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Adam P ......Uhhhh???
06-25-2003 21:09:06
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Re: leaving tractor outside in reply to bill, 06-25-2003 11:25:15
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Howdy, You should be able to make a shed really for less than two hundred dollars... You can then send me $2800 dollars and you still wind up with 5k in hand!!! Just kidding (unless of course you want to!!!) OK I'll give you a simple little design that will work well. It my also act as a spring board for debate.... But lets get your tractor covered for the for-mentioned price. We will shop at your favorite hardware warehouse superstore. The design will be a simple, and I suppose it would fall into the "lean-to" group of sheds. Here we go:
Figure where to put the shed, and how you would like to drive in, under it... This will be the front. With me???
Now, we'll make your shed 8 x 16. 8 foot wide front and back, 16 feet deep. K?
The front of the shed will be 8 or 9 feet tall, the back of the shed will be 6 or so feet tall.
This is where everyone will be jumping in with ideas, but I'm trying over here, to help protect this guys tractor. It's a start!!! lol
You can do this at every four feet of the shed, leaving odviously the front open.
Install 4x4xten foot pressure treated wood posts around the perimeter of the shed. For example start with the front left at two foot deep, so eight feet is above ground, then install another post (say 6 inches shorter this time) four feet further back, then another, now a foot shorter, then another, now a foot and a half shorter, then another, now two feet shorter, then one more now two and a half feet shorter. That last mentioned post is your left back corner. See how well this is going??? Now two more "two 1/2 foot shorter" posts (I guess we're going clockwise here) and the back wall is done. Keep going clockwise now making the posts taller again till your now back at the front right.
OK the posts are in!!!
Firm up the posts by tying them together with something like,,, (at least at first) well your choice, but two foot wide, eight foot long, strips of plywood at about four feet high on the posts should serve as a start.
On the tops of the posts from front to back of the shed, use double 2x4's. A 2x4 on the "outside" and a 2x4 on the "inside" on both sides of the shed, so there flush with the tops of the posts. Re-inforce the front of the shed with a two by eight going across the top, also flush with the tops of the posts...
Now use ten foot 2x4's to go arcoss the top side of the shed (the roof) every 16 inches. You will have about a foot of over hang on each side. This is good. (a little inconvieniant for the roofing plywood but we'll deal with that in a minute)
Finish installing the roofing joists, then lay your plywood roof. You can lay your plywood roof with a two foot gap down the center, going longways front to back to cover the over hangs, then add two foot strips of eight foot plywood to fill in. Some roofing paper, and a few packs of shingles and your good to go!!! And so is your tractor.
Good luck, and let us know what you think!
AP
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