Re: How big a machine shed?

Posted by paul on October 17, 2006 at 20:58:05 from (66.44.132.154):

In Reply to: How big a machine shed? posted by Dan-IA on October 17, 2006 at 11:01:59:

> So, we're thinking about 30 feet wide or so, and 13 feet from the ground to the top of the door or bottom edge of the roof. Are these figures unreasonable?

Totally & completely unreasonable.

You need a 14 foot high door, 16 foot high ceiling then - laws of physics. It would be better to have a 16 foot high door, but how much does one spend........ ;)

You need a door 22 feet wide, a building 30 feet wide????? What good is that? Can't fit a door on it. Pointless. You are building a tunnel, not a shed. If you have a 22 foot door (for the common 20 foot bean head/ 8 row planter) and drive in, you want some room on each side to put a corn head, or the gravity wagons, or a tractor.... So you wan it 22 feet wide for the door path, plus 12 feet on each side to park stuff out of the way - or something near 46 feet wide. This gives you the endwall to put the doors on to close up the 22 foot door.

Plan some on paper, figure how to use your square footage. 30 foot wide is just useless. A real waste of space.

imho - it's easy for me to spend your money. :) You have to know what works for you. :)

I'm stuck with dad's 'big' machine shed. 16.5 foot wide door, 11.4 foot high. Got the concrete grooved for the wheels & the header cut out 2 inches to get the combine in. Too narrow. Just hard to do or go anywhere with it.

Don't limit yourself - save for another year if you have to, rather than build too small. Once it's there, you are stuck with it for 40 years.

--->Paul

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