have Jarred up over the years but uh we have had to rely a lot on the grocery store this year without having a garden so there is a big difference when we get produce like that and it definitely tastes a lot better when it was grown in someone's soil we're going to go ahead and get this cleaned and chopped up and sautéing with some butter and then we're going to steam our potatoes for the Noki parsnip and carrots in the pot and something kind of neat is that a lot of this produce is actually not Super Fresh I know that sounds weird but we've been storing it down in our basement or not basement it's a crawl space we have a crawl space and that's where a lot of it's been stored so some of the stuff like the carrots are over a month old and they are storing really nicely down there so that is just really awesome to have even if we couldn't grow our own stuff um this onion is from the grocery store but I actually bought it like 3 weeks ago go and I've had it just sitting down there maybe that's not that cool but I thought it's storing stuff really nicely we've got our Noki going in the back Eric's tending to that we're going to add some spices to the soup and then also going to add some of the Celery Stock that we made a long time ago we made it October of 2020 and it's still good um we don't have any celery right now so I figured that this would work and I'm going to actually immersion blend this to make the soup a little chunkier would you look at that looks gorgeous we're going to eat dinner and I am pretty certain that we cut all the rest of the wood that we need for the Sawmill project so we're going to be back out there tomorrow these are some of the 2x4s we got and these are going to be our trusses to support our front roof overhang let me show you what I'm talking about over here you're going to come into the Sawmill and we are going to have a small overhang on the front it's going to be about 4T that's going to be to keep snow out keep rain out things like that and how it's going to be built is the roof is going to be built out of 2x4s you can see I've got a string on here to kind of get these lined up this was kind of uh difficult for us to do in the end what we ended up doing was we used this little triangle tool that gives you an angle so we put one up we liked it we took the angle and we're able to put four up and then we've tied a string along this we need to tighten this string it's been sitting out here all night but when you tighten this string up we should be able to go along and just put all the other ones up nail them into those back Rafters and since these are just kind of hanging out here on the front we need some support to support all the wood we're going to put on here and the metal roof so we've got a pretty cool design of a truss that goes back so this one's actually built out of a 2x4 also and it's going to connect this rafter back into into those Rafters and as you can tell when I push down on it it is just like extremely solid as soon as we get this all up the last step on this project is going to be metal roofing I'm picking through some of our scrap boards these are all one buys and what we're using them on is on top of the rafters so the metal roofing will have some support a cut a lot of these when we were cutting all our wood that's a cool one need some straight some straight ones I got two to start we noticed yesterday that we were having some trouble with our nails on the framing nailer we're using I think 3 and a/4 in nails and our wood is it's frozen it's green wood so it's not dried and they're just not doing their job so usually when you nail like a rafter into a beam or something like that it just really Nails it in but we were having trouble with these front Rafters here we ended up having to screw them in and I believe it's cuz the wood's Frozen the nails just aren't doing their job but on this nail gun this is a siding nailer this is one we've been using on the one buys on top top of the rafters to nail those in and this one seems to be doing a really good job and I think it's cuz on these nails they're kind of like ribbed I don't know if you can see that but they have little grooves in them and they're not as long of a nail I think this is maybe like a little over a 2in nail two and a qu maybe and these ones are gripping really good so we're going to put some one bu up on this front roof section to get them kind of leveled out we're going to try to just put one on there and then we'll work on the trusses yeah this should help cuz it'll help light oh yeah they're all lined up now [Music] H right there is that going to work nice did drove that thing in oh I could hang from that right now start R I'll just throw it up it'll be fine like that right something like that yeah Edge because the first one we ever did the live it was a Live Edge I got to go find [Music] you Frozen having a hard time we've got all of our one by up on the roof and we did a ton of them so this thing is going to be super sturdy you're going to be able to walk on the roof and just step anywhere and the front overhang roof is extremely solid and it's just really rigid now we're super excited I'm not looking forward to tomorrow tomorrow's metal roofing day and when that metal roofing gets like