You can never have too much covered storage area, that’s for sure. I recently replaced (2) old post and beam barns that my great great grandfather built in the late 1800’s with a pole barn. I’d have liked to have saved those old barns, but the roofs and foundations were failing and it would have cost way more than the new build.
I dismantled the old barns as carefully as I could, using much of the hand hewn posts and beams and lumber (mostly American Chestnut), for interior work (shops, loft, etc) in the shell of the new metal (Stockade) building.
The old barns were each 36’ wide x 46’ long with 16’ high wall. With them, I had plenty of inside storage for all of my tractors, equipment, recreational toys, and firewood.
The new build is 36’ wide x 50’ long, with (2) 10’ x 25’ porches. I consolidated equipment and sold a few tractors and it seemed like that would be plenty of space. My original intent was to use the back 10 x 25 porch for firewood storage. I find myself now needing more space, so I am enclosing that porch, and adding a new, 7 ft wide lean to, to the back of that, for firewood storage.
My firewood shed will be built with rafters, posts, and beams, recovered from the old barns, and roofed with leftover tin panels from the pole barn build (each bundle of gray tin was protected with a green sheet of the same gauge metal and those are what I am using the cover the lean to).
It sure is nice to have your firewood under a roof compared to tarps like I have been struggling with the last 5 years during this barn replacement project.