Shed on the cheap.

If we can ever get the "small" time timber guy out here to cut a bunch of big pine and oak, I will get started on my shed. Prices are not great, and we are giving him the timber for free, but he is to clean up the tops, and grind the stumps.
I have built many horse barns, and car "sheds" over the years. Here in SE Tx, in the "piney" woods, you would think pine lumber would be cheap. Wrong! Tin is $90 a square, and it usally takes equal in lumber as roof metal for the shed, no walls figured in. So I figure roughly a 12 by 28 ft roof section costs me about $500. That is with this 71 year old fart doing all the work, except with the wife as to help!! Probably could do it a little cheap with steel, but I have no portable welder and don't want to rent one.
Of course, concrete is $100 a yd delivered, with me doing the work again! I will be happy to have a 12 x 20 pad!!