this light powdery snow on it it is like a sliping slide so we'll have to deal with that when we get there the last thing we want to do tonight is get the trim pieces on the front roof and the trim pieces on the back I got to get out of here woohoo it's Roofing day we're going to complete this project today and we got snow last night obviously so 's getting that off the roof hey you got to do the whole backside too thank you I know it's not that easy actually I don't know you got back up the same where you're going a little more which way that way now back I think need to go this side we're going to do on this side the nice side the same over yeah and you overlap it and then that side when we cut the last one we'll flip the last right [Applause] one more is that how it supposed to [Music] go Roofing day can be one of the easiest days of the project and it is not the case with this Roofing we have been like fighting it all day the problems we're run into this it's not that steep of a slope but the roofing has like this powdery snow on it and if you stand on it or sit on it you just like slide off the back and then also the panels are wanting to slide off the back of the roof so we got about halfway done and then we realized that our measurements were not correct and our roof was a just a hair off about an inch an inch isn't a big deal but when you're doing 30 6 ft of roofing by the time you get to the end it is a big deal so we pulled all the panels off we realigned it and we got it up it looks pretty good and I'm thinking about it this is probably the biggest span of roofing we've ever done we've done 16 ft but not 36 ft long we have the front to do it's getting late in the evening the front started as 16t panels but I cut them down into 4ft sections that's why we got this small little overhang we're going to cover let's put the tractor up there we're going to see if we can get them on the hardest part is these panels can't just sit there while you screw them on so you got to hold them on get them perfect and screw them on let's see if we can get them up there extremely unfun okay you can bring me down thank [Music] you thank you well I don't know if you can tell but that was a straight up nightmare um I definitely do not advise doing Roofing in Winter and aot my gloves are frozen my hands are they're actually okay they're not too bad but that was really hard the panels don't want to stay there and Eric kind of came up with this shim system my brain's not with me right now but he came up with a way to keep the panels kind of still and at an inch overhang which is what we wanted but it still was really tricky to get the screws in with the ice and all that um we switched places and I finished off the the last part but we're not going to be able to show show you what it looks like until tomorrow so we'll check it out then well that's her and thank goodness it is straight because we were not going to rip it off today and put it back on um it looks it looks really looks really good looks nice the overhangs about an inch on the front and I think on the sides we left 2 and 1 half to three I think it's closer to three on the back for for snow when it kind of melts so we don't get any sort of Dripping onto the wood let's get on a ladder and head up and check out the roof and see what our final pitch is 128 8 12 812 812 uh technically shouldn't you have like a square we don't have one okay yeah it's uh it's about exactly 812 nice that's a steep pitch that's steep that's the steepest we've ever done so this back one is obviously a lot less Steep and what you do is you go out a foot from pretty much any point on the roof but let's say we're going to pick the end just to make things easier so that's a foot this would help if I had the right tool so like a little um what is that called an L an L-shaped measuring ruler it's so that's 12 I'm guessing that's flat pretty two pretty rough two three yeah we got our length which is 12 and we're just going to estimate the rise I mean it's probably under three so we were hoping for 312 and just what that means is so if you go out 12 um inches a foot on the roof and then you go down and hit hit the roof again that's your angle so we at a 312 because it dropped 3 in and the front was 8 in it dropped 8 in so much steeper so that's what it means when you hear like 612 or 1212 and I I just learned that recently I didn't know that up until a few days ago this may not shed snow but it is super slick and we don't get that much snow here and the structure itself is very strong so I'm not thinking that it's going to be a problem at all but the front I think is definitely going to shed the snow which is awesome all right we're going to head back down and give you a little overview of the project once again we have finished another project and I am dang happy about it the shed looks amazing it kind of reminds me of when we did our wood shed back at our other place I know that I was I didn't want to build it and when we did build it it was like my favorite place to hang out so this is already the same way huh I agree awesome project super stoked to get it done before winter really sets in it started to get a little harsh there I mean we're working with very short days how long did this