Thanks for watching! If you like this, check out my Building a House from Trees series. I am 5 seasons in documenting building a timber frame house in the woods from the trees I cut and mill off my land in Maine.
Nice Pyraneese! And I love the way you FF the video... but add in the occasional comment. Had me laughing while learning! Well done. I'm curious... not counting the man hours... how much $$ did you put into this? Obviously the lumber was free, but there are other costs. Were the metal roof and hinges/screws/gas/deisel the only costs?
I saw all your video sir. Your very inspiring sir..your a great husband..your wife and your children are very lucky to have you..godbless you and you family..
Laurentide Thanks a lot. Yes, overbuilding like I have no concept of physics or geometry. We could park several tractors up on that roof. But it should stand for a while.
Ha! Yeah, I'd say most of the 200 year old buildings around here were overbuilt by modern standards. A 1990's spec house won't be standing in 200 years.
Man building a shed from pine is super, building a shed from Aussie hardwood is a complete game changer, our old skool builders certainly knew how to use a handsaw and hammer to to drive 6" nails into hardwood.!!!!!!!
Thanks a lot. I can believe that it actually works. We are almost never going to be opening and closing it so it doesn't need to be totally perfect. I am going to go over and mill a little bit for the House from Trees this weekend on that glorious rig.
Thank you very much! Have fun building! It is a great project to do and the comfort of having a structure over the mill is quite nice. I am going to be milling some hemlock that I felled today for the house that I am building. Check those videos out too. House from Trees.
Well built. And I concur with other statements below. Think about two sliding to the side barn doors for the front. enclose it in a storm and even while working on the mill in the cold. That makes it also handy for other uses and functions. Maybe start with one and see how it works and functions.
Really nice build. It is very similar to the one I made for my sawmill in Norway some years ago. My experience was to put a small chimney on the exhaust, so it gets out, as well as I had to make a small wall in the highest side, as drifting wind/rain always came in. Else, lovely saw mill house. Well done.
Thanks a lot! I like those suggestions/design ideas. That mill had a moving saw head, and the exhaust was pointing out, so it never really blew to hard inside.
Your shed looks great! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us! I built an 8x10 shed for my kids in my backyard earlier this year using plans I got from *WoodBlueprints. Com* Clear directions and an accurate materials list...It was great for a novice builder like myself!
Nice job.if you some air space control, check with local carpet stores. When a customer want the floor changed from carpet, they'll frequently cut strips 3-4' wide so it easier to handle, and if you give then a heads up (lia shopping list), may cut to what need if they can . Depending on what size the carpet and maybe a short wall
Nail/screw the top edge of the carpet to the beam/joist, then drop 2 pieces of rope down the outside, then under the botton, and back up the inside to 2 pulling inside the ben. Add something like a dock cleat to the post, and you can roll up the carpet wall for light and air, and roll it down if it's nasty outside. A draft in the evening can get really chilly.
Thanks! It is unfortunately not my sawmill or my shed. It is all at a place where I used to work. But the shed it holding up really well. Thanks for the comments. Glad you liked the build.
Seems good so far! Was easy to talk to about his My Shed Plans [Go Here=> *WoodBlueprints. Com* ]. Guided me in the right direction & helped me understand everything & in the end it was what I wanted
Nice work on the shead .i watched you saw and wanted to give you a helpfull tip. When you put your logs on the mill rase your towboards up and set the logs on them instead of letting them roll hard agents your logs dogs over time this will throw your mill out of set just somthing i learned the hard way happy sawing
This is an incredibly obvious and immensely helpful tip. Thank you so much! Of course those steel dogs should be catching the logs! This right here is what makes the internet and youtube so magically wonderful. Helping the world from the bottom up. Thanks.
My fav woodsaw shed on RU-vid. I do have one gripe from my couch though. You didn't pay attention to which way the siding boards bowed. The boards should always be turned so the bow is curving up. In 20 years, that will be very noticable.
