| Last winter we moved from a home with a huge | | | | leaving your child at the lumber yard. One more thing, |
| oversized double-car garage that included a separate | | | | there was no permitting required as long as we were |
| room which had been set up for woodworking. We | | | | not harvesting the trees to sell. |
| moved to a very nice home with a stand of about | | | | For the shed, we used the 1x8 boards for siding and |
| 30 redwood trees. The lot is a little oversized for a | | | | flooring. We also had 2x4 framing stock milled. With |
| city lot, but the single car garage was tiny, miniscule, | | | | the shed we needed permitting, therefore shed |
| hobbitesk, definitely not large enough to | | | | plans. We needed to submit a simple site plan to |
| accommodate my building tools | | | | the building department, with an estimate of costs. |
| Our first project was to drop some of the large | | | | I found free shed plans on line that included a |
| redwoods to clear an area for a two car garage and | | | | materials list which I was able to use for the cost |
| workshop. About this time, we started feeling the | | | | analysis. This site also had plans for hundreds of |
| effects of the economic downturn, so we downsized | | | | woodworking projects, great plans for home and |
| our project. We had the trees milled on site to | | | | garden projects, and projects to work on with the |
| dimensions we could use for a fence and storage | | | | kids or grandkids, birdhouses, playground equipment, |
| shed. If you have some trees on your property, you | | | | etc. |
| might want to look into this. There's probably | | | | Well, it's time to begin the planning phase for this |
| someone in your community with a portable mill and | | | | summer's projects. Whether it's building a fence, a |
| often they'll do the job for a percentage of the milled | | | | storage shed, or any woodworking project, be it |
| wood. Just look in the phone book under ‘tree | | | | picnic tables garden arbors, patio decks or barbeque |
| service' and any arborist should be able to direct you. | | | | pits, with a few good tools and clear comprehendible |
| We had the fence boards rough sawn to full one inch | | | | plans, you can put the prefab ‘big box' products |
| dimension and I dog eared the tops with my trusty | | | | to shame, save money, teach the kids some valuable |
| skill saw. That's one beautiful fence. Try to even | | | | skills and impress the heck out of the little woman. |
| find full dimension second growth redwood fence | | | | So check out these FREE Shed Plans to see if this |
| boards at the lumber yard. If you do find any, I | | | | package is for you, and "Gentlemen, Start Your |
| guarantee they'll want gold bullion and your first born | | | | Power Tools!" Happy Building. |
| in exchange, and honestly, it just wouldn't feel right | | | | |