Hewing with a Masting Axe

Put the anchors in on the four corner posts and was able to get all the posts firmly down on the pads despite the wonkyness.
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Went to the woodlot and cut an ash and a maple for the rafters. The leaves are down now, and the bark is stuck tight. My dad peeled them yesterday, this morning the maple had turned pinkish. Not sure if this is oxidizing or the cambium trying to protect itself from the light.
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Oh,, no
Disappointment...
I envisioned unbearably cute steep pitch thatch roof !
Perhaps wattle & daub half timberd walls.
Dont tell us you are going to clad in corrugated sheetmetal...
 
I was originally going to use metal for roof and siding, but after doing the numbers it was a bit over $200 cheaper to side with rough-cut pine. But the roof will be metal, its a tool shed.
 
Awesome work, 0xbow. I agree with Square Peg, it is hard to beat a metal roof! I always think of that line from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Song, "Long Hard Road", "... raindrops played the tin roof like a drum" :), and metal roofs have a charm all their own, at least for me.
 
The roof metal is on. I was a bit fiddly to get the purlins laying plumb, lots of notching and shimming on the rafters when you are using snaky poles like these.
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