Couple builds custom shed with own sawmilled lumber - start to finish in 23 minutes /// E59
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- Опубліковано 30 лис 2024
- It has been one year since we packed up our belongings into a storage unit, bought an RV and moved from the beach to the mountains of SW Virginia (where we did not know a soul) to find a piece of property to call home. Once we found our 32 acres and set up our RV, it was time to get started on creating our homestead. Step one was building a shed to house our water pressure tank and tools. This video is a compilation of the entire build process of our shed. We sawmilled all the wood used with the exception of the railroad ties we used for the foundation of the structure. The wood was harvested and milled on our own property by us which made the process a huge undertaking, but in the end all the more satisfying to accomplish and a finished product that we can be truly proud of. Going into this project neither of us had built a structure before so we learned a great deal along the way. We will be using all of this knowledge as we move forward to our next undertaking of building our home. All of this footage is small portions of our first 58 episodes on our channel. For a more in depth story and process we encourage you to go back to episode 1 and start from the beginning. Be sure to subscribe for more of our journey because we have only just begun.
Meg and Jon
In this video:
Harbor Freight Sawmill
Rural King RK24 Tractor
Titan Attachments Grapple Bucket
Harbor Freight Jackhammer
Harbor Freight Cement Mixer
Dewalt Compound Miter Saw
Harbor Freight Nail Gun
Shed Products:
Roof: Lowes (gray)
Interior Lights: Amazon
Exterior Lights: Home Depot
Fan: Home Depot
White Paint Exterior - Lowes Fence and Barn Paint
Green Paint (doors) - Sherwin Williams (Celtic Green)
Gray Paint (trim) - Sherwin Williams (Grizzly Gray)
Wood from our land: Poplar (siding), Cedar (base plate), Oak (rafter ties), Pine (rafter ties and studs), Ash (lower trim)
Door handles (barn door): Lowes
Door knob (front): original salvage - Deadbolt lock - Lowes
Weather vain: www.etsy.com/l...
and because Meg gets the question from time to time... her boots are Dr. Martens and they can be found here: www.zappos.com...
Great montage Meg. Great work Jon and Meg. Not sure of what other words describe what you have created. Beautiful. Future. Livin.
I built a 20' X 16' barn by myself back in 2007 in the Chicago suburbs. But you guys out did me by cutting your own wood and building it in a rural area. Congrats, it looks beautiful.
Congrats to you too! Something to be proud of!
Recalling the successful and hard-fought retrieval of the fallen tool from inside the cinder block wall... ♥️ You've come a long way! Congratulations! Amazing.
Aww, thanks Laurie! Nice to see you're still routing us on!
Well done, it's a credit to the both of you and of course the children.
Well done John and Meg.
YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME. GREAT JOB. BLESSINGS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY...
You guys must be so proud of what you have built - and using your own timber.
It was great practice for our upcoming house build.
Wow! Y’all are amazing. Beautiful shed. Can’t wait to see your house built!
Splendide travail en famille ...........
😊👌
Great work ! Proud of ya !
What a great revisit to your build. That "shed" has wonderful personality. I look foward to seeing what the two of you do with the house.
Thanks, Chris. It was fun revisiting the project as a whole. We forgot how hard we worked on it. Now we can enjoy it!
Your channel deserves a much larger audience, subscribed!
Great Video! So much work - so wonderful results! I really like the weather VANE!
We bought that a very long time ago, before the first board was even cut. It's a very cool piece.
O mais incrível dos seus vídeos é a Meg participando e fazendo efetivamente de tudo! Não se encontra mulher assim hoje em dia! Vc tirou a SORTE GRANDE! Deve agradecer a Deus todos os dias pela esposa e família que tem...🙏😃
Looking forward to seeing what comes ...
Starting a very similar journey in the spring. Looks like you have a good start, I hope it goes great the rest of the way.
Good luck, John! Enjoy yourself; we sure are!
Your channel has recently come up on my home screen and i have watched a few videos. I enjoyed your shed build. I summer in the appalachian highlands, in n.e. Tennessee, not too far from your neck of the woods. I will continue to watch to see what else you will do.
Hi guys you should think of getting a skidding wrinch
Good work building that shed. Looks very nice.
I'm new to the channel and going thru all your vids - Glad I ran across your site - Really nice job with the shed - Anxious to continue watching your journey in the mountains - We're in rural Ontario, Canada... Thanks for sharing....
Y'all are a joy to watch.I really enjoy the video's. Please don't stop.
I watched every minute of the shed build when you posted it originally....I winced at the learning moments and cheered during the wins. Great job and good practice for the house. That closing drone shot really shows the elevation change for your road. Staying tuned!
Thanks so much guys! I keep thinking about you guys with the neat boulders we have coming out of the ground.
Enjoyed the whole build, from start to finish. I think its amazing to see someone build using their own resources and milling your own lumber. This was great John and Megan. Happy to see your channel growing. Nice to see honest hard working family doing their thing. Looking forward to seeing your home build.
Thank you very much, Dean! Can always count on you for encouraging words.
Thanks for sharing your build with us totally like it
What an accomplishment! It's beautiful and functional and you did it yourselves! Can't wait to see you build your home.
Thank you so much! We can't wait to get started on the house build.
Great editing. I enjoyed the way you included the plans, the way the shed looked on paper, in your imaginations and then how you worked together to make it happen! Truly artistic.
Thank you so much, JoAnne! Your support means the world to us. :) - M
What she said, yes indeed, thanks for sharing the whole process. Came upon your channel watching the snatch blocks: bravo. Thanks
Your shed is amazing. I discovered your channel on Thursday, January 20th. In four days, I have watched almost all of your videos. Your work, effort, determination, and persistance is inspiring. I'm from Southwest Virginia, but we are now retired and living in Tidewater Virginia. I spent my summers on my grandparents farm in Carroll CCounty, VA from 1946 through 1956 when all the work was done with a team of horses, or by hand.
I really enjoy your videos and anxiously will be following your adventure as it progresses. Enjoy and work safely. Richard
Thank you, Richard! We like doing things the hard way, as I'm sure you've learned by now. Very gratifying and we feel like we already have a lifetime of stories to share since this journey began a little over a year ago. Thanks for your viewership! I hope it brings you good memories.
Are you able to share your plans and drawings for the shed build? I'd love to try and duplicate something like that. Nice work!!
I designed this in SketchUp, but don't have hardcopy plans with all the engineering notes. Due to the dimensions, I did not need a building permit, so I more or less made it up as I went along. It's a stick built structure with true dimensional lumber, measuring 16 x 12 and 9 ft studs. The roof pitch is 9/12. If you know SketchUp, I'm happy to send you the file if that is allowed.
Can’t wait to see the home building journey every step of the way!
How many trees you cut for this shed ?and how big they are? I am doing something like that I don't want to cut more then what I need.
I'd estimate 4 x 16 in. pines for the rafters and stick framing. Probably that many for the siding and trim, too. We used poplar for that, but I did use a lot of our smaller trees that came down from the leach field, so it's hard to give you an estimate. I really used what was around me in the woods (recently downed trees) before I cut any live standing ones. Start with 8 total and go from there. If you can get 5 logs of 10ft. per tree, that would be a good amount to process. Good luck!