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YAHOOO -Gonna Get That Tractor Building Yet!

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Bought some Caterpillar stock down around $30 per share during the recent depression and it's marching along quite nicely - just hate to give up the dividend at that price! Might talk to Morton Buildings tomorrow but still have to get a varience, permit, pull stumps, etc. Pretty sure Cat equipment will be doing the work.

Question Is: Would a Yellow building with Black accents look outa place on our wooded acres?

Jim

PS: Don't tell the wifey and daughter as they might want to store some horses in there - OK!
 
Jim, yellow and black will stand out (if you are trying to fly under the "female" radar). Meadow Green would blend right in and you could say "What shed, Honey?"
If"n ya do a pole building someone on Tales might have an extra load of pre-dug post holes. They ought to discount them this time of year and be glad to get rid of them. Storage at your place shouldn"t be a problem, even if you get more than you need. billonthefarm might need a few and buy the ones that you don"t use.
Call me when they come in and I"ll slide over to help you unload them.
 
I am pretty sure they come COMPRESSED or natural.

They are floating around in the air, so if you use your air compressor you can capture more of them!!
 
Bob, the ones I think they usually have are just for summer installation. For winter use with 20" of snow on the ground you need the "extra tall" ones.
I've never used the pre made ones. I was always too cheap, so I made my own.
 
Hey Jim,
Gotta bunch of them pre-drilled holes laying around central Illinois. Please pickup as your are able er will send billonthefarm for the rest of them!

Thanks for your help.

Jim
 
How big of a shed are you gonna build?

Metal roof? Or shingle?
Cement floor or gravel.?

Let us know what price you get for how big?
 
I looked on Yahoo finance and CAT common shares are at $103 each.
Are you rich now?
Or just still middle class like me?
 
GG,
Started with Morton Buildings (post frame/metal skin) a couple of years ago - but prolly go a little bigger. Gotta talk to them and then get a varience (5 acres/ be bigger than the house?).
Building comes first - then the floor.
No offense BUT cement goes into the concrete - had to teach my wife and daughter that.
 
So I take it Cat stock is doing well? What are they building and for who to be showing a profit?
A new building. Wow!
I'm still hoping to have one in my lifetime.
Might have to sell the farm to get the farm buildings or marry a rich widow to do it though.
Are you talking the bright Cat colors or pastels?
Cat Yellow and black trim would be a hideous combo to live near. Would be a tragedy if even a neighbor built a building like that. Black with Cat Yellow might be ok.
 
CAREFUL Doug,

Kinda think we have a bridge to drill down your way and may drop off a load on the way back!
 
Had a bad expierience, they won't stand behind their product when it fails. Planning on putting up another building, got quotes from everyone but Morton.
 
Don't let the wife know you are bringing them, or she will give me heck about "where do you think you are going to store that"?

I could bring back a couple thousand from the farm in Nebraska. What does a 150 foot deep well count for instead of just the post holes? Pretty sure that will count as extra, extra tall. DOUG
 
From 30 to 103 in 23 months. Why didn't you tell us ? Did Martha Stewart clue you on this?

Gordo
 
What trouble did you have?

Many of them put up around here but.... I've heard they say they guarantee the roof for snow load but won't tell you what the snow load rating is.
 
Got out too soon. I got in up through the 30's, out at 60. I missed out, but I've been on the wrong side of a drop too.
 
On the Morton brand, they replaced a 18year old roof on a 20 year warranty for free for the Baptist Church in town. I priced a building from them for 13,000.00, the next bid was 4,700.00. Get more than more bid.
 
I bought some GM stock a year or so ago When it was around .65 cents. I don't know what it is now. Probably .30 cents. But I did buy some Unisys stock for under a buck. Now it is pushing 40.00. Stan
 
Doug have you heard what the state is going to do with the bridge on 61 at Colmar? That 15T limit is killing me.
 
GE went from $5 to now $20. Ford $1.89 TO $18.00 Case New Holland $19 to $50, so ya theres money to be made if you want it. Deere is also doing good. You just have to know were to put your money. Listen to Warren Buffet, he said "Invest in what people use" like coke, pepsi toothpaste,,ect,ect...
 
