Re: 24x36 shop worth building?

Posted by Paul on January 29, 2013 at 10:31:19 from (66.60.223.232):

In Reply to: 24x36 shop worth building? posted by Josh in Pa on January 29, 2013 at 07:53:34:

There is a balancing act of getting big enough for all the tools and the machine you are working on, vs too big to heat and becoming a trash collecting building.....

That said, you can't get much of a combine in a door less than 14 tall and 24 wide. (You will realize after building, doors cover holes smaller than the size of the door, so you will loose a 1/2 foot on those dimensions....)

And a building less than 40 foot deep, you won't be able to get much in and close the door.

I'd sure think something a tad bigger than you say would work better, and for sure your door is way way too small.

I run a small farm, 4 row combine, dads shed was a 11-4 high door, 17 feet wide, and couldn't get my last 2 combines in it, we cut the header off 2 inches and chiseled out the concrete on the door guide 4 inches to get one in, the current one didnt fit at all, I had to let the air out if the tires to put it away over winter. The 15 header did not fit in the door.

Make a bigger door!

I'd sure put the lean to into the building footprint to start with, give you a little room to work in, you can always add on a lean to for storage later.

I do understand budgets and physical room and not getting too big, but man you have that cut lean there, I'd go a little bigger.

I put up a storage shed, 48 by 81 with doors 24 wide (you know they come out only 23.5 actual openning?) by 15.5 high.

Now the $250 bean planter I bought I need to fold in the markers to fit in almost scraping the door frame, and this fall I pulled in a hay basket of hay, the bales are piled so high less than a foot of clearance to the door top. They don't make 4 row combines, my next one likely is going to be 6 row, and I hear they hardly squeeze under a 14 foot door (which rarely measure all of 14 feet actual). I should be good with the 15 plus foot door tho.

Anyhow, spend more on a bigger door, or don't build. Waste of money to make that small door.

Any 2 or 8 foot bigger you make the building, you'll thank yourself in 5 years as well. But I understand not getting crazy big, it's a working area not storage. Remember to work on something you have to swing out shields, room to put a ladder, put a tray of tools, pull out a shaft 6 feet long, etc. you need room to work around the machine....

Paul

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