Winter storage in old barn with tarp?

[oosik]

ruff dog - - that is a great gesture. From now on all my mice go up on the roof. It's either the hawks by day or the owls by night.

BTW - I've put peppermint oil soaked cotton pads in a pill bottle and put it in the glove box. Drilled about a eight holes all around the pill bottle. Don't know exactly if it helps. However - between the open hood and the peppermint oil pill bottle - no mice or chipmunks.

 

[John0829]

Before I had buildings large enough to store my tractors in I used tarps ALL the time and never had an issue with moisture or rodents. I only used a tarp big enough to cover the top of the machine and not reach the ground so air could flow around and yet keep rain and debris off. The only problem was the tarp movement from wind would wear the paint off any place it rested on the machine and they will move about some no matter many straps and tie downs you put on them.

 

[MechanicalGuy]

I put 10' pvc or cpvc sticks on the sides of my tarps to keep the tarp held down and easy to manage.

 

[Texasmark]

Within the past couple of weeks we have had some big temperature swings (naw, really?????). So a few days of 30-50 degrees to soak everyting down nice and cool and here comes a morning with warm, humid southerly winds. Everything around the place was sweating...water dripping off everything including the tractors under/in sheds and my shop.

Tarping is a great idea to keep the sun off if parked outside and I would do it if I had to, but parking inside covering of whatever sort, about all it will do is keep the dust off it. It won't keep your equipment dry. A bad aspect of tarping in old barns is rodent infestation.....a haven for them,but a few cubes of rodent control takes care of that problem. (my 2c)