[Farmall] Machine Shed/Workshop

[Larry Hardesty]

Bus Driver,  Sounds like you got quite a nice building for $20,000.

Thanks,

Larry H.


At 09:04 PM 6/3/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>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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