Portable garage

[Saucymynx]

I wasn’t really sure where to post this but this seems like maybe the right place. Do any of you have experience with portable fabric garages? I am looking at one from portable garage Depot. The prices seem very good but want to make sure the quality is there as well. I’m pretty sure I would want to upgrade the heaviest fabric. Also want to know if they can be moved around easily. Thanks!

 

[fatjay]

What's the use case?

Even the best tents will collapse under snow.

 

[bmaverick]

I wasn’t really sure where to post this but this seems like maybe the right place. Do any of you have experience with portable fabric garages? I am looking at one from portable garage Depot. The prices seem very good but want to make sure the quality is there as well. I’m pretty sure I would want to upgrade the heaviest fabric. Also want to know if they can be moved around easily. Thanks!

location location location, without that, I certainly can not offer any advice. WIND and STRONG STORMS destroy these flimsy shelters.

Neighbor put up a Shelter Logic single car size. Went thru all types of securing anchors and hold-down weights. A bad storm in the Spring came thru at 65mph gusts overnight. In the morning it was GONE. Literally GONE. It blew 5 acres away and up into a very tall evergreen.

 

[bmaverick]

I wasn’t really sure where to post this but this seems like maybe the right place. Do any of you have experience with portable fabric garages? I am looking at one from portable garage Depot. The prices seem very good but want to make sure the quality is there as well. I’m pretty sure I would want to upgrade the heaviest fabric. Also want to know if they can be moved around easily. Thanks!

BTW, here is mine, not cute by any means. Survived 90mph winds. Yet the traps needed to be replaced.

Ideally, a Shipping Container 20x8 is ideal. The price is fair too including delivery.
Most places for sheds under 200sqft are free from permits and deemed temporary movable structures.
So taxes are not hit.

An example of the size, not the company, nor the girls. LOL

All of these are from TBN members on this site.

 

[Saucymynx]

The use is actually for a portable sun and rain shelter for my sheep. I rotate pastures frequently and I want something that I can drag from one to the next. Yes, I am worried about the wind. They do sell extra anchor kits. As far as snow, I would take it down and store it in the winter.

 

[bmaverick]

The use is actually for a portable sun and rain shelter for my sheep. I rotate pastures frequently and I want something that I can drag from one to the next. Yes, I am worried about the wind. They do sell extra anchor kits. As far as snow, I would take it down and store it in the winter.

Ah, now were talking the details.

Univ of Ky and Oxford Univ have shelter plans for livestock. I've made 3 types over the years from their free plans. You need a structure like a chicken tractor, but for sheep, yet movable.

I made this type once. Put wheels on the back and a fold down wood bar up front. Then with the tractor 3-point, hitched it up and drove it around for goats. This guy is working way too hard. LOL

Sheep, goats and taller for donkeys.

 

[bmaverick]

Maybe just buy calf huts or make them.

 

[bmaverick]

Most Amish shed makers can built this, but the price is about $3,500.

If you have the materials and skids, tractor pulling is easy.

 

[2manyrocks]

If this is for long term use, it might be better to look at buying or building a metal run-in shed like bmaverick posted instead of fooling around with tarps that collect water, rip and tear and cause trouble during the worst weather.

 

[bmaverick]

If you are on a farm where funds are tight, look for one of these in the CraigsList FREE section.

 

[bmaverick]

I've made a few of these. Pallets are generally free, the roofing sheeting was $26 each from Home Depot. 4x4x16 is $12.

 

[Saucymynx]

Great ideas and pictures! I do like the Amish built idea and was toying around with building one myself. I have about 30 sheep so need it to be on the large size. I might just go with the portable garage idea for this year and tackle something more rugged next year. They’ll be back in the barn. Come November anyways.

 

[bmaverick]

Great ideas and pictures! I do like the Amish built idea and was toying around with building one myself. I have about 30 sheep so need it to be on the large size. I might just go with the portable garage idea for this year and tackle something more rugged next year. They’ll be back in the barn. Come November anyways.

Just don't build a kite.

If there is no up-lift for wind, you have a secure shelter.

 

[IXLR8]

I had one of these for 15 years until I bent a pole hitting it with the tractor. That was also about the limit before seams started to rot and come apart. With the domed top, it easily shed snow, we had one storm were we got almost 3 ft of snow with some pretty good winds on the coast of Maine.... no issues.

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They are better made than the Shelter Logic units, also a little more expensive. I used the cable anchors that came with the unit. Waste of time, use the screw-in anchors. I needed to move my unit, I just made up a wooden frame that attached to the center of the top of the unit that mated with the bucket on my tractor. I lifted the unit with the tractor and had a person at each corner guiding it. Once lifted, it took about 5 minutes to move it about 1000ft.

 

[bmaverick]

I had one of these for 15 years until I bent a pole hitting it with the tractor. That was also about the limit before seams started to rot and come apart. With the domed top, it easily shed snow, we had one storm were we got almost 3 ft of snow with some pretty good winds on the coast of Maine.... no issues.

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Portable Garage For Sale, Portable Garages Near Me, 12 x 20 x 8. The round style instant garage is one of our most popular sizes of portable garages.

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They are better made than the Shelter Logic units, also a little more expensive. I used the cable anchors that came with the unit. Waste of time, use the screw-in anchors. I needed to move my unit, I just made up a wooden frame that attached to the center of the top of the unit that mated with the bucket on my tractor. I lifted the unit with the tractor and had a person at each corner guiding it. Once lifted, it took about 5 minutes to move it about 1000ft.

Thanks for the report. high winds and snow load are a big concern out my way.

 

[IXLR8]

Thanks for the report. high winds and snow load are a big concern out my way.

The biggest issue is the cable anchors they provide are terrible. One needs to ditch them and get the screw in the ground anchors.

 

[doneill127]

I’ve had a shelter logic 20 ft garage in a box for about 6 years. I had to use the cable anchors because the rock a glacial till they call soil around here wouldn’t allow me to use screw in anchors. It’s survived blizzards and tropical storms in New England. They sell these things at tractor supply with a 7 oz cover to meet a low price point. Mine started leaking and tearing after 3 years. They offer replacement covers +14 oz pvc with 10 year warranty or a 21 oz with 15 year warranty. I got the 14 oz which was over $1000 which is more then the whole garage cost me.

 

[paulsharvey]

I dont know if I can still dig up the pictures; but I had a free 8 ft diameter steel conduit spool, for holding 1"-4" communications conduit. I cut the two outside hoops in half, creating 4 half circles; the spreader pices of the inside of the reel are 4 ft long 1" steel square tube; i used those as "legs" and "purlions"; and spaced the 4 half circles at 4 ft OC; giving me an 8 ft wide; 8 ft tall; 16 ft long, steel frame; I then put some thin hat channel on at "roof" and hung a heavier duty, semi clear, nylon reinforced tarp over it. The hight at the side "walls" was 4 ft, and the center height is 8 ft. The tarp is long gone, and the frame is sitting in the woods still at the old house.

 

[paulsharvey]

I'm not suggesting that you hunt down, and pay for a conduit spool, but more than I would see what you can rig up for next to free. The advantage of the metal frame, you can drag it around; I used hold galv street sign U channel as runners. It would sure beat assembling, and disassembling the soft sided tarp garages every couple weeks when you move pasture