</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> the other stores the JD GT245 lawn tractor along with bikes, trash cans, etc. </font>
Why not get/build a shed (10x12?) to house the above? Then you can at least park the tractor indoors. )</font>
Two reasons:
1. Money
2. The only flat ground on my property is occupied by my house (had to knock off the top of a ridge to build it) and a high tension electric tower. The power lines have a 100 foot right of way in which I cannot build anything, and of course it takes a diagonal course across the only remotely flat land I own. The remainder of the property is way too steep for a simple shed; anything I build will involve lots of excavating and a deep foundation. If I'm going to that much effort and expense, i might as well build the bank barn I have drawn up, but finances just don't allow that yet.