Storing Implements

[rmully]

Anyone have a good way of storing implements so they are out of the rain and easy to get to and hook up ?

 

[rekees4300]

A large shed with large doors and concrete floor would be a good way.

 

[thatguy]

I dont have a shed to put them in, so I ended up buying canvas tarps to cover them up. I use bungee straps to keep the tarp from blowing off..

So far I have not had any trouble with them, and it has kept most of the weather off the implements.. the canvas tarps have last 3 yrs and except where the rabbits chewed a few holes they have held up very well

brian

 

[Johndeere3720]

Most all my implements live outside. Except the ones at my Dad's which live in the arena.

 

[Wacky]

I just set mine in a barn blocked off the dirt floor. The birds even put a nice whitish coating upon them, to prevent sun from damaging the finish, of course

 

[rmully]

I just set mine in a barn blocked off the dirt floor. The birds even put a nice whitish coating upon them, to prevent sun from damaging the finish, of course

Birds are so kind like that :laughing:

 

[silvertramp]

My bush hog has lived outside uncovered for 20+ years- still works fine.

 

[SpringHollow]

I have pallet racks outside with a roof added and tarps or metal/plastic roofing/siding panels hung on hooks for removable side panels. I put heavy implements on the lower rack, lighter ones higher up, and store other things on the higher racks.

Ken

 

[YanmarFever]

Told to me by an old farmer,

If you have to leave your mower outside in the weather, put it on a wooden pallet, then throw a cheap tarp over it.
The pallet keeps the ground moisture away and the tarp keeps the rain off.
Plus, its easier to mount on your tractor when its elevated on a pallet

Makes sense to me !

 

[California]

The gophers are so bad here that the two winters when I left the rotary mower on the ground, I found it packed solid with dirt each spring.

Now the mower winters on two layers of pallet, and under a 20 x 20 tarp-carport. The lower pallet still gets packed solid.

 

[ninefinger]

Everything lives outside, rollover and box rest on concrete blocks, pulverizer on a pallet, plows free stand as well as the harrows and rake, flail is on a platform with swivel wheels that will soon go back under cover.

 

[clemsonfor]

build a 8x 20 or so pole shed. make a slant roof about 8 ft in front and sloped toward back that should allow you to drop them in the front or sides will keep 99% of the rain off, id still put gravel under it or i just use scrap pieces of treated 2x4s on the ground to keep it off the ground from moisture. The shed will cost your under $500 for tin and wood and everything, if you use cedar posts you'll save 50- $70.

 

[brin]

Told to me by an old farmer,

If you have to leave your mower outside in the weather, put it on a wooden pallet, then throw a cheap tarp over it.
The pallet keeps the ground moisture away and the tarp keeps the rain off.
Plus, its easier to mount on your tractor when its elevated on a pallet

Makes sense to me !

Only thing I would ad is spray the PTO shaft coupler with wd-40 real good and then take a quart size freezer bag and put it over the coupler and tie it closed..that way no critters or splash from rain or snow will jam it up and it will be ready to go when you are.

 

[rmully]

build a 8x 20 or so pole shed. make a slant roof about 8 ft in front and sloped toward back that should allow you to drop them in the front or sides will keep 99% of the rain off, id still put gravel under it or i just use scrap pieces of treated 2x4s on the ground to keep it off the ground from moisture. The shed will cost your under $500 for tin and wood and everything, if you use cedar posts you'll save 50- $70.

This makes sense to me as i want to do this once and do not want to wrap each implement up each time plus I can use this space for other tractor related storage.

Thanks everyone
Robert

 

[clemsonfor]

If you can try to use old scrap tin. The holes wont matter a little. I helped a friend tear down his old tin storage shed. I took the tin and had enough to build a 10x16 shed, and i still have enough, i think to make it 8 feet wider (10x24) in the future. I just used that roofing rubber patch to fill all the old screw holes up to make for zero leakes. If i was foward thinking enough i would have lined up the furrow strips on top of the rafters to line up with most of the old holes, oh well. My cost on this whole thing was ~$200 i think. I bought 4, 80lb quickrete at what $5/bag. I had enough wood for 2x4 rafters. I bought 2, 8x10x16's at $5 or $6 apiece, i went ahead and bought treated furrow strips as there was just like $12 more for them, not really necessary. Bought those hurricane tie straps for the rafters to keep them vertical till the furrow strips went up, ~$1 a peice so maybe $20??. A couple dollars for bolts, had nails for the air nailer so i did not buy those. 2, 4x4x10's at ~$12 and 2, 4x4x8 at ~$9. Like i said i did not buy any tin cause i got it off an old tin storage shed that was being torn down. I had the roofing goop for the holes in the tin.

If buying the tin find a tin dealer like a big hardware store maybe(do not buy from Lowes you can buy 2 or 3 pieces for what they want for one of those green sheets in the store), you can get white tin around here in any length up to maybe 16ft for $1.25 a linear foot, and its all 36" wide so would need for a 8x20 shed you would need 6.7 pieces of 8 ft long tin. So you need to round up unless you want to squeeze it down, but lets round up for a little overhang, so you will need 7 pieces of 8ft long tin which is 56 linear feet at $1.25 is $70 in white tin, which i can buy all day long. The just silver metal galvanized kind is ~1.50ft so that would come to ~$84.

I built mine by myself and it took me (already had holes bug w/tractor auger) pretty much all sunday with a few breaks, and i had half the roof tin on, had the rest up by like tuesday as i was lazy.

-nate

 

[winston1]

I built a little 8 x 12 storage bldg and put some sheds off 3 sides. One implement hanging in a tree.

 

[rmully]

I have an old shed that I was going to tear down but now it might be worth it to fix it up and put on an overhang and i could store everything under there. The shed id about 60 years old, roof is tin but does not leak just rusted so maybe I could use a tar base paint and fix that. Some of the posts are rotted but could replace them with PT 4x4's.

 

[clemsonfor]

Either that or just scavage the tin and build a new one. Go to lowes and look in the roofing section for roof coatings, or ask about Kool Seal, its a cool application tar like coating that is brushed on with a stiff bristle brush and will make it silver in color, the stuff is something like $50/5 gallon bucket give or take $10. There are also some white colored coatings but i would stay with Kool seal or whatever its called. You really just sweep the roof and paint over the rusty metal, will make it last years longer, then just recoat in 10-15 years and that tin will last forever as the coating is what is weathering now.

If you choose to make a leanto of the old shed just make sure its stable hate to see you put work into something and it fall down cause the old part was not stable.

 

[rmully]

Either that or just scavage the tin and build a new one. Go to lowes and look in the roofing section for roof coatings, or ask about Kool Seal, its a cool application tar like coating that is brushed on with a stiff bristle brush and will make it silver in color, the stuff is something like $50/5 gallon bucket give or take $10. There are also some white colored coatings but i would stay with Kool seal or whatever its called. You really just sweep the roof and paint over the rusty metal, will make it last years longer, then just recoat in 10-15 years and that tin will last forever as the coating is what is weathering now.

If you choose to make a leanto of the old shed just make sure its stable hate to see you put work into something and it fall down cause the old part was not stable.

Thanks for the info ...heck $50-60 to renew the roof is worth it. The shed is strong enough and with some repair it will be in good shape, then I can put a lean-to off the gable end and have plenty of storage. I took down an old barn so i have plenty of stout wood left over so this project could cost just a few hundred.