sawed wood or logs??

Anonymous-0 · Sep 11, 2012

Hey,
need to build a leanto 14x40.... Options are cut wood from the sawmill at a decent price or logs (?) 4+ inches for dragging outta the woods.

Think the sawmill stuff will last any longer? Just want to put a metal roof over the hay equipment and the tractor with slab sides.

Bruce from Can. · Sep 11, 2012

Dave , the sawmill wood will have flat sides and make it alot easier to nail to. No need to knotch, and shim. Bruce

Anonymous-0 · Sep 11, 2012

Prolly worth the bucks when you figure the time saved and delivered vs. scrounging in the woods......

Thanks.

Old Iowa · Sep 11, 2012

Sawed lumber will make the job go faster and be better when done. You will find even with rough sawed lumber that the dimensions will not be all the same. That is why most lumber is planed to finished sizes. For your shed rough sawed will work fine. Try to get some that is seasoned a little bit or it will sag if used for roof rafters. I have a shed I built out of green rough sawed lumber. The roof rafters sagged six inches in the twelve foot length. Snow will barely slide off now.

Maybe use rough sawed for framing and the sheeting and kiln dried for the roof rafters.

JerryS · Sep 11, 2012

Sawed lumber has more rigidity than round poles used as rafters or joists. Also, the bark left on a pole harbors destructive insects.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 11, 2012

(quoted from post at 08:38:21 09/11/12) Sawed lumber has more rigidity than round poles used as rafters or joists. Also, the bark left on a pole harbors destructive insects.

Getting ready to get a new roof on the house, frt half is getting new rafters to replace round poles from 1904.... Know what you mean tho and will be lazy & have the sawed wood brought to the house (same guy doing the roof has the local sawmill). He makes it dummy proof also. I tell him what I am building and he cuts/notches(rafters)/numbers me a package with a sketch to put it together, just a little tight with the new roof right now but not bad enough to justify shoddy work. Have a lead on some scrap I beam, if that don't pan out, I'll just have him do me a package.

Zachary Hoyt · Sep 11, 2012

Interesting about your rafters, I have built a number of buildings with green rafters and never had any of them sag. I do have one built-up 8x12 beam that sagged a bit, but it was a header to support an 18' opening under the eaves of a roof where the sawmill sits. It is somewhat overloaded, but it still seems to work. Dave2, I think as long as your loads are reasonable you should be fine to use green rafters.
Zach

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