The Shed

I needed somewhere to build the F-41. I looked into renting some nice insulated workshop close by but that apparently doesn't exist, so I had to go with Plan B - build my own shed. I looked at getting a commercial 40'x50' shed but that was $10,000+. If I had seen this website earlier, I might have gone with one of their large pool enclosures instead. But anyways, I spent several months during the summer of 2002 building a simple temporary enclosure that I could work in during the spring, summer and fall. It only had to last a couple of years, but be strong enough to last through the winters with our heavy snow falls. It's 30'x50' and about 16' high. It's built out of mostly 2x4 and 4x4 lumber and covered with tarps. Four of the frames are cemented into the ground. Once the hulls and bridgedeck are completed, the shed will be torn down around them so I can ship the three pieces to thier final assembly point. I'll probably have to put a new tarp roof on over the old tarp each spring, but that's no big deal.

I built this during the summer of 2002. It's now June 2003 and the shed survived the winter well. It's doing its job of keeping ( most ) of the rain out and, more importantly, keeping the damn mosquitoes out. If all goes to plan, it only needs to survive one more winter.

So, here's a few pictures of the 'shed' as I was building it:

Fig 1: The first 3 frames up in the backyard. There are 13 frames in total each about 4' apart.

Fig 2: Most of the frames are now up. The ladder you can see just to the right of centre is 6' high.

Fig 3: The view from inside at one end. You can see the last 4 frames lying on the ground ready to be lifted up

Fig 4: Here's the completed shed covered with a couple of large tarps as seen from the back deck of the house.

The Fence

Fig 5: The completed fence