Shepherds Hut

[James Dudley]

Hello

 

I am looking at Building a Shepherds hut at the end of our Garden. Looking at a 2.4m by 4.2m size. As our garden is on a slope I was not planning on putting it on the normal metal frame with wheels but going to be fixed in place on wooden uprights. If you look at a normal Shepherds hut you see it would have 4 Metal Wheels and this is what the main frame sits one. 

My Plan is replace that bottom frame with a wooden frame on 4 Posts. Similar place where the wheels would be on a normal shepherds hut

 

Not done anything like this before so I know its going to be a challenge but just wanted to ask a question from the frame the hut is going to sit on.

I was going to get 4 wooden Posts (150 x 150) and construct the main frame on that. That frame would be made from 47 x 150 timber. Do you think 4 posts would be enough support for the Frame? Would like to keep it similar to the huts. Going to get two Wheels and attach them to the side to give the impression that its sitting on Metal wheels

 

Also I have 4 200x100 sleepers. Could they be used instead of Posts?

 

Thanks

 

[PeterW]

If you have sleepers then I would make four T shaped legs by chopping them down and using some decent timberlok type screws to hold them together. If you face the leg of the T inward it will stop rocking. Painted with black paint such as bitumen paint they will be near invisible. 

[Remington]

heya, I built a 2.4x4.8 shepherd hut without a chassis last year, it used 150x47 joists for the base frame, but i stood it on 100x100 posts notched around the frame placed every 1.2m and the frame was 400 centers. Its pretty solid. I wasnt using graded timber, which may make a difference, but rather than be sorry i overbuilt it. The peripheral frames were all doubled up too.

I'd not trust 4 posts for that, but maybe put in some mid point posts if you want to keep the feet number down.