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Adding a little storage room to the back of and underneath the workshop shed
ebinmaine posted a topic in non tractor related discussion
@rjg854, Here's the project I mentioned in the Thread about my Honey's 657. My Honey and I are both big believers in keeping our equipment covered up and out of the sun, rain and snow. In the last three years we have amassed two 10 cu. foot yard dump trailers, a log splitter, I built a log pole style trailer... Two snow blowers, lawnmower... And the herd of horses keeps growing... We'll soon have three up and running and probably 5 before spring. It's time to make more storage space. Last fall we stuffed the log splitter under the back corner of the shop and this spring did the same with a snowblower. I've decided to elaborate and improve on that plan. Here's the back of the shop "before". Note the poor condition of the building. We'll be replacing the molding around the windows and reapplying a moisture barrier sheet. There are 5 vertical stands across. We'll be removing the center one and the one behind it and digging out the dirt until the floor joists are 48" or more from the ground. There's about 35 inches of clearance on the left (shorter) side right now. We're then going to hang this shed roof unit from the building and support it with whatever is handy at the outside corners. It measures about 71" front to back and 103" wide. Trina found a couple places where rodents had made themselves a new doorway under the right hand window so we cut out the bad/rotten sheathing and she sliced a new piece and installed it under the window. I've been pretty lax about keeping the mouse traps set this summer. Obviously that needs to change. We stapled on the first layer of new barrier this evening. Here's an under shot of the digging and shows the missing vertical piece. When the whole project is done we will have a space under the building that is 48 to 50 inches high, 80 or so inches wide, and almost 8 feet deep. The new roof covered portion, outside of the shed building, will be approximately 8 feet wide and maybe 70 inches deep? For a year or two the roof will be solid but the walls will probably be flexible material like a sheet of Typar or something.