Thats so beautiful dude! Makes me feel like a wuss! I also want to now move to a wooded area, buy one and build a house from scratch! Oh wait a minute, we already established that I am a wuss! Geez, I envy you bro! Best part was, you bought an amazing machine, then used it, to fabricate the facility to house the machine you bought!
Thank you very much! You shouldn't feel like a wuss! Sometime, you may just find yourself in the situation where you need to make something big like that and you'll find your up to the task. You may not have tried it yet, but trust that you can solve whatever problems arise and you'll be fine. I actually don't own the mill, it belongs to the man who I used to work for. Thanks for the comment.
Don't beat yourself up too bad. I'd never built anything more than a tree house out of scrap lumber. A few years ago, I bought a portable band saw mill to saw lumber from beetle or storm damaged pines on the place, bought a few "how to" books on house framing, got to work and built a 16'x16' cabin above our pond. Stick with your dream.
Great job - But as I am sure you found out, you should always put tar paper or other underpayment under metal roofing, if you don’t, you have to tarp your mill to keep it from rusting from the condensation dripping. I learned this the hard way.
Well, it may be a function of the location, (windy, full sun) or the openness of the overall structure, but it has made it through all four seasons in Maine here and there is absolutely no condensation dripping. But I appreciate the advise. I am about to put a metal roof on the house I am building on this channel and I think ill be ripping strips of tar paper for the strapping with an old chainsaw.
Bus Just found your channel and love it. I am a new sawyer and want to build a building like you did. Would love to get a copy of your sketch. Thanks for your time and will be bing watching now. God bless.
Man this was the most satisfying video yet, somehow. Feels like ... peak Bus Hux editing style has been achieved. Btw, what’s with the little mini errrr gable-but-not extra bit near the door end? A space for a door? Will the remaining side be closed in? So many questions...
Thank you Will. I was really happy with how this vid turned out. One of those get lost in the editing for six hour kind of process that is really fun. Ah! I just understood what you mean. Yes, thats for a little very tall man-door. For now, I am going to let some storms blow in and we will see how much weather comes into the structure and go from there. I have priced out a foldable garage door type thing that pulls up that would seal in that giant opening and make the structure tight. That little door space was a function of being only able to mill 26' on that gian beam and not the full 30' of the slab. I like how it looks and i am going to have fun making a weird and super tall door. Thanks for the kind words. I feels good when people agree with how it seems to the maker
I agree completely! This series was shot at a place where I used to work, and I am currently running an LT28 at my place milling like crazy for the house that I am building from the trees I cut off the property. Season 4 just started! Take a look : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GE5FoKA8jPQ.html
Hey there, thank you. I certainly considered that design, but since we are very rarely going to be moving that mill from that spot, and that door will almost never be opened, I thought that a single door/wall would be more solid in the long run
Love watching your stuff. Great to have discovered you. Are those white dogs meremma? Perhaps they’re the neighbors? Haven’t learned enough about your homestead to know better yet Cheers!
If that door has started to sag, you might consider adding a wheel to it, to both support weight and reduce sag/ make the door easier to open and close. I know this is a year old, looks good.
Thanks for the comment. I don't work at the place where I built that anymore, but a year after i built it the door still worked without sag, open and close. I attached some cross cable with turn buckles, that I guess I didn't show in the vids.
THanks! Ive got something of a strange little solar kiln set up at my place right now drying some cherry for more serving trays. Thats a good question and one i pondered a bit. I am going to line the studs with a couple wide boards a couple feet high along the back wall so the chute can shoot the dust against it and drop to the concrete. And i am going to cut out and frame in a very simple door a bit wider than the shovel in the back corner that will lead to the back side and then have some kind of slab to scoop against with the tractor. It will be bedding for the pony.
Hi, i am just an woodworking enthusiast. I loved your work, it was fun to watch and a great build. I am in no way an expert in this field. If you could answer this question it is much appreciated. Is it better to use green wood or dried one for this purpose and why?
