Since coming back from Cecils a couple years ago - 2013 I think it was... things have been limited. The only thing I really could do was cut the grass - especially after Ray fabricated my last day dreaming project for the back of the JD. So ... this fall I said . that's it .. needs to be done. With Em involved so much taking care of Sam, Amanda battling MS and other issues - the renovation plans have been put on hold for the house - but darn it all - something has to be done.
So this project went onto the front burner and I decided to just giterdone
I can't do much but design, supervise, order stock etc... so Ray of course is over to help and Mario who has been doing a lot of work for Em and I is a big part of this project. 
A number of years ago Dad and I salvaged a schoolyard .. yeah a whole schoolyard fence structure - posts with bases, top rails, caps, clamps and of course the fencing. Dad always said stuff like this would come in handy - even 20 years down the road. He as usual was right
I have already used many of the bases as guy support bases for my Ham tower, antennas, flag poles .. etc., very handy. As you can see - they came in handy again Drilling the holes was a two weekend affair pretty much and on the second weekend Duane and his buddies decided that they was coming to help
As you can see, grade can be deceiving - even though the grade appears level it drops about 2 feet or so over 30 feet of run. The decking has to be level and square - it will get there.
All told, we utilized 16 of those salvaged concrete bases and fence posts. Saved a few bucks on that one !
All the structural material close to grade is Pressure treated.
Mario leveled the whole deck then cut off all of the posts flush with the 2"x6" rim joists and the centre laminated beam. The center beam consists of a pair of rim joists filled with 2"x6" cut-offs laminated together. Nothing is going to be moving here.
Used 1"x6" PT veranda flooring for the deck surface. This should last my life and most of my kids as well. At least that is the hope.
Mostly 2"x4" standard SFP stock - western framing along with a mix of modified Post and Beam ideas. The posts are tripled 2"x4" with doubled 2"x6" headers under the top plate. Need it sturdy
On the deck you can see parts that were salvaged from a bunch of commercial 52 foot 5/12 pitch trusses built from 2"x6" and 2"x3" webbing. This was part of a job that Ray did - he told the carpenters not to put up the trusses that day - best to do it the next day cause of the impending storm that night. They didn't listen. When the storm subsided (a fall Nor'easter) every last truss that they put up was down... some damaged and some not. They paid Ray to remove those trusses and then to put up the replacements. He needed some place to store the trusses - thought he might build a garage for his cranes - plans changed .. so we decided it was time to use em or lose em ..
18 of those trusses had the ends cut off and rebuilt to fit the width of the wood shed. I wanted a slightly lower pitch .. 4/12 but hey .. it is cheap and it works real good.
Most of the damage to those trusses were on the tails, so the fix will be to sister in new tails as the framing gets closer to being done. As you can see Ray has himself a nice setup to redo the trusses. Which means new gussets at the joints. We used 1/2" plywood instead of trying to reuse those galvanized steel gussets - way too difficult to remove.
All done
This one needs a new tail.....
Trusses going up! Nice to have an auger truck .. a mini-crane
Mario hard at work.
Trusses all installed. 2"x4" purlins and fascia all done.
Made sure that the roof matched the shop .....
Voila! - the whole reason for the project.
My buddy, neighbour and primary sivilculturist - Bruce Baisley. A true woodsman and an artist with a chain saw.
So we should be already now for the winters ahead. All of the split wood is now in the shed. The only thing left will be to trim out the ends and sills with aluminum and side it to match the shop. That will be in the spring.
The balance of the trusses - I guess there was 23 or 24 of them have been salvaged and all the stock is sitting in the wood shed waiting for spring when Bruce and his buddy are going to utilize all that timber for my next project....
Hope you enjoyed the project. I know I did. And I didn't have to lift a finger
