Super nice bearthebruce! All nice and neat and easy to pull out as needed. Great space saver. I'm inspired to build some for myself.
Always nice and neat when all spanking new! Owner is very German - I'm sort of German... Vie Vill haf Order! Yah? You Vil Do it my Vay!
No offense intended to German brothers and sisters.. it was intended to give a laugh for most of us of German decent are like this.
Gem99, the barn went up this summer and at first it was to be a pole barn - simple construction, fairly low cost. Well, we could not get past the rock on top the mountain to set the poles deep enough so a new design with a foundation had to be planned (foundation is sitting on crushed stone/concrete on top the rock). While looking at that plan and after the trees were cleared, we realized that our original plan for a 30x30 building with a 10 x 30 porch for storing implements under roof but outdoors, was not going to be feasible. Was not enough space to move the tractor around to pick up and drop implements. On to Plan C... So the building became 30 x 40 totally enclosed. Big space! The surprise in the deal was when the owner decided he was not working in a cold barn. While we are not heating when we are not in the barn, he had it full insulated with closed cell blown-in foam and then had a 75,000 btu heater put in. During hunting last month, it was so dang hot in the barn, I was shedding clothes... 40F outdoors and 75F to work indoors. NOT! I dropped that T-stat to 55 and then it was good for working!
(The property owner, he is like my brother, and he worries this old man needs some creature comforts. I love the new barn. )
Some are going to ask, "why blown-in insulation?" In theory, the closed cell foam is supposed to attract fewer critters. We'll keep ya posted on that.. Time will tell. The owner loves that stuff and uses it in most building projects he has done. Also did the crawl space under the house.. I should post the before and after pictures of that.. most scary place I ever crawled is now pretty!
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We're down in Virginny next week and hope to build a work bench and do more organizing.
By the way, the main reason for the dollies is the big advantage to the them: I can easily put the attachments on the tractor in less than 5 minutes.. don't need to do all that backing up and aligning.. on and off the tractor a bunch of times... just roll up to the back, line-up the implement, bring the Pat's quick hitch up and lock it, connect the top link and when needed connect the PTO shaft... done. So much easier than it was on uneven ground outdoors.
Thanks for looking at the pics... thanks for the compliments.
