Budget-Friendly & Durable Parking Option for My Holland 1925 Tractor
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Jaygyver
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For me I would go the enclosed building route and throw a cheap insulation in there at some later time. (sooner if you put a metal roof on) It also keeps the rodents out which can be a problem with electrical wires sometimes.
Enclosed building or container you need to know how TALL your tractor is also. And if you can remember to fold it down every time you park it if you get a lower door entry. Now and "If or when" you decide to upgrade to a larger tractor?
A battery powered grinder or a bolt cutter has no preference'a for a padlock on a steel door or on a wooden door. It just keeps the lazy thieves out. Which is what you mostly want to do anyway, just make it hard enough for them to give up on yours and go to your neighbors?
Enclosed building or container you need to know how TALL your tractor is also. And if you can remember to fold it down every time you park it if you get a lower door entry. Now and "If or when" you decide to upgrade to a larger tractor?
A battery powered grinder or a bolt cutter has no preference'a for a padlock on a steel door or on a wooden door. It just keeps the lazy thieves out. Which is what you mostly want to do anyway, just make it hard enough for them to give up on yours and go to your neighbors?
Ahh!! I was ignoring this fact.
SmallChange
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- New Holland WM25 with 200LC front end loader, filled R4 tires 43X16.00-20 and 25X8.50-14 (had a Kubota B6200D with dozer and R1 tires)
It took a century for the elements to just start causing a problem?
Are we sure this is a problem worth fixing?
Are we sure this is a problem worth fixing?
1925 is the model, not the year.
ning
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I got a shipping container when critters chewed my tractor's diesel return line while it was sitting in a pole barn.
It's very wet here 4-5 months of the year, and hot in the summers. Get the container off the ground so that there's air circulation below and you won't have condensation issues (and make it high enough off the ground at least at one end so that fox or bobcat can patrol underneath and keep critters from living under it!).
My container is placed on a slight slope (also helps with water probably) so it the main entrance end where my tractor goes in is up on a railroad tie (with a gravel ramp going in) and the other end is on two railroad ties to be level. (Mine is a 40' with doors at both ends - makes getting stuff from the middle or other end much easier.) Containers only need to be supported at the corners.
My container is light tan and the temperature inside is typically about ten degrees (°F) higher inside during the sun than outside - not too bad.
It's very wet here 4-5 months of the year, and hot in the summers. Get the container off the ground so that there's air circulation below and you won't have condensation issues (and make it high enough off the ground at least at one end so that fox or bobcat can patrol underneath and keep critters from living under it!).
My container is placed on a slight slope (also helps with water probably) so it the main entrance end where my tractor goes in is up on a railroad tie (with a gravel ramp going in) and the other end is on two railroad ties to be level. (Mine is a 40' with doors at both ends - makes getting stuff from the middle or other end much easier.) Containers only need to be supported at the corners.
My container is light tan and the temperature inside is typically about ten degrees (°F) higher inside during the sun than outside - not too bad.