Last winter when we had all the roofs going down from snow load an insurance adjuster told my neighbor most of the Morton buildings built after the mid 80's were standing the load. The ones built before then were collapsing at about the same rate as every other brand. This is NW Iowa. I don't know if Morton changes their building construction for other parts of the country or not. Jim
 
I got in on Ford at $4. My stocks in energy and tech are sitting still. The mutuals aren't doing much either. But at least nothing is going backward.

Just today I was talking to a friend who was whining jealously about a guy who built a house with money he supposedly made in the stock market, or so the rumor goes. I told him that yes, maybe he did make it big in the market but in order to do that he had to risk quite a bit of money to buy the stocks in the first place. It could have gone the other way. Jim
 
I gave up trying to correct the usage of cement/concrete long ago. It is just too pervasive. I do use the words correctly myself though.

Good Luck,

Kirk
 
I worked at Cat in Peoria for 30 plus years before retiring. I have a fair amount of their stock. At $103, I would expect a stock split shortly. I think it split 5 times in the time I worked there. Those splits have been a good deal for me.
 
Purchase oil,coal energy stocks ande even dabble in uranium mines.
China and India need energy and they care competing for it.
 
Yes, coal and Iron ore are big commodities right now and Caterpiller makes the machines that work those mines, and builds the pads for the gas and oil wells. Jim
 
Morton has a 50 year snow load warranty and will not put up your building unless it meets specs for the area you are in. In my case, minimum truss spacing is 8". Down south, wider truss spacing is permitted. I could have ordered less, although I think that 7.5" is as close as they go.
 
Those truss spacings are in feet. For some reason when I put in ' it gets posted as " unless I do it twice.
 
I put up a 60x88x16 Morton Deluxe machine shed in 2008 and am extremely pleased with it.Some of the extras I got with it are 10 skylights (no, they do not leak), 2' overhangs on sides and one end with a 4' overhang on the main entrance. A continuously vented ridge with soffet vents. Gutters and downspouts, alumasteel doors, 5 1/2" concrete floor (6 bag mix) with re-rod crossed at 36" intervals with additional re-rod and concrete at entrances. I opted for no windows because I'm gone for long periods and I don't want people peering in. With those ten skylights there is plenty of light during daylight hours so as to never need artificial lighting with the exception of those times when there is 6" or so of snow on the roof including the skylights. Due to being located half way to the North Pole, I opted for a black roof and white sides. The snow melts off pretty fast once a few bare spots open up on the roof. It also helps tp keep a nice flow of air traveling up through the ridge vent from the vented soffets. I can put a disk or plow or planter/drill with shiny coulters in in the fall and they're still just as shiny when I pull them out in the spring. There is absolutely no rust forming on any of my machinery. Not so with non-vented buildings. My neighbor has a non-vented Morton and has lots of rust. Most of the time he leaves the doors open. That brings in birds, etc. You won't go wrong buying a Morton although I think this is their big sale weekend. That only happens once a year. Also, height of doors. The new combines with hopper extenders are about 14'9".
 
I'm kinda kicking myself for not buying Deere 8 years ago. I could have bought it for $66. It did a two for one split since then and has gone to $95. I can't complain too much though. I bought Agco at that time for $20 and that's at $54 now. Should have sold it when it was at $70 before the crash probably.
At $54,I'm not sorry,but hasn't gone up like Deere and Cat.
 
I like to buy them holes in the summer 'cause they're a whole lot easier to come by them......at least up here in uppa NY State where there's lotsa frost this time of year.
 
Our building was built in 1991, we bought the property in 2001. 3 months after we bought the property, the paint on the white roof panels starting flaking off on the west side. I called Morton and talked to an engineer and he ran the original contract number. In 1991 on a batch of roof panels that were painted white the metal wasn't prepped right. They knew it, but they sent the panels on different jobs. They did not make a recall, but if you're panel paint failed they would replace for free. In my case their warranty is only good for the original owner. Void for the second owner. They would replace the panels for 10,000+$. I called our State Dept. of Consumer Protection, nothing can be done because Morton is based in Illinois. All the paint is off my roof, it's only the panels that faced the sun. If the building was in the shade which my east side is, the paint is still on. They admitted the mistake, but I'm the second owner. Watch the fine print in the warranties.
 
Glad to hear Cat is doing good. Works out good for you and our local economey. If you are intersted in other bids for a building I would be intersted in talking with you.
 
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