Kit outbuildings for your vehicle storage

[ChrisWhitley]

When we bought or place it had a nice 30x60 slab about 100' from the back of the house. I saw it as halfway to a barn. We looked at kit barns which we have done in the past but didn't want to spend that kind of money. We then looked at metal buildings and ended up with this for half the cost of a wood kit barn. Worked with the salesman on the design and asked if I could erect it myself which is my normal approach. He talked me out of that and it worked out well. They erected it in three days. 14ga square tube frame and we upgraded the sheetmetal from 29ga to 26ga. We have since fitted it out with stall fronts on the left and hay storage and tack room on the right. I'm sure the price of metal has changed and don't know what labor cost is in your area. This was a local operation in central Texas. Not a big seller like Morton

Hi Phil - a 3rd for additional details on your building and installer. We're looking to erect in Burnet County. Please PM when you have some time. Thanks

 

[p0diabl0]

Got this 36x48 from Gator Carports (it was about 2k cheaper when we ordered it last Fall), it's made as a mare motel but was the right size for our hay and vehicle shelter - we just specced the posts a bit taller to have adequate clearance for the hay squeeze. We are limited as to what we can do with the land - no concrete footings, so it's bolted to the cargo containers on either side. Aside from the cargo containers I built it all myself using a rented boom lift from Home Depot to put up the frame, then used the hay stacks themselves as scaffolding for the roofing. Took me a couple of months off and on but well worth it. Still want to put some sort of curtains to better protect the hay from windy rain but even without it's loads better than tarping the stacks and getting moldy bales from the inevitable holes in said tarps.