[Farmall] Only Slightly off topic: Shop and Storage building for Farmall ...

Tue Apr 11 19:11:00 PDT 2006

It sounds like you are building something very similar to mine which I  built 
about 3 yrs ago.
Mine is 50X72 with the doors centered on the ends. With 50' wide you have a  
center aisle and can park tractors on either side. I park my vehicles in the  
center aisle. I can pull any tractor out without moving any others. I only 
have  to move my vehicles. It is layed out similar to a lot of big car dealer's 
shops.  I wanted to doors on the ends so that I don't have to deal with snow 
that slides  off the roof in front of the doors. I built mine all myself with 
materials from  Kentucky steel truss buildings. It uses steel web trusses. I put 
the shell  up in one summer. From the particular company I got it from 50X72 
was cheaper  per sq ft than 40x80
was too. Mine is situated east to west, so I get good ventilation when both  
big doors are open. I didn't want skylights because I was afraid of leakage, 
and  I didn't want the sun to fade the paint on my tractors. Plus they weren't 
in the  budget.
I just put electric to it last fall (200 amp) and I'm wiring it now. I  
eventually want to partition off a 24X50
area for a shop. I'm on a pretty tight budget, so I work on it as $  permits.
Todd

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