project take us to complete yeah we were keeping tally so eight days like Ariel said eight days Ariel thought it would take eight days I was like there's no way we're getting that done in eight days we yes short days so I mean the sun doesn't come up till late and it goes down really early it's super cold so I mean we were getting out here till like 11: in the morning there was more challenges with the cold too things that took us a little longer I'll say for sure challenging to do it and we moved to this place and we kind of knew that we were going to I'm going to say we got the opportunity to kind of do things over again start from scratch and that was kind of one of the big things was getting this Sawmill covered and protected this bad boy is going to get a lot of use at this new property yeah it's no joke it was an investment and we bought it several years ago it never really had the right home now it has a real home it's covered it's out of the elements which is awesome but then also Eric Gets like an extended season here because you can work in the rain you know in the spring or snow and same thing right like this year this time next year right you could be working here next November we could be cutting with this saying and we won't have to deal with the snow as much we'll still have to deal with the cold but that's all right and this spot here we were eyeballing it ever since we first came to this property and we thought this is going to be a perfect place to put a sawmill big logs be able to move around with the tractor and I mean it's just worked out great here for us it's in full sun which is great and the trucks can come in and drop off logs which is I think that's kind of like a huge thing we use the space right with logs and moving with the tractor and yeah it's hard to tell the video right now but we started stacking our slabwood extra logs the big logs extra one buys and our space here is kind of shrinking in so you need a lot of space if you're running a sawmill we didn't have a lot of trees here we had to get the concrete pad done earlier in the year yep that was fun up on concrete yeah the concrete's probably my favorite part of the Sawmill honestly yeah this area was just kind of like an Open Meadow like Ariel said we didn't have to take down any trees it was wide open that was our first concrete job so that was pretty awesome something else we were kind of keeping track of which is something we've never really kept track of is the gas usage we had a viewer kind of comment something and it got my my mind thinking and I know our Sawmill doesn't use very much gas at least I didn't think right right I'm usually the one that fills it up and I mean this was a big project with a lot of cutting and I will say there was like one or two days where the throttle was frozen so I just kind of left it so The Sawmill was like wide open the whole time I was cutting we used a little more gas then I have confirmed that the Sawmill has a gallon and a half tank I thought it was three and half gallons so we used a gallon and a half I put a gallon in it and then that was pretty much it we ran a little more right we ran for like 20 more minutes so we used two and a half gallons of gas in The Sawmill on this whole project which is good good because we definitely got some extra wood right you know you get extra pieces so I think that was pretty dang good right it was really good and the eight days that this project took to complete that's cutting All the lumber too so I mean I'm pretty impressed with that yeah it was new for us to build at this time of the year and it was also quite quite challenging as you saw something that we thought would be kind of fun is to disclose kind of how much we spent on this bad boy I'm G to call it on this structure um it's it's not like I'm like oh this is so cheap it's it wasn't cheap um I think in Alaska you know you're just looking at a lot higher prices um than than some other places we'll say like just elsewhere previously where we've lived obviously there are a few expenditures that are higher like the tractor or Sawmill just tools and equipment so we're not including that we're including just like what the cost was for us to build this structure and the first biggest thing I think which was like Sav we saved the most is our lumber for years since we've been up here and we've had the SoMo we've always got our own Lumber this year we decided because we had so many projects let's get some wood dropped off we got 14 cords of wood dropped off it's 250 a cord that's for these real big diameter like Sawmill logs he was calling them and we got a pretty close estimate on how much we used and we used seven logs which is about two cords of wood so 500 bucks on wood yeah we did the math on if we were going to buy this from the store and it was pretty hard because you can't buy these exact measurements and we also I mean it's a little difficult to just add all that up but I feel very confident that it would have been over $2,000 to buy well over 2,000 yeah yeah and there's some big there's some big posts and beams in this involved um we actually have a little list that we can read off to you these are some of the prices of like um I guess some of the lumber we use we use 2x6 is 2x4s