Thank you very much! I am by no means an expert on these subjects, but I can toss my two cents into that question. I cut these eastern white pine trees in the coldest part of the year when there was not a lot of water in the trees anyway, so it was the driest green you could get. I really like working with green wood because it never splits, its easy to cut, and I know fasteners will cinch up tightly in it as it drys. There is shrinkage, but in my case here it didn't matter much as it is an outdoor building and the siding boards having a hawfinch gap in them doesn't make much difference.
The fella I was working for had recently bought the mill and told me he wanted a shed, so I poked around at google images of sawmill sheds and cherry picked the best parts of the various buildings i looked at to make what would work for me. It has proven to be really good at keeping the weather out and keeping it dry. Send and email and ill send you my scratched out plans. I go over them in part 4 of this series.
Good question. The slab is 30' wide and I was able to comfortably mill that massive beam to be 26' long. And, I wasn't sure if we would be installing a door of some sort over the front and I thought we would want a normal sized man door too the left.
Do you have the measurements of the shed & main beams? ie: whats the height clearance, roof pitch, size of the beams, etc. I'm trying to come up with something similar in a config that would fit a mill.
nemloc I’ve gotten a couple requests for plans and I will be working to put those together ASAP. I’ll probably make another video too of the final stuff and using it and pluses and minuses. Itll be soon.
Yes, PTO driven logging winch. I have one at home (this video is shot where I work) on my 1957 Ford 641 work master tractor and it really is like a skidder with that thing on the back. So useful. Great for moving rocks too.
TheKaffeeKlatsch Yes, you’re correct. It is best practice to do that, but due to the heavy duty bracing I had installed in the frame and the fact that I thought we would be siding it with vertical boards or shingles, I just wanted to get the giant random boards up anyway I could. It was so cold! But you’re right.
Impressive workmanship but about that door-----If you come across hardware from an old overhead garage door that was torn down, it would be great to rehang that door to open up and above.
Boy, that is a good question. six or seven, plus the really big one that I used for the giant carrying beam. usually a minimum of 16" or so. There was a fairly large pile of pulp wood that I picked through to get some of the beam wood, as that could be fairly jenky.
Jerry Little I have not used that she’d in years as I don’t work there anymore. But I would have maybe used 20 foot rafters for longer overhang in the back.
I wish i had included it in the video, and i may have in part 4, but I did but a cable and turnbuckle on it. I opened it a year after i built it and it hasn't deflected an 1/8th. Thanks for the comment.
How much square footage do you need for a sawmill setup like the area to cover your drying shed load logs and all that If iwas to clear an area in the woods.
@@mainepatriot235 I assume you have seen my other videos. That’s exactly what I am doing with 12 acres. This shed was for someone I used to work for. I mill now mostly in the winters in the Feild so I have ample room. Do it where you’re gonna clear your house spot. Have fun! It’s an insane amount of work. But you’ll own it!
If I had to bet, I would have placed my bet against those short hinges ever holding up the weight of the door. I still don't believe that they are and I do believe that the door will begin to sag and drag the ground at the far end, in a very short period of time. However, I was wrong about the strength of hinges in the first place, so maybe I'm also wrong about their holding power.
Yeah, that door has been a hot topic of conversation! It won't be opened that often, but when it has been opened, over the last year since i built it, it hasn't sagged a 1/4 inch. I build in a cable and turn buckle system to take up any potential slack, but have not needed to touch it yet. Those hinges are rated at holding up more weight than that. They look small cause its so damn big. Thanks for the comment.
What kind of snow load are you dealing with there? I'm planning a shed as well with a 24' span, but I will need to build a flat truss to carry the load. I wish I could just cut a beam.
Coding W. allte We can get pretty hammered with snow here, and if if didn’t slide off there could be four or five feet standing. But so far, any kind of snow we got just came right off, even though the pitch isn’t that steep. I over built this thing to be able to land a black hawk helicopter loaded with fuel on it without any deflection. It was nice being able to manufacture that massive beam. Took some time though.
Hi Bus! Good stuff! I'd love a copy of your sawmill shed plans. If you'd like I can transcribe them into a Sketchup model. I've been using Sketchup for a few years now.
