Building a Lumber Storage Shed at Pellow's Camp

[Wood_Junkie]

I saw the first 9 pictures, and thought it was an impostor!  I see no blue and green throughout your work area.  They have been such regulars in Frank Pellow pictorials.  But, luckily you posted a shot of the drill, so...

This framing job is amazing Frank, especially so since you're doing it alone.  You are a powerhouse worker.  I wish I had your energy and time.

 

[peter halle]

Frank,

Reading your posts and seeing your pictures of what you do in a remote location by yourself reminds me of a book I bought several years ago.  The title is "Working Alone - tips and techniques for solo building"  The author is John Carroll.  Just as I think that this book is a must read for anyone involved in building - either as a D.Y.I or a professional, so do I think that your posts are a must read.

Peter

 

[Frank Pellow]

Frank -

More storage space never is enough....but it's great building it anyway!

I'm really perplexed at the butt angle of the tops of your roof trusses (pic with caption "After Day 6").  To me, you have cut them opposite to the angle I would have chosen to attach a headerf ???????????

Don`t worry, all will be revealed when I get around to nailing the plywood to the rafters.  But, I won`t be doing that until my next trip to camp in about 10 days and I won`t be posting the pictures here until about a month from now. 

So, you will have to wait to find out what is being done here.

 

[Frank Pellow]

I saw the first 9 pictures, and thought it was an impostor!  I see no blue and green throughout your work area.  They have been such regulars in Frank Pellow pictorials.   But, luckily you posted a shot of the drill, so...

This framing job is amazing Frank, especially so since you're doing it alone.  You are a powerhouse worker.  I wish I had your energy and time.

Thanks Mr. Junkie, and you will see a lot more blue and green tools in the photos that I just added to the thread.

 

[Frank Pellow]

Frank,

Reading your posts and seeing your pictures of what you do in a remote location by yourself reminds me of a book I bought several years ago.  The title is "Working Alone - tips and techniques for solo building"  The author is John Carroll.  Just as I think that this book is a must read for anyone involved in building - either as a D.Y.I or a professional, so do I think that your posts are a must read.

Peter

No doubt, I could learn from that book.  I will see if they have it in the Toronto library system.

 

[RONWEN]

Great presentation Frank, you always do a wonderfully entertaining job!

 

[Eli]

Great project Frank. Reminds me of the many semi rural shed locations my family had over the years, out in the back nine built with hammers and chainsaws. Your method is much more....... *ahem*, ...... precise [embarassed]. A lot of quadrilateral pole barns rotting out in the forests of Vermont.  [big grin]

I'm curious why you laid the floor joists in flat? To keep the floor height low? Does it not give you quite a springy floor?

 

[Frank Pellow]

Great project Frank. Reminds me of the many semi rural shed locations my family had over the years, out in the back nine built with hammers and chainsaws. Your method is much more....... *ahem*, ...... precise [embarassed]. A lot of quadrilateral pole barns rotting out in the forests of Vermont.  [big grin]

I'm curious why you laid the floor joists in flat? To keep the floor height low? Does it not give you quite a springy floor?

Thanks Eli.  

You guessed the reason for laying the joists flat.  I wanted to keep the floor as close to the ground as I could.  The floor feels very solid and I don`t notice much spring (yet  ???)

 

[mouppe]

Frank, I think I found your island on google maps about 600 miles northeast of Toronto. Wow, that's a heck of a weekend drive!

I'm following your build with great interest and enjoying it very much.

Richard.

 

[Frank Pellow]

Thanks Richard and, yes, you have the correct location.  I have found our island on Google -but you can't see much detail.

The trip is long but, in spite of that, I make the round trip four or five times a year.  I have only once done it over a weekend (a long weekend) but I was younger and more foolish then.

 

[Eli]

Well if you were so motivated and it didn't require a special trip in the boat for materials, a bearer in the middle would definitively rule out any possibility of future springs welling forth (I really do mash up those metaphors [unsure])

 

[Frank Pellow]

Well if you were so motivated and it didn't require a special trip in the boat for materials, a bearer in the middle would definitively rule out any possibility of future springs welling forth (I really do mash up those metaphors [unsure])

It`s a little late for that and, anyway, I really do not expect it to be a problem.

 

[tbellemare]

Great project Frank. Reminds me of the many semi rural shed locations my family had over the years, out in the back nine built with hammers and chainsaws. Your method is much more....... *ahem*, ...... precise [embarassed]. A lot of quadrilateral pole barns rotting out in the forests of Vermont.  [big grin]

I'm curious why you laid the floor joists in flat? To keep the floor height low? Does it not give you quite a springy floor?

Thanks Eli.  

You guessed the reason for laying the joists flat.  I wanted to keep the floor as close to the ground as I could. The floor feels very solid and I don`t notice much spring (yet  ???)

I did the same thing with a shed I built a couple of years ago. The floor is made from an old deck that was never very nice and finally had to be taken out for aesthetic reasons. The wood was old, pressure-treated pine 2x8's. I built it like a deck, sort of, and then decked it with some cheap 1/2" plywood that I screwed down all over. I found some cheap, battleship gray, polyurethane floor paint at Habitat for Humanity Restore and painted it inside and outside on the skirt.

It is very solid and the finish appears to be tough as nails.

Tom

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

Damn Frank, that is a lot of work by yourself no matter what.

I hope I can still do that much work when I get older.

Nice job!!

 

[Frank Pellow]

Frank -

More storage space never is enough....but it's great building it anyway!

I'm really perplexed at the butt angle of the tops of your roof trusses (pic with caption "After Day 6").  To me, you have cut them opposite to the angle I would have chosen to attach a headerf ???????????

Don`t worry, all will be revealed when I get around to nailing the plywood to the rafters.  But, I won`t be doing that until my next trip to camp in about 10 days and I won`t be posting the pictures here until about a month from now.  

So, you will have to wait to find out what is being done here.

OK, Alaska Ranger , now I will show you what I was up to.  I like adding a bit of a distinct "Pellow" touch to the large shed roofs that I build, that is a very small roof slanting the other way at the top of the rise.  I did the same thing on the Saunamokki building and if you look really closely at the photo of that building near the start of this thread you can see what I am talking about.

Here is how it looks in a couple of stages of the construction:

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And, here, you can see the resulting roofline in profile:

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[Frank Pellow]

Getting, back to construction ...  

I last reported in mid August after 6 days of work this summer. At that point the building had been framed but there was not siding and no roof.  I made two more trips to camp this summer (one in early September and one in late September) and got in 7 days of work. With the exception of about 40 battens, the exterior of the shed is now finished.  

Here is a picture from in front of the building with the 3 panels removed, some lumber on the racks at the back, and four boats piled for the winter:

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This year I just piled in the boats. Next year, I will build a rack something like the rack shown here:
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belonging to a neighbour, but I will make it in tiers so I can put in a boat, install a tier, put in another boat, etc.  

Here is picture from in front of the building with the 3 removable panels installed:

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With an assistant, I can remove or install the set of panels in about 10 minutes.  Working by myself, the job takes about half an hour.

As with all other buildings at camp, this one will have a name.  That name will be 'The Stage' in honour of origins of the panels and because, with the panels removed, it does, indeed, resemble a stage.

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I will carve a suitable sign this winter.

Who knows, maybe we will even put on some event on the stage at some future date.