When we first moved in, we put all of our outdoor/processing gear behind the shipping container. It's outdoors equipment after all, right? Well, after one wet and cold equipment, we saw what could happen to unprotected equipment. It tarnishes rather quickly. So, this summer, we decided to build a couple of lean tos. One semi-enclosed structure to keep equipment and hay dry. The other one, we decided to build fully enclosed. This will be our meat, veggie, and honey processing center. Fully enclosing that structure will keep the bugs and bees out when processing. Trust me... after finding honey bees swarm you after you take their honey supers.... you'll be thankful to have an enclosed structure.
First thing's first... have to dig post holes and put in concrete before putting in the posts. We aimed to dig the holes 4 feet deep, but some of our holes just hit a bunch of rock. Even with a digger bar, we could only manage 3 feet on a few holes.
Insert 4x4x12 treated posts and hope they are square. Good thing we had a post level. We then cut the tops off so that the post tops were level with each other
Framed top and bottoms with 4x4x12s, and hung joists up top every 24 inches, and put up corrugated steel panels
Now we got the skeleton of both structures up, we placed some tarp inside the structures, and lined it with wood chips.
The semi-enclosed structure is just about done. Was thinking about enclosing it all the way, but we purchased generic 4 foot screen from Home Depot. In order for the to "stick," and look taught, we had to put up some joists 4 feet high... kind of a waste of lumber.
Good enough to keep the spare generator, wood chipper, a hay pallet, and a washing table dry and free from vermin!
For the food/honey processing structure, we got the 9.84 ft wide "Ultra Screen" from Premier One. When rolled out, the screen perfectly covered everything from top to bottom. We just wrapped it around the sides, staple gunned in the screen, and that was that. We build a swing door on the right, and voila.. a fully enclosed structure for us to wash food and extract honey without getting pestered by pests. Can't really tell in this picture, but I patched water and power through too... all the comforts of home!