After setting up the storage shed and tearing down the old shed, the plans for condensing everything onto a smaller footprint are still in high gear. The next move is to build a new fuel shed in a new spot in what is the old dog yard, and of course tearing down the old fuel shed, which is made from pallets and is rickety now.
Since we have a bunch of salvaged wood from the old shed I'll be able to throw together a frame pretty fast. My plan is to make the thing 4'x8' in size instead of the large size of the old one. Reason being is I plan on stacking two oil drums on homemade stands on one side of the structure, linking their ports together with pipe to allow for filling into the top drum, which will flow into the bottom drum. The bottom drum will have a pipe coming out of its bottom port and through the wall with a valve attached to allow for filling fuel cans w/o the use of any pumps, a simple gravity feed system. Another drum will be placed on the opposite side of the shed and set up the same way with a filler line coming out of the wall. Instead of stacking a 2nd drum over this one, shelves will be built over the drum to hold a couple of 25lb propane bottles and a few buckets that'll contain a mixture of neatly stacked cuts of wood with old motor oil inside to soak the wood up. These will be used to accelerate the starting of any fires using wet wood or any wood for that matter, while working outdoors. The center of the shed will obviously be where the door will be installed. The shed will be made using 2x4's with 24" spacing. Instead of using a 4'x8' piece of plywood I'll be using the 2x8's that were pulled from the old shed. These will help hold the weight of the full oil drums on the foundation frame. Using an air powered stud nailer and reciprocating saw to trim excess wood after fitting the boards, I was able to assemble the frame pretty fast. The next course of action will be to move this heavy section over to the final site at the back outer corner of the dog yard. I have six cement foundation blocks, the kind with the cross notch cut into them, for fitting dimensional lumber into without the risk of shifting. These blocks will elevate the foundation base off the ground enough to allow for air circulation so the wood will last a lot longer than if the structure was built on smaller blocks or directly on a slab. The wall studs will go together just as fast thanks to the nailer as well. I'll be building the structure with a higher front wall in order to have a slanted roof so as to make the roof be a simple affair made with straight pieces of corrugated metal instead of having a peaked roof like the old shed was. The whole thing will be topped off with a plan exterior door to lock the structure down and keep varmints out.
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