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Twelve Pointer
Back in the early 80s we bought the property where our house was built. Before we built the house in 2000 I had purchased a sawmill. A friend and myself cut down and milled over 100 pines many were decent long leaf. We also milled many oaks from my property and from a friend that cut trees for a living.
Even before my house was built we put down a well and I built the well house, a wood storage shelter, 2 dried lumber storage building with lofts for the hardwood. All the buildings were built with the lumber cut off this property. Almost all the hardwood in my house was also Milled on this property dried and used in the house.
Since the late 90s I have had thousands of board feet of framing lumber, hardwoods, and large square beams in storage in these buildings. About ten years ago I sold my Mill for a price I couldn't refuse and used the post and beam lean-to on one of the buildings for tractor implement storage. That changed a few months ago when I decided to turn that 300 sgft shelter into my new wood shop.
It took me a month to reorganized and inventory what I had. I didn't realize how much framing lumber I had. Almost all of it was clean 8x10s and 10x10s 12 to 16 feet in length. So the process began.
I jacked up and re-leveled the original wood storage building. Then lifted the post and beam shelter and removed the concrete footers from the posts. At this time I was going to use the entire post and beam structure as part of the new building.
After leveling I built installed and poured the new concrete supports for the floor. Which is 20x15 feet. I took great care making sure the supports were perfectly level and square. I also designed the floor to be level with the existing floor of the original building. The setup and concrete work took me a few weeks and another few weeks to start building the floor.
Then the fun began. I had already pulled the framing lumber out of the building and organized it. I didn't have to buy any framing lumber for this addition as I had more than what I needed. All the lumber used for the floor framing were 2" x 10" x 16' yellow pine. Pic below of the laid out floor system. I did have to buy the treated 4 x 6 beams for under the floor.
Even before my house was built we put down a well and I built the well house, a wood storage shelter, 2 dried lumber storage building with lofts for the hardwood. All the buildings were built with the lumber cut off this property. Almost all the hardwood in my house was also Milled on this property dried and used in the house.
Since the late 90s I have had thousands of board feet of framing lumber, hardwoods, and large square beams in storage in these buildings. About ten years ago I sold my Mill for a price I couldn't refuse and used the post and beam lean-to on one of the buildings for tractor implement storage. That changed a few months ago when I decided to turn that 300 sgft shelter into my new wood shop.
It took me a month to reorganized and inventory what I had. I didn't realize how much framing lumber I had. Almost all of it was clean 8x10s and 10x10s 12 to 16 feet in length. So the process began.
I jacked up and re-leveled the original wood storage building. Then lifted the post and beam shelter and removed the concrete footers from the posts. At this time I was going to use the entire post and beam structure as part of the new building.
After leveling I built installed and poured the new concrete supports for the floor. Which is 20x15 feet. I took great care making sure the supports were perfectly level and square. I also designed the floor to be level with the existing floor of the original building. The setup and concrete work took me a few weeks and another few weeks to start building the floor.
Then the fun began. I had already pulled the framing lumber out of the building and organized it. I didn't have to buy any framing lumber for this addition as I had more than what I needed. All the lumber used for the floor framing were 2" x 10" x 16' yellow pine. Pic below of the laid out floor system. I did have to buy the treated 4 x 6 beams for under the floor.
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