Alaskan $50 DIY Woodshed Build | Two Day Build 

I'm 60....and wish I had the energy I had when i was 45! 🤣🤣

Must say i agree with other comments that your wood shed isnt big enough. Very long winters in Alaska. If it were me after you fill this shed you might consider cutting long lengths of dead trees and haul to your cabin site. You can just cover with a tarp. It will be a time saver doing it this way. Then block up as needed. Better to have a reserve pile close than to be out in deep snow looking for fire wood this winter.

I'm no fancy folk either, so I say good job 😊👏👏👏

Great video! I love ultra cheap projects. I keep reading these comments from people saying the shed isn't big enough but some simple math says it is. You replied that you're planning on 4-5 cord. A cord is 4x4x8=128cubic feet. Your shed, per the dimensions you gave in the video, is 8x10x8=640cubic feet. Which is exactly 5 cord. I know in your last video you said you "don't math good" but I think, maybe you do.

Definitely gonna reference this video for squaring!

I remember how much help a toddler was when I was doing something, and you have four!

You have the right dog's!!!

A wood shed needs to be tall enough to be able to carry a load while standing up straight and not feel as if you are going to hit your head. As the pile dwindles you may end up chopping kindling and other chores under it so again it needs plenty of headroom. It also most, importantly, needs to be close to the house. In the middle of a snowstorm with two or three feet on the ground and sub zero temperatures you don't want it to be a trek to get wood. You also don't want to be shoveling a long path to the woodshed. It also needs to hold a good stock of wood. Seven or eight cords of dried wood won't be too much for an Alaskan winter and that is if it is dry. If it is wet you may well burn twice that much. Most of the heat in wet wood goes to drying the wood out sending steam up the chimney. Ideally you should have three years worth of wood on hand, burning the three year cured wood and seasoning the two and one year stuff. Keep in mind that the wood will be held up by the walls of your shed at the end of the rows so build it accordingly. Log saplings work well for sides and allow air movement to dry the wood while keeping most of the moisture off while being free. It would be ideal to have a wood shed next to the house where you can build a section of the exterior wall between the shed and the stove as a slide out box on tracks with full insulation in the ends. Then you push the box out (into the woodshed) and fill it as needed. Push it back in and the wall seals with a load of wood alongside the stove for burning. Keeps the mess out of the house and off the floor. As a plus you don't carry the wood far and all the bark, needles and sawdust stays in the box and not on your floor.

I love your dogs, they are so inquisitive. Woodshed is looking good.

first time I ever seen anyone use a perfectly good level for a tamping post

You did a sweet job with that woodshed. No matter the comments from the know-it-alls, I believe you've made it plenty big enough for the amount of firewood you need. I love how well you both work together, thats taken uears of practice. 😍😍😍

Looks good

That's not very big you need to make it bigger. You going to need 2 like that. I watch a bunch of videos and for where yall at you will need a bunch. Please make sure yall ready for winter. As always be safe and God Bless ❤️

That looks amazing good job 🇬🇧😊

I love your dogs .....may God bless you two

An excellent choice to work on as a part of your "getting ready for Winter" checklist. Your idea of getting some live-edge lumber from a sawmill for your sides is a good one. Your dogs are amazing. They are so curios, so eager to serve, and they don't want to be far from their humans. Obviously well loved. You know the priorities of work before winter. Keep plugging away!

That should keep your wood dry, nice that you were able to repurpose that metal left on your homestead.

Good job

Your dogs crack me up! They always are interested in what you are doing. So cute 😊

Nice wood shed!

Hey that was good job came out pretty good

I think your wood shed is awesome. All these people slating you for building it too small need to look at what you’ve done. It’s all about the materials you have laying around in order to facilitate building it. Well done

Put the barrel bolts on the inside of the dutch doors

Enjoyed watching you work. You are making everything look great. Glad to see the kitty go up the stairs.

Good job Caution in using your level to tamper with You could lose it’s integrity balance. Do hope your shed is large enough.

Great job, planning for winter.

Hello guys hru doing great job as usual I'm just wondering if it's big enough to stock a winters worth of wood, as usual I've enjoyed another great video from you guys

Mark your posts by starting the hole then get your string out of the way.

Nice job, like how it looks. Great reuse of metal. Thanks for taking me along.

Hey guys! Looks like you had beautiful weather to build that wood shed! Looks good! It’s all about winter prep right now. I’m cleaning my wood stove and chimney today. The cabin is starting to get a little chilly with night time temperatures dropping to around zero! Hopefully when winter rolls in you can relax by warm fire. You certainly deserve to! Have a great week!

Great video

Great job 😊 love your dogs 😍

Gives me a good idea for a mower shed.

Love the puppy dogs 😂

Good Luck! no post preservation? like the Japanese burning technique Shou Sugi Ban, or some other method? new to your channel, from Ohio decades ago.....I follow another channel 'north to alaska' that is also on the Kenai Peninsula. the wood shed looks good, glad you are preparing for an Alaska winter!

looking good. beautiful dogs

I'm guessing that your wife is at work or sleeping. She's a good woman, you're lucky to have someone like her as your partner. My wife and I are in our 70's now but we used to tackle everything together, like y'all are doing.

Nice shed 👍. It's a good thing you've got all the four legged supervisors there to keep you straight 😊. Looking good!

Is that the highway that we hear in the background? Like your videos 👍thx for being so real

Great job! Looks good.

Great Job guys!!!😇

We only have one four legged helper and she’s always where we need to be. How close is your nearest neighbor?

"we allocated just $50 for this project".........in Alaska, that's a box of screws. LOL

Good job ,

I got a laugh about you being 45 yo and slowing down. I started our remote cabin when I was 47. I’m 70 now and slowing down some. I’m building a small woodshed at our house now but only for 2 cords of wood.

Hard work with 1 person

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You need to chip all those tree limbs to avoid a forest fire.

So have you bought a snow plow for your truck yet. You may want to get one when winter gets there he'll have a hard time getting out. I realize you don't know that much about Alaska living. But you do need a bigger wood shed. It does have to withstand the snow load, but you do have to put up enough wood to make it through the winter and that's a lot of wood. You can cut beetle kill through the winter as you need it. Just don't take anything that's laying on the ground because it will probably be water-soaked. Good luck to you too Live Well

Soak your posts in diesel fuel, used motor oil and creosote. Those posts won’t rot for 50+ years.

wonder why your video is more of a small square but when a commercial comes on it widens out. Kind of annoying imo, but 👍anyway for the video.

Hi get a large weapon for the critters.

Was wondering if u had water through the winter. U2 wrk Great together

Good to get ready for really cold winter. The wood shed looks good. Will that be enough wood for the Alaska winter?

there are a number of off cuts next to your burn barrel and yet you chose to use your level as a tamper. off cuts are free. levels are not.

thats like a months worth of firewood

Wouldn't u need larger wood shed than that? Those Alaskan winters are long and harsh!

Who's hammering?

No using your level for a tamp .

I don't want to be critical , just saying, using an $80 level for a tamper ,is shocking it is really not good for it . I have been building for many years and would have been fired for using it that way. Just knocking it over on the ground is enough to get it out of true level.

Looks good