Small lumberyard

[Coliban]

Hello,

i would like to introduce my first project, partly done with the OF1010 (because it came at the end of the project). For the winter, which are sometimes snowy and cold, but mostly wet, we needed a new (small) wood storage. Since i work the whole day on the computer, i like to work outside with wood (every project a new tool). Lasst year, we´ve got a new chimney,  for that reason, i purchased the McCulloch chainsaw as a bargain at a local market. With the chainsaw i cut the miter of 10 degree into the wood beam for the roof.

Best wishes

 

[Tinker]

Coliban,
Welcome to the FOG.
Nice looking first project.
I do have a question?  How are those horizontal beams held to the upright posts?
I am concerned about that I see nothing beyond possibly nails.
I don't know what part of Germany you live, but my wife's family tells us of quite a lot of snow upon occasion. (And they are in the southern part of Germany.) I would be worried about snow loads on roof.
Tinker

 

[Coliban]

[attachimg=1][attachimg=2]Hello Tinker,

thank you for the welcome.

Yes, you wifes family is right. I live in northern Germany in Hamburg, and usually we do not have as much snow as the south, but now and then there are winters with a lot of snow (i attach a photo of our garden, but we had winters with such more snow).

I do not fear the snow load on the roof, i constructed it very robust, i think, if it carries me (about nearly 80kg), it will carry the snow on it (i attach a photo with me).

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I do have a question?  How are those horizontal beams held to the upright posts? I am concerned about that I see nothing beyond possibly nails.
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No i tried to avoid nails or screws. I grooved the edge of the horizontal beams (if this are the same, you are mentioning) up one centimeter over the middle of the sides (with the OF1010). In the vertical beams i graved also beams (in the size of a festool domino, but manually, with a chisel), in the same high as the grooves in the horizontal beams, put dominos in the vertical beams and then i was able to hook the horizontal beams from top down over the dominos. So, the horizontal beam doesn't need screws or nails, it holds strong forces, but it is nevertheless hard connected, so i can take them out as i wish. So, for example, we could take them out in the summer and depose something else in this lumberyard which needs more space. Or, if wish to rebuild something, i could take it apart without much trouble.

I hope, my answer is not too confusing (forgive me my bad english) or too complicated, i thought some time over this solution. But now it is over 12 o´clock after midnight, i have to go to sleep.

Until tomorrow!

regards

 

[Tinker]

>>>forgive me my bad english

 

[Coliban]

Hello Tinker,

sorry for the late answer, i was absent, traveling on business, i have never been in Reutlingen, i used to work for Bosch in the last century in Frankfurt, but that is totally different. But nevertheless, most of those areas are beautiful. Last weekend, i finished the wood yard, attached a photo.

regards

( as there can be seen, there is still a lot of work left around the house)

 

[Tinker]

Is that for storage of firewood?
If so, what ape of wood burner do you have.[attachimg=1]

 

[Coliban]

Hm, its a normal chimney, but with a high energy efficiency, so in the coldest winter, we can warm up half of the house (or more).

I remember long ago from business with some companies in the New York area, that you over there have also very strong  and cold winter, nearly every year in january?

 

[semenza]

Hm, its a normal chimney, but with a high energy efficiency, so in the coldest winter, we can warm up half of the house (or more).

I remember long ago from business with some companies in the New York area, that you over there have also very strong  and cold winter, nearly every year in january?

Hi,

    I am in New York, we had the third coldest  February on record this year.

    Nice use of the post holders for the uprights. I  have used those for my clothes line and mail box. Very handy.

Seth

 

[Coliban]

@Seth, yes, weather is going crazy, this july we have had in germany the hottest day since weather recording startet 40.3 degree Celsius (that is about 105 degree Fahrenheit).

Aren´t the post holders (9x9cm, about 3.5 x 3,5 inch) a little too big for clothes line or mailboxes (??).  8 of them i was hammering into the ground (about 35 inches deep) as a base for the wood yard.

 

[DB10]

  It is Interesting weather, as here in Australia where it is the middle of winter, on Sunday night our temperature went down to -1 degrees, I know that's nothing compared to you North - North Americans, but quite a shock for us. I've never had to use my log burner as much as I have this year.

 

[Coliban]

  It is Interesting weather, as here in Australia where it is the middle of winter, on Sunday night our temperature went down to -1 degrees, I know that's nothing compared to you North - North Americans, but quite a shock for us. I've never had to use my log burner as much as I have this year.

Yes, i read about it and i wondered, how people are doing when they are confronted with a situation, they never experienced before, like minus degrees or snow. Perhaps your houses have enough isolation against the heat, that would probably be also good against coldness, but how about the heating, all those things. I think, the weather is changing basicly.

 

[Cheese]

[member=54664]Coliban[/member]
Is that a plastic paving grid for grass directly in front of the shed?

Do you plan on that area being a high traffic area?

Like the shed by the way, really like the horizontal lines, works nice with the brickwork. Also like the idea of using glass in front of the fireplace to protect the floor.

 

[semenza]

Aren´t the post holders (9x9cm, about 3.5 x 3,5 inch) a little too big for clothes line or mailboxes (??).  8 of them i was hammering into the ground (about 35 inches deep) as a base for the wood yard.

Used 4 x 4 (3.5" x 3.5") posts for mail box and clothes line posts. I think the spikes on the ones I used are 24" long.

Seth

 

[Coliban]

[member=44099]Cheese[/member],

Yes, the pastic grid in front of the shed is something called "ACO", maybe a "high traffic area", but we walk on that often, for getting the wood in the winter every day, and then it is sometimes the passage to the "carport" on the right side. The gras is growing in that area and we can walk on it at the same time without ruining the lawn.

Maybe i am affected by von der Rohe and Gropius and subconscious by "Bauhaus" (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus#/media/File:Bauhaus.JPG) since we have some amount of "Bauhaus" buildings over here. Additional i like the wood work of the japanese Edo age (http://factsanddetails.com/japan/cat20/sub129/item687.html , look for example the sheds at the rural house from the 19th century), but only some parts, where there is a clean design language with wood.
I know, this is an overkill for an ordinary shed, but since it is visible in the garden, i try to build it elegant but functional (according to the chicago school (Sullivan), "Form follows function", but with some different means. Therefore, i tried to build the shed versatile, so i can remove the beams and use is, to some degree, for something else. (I even can remove the roof, only loosening some screws and, in addition, the uprights can be easily removed).
).
Later i try to design the structures in the garden in an uniform way, i want to build all other objects in the same manner, somehow a mix of japanese Edo and Bauhaus.

And i know, my wife was impatient, she said, this is a waste of time and a neighbor who saw this laughed and said that work is superfluous. But now, when my wife is sitting in the garden, she really loves this ordinary shed and she is very happy with this small building, she cant stop at starring at this shed (and since that she wouldn’t  say a word when i said, i would buy this expensive festool tool, the domino df500  )