![]() You would be welcome to stop in anytime next year. My neighbor will be building his 'actual' cabin the following year and plans it to be about 1500 sq ft. I don't need anything big but it would be nice to have room for friends. I haven't decided on what size I want to build yet, but likely about 16x24 or so. ![]() I will be putting up a shed at rhe beginning of the season, and then start on cabin. ![]() He is out there now doing wiring for the generator and outlets and overheads. Never dreamed I would cut so many trees! We got his 12x16 starter/guest cabin up and will finish it this spring. We had a heck of a summer with marking/walking the trail in to my property and through it to my neighbors, cutting/felling trees on the path, then widening for ATV's, cutting/felling for cabin sites, then my neighbor used an excavator and a dozer to blaze a nice drive in and leveled building sites. My land is about 8 miles east of the hwy taking Hidden Hills. If you are building this winter and need an extra helper- just let me know. Don't be afraid to look at some good books and videos- lots out there. I think building a shed in preparation for a cabin is a great idea. If you want to put trusses- toenail or screw strips of plywood across them to keep them from shifting and then once the roofing material goes on it is stable. FWIW we put trusses 16" apart for snow load. I will use a ridgepost for my larger cabin build in the summer and will use larger rafters and ridge as I want to have loft as well as vaulted ceiling. I just did this for a 12x16 cabin and it went very smoothly. Can pre-cut and basically make an assembly line out of it with one other person and 2 sawhorses with plywood sheeting to lay them out. Can use nailing plate or make your own with simple dimensions of plywood for gussets. Trusses are easy to build onsite as long as you have the dimensions and use a pattern. A shed that size with a roof as steep as 6/12 or more can be fine with 2x4's. Most people place rafters every 24" and that can vary with what you are using. If I DON'T use rafters (vaulted ceiling) how big of a ridge pole do I need? (I'll likely make that with a chainsaw mill and a large spruce tree.) and how do attach the diagonal beams to the ridgepole?Ĭan I build a vaulted ceiling, but use horizontal rafters, with no supports, so as to make a loft?Įconomically speaking, is it cheaper to build my own trusses, or just go buy them from SBS? What's the best way to connect the horizontal rafter to the diagonal?ĭo I need to run a ridgepole along the top or can I just tie all the trusses together with 2x4's across the gap? If I build with rafters, how far apart do I spread them?ĭo I place trusses every 16 inches, inline with the wall studs? So my concerns are: doesn't that seem like too steep of a roof and too high of a peak? And.how do I build trusses for that? (I'm doing a bit of rounding here, every dimension had some fractional inches in it.) ![]() I did some math work on paper, and I can use an 8' post at the center of the two ends of the shed, and that will create an equilateral triangle with an 8 ft peak, and 8 ft base, a 63 degree slope with a 1 ft overhang. Allowing for a 1 ft eave/overhang, that gives me about 9 ft of roof from the peak to the walls. It's corrugated metal in 3 ft wide by 10 ft long strips. I already have roofing material, salvaged from another shed. Cabin is located north of Talkeetna annual snowfall is 120 inches, according to NWS. Hey guys, I'm working up a plan and materials list to build an 8x12 shed on our property, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to calculate for building the trusses and what pitch to make the roof.
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