Yep Pete, air flow through is the key.
If you seal a place up you get mould everywhere.
I never get mould in the house because I have multiple exhaust fans that pull a negative pressure into room areas.
Air then comes in through wall vents and cracks in the building like door gaps down low and floor vents with cool air from under if needed.
There is always a subtle cross flow in each room.

In the workshop there are exhaust vents at the highest points and plenty of cracks for air to flow in from down low.
Tin roof but I put in a sub ceiling that stops any condensate from dripping inside.
Yep my shed is now starting to fall down but nothing rusts inside.
Should last me out, 40 years to go!
Oh walls are ASBESTOS sheeting, that should get the hazmat teams busy when I have gone!
Fred.

I live in a bayside suburb and a lot of my tools on my pegboard in the garage suffer from surface rust.
I spray tools with WD40 before hanging them up.

Bought the Timber today and I have decided to start this shed project now while all this coronavirus stuff is going on.I can just stay at home and work on in a couple of days per week.
I went with the American frame and stud design which is very different from ours.
The shed will be made from rough sawn H3 and cladding will be H3 rough sawn .
So tomorrow I start building the frames in the carport...
Oh ,and you're going to think I'm mad!
Which I'm sure I am ! I'm building it all with a old Hand saw.

Pete the house I am living in was built in the 1960's and there was not one electric saw or drill on site.
I saw it being built and everything was done with handtools, although there was a petrol motor on the concrete mixer!
The roof frames were cut on the spot by tradesmen who just measured and cut to fit.
Ditto the wall frames and flooring. The guys were old school and had beautiful saws of all different types for each job.
You would see a guy cut through a 8 x 3 hardwood beam, shnnk,shnnk about a dozen times and clop, just like that.
They would clean the saws and set them before use. Magic.
The house was built in a couple of week from pier holes in the ground to wet paint on the walls.
We bought the land just before Xmas in 1967 and moved in the house just after Xmas 1967, try that now!

So do not feel bad running a hand saw over timbers, that is what a true craftsman does!

Fred.

G day Fred, houses built then were built right, I love old houses and this one is 1958.
When I lived in Sydney I lived in a new house,I hated it ! It was built of rubbish.
A rough sawn shed is something I have always wanted to build so I'm doing it by hand and I'm doing with my daughter pearl who is 5.
So I'm really looking forward to getting into tomorrow... should be good fun.

Pete

everything was done with handtools

I remember as a kid watching houses being built that way. One thing that sticks in mind is the constant hammering of nails into wood for days on end. No prefab roof trusses and wall frames back then. I recall when my parents had an extension put on our house that the hammering made us kids blink involuntarily.

I came across my old brace and bits recently and recalled the last time I used them was in the early 1980s when I built a heavy duty bench for my garage.

I use my drop saw pretty often. I wouldn't be without it for straight cuts and easy mitres.

Fantastic Pete, Pearl will never ever forget doing that with you.
You may mould her whole life approach and turn out another Engineer, that Dad taught to "see and do".
There is nothing so instructive for a young child to see how you can start with a blank space and using parts, construct and create something that can be used. That burns the concept of creation into a Brain, that you imagine something, then work out how to do it, and then do it.
Priceless.
Fred.

I dug through my boxes and I found my Dad's 1965 Readers Digest building book so I'm all set to go! Learn as I go on this job.

Pete
Thanks Fred, I hope she remembers it in the years to come