Covering 3 pt implements ?

[Gary Fowler]

I just leave my box blade, cultivator and landscape rake setting on the ground and uncovered. The bush hog, I put up on concrete blocks so it can ventilate and not be exposed to moist dirt. I tie up the PTO so water wont get into the shaft but that is about all. The only thing I wish I had inside storage for is my 20 foot car hauler trailer. I put waterproofing on the boards but I fear they will rot out eventually and the tires will be sun damaged. I would like to have a sun shaded barn to keep it in but all my mechanical stuff is under my roofed shop areas (2 tractors, truck, wifes SUV, my boat, 3 lawnmowers, pressure washer, chainsaws and my work bench) and I really cant justify building a $10K shed to put a $3k trailer in. My attached garage keeps my wifes new SUV, my Kubota and golf cart so they are out of the weather and handy. I try to keep all mechanical/electrical stuff under enclosed spaces but I don't worry much about the implements being outside. I will be dead long before rust gets to them. I do a bit of paint touchup on the bush hog when needed but the other implements are aging nicely with the old paint. I do have them under a big tree for some sun protection.

 

[BukitCase]

Gary, the cheapest way I've thought of to keep sun damage from trailer tires (just bought an 18' trailer this summer) is some 6 mil black visquene and a handful of strong magnets - piece of visquene big enough to cover the entire wheel well, about 6 magnets spaced around the fender.

Think "old cars, fender skirts"... Steve

My trailer has stake pockets welded on, 5 on each side - thinking about making a couple of inserts for them and using a couple of the HF weld-on jacks WITHOUT wheels in the two pockets just behind the wheels, then jacking the whole trailer just off the tires for long periods of non-use. I'd also use the jacks at the REAR pair of pockets when loading/unloading, since mine is a "car hauler" type with slide-out ramps (no "built-in feet")

Clarification - the jacks would be welded to the INSERTS, therefore movable to whatever stake pockets needed.

Just a thought - steal/modify at will :=)

 

[GManBart]

Holy cow!!!! Very nice. You will not regret having that once it is done.

Thanks....it's getting there! The good/bad thing is that wifey just said "could we make it bigger, and add a studio for me?". Hey, it's only money, right? :laughing:

 

[Wakey]

That's really nice!

Do you have more pics?

View attachment 348690The only real way to keep them from not only the element but from the sun is to use a shed. The draw back to the shed is then you have to maintain the the shed and incur the cost of building it. I personally built my shed so that I didn't have to look at them all laying around. I built it so that it was easy to get loader and 3 point implements in and out by having access to one entire side with sliding doors. I still have yet to build the heavy duty "shelves" to organize all the implements, so for now the ones that are already rusty stay outside until I get it organized.

 

[ovrszd]

Thanks....it's getting there! The good/bad thing is that wifey just said "could we make it bigger, and add a studio for me?". Hey, it's only money, right? :laughing:

If you use it for a "shop" Wifey isn't gonna like having a studio in the same building. Odors and debris tracked from shop.

 

[GManBart]

If you use it for a "shop" Wifey isn't gonna like having a studio in the same building. Odors and debris tracked from shop.

Oh, it's definitely going to be a shop. The power comany had to move our service lines, so they needed a bunch of right-of-ways signed....I helped get them signed in exchange for them running three-phase power to the barn. Full-size milling machine, lathe, surface grinder, drill press, several welders, blasting cabinet, large compressor, etc., all will be in there eventually. If she gets serious, I'd probably extend the building another 24ft, and put up a partition wall with a large overhead door, like the other side, to separate it. I think she'll probably just take over most of the basement, which is huge, and has mostly my stuff in it now....much cheaper!

 

[newbury]

<snip>>.I helped get them signed in exchange for them running three-phase power to the barn. <snip>

Now you've got all of us jealous!!

They wanted about $30,000 to run 3 phase to me.

Bdavis - I'm sitting in Northeast Mississippi, and from north Vermont.

Down here get the equipment off the ground, spray it with Fluid Film (FF), tarp and tie down and your good to go. It's the freeze-thaw cycles that really rust equipment.

Many threads about FF here. Look for one of them and there's a good link to an ebay seller (farmandcity?) that sells a case of the aerosol cheap. I bought a case a month ago and spray everything metal.

 

[PHPaul]

I needed both equipment storage and hay storage, so I built a minimalist barn.

Pressure treated 4x6-16' poles set below frost (4' minimum) on concrete pads, backfilled with screened gravel to shed water. Dirt floor. I did splurge a little on the second floor (hay storage) with 1-1/8 inch T&G subfloor over engineered joists. Nothing I hate worse than bouncy floors.

The main building is 20x32, the ell is 10x24. I had right at $8000 invested in materials including the metal roof.

It's been there since 2001 and hasn't moved a bit. It's situated with the back walls facing West and North and that keeps most of the snow out of it, and gives the critters someplace to get out of the wind in the winter and the sun in the summer.

 

[ovrszd]

I needed both equipment storage and hay storage, so I built a minimalist barn.

Pressure treated 4x6-16' poles set below frost (4' minimum) on concrete pads, backfilled with screened gravel to shed water. Dirt floor. I did splurge a little on the second floor (hay storage) with 1-1/8 inch T&G subfloor over engineered joists. Nothing I hate worse than bouncy floors.

The main building is 20x32, the ell is 10x24. I had right at $8000 invested in materials including the metal roof.

