Little Johnny

Tree Feller · March 29, 2013, 09:02:40 PM

It's carpentry but it's still a project. I've wanted one of these for awhile and finally built one over the last couple of days. I still need to add the battens and stain it but thought I would show it as is now.

The dimensions are 4' x 4', 7' studs and a 6'6" tall x 24" door opening. The quarter moon is painted on vs a cut-out and all the stock was sawn form beetle-killed Pine off my place except for the 4" x 6" ERC skids that came from logs given to me. I'll use it to store garden tools as well as some accessories.

WDH · March 29, 2013, 09:11:16 PM

It will also serve in a bind if you can't make it to the house :D.

justallan1 · March 29, 2013, 09:59:43 PM

That will make a great garden shack, now you won't have to dig in the shop or another shed, you can have it all in one place next to the garden.
Allan

pigman · March 29, 2013, 10:21:13 PM

Danny, if he has time to remove all the tools, surely he has time to make it to the house.

Axe Handle Hound · March 30, 2013, 08:49:22 AM

Nice looking outhouse! Personally, I always thought having a non-functioning outhouse was a dangerous proposition. Better leave a note or someone might get confused.

Good looking garden in the background as well!

beenthere · March 30, 2013, 10:40:03 AM

And it might trigger a nosy inspector who wants to find something wrong, depending on what stage of creeping socialism exists in the locality. Some places already have a lot of Gov't control and might not have a sense of humor. ;)

Tree Feller · March 30, 2013, 10:57:59 AM

Quote from: WDH on March 29, 2013, 09:11:16 PM
It will also serve in a bind if you can't make it to the house :D.

The outhouse is not functional but there are some 5-gal plastic buckets stored in there that would suffice for a more serious occasion. For the other, well, I'm rural and the world is my urinal! ;D

Quote from: justallan1 on March 29, 2013, 09:59:43 PM
That will make a great garden shack, now you won't have to dig in the shop or another shed, you can have it all in one place next to the garden.
Allan

Thanks, Allan. I think it will work great. Someone had a thread about outhouse garden sheds here a while back and I've wanted to build one since. I saw one similar to mine next to a garden a few weeks ago and that prompted me to go to work.

Quote from: Axe Handle Hound on March 30, 2013, 08:49:22 AM
Nice looking outhouse! Personally, I always thought having a non-functioning outhouse was a dangerous proposition. Better leave a note or someone might get confused.

Good looking garden in the background as well!

Thanks, AHH. I'll put a lock on the door any time we have folks over who might be slightly inebriated. I wouldn't want them getting confused. :D

Thanks for the garden comment, too. A couple of years ago, that area was all trees and brush. I'm still tilling up roots but I'm hoping for a much better crop of vegetables this year. However, my potatoes got killed by the recent freeze. I'm hoping they will re-sprout. I re-planted tomatoes yesterday. The freeze got them even though I had them covered with plastic.

Quote from: beenthere on March 30, 2013, 10:40:03 AM
And it might trigger a nosy inspector who wants to find something wrong, depending on what stage of creeping socialism exists in the locality. Some places already have a lot of Gov't control and might not have a sense of humor. ;)

Very little creeping socialism in Smith County, Texas. "We say grace and we say ma'am and if you ain't into that we don't give a *DanG." Southern Baptists greatly outnumber the Socialists around here.

Magicman · March 30, 2013, 04:39:46 PM

That is a neat shed, but there for a moment I thought that you had gotten a bit behind in your work. ;D

clww · March 30, 2013, 06:58:33 PM

That looks awesome!

Tree Feller · March 30, 2013, 07:45:16 PM

Quote from: clww on March 30, 2013, 06:58:33 PM
That looks awesome!

Well, if I happen to fall on hard times and the water gets cut off, I still have an option.

;D

Quote from: clww on March 30, 2013, 06:58:33 PM
That looks awesome!

Thanks. I'm pretty happy with it. Lots of nice comments already from neighbors and relatives. :D

thecfarm · March 30, 2013, 08:00:31 PM

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Thanks. I'm pretty happy with it. Lots of nice comments already from neighbors and relatives. :D
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And I can see why. Looks great.
I have no idea how you are, but if that was by my garden and someone went to use it they would have a hard time getting past all of the tools in there to use it for what they thought it was.
I have a 8x10 foot shed that has a tiller and all my garden stuff in it. I can just about walk into that.

WDH · March 30, 2013, 08:28:59 PM

Quote from: Tree Feller on March 30, 2013, 07:45:16 PM
Well, if I happen to fall on hard times and the water gets cut off, I still have an option.

All it would take is a shovel and you would be in business soon!

Peter Drouin · March 30, 2013, 08:37:35 PM

Nice job

POSTON WIDEHEAD · March 30, 2013, 08:39:06 PM

Where's the vent?

Tree Feller · March 30, 2013, 11:34:14 PM

Quote from: thecfarm on March 30, 2013, 08:00:31 PM

Thanks. I'm pretty happy with it. Lots of nice comments already from neighbors and relatives. :D
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And I can see why. Looks great.
I have no idea how you are, but if that was by my garden and someone went to use it they would have a hard time getting past all of the tools in there to use it for what they thought it was.
I have a 8x10 foot shed that has a tiller and all my garden stuff in it. I can just about walk into that.
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Being new, it hasn't gotten cluttered yet...heavy on the yet. I have a garden rake, a hoe, a set of post-hole diggers, a square shovel, a spade shovel, a hand spade, a couple of hand rakes, a leaf rake, a half-empty sack of 13-13-13 fertilizer, four 3' x 50' lengths of 4 mil plastic, a box of gopher bait, a box of TimBor packets and a roll of slick wire. I put a couple of 12" deep shelves at the back to hold the plastic and boxes. It's still surprisingly roomy inside.

My tiller is sitting outside with a no. 2 washtub covering the engine. I have another, larger building in progress to house it.

jamesamd · March 31, 2013, 12:25:46 AM

Very nice Cody!
If I put one in My yard passers by,would try to use it :D
Jim

Lud · March 31, 2013, 07:20:30 AM

For the other, well, I'm rural and the world is my urinal!

Growing up here on the farm, I know the sentiment but never said it so weil... makes a nice quote for your profile maybe!! :D :D :D

isawlogs · March 31, 2013, 09:17:58 AM

Prettyu well thw best dual perpus garden shed I have seen!

I was in a box store parking, waiting for the wife to get back when a van pulled in a parking row ahead of me opened his door and , got out and proceeded...well .....to take the world as his urinal....... Theres rural then I guess ya have urbanites...... :( :