I had that problem on a pole barn I used but didn"t own. Every spring the ground would thaw a little and cause the barn dirt floor to turn into mud soup, everything inside would sink 6" or more. area was pretty flat but did have a very gradual slope amounting to a few inches per 50 ft. I would have liked to put gutters on but the owners wouldn"t do it, so I asked permission to dig shallow ditches. I went along the "uphill side" and brought it around to the downhill side and then out to the low point in the barn lot(old hog wallow from 50 years ago) and then on out into the field for overflow if it came to that. I did take it close to the siding to catch that water. The ditch was very slightly tapered so it wasn"t like dropping down in a hole if I drove across it, just a gentle dip. I used the back blade on an old Ferguson tractor and had it done in less than couple hours total with the final clean out done with a shovel. The barn floor really needed to be filled in some from getting packed down over the years, but that won"t help much if the ground is allowed to get saturated around it. I left the ditch open. All said and done just cost me a couple gallons of gas and less than 2 hours and it helped a bunch! if it was my building I would have put perf tile down and gutters with adapeters for the down spouts to go into the tile and ran that to the low point but that would have just cost more money.
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Today's Featured Article - The 8N and the Fox - by Zane Sherman. Dec. 13 1998, Renfroe, Alabama. Last niht I dreamed about the day that I plowed the field of about 10 acres over on what Jimmy and Dandy called the Ledbetter field. I was driving the 1948 8N Ford tractor that Jimmy bought in 48 new This was prebably in about 1951 and maybe even befor the house was built. This would have made me to be about16 years old and I drove the tractor for nothing and would have paid to drive it if I had had any money which I didn't, but neit
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