Hay Elevator Storage

I am new to the forum and this is my first post.
I have a hay elevator that I've left in it's spot for several years, positioned to be plugged in and used immediately as it's elevated to the hay loft and you just need to back up the hay trailer to it. I now want to use that spot for horse "stuff" and only have it tied up for hay for the few days I need it in the summer.
How do you store your elevator? I'm considering brackets on the side of a building and under cover.
Also how do you move this monstrosity around to use it and then back to storage? Any tricks other than five 25 year guys?
Thanks!

I don't know how long your elevator is but I use pulleys and a tractor to pull mine up into the rafters in a pole barn. There it is chained to the rafters and rests on a board attached to the poles. The board holds the weight the chains keep it from falling. It's a 14' elevator I can move it around myself. I had a 25' one that was so heavy I never used because I couldn't move it easily, needed a set of wheels put under it.

My barn is an old post and beam New England bank barn. I lagged two 2x6s to the posts of two consecutive bays, the post on the outside wall and the inner post so that they extended out over the threshing floor by approx. 30 inches. I set up a block and tackle so that one end was suspended from an upper cross beam and the other end would hook onto the two sides of one end of the elevator by means of a bridle. I could lift and pull, push or swing each end one at a time to position it, and at the end of the season the elevator would get lifted up onto and rest on the two 2x6s.

Can you find an elevator with a transport carriage or add one to your existing elevator? Wheeled elevators and augers are reasonably easy to move and set in place.

Dad bought a 48 ft Deere bale elevator at an auction, and bought a new 8 ft section at our friendly neighborhood Deere dealer (did that sound sarcastic enough?) And to transport a 56 ft long elevator he bought an old elevator that the elevator itself was rusted out, lengthened the ends of the carriage and beefed up the winch. Dad found out the hard way not all neighbors could be trusted to borrow it and NOT tear it up , Dad didn't really mind taking it to neighbors if they asked him politely, but Dad would haul in and unload. He didn't really even like Me helping.
That elevator was easily pulled by a small tractor or pickup, a Cub Cadet rear hitch was too low to the ground, but a Cub Farmall worked fine. Dad could push it around by hand, He would start the elevated end into the hay mow and push it in farther and lower the bottom end, then raise the elevator till it was far enough into the barn. We did have a smaller 16 ft conveyor we fed bales further into our back barn. That conveyor just sat on top of the bales totally inside the barn out of the weather.
For winter storage Dad pushed the elevator back into a doorway for one of the alleyways in the barn on another farm we farmed. Neither end rested on the ground. Especially the bottom end didn't like sitting all winter on damp ground. That barn was the only building long enough to get the whole elevator in.

My Dad welded a set of wheels and axle to the lower end of the elevator. We used a rope and pulley to lift the upper end in place. The wheels were slightly off the ground when setup as soon as you lifted the lower end and pulled back a little the wheels were on the ground. As you let the rope down it just rolled back. A short strap to the rock shaft on the tractor and it followed along nicely. For storage it just sat in the tree row with a cover on the motor.and a big stump under the end to keep it out of the dirt. A little grease in the fall before using it tighten the belt back up and it was good for another year.

We just have the electric motor covered and we oil the chains before each use. In the winter we move the conveyor out of the way to plow snow. It goes in front or behind the barn. There's one guy in town that pulls the conveyor out from his barn and lowers it onto a hay wagon.