Last weekend I went to help a friend build a shelter in his woods, so he has a space to store the basics when he visits to manage the woodland this coming winter. We started by using a post driver to bang in some stakes:
Then attached cross-beams to these:
Everything up to this point had been Sweet Chestnut, but at this point a bit of purchased sawn timber was used:
The final step was to nail on some roof panels he'd bought, and use some recycled desk tops to make the walls:
There's a plan to 'clad' it with some dead branches to improve the aesthetics, but at least there's something to keep the rain off a few odds and ends now!
After the work, we rewarded ourselves with a dinner round a camp fire...
It was really good to be able to apply some of what I'd learned by building our own shelters in the past, of which there've been several versions...
Mike
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