Right building for Balewagon?

[Joe NY]

I'm looking at getting a building to put hay in. Going to be using a NH 1037 pull type balewagon. One option that I got was from Cover-All, 40' X 96' Legend Series with one end closed for 29K or on an 8' side walls for 35K. I would like to hear what you guys use! Thanks for taking the time to look at my note.

 

[IaGary]

I would think you could get a pole barn with tin built for close to that.

It would outlast the tarp by 50 years.

Just a thought.

Gary

 

[tim(in)]

I've seen a 30x40 x 12 building built for $9600.oo and for the price of a cover it type building, might as well not have to worry about tarps and have the straight sides! The rising price i think will probably knock the coverit type buildings . I was getting serious about one but the prices have jumped so much that they are priced right out of the market.

 

[paul]

Ain't that a foot or 2 too short for those stack unloading wagons as they pivot back? Sure would be a waste of money to put up a $10,000 shed you can't use....

30 foot I think comes out real bad for the width as well, you want a multiple of the wagon plus several feet, don't want it too crowded to back in the last width.

Takes a little more planning to make a building match those bale wagons. Normally I'm with you, a metal covered building is the way to go, but for hay those covered ones are very popular, get a good volume for the price which is what you need on hay. Sort of a temp price for a semi-permanant building that may be off the tax rolls, depending on your location.....

I haven't run a NH wagon, so I'm no help, but talk with those who have to see what size fits so you can use the whole building. Would you have a tall loader & claw to pack more bales on top of each stack, use all the height a tarp building gives you? More fuss, but makes the tarp building more ecconomical yet than a metal one for this use.

--->Paul

 

[kyhayman]

Be sure and check your overheads. Is a 1037 7 tiers or 8? My 1034 (adn 1033 I had before it) were 7 and called for 12.5 feet nominal for cresting at dumping. I had one barn at was a shade short of 13 feet, it wasnt enough. Its a geometric increase in height as its cresting height. 13.5 feet was what I ended up with, fortunately it was a pole barn so all it did was break a cross brace.

As to barns, that seems like a lot for buildings. I know materials are up since I last built anything and you have more snow load than we do but that still seems mighty high. 40 feet is a bad width too. 36 feet will get you 3 wide but it will take at least 46-48 feet to get 4 dumps wide. On the low budget plan (rough cut yellow pine, and over run multicolored metal siding (then paint) on 6x6 square posts should run just over 20 grand for 36x96 (or just under if you have cheaper posts, we use eastern red cedar) with labor and materials about half each of the cost on a crushed stone base.

 

[tim(in)]

I'm not planning on using it for a bale wagon barn but if i build one for it would definitly be taller and bigger. But i'm just saying for a building per say that the pole barns have begun to beat out the tarp covered for price advantage. I'm wanting to build something this year for machinery storage and hay on a small farm but the bale wagon thread is definitly reminding me to think ahead on this too. I am getting to the place where i cant do like i used to when younger and maybe have to consider the bale wagon idea more when building.I like small bales but also am considering a heston stackhand 10 . Of course i can always throw some smaller bales of straw on top of that if neccessary and some small bales of hay to feed out. Much cheaper and easier to throw ideas around now than squeeze 14' tall combines and equipment in a 12' building.

 

[paul]

Yea - the newest building here is a 11.5 high machine shed, 16.5 foot door, built in '64. I have to do something too.....

--->Paul