[Farmall] Machine Shed/Workshop

[Jim Rohr]

Larry, 

Insulation was a combination of construction blue panels on walls and roll
3" with vapor barrier in roof 


Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: farmall-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:farmall-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Larry
Hardesty
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 3:59 PM
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Subject: Re: [Farmall] Machine Shed/Workshop

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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