Machine shed ideas

[BruceS_55]

The nearest Amish community that I know of is 23 miles away. I imagine that they would require transportation to and from daily until completed. It's not a bad idea, though.

 

[DaBear3428]

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having done a few of these some pointers:
1. get what you need but avoid addons.
2, get the vertical roof design.
3. level the ground and put concrete pilings down.
4. make sure your pilings/ground is level.
5. be prepared well before they arrive, they put these up quickly.
6. the wider you go the higher the cost and do not go over 30' wide (depending on your local snow/wind loading) check prices, but point is there is a point where wider cost exponentially more.

for tractor storage you want to keep the sun off of it mostly, a little rain/snow will not hurt it and having it open discourages small critters from making nests in it.
open air flow helps keep things dry.

 

[Smokeydog]

Make it high enough for a roofed ROPS if working around trees.

 

[CADplans]

We bought 10 acres,,
THEN, I decided the BEST place to build my equipment shed,, was on land owned by my neighbor.

I used that as an excuse to bring up buying the 10 adjoining acres.
The neighbor insisted on yearly payments rather than a lump payment,,
he wanted the income as part of his retirement..

We built the shed

THEN, 10 years later, THE NEIGHBOR approached me,,
he wanted me to buy 20 more acres, because he had been accustomed to the retirement income.

It worked out great for us, ,,
So, I recommend ALWAYS try to buy some land off a neighbor,,
It is amazing how readily some people will be interested in selling.

ALL because I wanted to build an equipment shed,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[mo1]

The nearest Amish community that I know of is 23 miles away. I imagine that they would require transportation to and from daily until completed. It's not a bad idea, though.

The Amish just have somebody who's not Amish drive them to where they need to go. If it's a construction crew, they will have somebody with a 15 passenger van drive them to and from the jobsite every day. I can tell you at least the ones in this corner of Missouri will drive at least 45 miles from their ordnung to put up houses or pole barns.

Probably the least expensive choice for a semipermanent enclosure would be to put up a 20x24 carport and put up some sheet steel on the sides and one end, and make a sliding sheet steel door for the other end. You will probably have about $4k or so in it if you put it together yourself.

There are also a number of "shouses" around here. I would caution you that they don't cost that much less than a (conventional stick-built) house to put up but have the resale value of a shop. Much of the cost is in finishing and that cost isn't going to be much different than finishing a conventional stick-built house. I've seen plenty of people take real big haircuts when selling "shouses."

 

[Paystar]

Thanks for the ideas. I hadn’t even thought about a container. Paystar, I like the look of the cedar logs on your shed.

Thanks. Wasn't sure how big you need but there are lots of "low" cost options.

A poster mentioned 40 foot sea cans for $5000. Up here, mind you this is Canadian dollars, a 20 footer used to be $2500 pre covid. Now a 20 footer is $7000!!!

But those are a nice setup too, like has been said, get two and put roof trusses over them and you can have a garage bay in between.

 

[Paystar]

I want to build this. Very simple design.

 

[etpm]

In the last few years I put up a couple structures that have used telephone poles for the posts. I don't know if any are available in your area but the ones I used I bought cheap. 25 bucks each. Delivered. They have plenty of creosote on them so all I had to do before planting them was to soak the ends in good preservative. I used a lot and let it soak in very well before applying the next coat. Because of the tarry creosote or whatever the power company soaked the poles in seemed like it might not be so pleasant to rub against I pressure washed the part of the poles that would be above ground. This worked out quite well. I used shed type roofs, so no central peaks. I looked for and found used tin roofing in good shape so that's what went up for roofing. The stuff was still sound, not rusty or dented, but dirty. There were some screw holes, maybe 150 of them for the 16 foot by 26 foot structure, and these were plugged from the top with some sort of caulk made for good UV resistance. The bottom side of the roofing I pressure washed so that it looks good and white again. I don't care what the top looks like because only aircraft will be looking at it. The 26 foot long structure has only 4 posts. There is a 22 foot long unsupported span because of this. Beams to make this span are really expensive. A friend of mine, who is a contractor, told me to make my own glue-lams with 2x12 lumber. So, with his help I made 26 foot long glue-lams using 12 foot and 14 foot 2x12 lumber. The joints were staggered of course. We used high quality glue and screws, the screws of course are only there to clamp the wood together while the glue hardens. Anyway, with my friend's suggestion and help I saved a ton of money on the beams. I know your situation will be different, because everybody's is, but if you have some time to ask around and scrounge some you may luck out and save some money on big ticket items like posts and tin roofing. Where I live, north of Seattle, the roofing metal I used costs about 50 bucks for a 3' x 12' piece, or $1.39 per square foot. By scrounging and asking around etc. I paid way less than that. If you don't need perfect you can save a ton of money and you did say you wanted cheap.
Eric

 

[wmfamily]

I'm just purchasing 10 acres of mostly forested land in Missouri. I will need a tractor for clearing land, grading, mowing, etc. But first I need somewhere to store it as there are no buildings on the property. I'm looking for plans for a machine shed I can buy/build to store a compact tractor and attachments in that won't break the bank. Our plan is to eventually build a shouse in which I will store my tractor. If you have any ideas, I'm all ears. Thanks.

You can build a three sided lean-to type shed that won't cost too much and you can build onto it later if you put a little fore thought into it (close the fourth side, add a second half, etc.) It will keep the equipment out of the weather for the most part.