The Shed Project

Before the deck came 2 years of shed construction. I constructed the frame (form) for the 16 x 20 concrete slab/concrete ramp. Form construction for me was a real education in applying the pythagorean triples theorum (3-4-5) to get things square in the 16x 20 foot span.The mixing truck left wheel marks that lasted a year and a half.

The outer skin of the shed is Australian rough sawn planks used for crates to ship helicopter parts to and from the U.S. I rabbeted each vertical board with my table saw. This eliminated using board and batten which I’m not fond of.
I got a new appreciation for the construction work of the thousands of tobacco barns here in the Connecticut Valley(pictured above, right). I built a shed in a former home with sheets of plywood. That is fast. Vertical board exterior? That’s a time eater.
A Ditchwitch rental helped make the miserable job of trench digging in the extremely rocky soil of our property a bit easier. The Ditchwitch Co. makes sturdy diggers. That machine took a lickin’ and kept on tickin’. It made the 100ft trench needed to install the 220 electricity mucho easier.
Added roof, gutters, plant/window boxes and opaque stain. Viola!