There is a 16' wide x 7' high door on the 40'side.
24' trusses are cheap.. Carter lumber here in Michigan keep them in stock, and I think they were like $50.00 each, as opposed to $96.00 for 30 foot trusses, IIRC (we rebuilt our shop in 2006, so I'm sure the prices have changed since then)
I do wish that my shop was taller, with a taller door.. and I wish the door was on the 24' end.. It's tight to pull my longbed extended cab truck in and work on it and be able to walk around it.
It wasn't my choice to build it this size.. Our original shop was 18x40x7.. we lifted the roof, changed the location of the door, and widened it to 24'.. It's dad's building, so we had to do it his way.
Here's a couple pictures:
I am in the process of buying my own place now, and it too has a 18x40 that I plan to make my shop.. My plan is to raise the roof to 10-12 feet high, 24' trusses, then "lean to" off the back another 6-8 feet, leaving me a 30 or 32x 40 shop, 24' being 10 to 12' high, and the remaining 6-8' sloping lower.. But, I don't actively farm, and I don't see myself ever buying "big" tractors, so it should be fine for me.. I'm trying to keep it a relatively inexpensive build, but have a decent sized building that is economical to heat in the end.
I will agree that the bigger you build it, the more stuff you will shove into it. I try to only keep projects in my shop for the most part, and either my loader tractor (in the pictures), or my Cub in there, since they start and drive, and can quickly moved outside to pull something else is inside. The door being closer to one end than the other helps too.. There's about 8' "north" of the big door, then the 16' door.. that leaves enough room to the south that I can park 2 of my "small, long term project" tractors side by side, have room to walk all around them, and they are not hanging into the doorway.
Like a few of the others have said: Do what you can afford.
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