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- Joined
- Feb 21, 2003
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- SE Michigan in the middle of nowhere
- Tractor
- Kubota M9000 HDCC3 M9000 HDC
I'm reading this and thinking to myself about it...
Here is my opinion for what it's worth..
First off Farmtek never ships assembled buildings they all come in pieces.
I know as I erected a 46 wide x 15 foot high x 96 foot long truss arch barn from them, actually a pair of them and they both shipped on various sized pallets and skids and boxes but nothing was assembled. We had to put them together, anchor the trusses with screw in ground anchors and install the rip stop multi layer roof. We put ours up with the truss bases screwed to 4 x 12 x 20 foot long .40 retention planks and each plank was joined at the ends with 1/4" steel flat plate joiners.
Your building will come completely unassembled and either you or your crew or a Farmtek contractor will erect it.
I used my Kubota M9 loader to position the trusses, they are not that heavy. My big issue was the 14 foot high x 10 foot wide roll up overhead door that had to be fastened to the 4 x 6 pressure treated header that the end panels attach to. Had a hell uva time with it because I* lacked the reach on my loader to set the door. What I had to do was sit the door assembly on a round bale that I sat vertically on my forks and had a willing participant ride up with it and secure the door to the PT wood end frame, the end frame sat in post hole drilled holes I drilled 4 feet deep with my PHD and filled with Quickcrete. It's a job erecting one and you have to make doubly sure the trusses are not only spaced properly to accept the purlins and the center tube but you have to make sure the bases are parallel and square.
If you need any assistance or advice, shoot me a PM. Like I said we (my buddies and my wife and me) put up 2 of them.
In fact the roof ripped on one this spring and I had to order a complete new top from Farmtek to the tune of 11 grand. My farm insurance covered it... Lucky me. Still had to install it. Took 6 stout guys with ropes on a calm day to get it on.
I keep all my farm equipment in one, hay tools, tractors and implements and the other houses my International Eagle conventional and my 42 foot Timpte grain trailer and our RV.
Used to keep round bales in it as well but now my cistomer picks up rounds out of the field and buys them all so I don't keep any inside today.
They both are sitting on an engineered sand base with a retaining wall on the low side. Had a local contractor come in and laser grade and backfill the space.
If you want pictures, I can send them to you or if you want advice, just PM me. I'm extremely familiar with Farmtek buildings.
Here is my opinion for what it's worth..
First off Farmtek never ships assembled buildings they all come in pieces.
I know as I erected a 46 wide x 15 foot high x 96 foot long truss arch barn from them, actually a pair of them and they both shipped on various sized pallets and skids and boxes but nothing was assembled. We had to put them together, anchor the trusses with screw in ground anchors and install the rip stop multi layer roof. We put ours up with the truss bases screwed to 4 x 12 x 20 foot long .40 retention planks and each plank was joined at the ends with 1/4" steel flat plate joiners.
Your building will come completely unassembled and either you or your crew or a Farmtek contractor will erect it.
I used my Kubota M9 loader to position the trusses, they are not that heavy. My big issue was the 14 foot high x 10 foot wide roll up overhead door that had to be fastened to the 4 x 6 pressure treated header that the end panels attach to. Had a hell uva time with it because I* lacked the reach on my loader to set the door. What I had to do was sit the door assembly on a round bale that I sat vertically on my forks and had a willing participant ride up with it and secure the door to the PT wood end frame, the end frame sat in post hole drilled holes I drilled 4 feet deep with my PHD and filled with Quickcrete. It's a job erecting one and you have to make doubly sure the trusses are not only spaced properly to accept the purlins and the center tube but you have to make sure the bases are parallel and square.
If you need any assistance or advice, shoot me a PM. Like I said we (my buddies and my wife and me) put up 2 of them.
In fact the roof ripped on one this spring and I had to order a complete new top from Farmtek to the tune of 11 grand. My farm insurance covered it... Lucky me. Still had to install it. Took 6 stout guys with ropes on a calm day to get it on.
I keep all my farm equipment in one, hay tools, tractors and implements and the other houses my International Eagle conventional and my 42 foot Timpte grain trailer and our RV.
Used to keep round bales in it as well but now my cistomer picks up rounds out of the field and buys them all so I don't keep any inside today.
They both are sitting on an engineered sand base with a retaining wall on the low side. Had a local contractor come in and laser grade and backfill the space.
If you want pictures, I can send them to you or if you want advice, just PM me. I'm extremely familiar with Farmtek buildings.