Cattle shed (pics)

fixerupper

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I've mentioned the cattle shed project a few times. The old 40X48 cattle shed on my place was just a storage place for junk and my son needed a place to work on his truck, so about 2/3 of the building became a truck shop. I closed in the front and double walled/insulated the inside last winter myself. This fall a new roof went on. My son and his friend helped put the nailers on. When it came time to put on the 35'6" steel sheets I gathered up a few neighbors and friends. A borrowed telehandler with scaffold helped a LOT too. The steel and corners went on in 3 1/2 hours. I still have to insulate the shop ceiling. Didn't want to do that till the old leaky roof was covered.
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First pic is the building before I started. Not a good pic but it's the only one I could find.
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This is what it looks like now. There is a 18'wide by 14' high overhead door in the back wall. The small overhead door is 8' high by 10' wide and is there mainly for summer cross ventilation. Water, air and gas are dug in but the electric service is still the old 15 amp. 110 that was there already. Gotta sit down with the pencil and figure out if 200 amp 240 is in the budget. At least he's gonna have a warm shop with lights and air to run the tools. The unheated end of the building has a 5000 gal fertilizer tank and space for three or four small tractors. The brown fascia to complete the bottom of the roof is in at the lumber yard but I haven't picked it up yet. After adding up all costs it's probably not a whole lot cheaper than building new from scratch, and a new one would be in a more convenvenient location, but I had to make the decision of whether to tear it down or build it back up. This old building is as square and plumb as anything can be and it's been sitting there for 54 years. Good testament to the old craftsmanship back then. Jim
 
Very nice. I love saving/repurposing old buildings. I bet you
saved more than you think you did compared to a new
building. While 54 years isn't all that old, I'm sure a new
structure would not have as much material/be as solid.

I really like your shop.

Glenn F.
 
Where I live you are better off fixing up the older building. If you start from scratch you would have to get a building permit, go through a bunch of crap with the inspector, and pay higher taxes in the end. You shop looks good to me. I would have done the same thing.
 

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