Stables are filling up - w/ pictures

Have one more WC to move down from my folk's place but things are getting cozy in the tractor barn. And I finally got the implement shed finished up and all the implements moved in. The previous owner used to raise dogs (can't remember what breed), this shed and another were used as kennels. The wood on the South side was too far gone to save, so I decided to tear it off and turn it into my implement shed. I forgot to take a picture before I started but the left side of the first picture is what the whole South side looked like. Cut the concrete slab out in chunks, stacked it up and saved it for later use. Gave one slab to my buddy to set his outdoor wood furnace on in exchange for the use of his skid loader.
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Honestly, I have no clue. For a while I though it was home built, but the more I look at it and think about it, I think it is some kind of old industrial building. Completely steel frame - Probably 4" pipe posts and the rest of the structure is angle iron (even the trusses, its just doubled up) and most of it is hot riveted together. The man door is kind of cool - all steel frame, skin and rivets. The tin is held on with heavy gauge wire (look like nails) that go in and are bent around and welded onto the angle iron gurts and purlins. It's built pretty light. You can see the back side of it in picture #4. The story I heard from his son and a couple other people is the previous owner stored lumber in that building; about 20 years ago he had a load of green wood in there and it spontaneously combusted. Anyway, big fire, lots of fuel and the fire dept came...barn is still standing but almost every piece of metal is bent or twisted from the heat and water. All the black stuff up in the roof is soot, and about 1/2 the concrete floor is all pitted out from the heat (as seen in picture #1). When I bought the place, I had a Mennonite post frame builder give me an estimate to re-skin the shop. While he was here, I had him look at the tractor barn to see about re-skinning it too...it took him a while to figure out how to say he didn't want any part of that job.
 

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