In order to build an outdoor wooden storage shed in your backyard, you should choose cedar wood because it can last long and able to produce a nice kind of smell as well as provide you with wonderful appearance. It is common for a wood shed to be used for storing firewood. Creating a wood shed out of cedar trees would enables you to create a resemblance of an old-fashioned log cabin and requires you to have at least a chainsaw and a few hand tools in order to build the shed. Below are some instruction and tips that you can use for building wood shed from cedar trees.
To make wood shed with cedar trees, you need:
- Chainsaw
- Measuring tape
- Ax
- Shovel
- Cinder blocks
- Level
- Crosscut hand saw
- Coping saw
- Carpenter’s hammer
- Nails
- Galvanized metal roofing material
Making Wood Shed with Cedar Trees
Making Wood Shed Using Cedar Trees
- The first thing that you need to do is to cut four cedar trees by using your chainsaw.
- Once the trees have fallen, you need to cut three of the fallen trees with your chainsaw into logs with approximately 5 feet long.
- As for the fourth cedar tree, you also need to cut it into logs with 1 1/2 feet long.
- Once the trees have fallen, you need to cut three of the fallen trees with your chainsaw into logs with approximately 5 feet long.
Always bear in mind that the height and diameter of a cedar tree will vary and different. You might be using several young trees as well as a few old one in order to finish the task.
- Next step that you have to do is to chop off any branches that come along with the logs with an axe.
- Then, you need to peel off the bark from each log with your axe.
- Then, you need to peel off the bark from each log with your axe.
- You need to place each cinder block into the trench that has holes facing the ground.
- Then, locate an area which is level enough before you can start to dig a square-shape trench with at least 4 inches deep and also 5 feet long on each side of your trench.
- Take the cinder blocks and place it with its long, narrow sides into the trench right until you manage to fill the trench completely with the cinder blocks.
- After that, you can place the level along each of the row of cinder blocks. This is for ensuring the tops of your cinder blocks are set evenly with each other.
- Next step to do is to fill any loose parts of the trench using dirt until you will see only 2 inches of each cinder block protrudes above the ground.
- Then, locate an area which is level enough before you can start to dig a square-shape trench with at least 4 inches deep and also 5 feet long on each side of your trench.
- Right at the end of each 5-foot log, you need to cut two 6-inch-long notches with your axe.
- You have to create at least 4 inches deep for the notch and also having flat edges at the end of each log.
- If you are unable to create a flat surface with your axe, you can also use the crosscut saw to remove any excess wood pieces.
- You must ensure that there are notches on both the top and bottom sides for each of the log’s edge.
- You have to create at least 4 inches deep for the notch and also having flat edges at the end of each log.
- Then, you need to choose two 1 1/2-foot logs and use the axe to cut two 6-inch-long notches at one end of each log.
- For each of the notch, it should be at least 4 inches deep and make sure that it is on the top side of your log.
- All of the notches will create a flat edge enabling the rest of the logs to overlap.
- The crosscut saw should be used for removing any excess material in case you do not get a flat surface with the axe.
- For each of the notch, it should be at least 4 inches deep and make sure that it is on the top side of your log.
- Take the first notched of 1 1/2-foot log and place it on the front side of the shed.
- It must be laid on top of your cinder blocks with the notches face in an upward position.
- Then, lay the first notched 5-foot log on the shed’s right side enabling the notch from this log to overlaps the notch from the first 1 1/2-foot log that you have placed earlier.
- In the end, both notches of the logs should meet at the right front corner of your wood shed.
- It must be laid on top of your cinder blocks with the notches face in an upward position.
- Next, the second notched of the 1 1/2-foot log should be placed on the front side of the shed
- Lay the log on top of your cinder blocks with the notches face in an upward position.
- Then, you need to lay the second notched 5-foot log on the shed’s left side enabling the notch from this log to overlaps the notch from the 1 1/2-foot log.
- In the end, both notches of the logs should meet at the left front corner of your wood shed.
- Lay the log on top of your cinder blocks with the notches face in an upward position.
- You should continue placing the third notched 5-foot log on the shed’s rear side in order for the bottom notches on this log to be able to overlap the top notches either on the left and right side of the logs.
- After that, you can proceed by cutting two 6-inch-long notches at the end of your remaining 1 1/2-foot log with your axe where each of the notches should at least be 4 inches deep.
- You must also create flat edges at the end of each log.
- Make sure that there are notches on both the top and bottom sides for each edge of your logs.
- You must repeat the steps number 6 to 8 that you have done earlier right until the shed has become at least 5 feet tall.
- You must also create flat edges at the end of each log.
- At the top front part of the shed, you need to lay a 5-foot notched log across it.
- The roofing material must be laid down flat in order to cover the top left-side log and also runs from the top rear log right to the top front log.
- The roofing material needs to be nailed to the top front log and the top rear log.
- Then, you have to overlap each subsequent piece of your roofing material in order for it to cover the shed. The final piece of roofing material must also covers the top right-side log.
- In the end, the roofing material will be used as a slight rearward slope for draining any water from the top of the shed.
Always remember that whenever you want to make wood shed using cedar trees
- Make sure that the roof can withstand weather elements such as rainstorms and minor snowstorms. As for areas that encounter heavy snowfall, it is recommended that you brace the roof using wood trusses instead of directly attaching the roof onto the top of your shed walls.
- The roofing material must be laid down flat in order to cover the top left-side log and also runs from the top rear log right to the top front log.
