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Firewood storage has exactly three requirements, and this shed is nothing but those three: keep rain off (the 15° picket-or-panel roof), keep air moving (the sides are pickets spaced about an inch apart — gaps on purpose; wood dries in a breeze and molders in a box), and keep the bottom row off the ground (a raised 2x6 floor, because the dirt-touching layer of any woodpile is a write-off).
The frame is 15°-topped 2x4 legs — taller pair at the front, shorter at the back, so the roof drains behind — tied by 2x6 rails and floor. Both side walls build FLAT on the garage floor, in MIRROR (the recurring lesson of every paired-wall build in this catalog: copies give you one wall facing the wrong way).
The roof is a 2x4 panel built on the ground and lifted on, then covered with your choice: cedar pickets (the cut list's picket counts assume this, and cleverly harvests roof stock from the side-picket offcuts) or metal panels — the note gives the panel math (two 36" or three 24" panels at 43"). Metal sheds rain better and frees up seven pickets; pickets look better from the kitchen window. Your call.
Size check: roughly 6 feet wide by 4 high by 2+ deep holds about a half cord, stacked. Site it a step from the door you actually use in January, not the photogenic corner of the yard.
| Item | Qty |
|---|---|
| 2x4, 12 ftLegs and roof frame. | 4 each |
| 2x4, 8 ftThe two 43" roof-side pieces come from this. | 1 each |
| 2x6, 12 ftBase rails and floor — the part that keeps the wood off the dirt. | 2 each |
| Cedar fence picket, 5-1/2" x 72", not dog-earedSides, back, and roof. Using metal roof panels instead? Buy seven fewer. | 22 each |
| Exterior deck screws, 2-1/2", star driveFraming. | 50 each |
| Exterior screws, 2", star drivePickets. 1-5/8" to 1-3/4" also fine. | 200 each |
Overall cost: $$$. Lumber prices vary by region, species, and season, so we give a band rather than a figure we would only be pretending to know.
| Part | Qty | T × W × L |
|---|---|---|
| Front legs2x4One end 15° off square, long point measurement. | 2 | 1 1/2" × 3 1/2" × 72" |
| Back legs2x4Same 15° top. The third is the center back leg. | 3 | 1 1/2" × 3 1/2" × 65 3/8" |
| Side base rails2x6 | 2 | 1 1/2" × 5 1/2" × 28" |
| Side picketsCedar fence picketOne 28" cut per picket if roofing with pickets — the offcuts become the roof. | 14 | 5/8" × 5 1/2" × 28" |
| Floor boards2x6 | 3 | 1 1/2" × 5 1/2" × 70 1/2" |
| Back picketsCedar fence picket | 7 | 5/8" × 5 1/2" × 71 1/2" |
| Back bottom picketCedar fence picket | 1 | 5/8" × 5 1/2" × 72" |
| Roof frame, long2x4 | 2 | 1 1/2" × 3 1/2" × 73 1/2" |
| Roof frame, center2x4 | 1 | 1 1/2" × 3 1/2" × 70 1/2" |
| Roof frame, sides2x4 | 2 | 1 1/2" × 3 1/2" × 40" |
| Roof picketsCedar fence picketOr two 36"-wide / three 24"-wide metal panels cut to 43". | 14 | 5/8" × 5 1/2" × 43" |
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Lay a front leg and a back leg parallel, 28" apart, square at the bottoms, and attach the 2x6 base rail with the 2-1/2" screws. Measure up 56" and set the top picket, then fill in the rest with ~1" gaps, 2" screws.
Build the second side IN MIRROR — set it up facing the first before driving anything. The gaps are the drying system; resist the urge to close them up.
Stand the sides and connect them with the three 2x6 floor boards, 2-1/2" screws. Sagging worry with green wood loads? Add 10-1/2" 2x6 stub legs down from the floor at center — the source's own reinforcement.
That raised 2x6 floor is a third of the design: the ground row of a dirt-floored woodpile is always a loss; this one has no ground row.
Screw the back pickets across the back — seven at 71-1/2" plus the 72" bottom board — with the 2" screws. Then set the center back leg against the back and fasten it to both the 2x6 base and the pickets. The center leg halves the floor span and stiffens the whole back wall.
Frame the roof panel flat — two long rails, center rail, two side pieces — and skin it with the 43" pickets (or your metal panels). Building it on the ground is the source's sequence because it's the sane one; framing overhead while balancing pickets is the other kind.
Lift it onto the 15° leg tops and screw down hard, driving screws in multiple directions into the legs. The slope sheds water toward the back; make sure that's the direction you attached it. Then stack wood and feel wealthy.
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