It's been there since 2001 and hasn't moved a bit. It's situated with the back walls facing West and North and that keeps most of the snow out of it, and gives the critters someplace to get out of the wind in the winter and the sun in the summer.

That is VERY cool. Reflects your personality rather than a cookie cutter type. Are the loft floor joists those glued, particle board type?? Can't think what they call them?? Friend of mine is gonna use those to put a loft in his 16ft tall pole building. Very cool design. Has a definite country feel.

 

[PHPaul]

Thanks!

Yes the floor joists have 2x3 flanges and OSB (oriented strand board) webs. VERY strong and allowed me to span the 20' depth with no center posts. I can't even begin to wedge enough hay in that loft to stress the floor.

 

[PHPaul]

Of course, I outgrew that barn in a few years and had to put up another shed. This one is 20x24 on a slab, houses my ATV and the Pasquali, lawn equipment in the winter and snow equipment in the summer.

 

[ovrszd]

Thanks!

Yes the floor joists have 2x3 flanges and OSB (oriented strand board) webs. VERY strong and allowed me to span the 20' depth with no center posts. I can't even begin to wedge enough hay in that loft to stress the floor.

Yep that's what I thought they were. Definitely the best way to do something like that. You should be very proud. Did you dream this design up in your head and build it without blueprints??

 

[ovrszd]

Of course, I outgrew that barn in a few years and had to put up another shed. This one is 20x24 on a slab, houses my ATV and the Pasquali, lawn equipment in the winter and snow equipment in the summer.

Ain't that the truth. But your designs give your property character.

 

[PHPaul]

Yep that's what I thought they were. Definitely the best way to do something like that. You should be very proud. Did you dream this design up in your head and build it without blueprints??

Shows, huh? :laughing:

Yeah, that's the result of several weeks of thinking and about 10 minutes of doodling on a napkin. :shocked: I wish I'd had the money to put it on a slab but I was between a rock and a hard place for hay storage and had 30 days to get something up and ready for hay.

I've been around carpentry enough to do a decent job on outbuildings. All the kids are married and gone and I'm too broke/cheap to hire anybody so I wind up doing it myself. I did con one son-in-law into spending a day helping me set the rafters and another day hanging the tin on that barn.

I built this garage pretty much by myself as well. Coincidentally, after pounding every nail in that potlicker with a 20 oz hammer, I bought my first pneumatic nailer...:thumbsup:

 

[ovrszd]

I built this garage pretty much by myself as well. Coincidentally, after pounding every nail in that potlicker with a 20 oz hammer, I bought my first pneumatic nailer...:thumbsup:

That's how I roll.... Heheheheh.

 

[GManBart]

Now you've got all of us jealous!!

They wanted about $30,000 to run 3 phase to me

Ouch! I don't know what they'll charge for the power drop, but 3 phase will be at least to the pole for free. They said it didn't cost them much extra, since they were already running all new lines, and poles. I'm sure it would've been very expensive if I had to pay for everything.

 

[Lloyd_E]

Very clever idea to get around the permit thing Lloyd!!! That shed accomplishes a lot for no bigger than it is!!!! Very clever.

ovrszd and gmanbart,

I will take credit for the permit dodging but not the shelves. Way back 3-4 years ago somebody on TBN showed the shelf solution, which is a very, very clever solution. I have 8 buildings on the property now - house, main horse barn, workshop, blacksmith shop, woodshed, implement shed, chicken coop, garden shed etc. I need to build two more sheds in the spring for turkeys and ducks plus expand the chicken coop. My good buddy ribs me all the time about building a village! In hindsight... I should have built a large 40'x80' 1.5 story building down in the back pasture.

 

[dave1949]

I built a 40' x 16' lean to 10' high in front and 6' in the back. It was pole barn style

The cost for materials from menards was $2300.00. I will install sliding doors this summer.
It took us 3 days to build.


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I like that. I've often thought about building something of that style as a "do all" shed. Firewood, implements, etc. Somehow, when I get a pencil in my hand, dimensions grow. :laughing:

I would probably make it deeper like 20', and taller 12' front and 8' back. I've thought a side wall enclosed section in the middle, with maybe a 4' wide door, would be useful for dry, small garden tool, rototiller, push mower, etc. storage.

 

[Bdavis]

bdavis,

I built a 10'x20' shed with shelves that hold some of the smaller implements - sander/spreader, back blade, rake, chipper and auger. The bigger stuff - bush-hog, box blade stay on the ground. It is board and batten with metal roof and open front with pvc glass doors to allow sun it to keep moisture low. I use the forks to get items off the shelf when needed. And yes, I should have built it deeper 12'-14' but we can build up to 218 sq.ft. without permit here thus 20'x10'.

Really love the shelves and the doors. Something in that style is what I would like to end up with .
I guess the good thing about having a place out in the woods and doing all the work myself is I can permit myself to build anything I want (grin)

 

[ovrszd]

Really love the shelves and the doors. Something in that style is what I would like to end up with .
I guess the good thing about having a place out in the woods and doing all the work myself is I can permit myself to build anything I want (grin)

There's a LOT of value in that Bdavis!!!! I'm blessed to not live or own a farm in areas with building restrictions. If I can nail it together, it's legal. I like that!!!

I also really enjoy seeing pictures of other's creations. It's a window into their imaginations. Very fascinating and I admire their talent.