[Farmall] Machine Shed/Workshop

[Bus Driver]

Back in 1981, I decided to realize a dream I had since the 1940's to have a
shop of my own. Money was tight. In my area, many chicken houses were 40 x
300 with 7' sidewalls. The idea came to me one day to build a shorter,
taller chicken house, enclose the walls. Contacted one of the nearby
fabricators and they made my components. Steel roof trusses made of angle
iron, 6 x 6 H beam columns. Girts and purlins of 2 x 6 logged by son and
myself. Building is 40 x 100 with 10' bays- the distance between trusses.
Cost me about $5.00 per square foot at the time with the largest expense of
the steel components and the concrete slab floor as the second most costly
item. Corrugated roof and sidewalls covering with 10 evenly distributed
corrugated fiberglass roof panels as skylights. No insulation. Used 4
courses of concrete block from the slab up to keep bottom of the sidewall
panels off the ground- recommend that to everyone. Self-designed and
fabricated an extension and carrier for the tractor (35HP) front loader to
hoist the trusses into place. Have about 22' of clearance inside at the roof
peak. 14 x 20 door in one end, 10 x 10 in other end, topography did not lend
itself to other door arrangements. It has been one of my most satisfying
possessions.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Hardesty" <lhardesty at austincollege.edu>
To: <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>; <texas-tractors at egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:49 PM
Subject: [Farmall] Machine Shed/Workshop


> Folks,  I am moving to a new place that does not have a machine shed or
> workshop, and I am thinking of building a machine shed/workshop.  For sake
> of discussion, does anyone have suggestions as to size of machine
> shed/workshop to build.  I have  several relatively small tractors (2
> Farmall A's, 2 Super C's, a regular Cub, Cub 154, Farmall 340--with
loader,
> John Deere 420 Crawler,  and a Case CC) plus some equipment (box blade,
two
> regular blades, couple of plows, bush hog) to go with them.   For the
shop,
> I would like it big enough to pull the tractors into it to work on without
> being overly crowded...and for the storage area I would like to get the
> tractors in and out without having to move all them around each time.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Larry
>
> Larry Hardesty
> lhardesty at austincollege.edu
> 4089 Gibbons Road
> Sherman, Texas 75092
>
>
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