Posted by Bill VA on January 15, 2016 at 06:59:20 from (76.3.243.86):
We got a couple of old sheds on our farm that in their day were a sheep shed and the other a chicken house. If I'm out there later today, I'll take and post some pics. For now they are essentially abandoned and left for falling down some day. They are at least 100 years old or more.
These buildings probably could hold 200ish square bales of hay each - with a little work. Their roofs seems to be OK - old tin and the sides are OK too. The floors are non-existent in the sheep shed and just about rotted out on the old chicken house. These sheds are built on big rocks at each corner, no foundation. I consider them as shells with no real structure to put significant weight on or tie into for that purpose.
For the floors, what I'm thinking about doing is basically building a "tray" for lack of a better word as a floor in each building. It would be a self supporting floor that sets to the inside of the building on the ground - but structurally does not tie into it in any way. This way, all the weight of the floor from hay is totally on the floor and the old sheds aren't required to bear any load - they can continue to be free standing "shells" - keeping the elements off the hay.
I thought about just taking up the floors and using gravel and might still do it - but without the floors, the ground is very unlevel, there is goodly step down into the buildings and I think a wooden floor will give some air circulation vs gravel, even with pallets.
Trays for floors - what do you think?
Bees....
These two buildings are Meccas for wasps, hornets and anykind of bee with a stinger and an abundent willingness to use it! Anything I can spray on the interior to discourage nest building? I thought about some used motor oil mixed with kerosene as a wood preservative and a deterant to the bees. Something they'd turn their noise up at. I've already been warned by one of my boys that if they get I the top of the barn and get lit up by a bee nest - I'm on my own for the balance of the day - LOL! Not sure I want to be doing anything with used oil other than taking it for recycle.
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