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I don't see any hurricane clips or straps on the rafters and joists. 😉 neat utilty framing:good:
Gawd it must be a very long cold winter up there in Hampshah

Those 2 x 6 rafters at that angle will sure hold the snow!

> Those 2 x 6 rafters at that angle will sure hold the snow!

They are 2x8 rafters w/ metal roofing so I'm not too worried about snow.

There will be one more row of nailers (horizontally) and the 7/8" x 10" shiplap vertical board siding will tie the top plate and sills together.

Thanks for the pics. Keep them coming! I find this stuff very interesting.

I'm not familiar with it AT ALL.

So, your green "wood stove", does it heat water/fluid, which flows through your house to heat it?

> Thanks for the pics. Keep them coming! I find this stuff very interesting.
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> I'm not familiar with it AT ALL.
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> So, your green "wood stove", does it heat water/fluid, which flows through your house to heat it?

It an outdoor wood boiler at my neighbor's house. (for my house, I just use a Jotul woodstove)

The thing has several hundred gallons of water surrounding the firebox and there are two buried insulated pipes that run the water into the house and through the registers. You feed it once or twice a day and it will take up to 48" wood.

The wood boilers are great as long as you live up wind. Around here they have really cracked down on them. No using them for hot water in the summer, and you aren't suppose to burn trash in them. If you damp them down they can really put out some smoke.

T.W.

wow, bigger yet with 2 x 8's

I bumped the sizes up to 2x8 for rafters & collar ties because the collar ties are raised up above the sills by 14" to increase headroom without raising the overall building height. WIthout thes meaty collar ties & rafters, the building might spread at the middle with a big snow-load.

> The wood boilers are great as long as you live up wind. Around here they have really cracked down on them. No using them for hot water in the summer, and you aren't suppose to burn trash in them. If you damp them down they can really put out some smoke.
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> T.W.

I hear you there Tom. This is the old design that burns green wood and does appear to smoke a lot. Luckily I'm upwind and at least 500-600' away. My perception is that the OWB's are not very efficient as I have heard stories of 1500 sq ft houses burning 10-15 cords or more.

However, the newer OWB designs require dry wood and burn mush more efficienty and without as much nasty smoke.

I probably would have used 2 x 12's with about 1 in 3 doubled. But then I do tend to build about 5 times stronger than really needed. B-)

If I had the material to do so I probably would have built a steel frame instead of wood.

Like I said, I like Stout.

B-)

Stephen, I always figure ...

if you don't have a building fall down once and a while, you are using too many nails.

Nice wood heated outhouse for the builder! I've never seen a wood stove in a port-a-potty!!

I think it is going to be for kiln dried lumber?

That's the heater for the neighor's house from the post above.

Hey Mark

I sold two cords of firewood to a guy up the road with your name. seriously, same spelling and everything.

B.T.W. Those are pressure treated 6x6's for the support posts (3 on each side) buried 4 feet in the ground.

Good looking shed. What timing! I am building almost that same thing, similar design, in the next week or two. You can bet I won't post pictures though, cuz mine probably won't look as nice. What did you use for the beam on top of those 6x6's?

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Thats a wood heated port-a-potty for Perrys, uhhhh, warmth.

Kind of a long ways from the neighbors house to be much use to them. 🙂

> Good looking shed. What timing! I am building almost that same thing, similar design, in the next week or two. You can bet I won't post pictures though, cuz mine probably won't look as nice. What did you use for the beam on top of those 6x6's?

I notched the 6x6 posts and ran two 16 foot 2x8's spiked together as a header beam/top plate.