IT'S DONE! (almost)

Our new 48x96 polebarn. Just the doors need installing, and they should be done in a few days, soon's subcontractor can get on it.

Going to be a great addition to our farm. Storage space for most all of our implements. Was borrowing space a couple miles away in a neighbor lady's much smaller barn, but that became unavailable, so had to do what we had to do. We were even stacking wagons atop each other to get them all in! This will be so much better because it's on site, can hold most of our stuff. Going to be nice for temporary storage of wagon loads of hay when the rains are coming on.

looks good

I put up a 48x81 about 5 years ago.

It will be too small in year three. The first year it was so big, I was making u turns inside with the tractor, so much room......

Nice shed. Here we need wider doors than that. My 6 row stuff fits, but the 8 row equivalent bean planter I need to take the markers off to fit in, and the new to me 20 foot bean head just fits in my 24 foot doors. Just.

Nice tho, nice shed, nice to have some progress and something new isn't it?

Last building put up before that was a shed dad put up in the mid 1960s, had kinda sorta outgrew that!

Paul

I want it for Christmas

I need that! when I bought last farm 6 years ago it had 2 30x90 Quonsets, one double garage, single garage, barn, pig barn, and a chicken coop. Now they are all filled with tractors, combines, sprayer, grain vac, and grain trucks, as well as assorted other treasures and tools. can barely get old Mazda pickup in for the winter. Two 70 Chev pickups have to sit outside in the snow. Great looking building, fill 'er up.

That looks nice Ray. I'll bet it wont be long before it's full. It didn't take me long, but mine isn't that big.

Very nice. Curiously, how much did it cost? What area are you in?
Grant

...and here I thought I was going great guns when I put up a 10x8 lean-to...

Ah, I see MI.


Dirt, gravel or concrete floor?

That's nice Ray! I know why it is 96' long because of steel sizing, but what is with the 48' width? Isn't that an oversize truss? I was told that if I went over 40' wide the truss cost went up a lot. Mine goes up next month. 40'x96' with 16' walls. Two 10' sliders on the end so the combine will drive in and give me plenty of room to move. I am putting the service door around the corner so the sliders don't cover it. putting a second slider on the long side also. I am also using a scissor truss to boost the headroom inside a few feet. Hopefully won't bump my head if I am on top of the combine. Need more details on yours! Won't ask what it cost...I already have a pretty good idea.

I think that it's some kind of rule that available space will fill up very quick.

My part of MN they say up to 60 foot it works well with wood truss, wider and they get pretty spendy.

Paul

OK, answers to questions:

Dirt/gravel floor. Unless I win the big lottery.

48 feet wide - three 16 foot 2x4s across bottom of truss. Wife and I set up a model on her sewing cutout table - (large graph) and used paper cutouts to represent machinery. Width gave me more versatile use of the space. Still going to have to be creative with parking. Was borrowing a 32x40 barn, and was difficult to get two wagons endways in the 40' space lengthwise. Dick, I won't have the trouble with headroom you are - no combine. Headroom is over 12'. Doors 11' high, 16' wide, overhead roll ups. Tallest machine I have is 9'. Anything I have will easily slide thru doors. Two doors, one on each end - drive thru if I can keep an aisle down the center.

Cost - you don't want to know.... about $45,000, not counting dirt hauled into site from my own gravel pit. Built as big as I could afford. I expect it won't take me three years to fill... Three weeks, maybe!

Location: central Michigan.

Told contractor I wanted a Christmas bow or wreath hanging over the door, but it didn't happen. Thot as long as he had the lifts , bucket truck, and skytrack, but oh well. I don't have to take it down! No electricity, and thus no Christmas lights along roof! Under our tree is going to be pretty scrawny this year!

Sure looked nice tonite at dusk with the moon shining off that shiny new roof.

So, is it filled up yet? You better start working on the lean-to's on each side, and then go make another flat spot for the next building!!!


I like it, but, something tells me you will not be able to slip a piece of paper in between the walls and the machinery very soon. :lol:

My doors are 15-9 high, and just over 23 wide - they call it a 24 foot door but its not.

On the old 11 foot high shed dad had, I had to let the air out of the Gleaner combine F3 to get in.

The over 15 foot high looked huge, my M3 clears easily, but - when I have the bale basket piled high (it stands right around 11 feet empty) and a rain is 2 miles away, it just clears the door.....

I find I make 4 long 'bays' out of mine,front to back. This gives me 11.5 feet wide bays. Lot of my equipment turns out to be 13-14 feet wide........ Ah well.

Sure is nice to have tho. In harvest some equipment might sit outside to get the fresh crop under cover, but the second year I had it, finished combining at 12:30am, inch of rain with snow following was to be coming by daybreak. Got 2 loads of ear corn, 4 gravity boxes of shell corn, two farm trucks of shell corn, and the combine full inside. Was after 3:00 that morning until I got it packed away, but sure was happy the next day when the forecast was more than right.....

You will sure enjoy it!

Paul

HUGE....the lions can play in it !!!! NICE

I had a drive through built in mine too. Now you can't even walk through it.

That dwarfs my 32X48! And its been full for too long.

Just my opinion and believe, but you can never put up too big a building(tall) and more importantly YOU CAN NEVER PUT TOO BIG A DOOR IN.Because someday you may need it and not have it.

Nice! Nothing like a place to stash loads of hay when you're baling with weather coming.
Pete

Looks good. Everybody's shed eventually becomes too small. If you could afford a building that will always have enough room you'll have to get the money from somewhere other than farming. Jim