I don't have any pictures of my shop handy. It's block, with a tin roof, and was built by the previous owner here. It's an odd size, something like 33' deep and 35 feet across and has a 12' high ceiling. It has 2 9 foot tall garage doors. If I was going to build it now, I would have liked 10' high doors. I can fit a 4020 with roll-gard and a canopy through these 9 footers, but only with about an inch to spare. And if the tractor ever gets 38" back wheels instead of the 34's it has now, it's not going to fit. And you never know what you'll end up buying one day!
Other than the doors, I'm pretty happy with the size. Bigger would be nice sometimes, but small encourages you to keep things organized. I nailed plywood on the ceiling and insulated the attic with R-30. The walls are just 8" block walls, no insulation. I have a woodstove in one corner and can keep it 65 degrees inside when it's in the 20s outside, no problem. I've found that any hotter is too hot for me when I'm working in there in the winter.
My brother put up a 40x60 pole barn. It also has a 12 foot ceiling, but 1 wide 10 foot tall door. He insulated the walls only I believe, but it's also easy to heat with a woodstove. My first thought was that this is the perfect size for a shop, but now that I think about it he has it divided roughly in half. Half a woodshop and half for the tractors. So the tractor side is only like 35 wide and 40 deep as you pull in the door. Inside it has- a 4020, 730, Farmall Cub, Forklift, and all his tools and supplies. There's easily room for all of the tractors parked beside each other along the back wall, still allowing him to pull his truck in infront of them at night.
Whatever size you build you'll adapt to. I'd definitely recommend the 12' ceiling and 10' tall door though.
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