Small Firewood Shed

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.