Barns

[tsh3]

Carl,
Nice barn. That's just the size I want.
How wide and how much headroom is upstairs.

Thanks

 

[RichZ]

"Hirsute"??? Wow, Mark!!! That's a pretty fancy word for a Knucklehead!!!/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

So basically, you're calling me big and hairy!!/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

OK, that about sums me up!!!/w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif Good observation!!!/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Gee, I can't understand it./w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif I have this certain appearance, and I'm a Deadhead. I can't understand why people always compare me to this Garcia guy!!!/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[BB_TX]

You guys are killing me with envy with your classic old barns. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif Mine is functional but certainly doesn't have the character. This a 30'x40' Mueller Steel prefabbed building I put up myself. Mueller brings out bundles of prefabbed materials and you basically just bolt/screw them together.

 

[buck1]

I'll see about posting a picture. My barn is 32'x40' and I use it strictly for storage. The floor is concrete. It has a snow roof which allows for TONS of hay storage in the loft. It also has two stalls. I have electricity but no water. It's relatively close to the house and lack of water has not been an issue. If you're going to have livestock (which I don't) I would consider running water to it. It would have been easy to do since I had to dig a trench to run the electricity. Me and a friend built it ourselves. I used sawmill lumber throughout (yellow poplar on walls, red oak in loft floor and sweet gum for the lats) except for the corner and wall posts which are pressure treated 6x6's. I found out later I could've gotten cedar for the posts from the sawmill....duh. The top is 24 gauge tin. It's the kind you see on newer houses and log cabins. Really good stuff since it holds it's color well and is screwed on. The neoprene washers under the screws has not allowed one leak in 3 years. Here's the shocker, I built it for less than $6,000. That's alot of building for that price. Check into sawmill lumber because it's ALOT cheaper. The most expensive thing I put in the barn are the concrete, tin and pressure treated posts in that order. The posts cost nearly as much as the lumber for walls and floor! My friend opted for a metal building. It's really nice and he doesn't have to spray water sealer once every two years but my LOOKS like my granddad's barn which is what I wanted. His looks like a welding shop which I didn't want. Just a matter of personal preference I guess. By the way, his is the same size but cost about twice as much.

 

[rancar]

Hi Bill...

Nothing wrong with this functional barn you've got. It looks great. If I didn't have that 'classic old barn' I would likely go with something similar to what you have. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Bob

 

[Carl_NH]

Rich,

Nice outbuildings you've got there - reminds me of home, where we had a 50x90 three story bank barn, spring house, corn crib, weigh shed, with a stone house etc.. This was central PA on about 185 acres we farmed and had 2500 chickens too.

My wife wonders why I like these buildings to store stuff..

Nice place you've got,

Carl

 

[Carl_NH]

Tsh3,

24x36 footprint 12/12 pitch means 24' wide by 36' long and a 12/12 pitch means for every 12" up 12" in, so effectively at 4' inside the outside walls upstairs there is 4' head room. Here's another shot of the upstairs.

A more direct answer is we have about 16x36 effective area to use upstairs. Since I'm 6'4 tho its 14x36 without too much head knockin.

Carl

 

[RichZ]

Thanks, Carl!

From the way you describe your home in PA, you couldn't have pried me away from there with a crowbar! Sounds like it was great!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Carl_NH]

Rich,

It was where I grew up, and farming was tough - but looking back now I wish I would have stayed. My parents sold the main farm in the 80's and kept acreage to build a house. A Mobil Oil exec bought it and it's now a B&B called Reapsome House, named after the family that built it in 1859 and my parents bought it from.

Carl

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Good timing for me on this topic. I've looked at a variety of buildings, from pre-engineered (steel) to pole barns to the agricultural metal domed buildings.

Decided to have BCI Barns out of Oklahama build a pole barn as I cannot afford to do slab and metal building at the same time. Doing the pole barn will get me a storage building on site quickly, after which I can do the slab myself as I get time. Slab cost for me to do it will be about $2200.

The barn will be 40x50x12 with painted 26 ga metal exterior panels, rat guard at the bottom sill, walk door on the side wall, skylights, 10x10 sliding door on the back wall and and I will install my own metal roll-up doors on the front wall. Total cost is $11,500 for them to show up and put up the building.

I don't have the time or help available to do it myself, so the solution was to have it built. I usually do this stuff myself, but sometimes there are too many other things to cover. They have been pretty good to work with so far - we'll see how the barn turns out.