How To Build a Woodshed | HUGE Firewood Shelter and Plans

hey welcome back to getting it done north of seven my name is roland it's really cold again this morning it's february 1st i just loaded up this fireplace here with some wood today in this video i'm going to show you how i built my fire wood shelter my firewood my wood shelter and i'm going to show you the dimensions what i did to build it i'm going to show you everything from top to bottom so that you can build your own wood shelter or firewood shelter outside here at the wood shelter or the woodshed whatever you want to call it i'm going to show you guys how i built this and give you an idea how i built it now this is mine this is my ideas it's how we built it how we like it it works for us you may want to do something different that's up to you but i'll give you a basis to start with because when i before i built this i wasn't too sure what i was going to do and i looked around online i looked around on pinterest and i found a youtube channel where a guy made his own something like this but he built the right size that i like to have a big one so i kind of went by the basis of his plans and went with that so i'm going to share with you how i built our wood shed so maybe it'll help you build one for your place because it really comes in handy this thing holds a lot of wood a lot of wood and i still have room on the right side here i'm still going to be loading more than that i'm going to be getting a shipment of logs here shortly and i'll be cut and splitting that and piling it into this wood shelter so like i said when i built this wood shelter i wanted it to be big so length is 25 feet and then depth i guess you would call it is 10 feet the front posts the front posts are eight feet tall and the back ones are six feet tall we got three in the front three in the back for the posts i just use cedar trees that in our property down in behind our house i got some there and then i stripped them cut them to length and that's what we're using for posts now you could use 4x4 posts that would work great i didn't put them in the ground i have them sitting on cement blocks that's just what i chose to do i didn't want to i don't have to dig down and secure my posts in the ground make it sturdy and everything this thing is heavy the way it's built because i used a lot of rough lumber all around as you can see that was a cheaper way to go again and it looks cool right looks older rustic but like i said it doesn't have to be there forever it's just sitting on cement blocks and that works out good for us so i got six cement blocks now for the roof i used metal roof i had a whole bunch of leftover metal roof from when i did our garage in our house and then i found some extra ones for free so really it didn't cost me anything to put a roof on the on the wood shelter but even if you had to buy metal for your roof there's not a lot of metal there it wouldn't cost a lot and you don't have to buy expensive painted metal and like here i just back onto woods anyway so you could get away with just a normal tin looking roof i guess you would call you know the rust after a while you can get away with that now for the floor i use skids now there's a guy over here not too far from me who had a whole pile of them so i just went knocked on his door talked to him and i bought a bunch of skids off of him so they're really the heavy duty hardwood skids and they're fairly big so i measured out what they were and figured out what i needed bought the amount and it worked out perfect for us and i think we have six skids on each side now i don't know why but my original plan was was to leave a gap in the middle but i thought what's the point we can get more wood in there as much wood as possible so i put rough lumber from top to bottom there a whole bunch of them at the end of each row so the rows are leaning on the rough lumber it stabilizes the ends at the end i just crisscrossed my logs my firewood so they wouldn't fall that way but there is sides on the side of the the wood shelter anyway i didn't pay attention to how many bush cords i put in but i got a feeling there's there has to be at least four bush cords maybe three bush cords on the left side and so the other side would hold the same so that holds a lot of wood now as you can see i put rough lumber all around the sides i left spaces here so lots of air and sun gets through along the back is all the same in the other side or when i ordered the rough cut lumber i knew my measurements so i measured exactly they come in all different lengths when you order rough cut lumber at least from where i did anyway they they will cut them pretty much any length you want so i didn't have any waste after hardly any waste at all it was really good now one thing is for sure when you're building your wood shelter you want to use leg bolts and all the the major parts of your the major framing of your wood shelter you want to use leg bolts for extra strength also because you know if we get a lot of snow this roof is going to hold a lot of snow on top unless i rake it off so it's going to be able to hold the weight it's not going to crush crush down on me now also another cool thing too is now i have a big garden right here and we're gonna expand on our garden make it double the size so i'm gonna run a trough here and i'll direct water into one of those big tanks you know those big square tanks with the caging i may do two tanks i don't know yet but for sure one and i'll be able to hide it in here behind the wood shelter and all the rain water be funneled down into the tank which is gonna be really awesome for our gardens and now the last thing you got to remember to do is put bracing too so like we have braces here braces there on every corner i have braces i have one going from here to the back brace is all over just to keep it sturdy and solid so you're not it doesn't have any room to wiggle and move around on you you don't want that so if you're thinking you need a big wood shelter for the amount of firewood you need to store and dry because you do need a big one there's no use building half this size it really won't do you any good you you want good dry wood 10 by 25 is plenty for us and we burn a lot of wood we burn wood all winter long and we're in canada so we have a long heating season so i hope this helps you can get you some idea in case you don't really know where to start on how to build your wood shelter for your firewood and you know what i what i'll do is i'll put a diagram of our size and all the measurements and everything for this wood shelter i'll put it on our community tab on our home page our you of our youtube channel and you'll be able to find the so-called blueprint for this wood shelter there i'll draw one up really quick i do have one i just want to make sure it's correct i'll put it up there for you so if you enjoyed this video about our wood shelter and how we built it and the materials we used go ahead give us a thumbs up don't forget 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Channel: Getting It Done North Of 7

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Length: 7min 4sec (424 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 02 2021