Do You Have a Tractor Shed/Barn?

[WinterDeere]

When you live in a 300 year old house, you learn to make due and build within what's already here. So, about 10 years ago I converted this 1770's carriage barn to a workshop, adding a second floor within the existing envelope, insulation (spray foam), heat and air conditioning, electric service, etc. Expanded the original 20x30 to two floors. There's a 300 sq.ft. unheated shed salt-boxed onto the back, where the tractor, mower, and most of the implements live.

Only thing I'd do different, if I could do it all over again, would be to add a third garage bay to the front, make it 40 x 20, and then blow the one on the right thru to the back of the salt box, so I'd have one 30 ft. deep bay to store my boats. Now I have to rent space for that, and I've set up the electric in a way that basically precludes doing it now.

 

[oosik]

I got VERY tired of lowering the roll bar. So I built this tractor car port and now all is fine. I never closed off the far end - allows me to enter/exit from the front or rear. Allows me to have a canopy also.

 

[Sprinkler Fitter]

Buckets and grapple are outside but inside we keep our food vending trailer hooked up to our 1 ton Duramax in the right foot center door is the daily driver 1/2 ton and left door is the John Deere and side by side, John Deere sits between the doors though

 

[WinterDeere]

Well… now I’m not gonna post a pic of my puny 16x20 shed.
You have a beautiful setup!

This entire house, barn, property can all be described as "beautiful but dysfunctional." It has miles of curb appeal, but isn't the most practical space in which to live.

 

[ultrarunner]

My dream has always been a 40x120 with bays plus a large gable end door.

A farmer has this one and he can take any rolling stock out the gable end as the middle is an aisle to the gable end.

The end is a very nice 36 wide x 40 deep shop with lift.

 

[riptides]

We have a 100 year old dairy barn that has been converted to horse stalls. No equipment goes in it. I have had two friends that their barns burned down from hot equipment. Since our barn is so old, the equipment, even lawn equipment does not get housed in it. It's irreplaceable.

That said, the tractor is too big for any other outbuilding. We had plans to remove and replace the one with the truck and other equipment in it, but life events got in the way. It would be nice to replace it as it too is over 100 years old and is in need of repair. At the rate we are going it may never get replaced. Maybe the next owner has a project.

So the tractor and implements sits outside and IMHO, that is not good,

 

[dougtrr2]

My attached garage and house sit at a 45 degree angle to each other. My little John Deere 318 and later Kubota BX24 would sit in the corner. With the BX 24 attachments, loader, backhoe, box blade etc. it was tight and required removing attachments and a game of tetris at the end of each day.

Finally, we added a third stall with a 10' door for the tractor and attachments. It has made it so much nicer to be able to just drive in at the end of the day, shut it off and walk away.

Doug in SW IA

 

[Jrasband]

Not yet but in the beginning stages of building a barn this year.

 

[WinterDeere]

We have a 100 year old dairy barn that has been converted to horse stalls. No equipment goes in it. I have had two friends that their barns burned down from hot equipment. Since our barn is so old, the equipment, even lawn equipment does not get housed in it. It's irreplaceable.

lol... "old" is relative! The oldest part of our house is 290 years old this year, with two of the three major additions being very substantially older than your dairy barn. I have no qualms about storing my tractor and mower in a 1770's carriage barn, at least it's away from the house.

There actually is evidence the barn had a fire once, maybe 200 years ago for all I know, one post and some of the siding around it was charred from some past experience. I do know that tractors have been stored in this barn only since 1986, when the larger dairy barn was taken down, so the fire did not come from a tractor. Best guess, someone probably once had a stove installed there, to close to combustibles.

 

[TerryR]

There was a small pole barn, with Masonite siding that was coming apart and metal roof that leaked on our property when we bought it 25+ years ago. That's where I keep my tractor. Here's a shot of it with my tractor in it as I was half way through replacing the siding and roof.

Before I started that I build an open front shed for all my implements. Here it is, partly filled with building materials for the barn remodel.

There was a septic tank there from when there had been a mobile home on the site and it's a ways from the house, so I included a restroom on the end. It also serves as a varmint-poof place to store seeds, and is heated above freezing so we can store garden chemicals there. That's handy since the garden is about where this photo was taken from.