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BarryinMN said:DD 32" wide is pretty skinny any clearance reason not to go 40' wide? Makes your door 10x20 wide which allows 2 rows of entrance & egress leaving stuff along sides undisturbed.
32' would be easier to get a nice gabrel roof out of trusses. Can't haul over 12' tall down the roads.
The only other item coming in and out other than the tractor will be a UTV with a small aluminum boat. I can do that with a 14' door and still have all my implements on one side.
Swinging doors work good until the snow piles up or the wind tears em up.
Snow, what's that?(note location) I have also considered sliding doors because of wind, but that still would not effect height.
I have an old 14' class TLB that the boom can hit the door framing & trusses if I enter with it raised all the way. Once in, I drop both buckets so it takes up about 30 linear feet. The lawnmower (5' deck) winters under the boom.
Woodchipper & snowblower stand about 8' tall. 60hp cab ag tractor is about 102" at the muffler flapper.
All tractor work here will be for deer/dove fields and dirt road maintenance. No real farming or large mowing and 10' dirt wide roads through timber.
10' also clears a class A Winnebago.
Wife and I would rather fly and rent a place than stay in a motorcoach. It'd still be cheaper too.![]()
I realize I'm probably coming across as pig headed and not wanting to listen, but that isn't the case and I'm sorry if it sounds that way. Although I do get a little annoyed with people that don't read follow up posts on a short thread, sorry for the short temper there. A couple reasons I wanted to stay with 10' walls was I can get 10' OSB and 10' hardipanel siding. With the 10' OSB, I wouldn't have any seams between top and bottom plate. This would help strengthen the walls. With 10' siding I wouldn't have any visible seams or blocking needed on the side walls. With 12' walls, the stairs upstairs would be steeper or I would have to make the "L" in the corner. So I do have reasons for trying to keep it 10' and was looking for enough reasons to raise it to 12' that outweighed the 10' reasons. Please continue to post reasons to go to 12'.
Thank you,
DD