that big Beam on the front those are expensive if you have to buy them from the stores most of these are prices from Home Depot or like local hardware stores that carry kind of um unique sizes of lumber this is pretty approximate we just looked up just three different sizes the beam or the posts that are sitting up a 6X 6x10 those are $58 a piece up here uh not pressure trated or anything just just regular uh Douglas fur Greenwood yeah and then a pretty common piece of lumber is a 2x6 16 ft long for our Rafters we Ed 23 of those and is that including the front I can't even remember the front is a 2x4s so that's just the back rafs yeah 2x6 x 16 those are $18 a piece at the Home Depot and then the big beam oh yeah the big beam across the front just the one the center one that was uh this is the most comparable one I could find it's a glue Lam beam so it's like a laminated wood beam uh 5 and half in by 11 in ours is 5 and 1 12 in by 10 and this one's 20t long I think ours is 21 ft long that was $725 at the the local hardware store for that one so it's easy to see kind of how we got to that estimate um we're not even including all that we just kind of tried to roughly estimate it was probably really well over 2,000 it was yeah for sure so we spent maybe not even 25% with this wood that we have here things add up quite a bit you may be surprised in the hardware department the metal roofing is it's decently priced I mean it's not cheap but it's gone up a lot since we've moved here I'm always amazed by the little things that add up you know like the nails and stuff like that are cocking um clearly there's no cocky on this project but what was it do you remember um well I have it for you if you we bought the roofing at Lowe's it was the cheapest place we could find it also they mucked them up with the forklift or something so quite a few of them were damaged so we got a small discount yeah we wouldn't have bought the damaged ones but that's all they had so we got a small discount the roofing for this whole entire project just the metal roofing is $1,200 so it is not cheap and the hardware is coming in just a little bit lower than that at about $1,000 for just Hardware and I mean you could you could have fastened it a different way we don't really know how to do those types of you know wood to wood notching and stuff like that and really there what was it called hun those those post things were the most expensive yeah the brackets that we bolted into the concrete and the post sat in it was $500 $510 for all those they were super expensive and that's kind of just the option that we found once you start getting into big lag bolts like 10in bolts that are/ in and uh 3/8 in man and they're just costly yeah quantity too it added up quickly yep so our grand total for the project was can we do math real quick $2,700 that's hardware us buying the logs yeah I don't think that's too shabby but I mean it's not good either no I think uh we've become accustomed to how much it cost to build up here and it is what it is we're way up here in Alaska and a lot of the stuff most of the stuff isn't made up here so it has to get shipped up here yeah I think we're just happy to have like Eric said the opportunity to be able to even do it you know and and the structure is so cool to reflect your own wood even when you have like you leave some of those live edges I know Eric likes to do that and you look back and it's just it's so neat to be in there and look at that and get that final feel right it should be probably the first thing you build with a sill is to build your own Sawmill cover and it took us what three years to get this thing up but it is beautiful I'm excited about it I think it's one of the coolest things we've ever built we're not quite done with it no we want to um I think we'll probably wait till the sum summer but the beams are sticking out a little bit on the edges we got to decide exactly where we want to cut those and we'll cut them we forgot the ridge cap at the store a few weeks back which is fine it's not worth the extra trip and then we also I would really like to stain or do something to the wood put some oil because you know the wood does wear we live in a dry climate but it it can get damag this should be fine because it's up on concrete but rain and everything right we want to put a stain on it it should yeah and we've mentioned it before already in the video but this is all green wood none of this is dried or anything like that I mean honestly the reason I think we did it like that is we don't have time to cut all the wood let it sit and uh not season but dry out and you know it's just one of those projects so we'll see how it works we'll see how it holds up and then once it dries out we'll be able to put a stain on it yeah yeah next next summer probably we've got to get all cleaned up out here oh we have tools all over the place but that's going to do it for projects for the winter we hope you enjoyed our little discussion here and now on to the fun stuff we went and checked the lake and maybe are going to be going ice fishing right the ice thick enough let's go woo

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Length: 38min 11sec (2291 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 19 2023