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I don't have a pole shed.

(quoted from post at 11:35:23 12/28/22) Me either, I couldnt afford one big enough to house all my stuff
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The 8 acre building at the trailer manufacturer nearby would make a nice homestead shop...
 
Are you venting about the use of the word barn? I think the manufacturer is to blame there but maybe not. I checked, all I could find were referred to as pole barns. Personally, I have a big one and I have always referred to it as the shed. It is jammed with equipment and tractors except for a shop at one end. This time of year the shop part is jammed with equipment too. I am on your side with this one, but I am never going to agree with those clowns that refer to lunch as dinner...or whatever the beef was about that.
 
I have one, 30'x48'. I refer to it as the 'blue building', 'cause it's blue.

When we built it 8 years ago, it was supposed to be a new shop for me. Then my wife started piling junk in it. So much for my new shop.
 
To muck things up, when I was a kid, the section inside the barn where the cows ran loose we called the shed.
 
My Definition of Shed.. A lean to on the side of a Barn or Building, Example... Cow Shed, on the side of the Main Cow Barn. Or Tool Shed attached to the side of any larger building, usually open on one or all sides to house all sorts of Tools in.. Tractor Implements, hand tools, etc.
 
A pole building, pole barn or pole shed is a building that has post, square or round supporting the roof. As compared to a stud wall or stick frame building. My old neighbor used to say a pole building was just two sections of tall fence built close together, with rafters or trusses set on top of the fence. And I guess he was more or less correct.
 
If I had a pole barn/shed I'd like it to look like this.
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(quoted from post at 14:59:46 12/28/22) Thank you for calling it a shed! A barn is a building to house livestock, not machinery!
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barn: : a usually large building for the storage of farm products or feed and usually for the housing of farm animals or farm equipment.
 
I have an old hip roofed shed that was built for machinery back when. Now it if full and I could use a shed/shop of about 60x80 then a lean to on each side of that. Or another shed to put equipment in. It would need to be either long and narrow to park only one item deep ot wide enough to pull in and park things like grain carts or tractors and wagons if not that wide then long enough to park 2 tractors with wagons end to end and wide enough to park the combine in beside them. If I built a new shop/shed it would have to have 18 foot clearance under the plates we built a pole barn back ijn the 60's with 12 foot under the plates and the guys thought it was to high then we built another one the same height only it was a 40x80 and in the 80's I added another 20 feet to it on the west end. It is now to low to get the tallest things like the combines and disc in. Since things seem to just keep getting taller I guess the 18 feet will hold me for the time I would need it.
 
Years ago a barn ment a place to keep the horses and cows, hay for them also a grain bin for oats for feed, a corncrib for ear corn and space for all the farms machinery. Possibly even a place for a couple of hogs and also for the chickens. Usually the bedding was in a stack outside of the barn.
 
(quoted from post at 21:55:12 12/28/22) Who gives a rip what it's called? You guys have too much time on your hands!
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Around here, the HUGE polebarns put up by the BTO's to get machinery out of the weather are called ''cold storage buildings''.
 
(quoted from post at 08:59:46 12/28/22) Thank you for calling it a shed! A barn is a building to house livestock, not machinery!
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And thank you too Mark. From day one it has grated on my senses every time someone talks about a "barn find" or parking their machinery in a "barn". I learned many years ago the difference between barns and sheds. Barns were for livestock, sheds were for vehicles and machinery. There were some rare occasions here when a tractor was parked in the barn along with the cattle but it was most inconvenient. Photo of my dad with his JD D tractor in the shed. Not a barn.
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I'm with you Rich. As for topics, I see a new discussion fired up on EV's and plug in stations over at Tractor Talk today. Finally something new to discuss .... ha! If those behind all of that stuff would just join up here an follow the advice, they could save themselves countless billions of dollars by simply listening to what we have to say.
 
Barns are old and made of wood. Pole sheds are a tin roof 10' to 20' off the ground, a MACHINE SHED is usually a pole shed with walls and sometimes a concrete floor.
 
We kept our hay in a hay shed! Different dialects for different locations. One problem is the material is called Pole barn nails (or spikes) and the steel is called pole barn steel. At least in my area.
 

I built a 28x72 open front tool shed about 10 year ago, closed in 24 ft for a small shop leaving 3 16 ft bays for a couple tractor projects and room for my balers
Have another tool shed planed that will be 30 x144 to store tractors and equipment in, I don t think it will be big enough for everything
 
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