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| Just wondering what everyone is paying to have an indoor arena put in... What size are they, type? Just wondering if it's cheaper to go with the " clear span" or metal of what? We do live in the northeast so I know we need a decent pitch! |
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| When you find out let me know...I dream of getting one someday |
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Location: Wide open spaces, Canada. | Wood has a lifespan of about 30 years. Steel is way longer..... To give you an idea on cost though I just got a quote for a 120 by 300 clear spam metal with a 30 by 300 lean to on one side and the building with insulation ( not including heat, water, cement, piles or dirt work , or doors) was $850 000 . That was a cheap quote compared to most steel buildings. A 100 by 300 wood was around $500 000 |
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Location: Somewhere up North | I just put up a 70'x90' here in the Midwest and the total cost was just under $60K. It is a wood post & truss with metal siding with one 12'x16' and two 10'x16' sliding doors. That price also includes my excavating and inside gate panels.
I put mine up earlier this spring and really got lucky with the pricing of the wood. Back in December 12 and January of this year the wood pricing was at it's lowest in 25 years. If I were to put this same barn up now it would be about 8K higher. Oh, and the pricing included the Amish folks putting it up.
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Location: Viola, IL | I had the amish put mine up as well. It has 14ft walls, wood with metal siding. Treated lumber. I had to pick up the lumber, but that wasn't a problem. I have two 10ft x 14ft doors, as well as a small 8ft door on one side. I have a 30x40 barn that opens to an 80x120 indoor arena. All totaling 70,000. |
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| 100 x 225' clear span, 16' side walls, 3:12 roof pitch steel building $190,000 erected. Site work, concrete and electric were done by owner. |
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Location: Oregon | porky - 2013-12-31 5:32 PM Wood has a lifespan of about 30 years. Steel is way longer..... To give you an idea on cost though I just got a quote for a 120 by 300 clear spam metal with a 30 by 300 lean to on one side and the building with insulation ( not including heat, water, cement, piles or dirt work , or doors) was $850 000 . That was a cheap quote compared to most steel buildings. A 100 by 300 wood was around $500 000
My arena has wooden trusses and posts and is 25 years old and isn't even close to death so I'd say a 30 year lifespan is not accurate. |
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Location: Wisconsin | We put up a 60 x 120 3 yrs ago and it was 53,000 including the excavation. It really jumped when i wanted a 72 because then you have to go with steel beams. I didnt want to be tied to it. I gotta still get out of here in the winter!! |
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Location: Central TX | I had an arena quoted for me when i was living in OK that was 80 by 200 and heated it was way over the 200k mark...yeah i think NOT! hhaha! |
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Location: East Tennessee | I have not been quoted over $150,000, but we were going to do all the stalls on one side ourselves and that's of course without the dirt cost, etc,etc. $850,000!? Good lord!  But I'm the kind as long as I have some place to ride that is lighted and out of the wind and rain I'm happy.
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | crapshooter - 2014-01-02 4:26 PM porky - 2013-12-31 5:32 PM Wood has a lifespan of about 30 years. Steel is way longer..... To give you an idea on cost though I just got a quote for a 120 by 300 clear spam metal with a 30 by 300 lean to on one side and the building with insulation ( not including heat, water, cement, piles or dirt work , or doors) was $850 000 . That was a cheap quote compared to most steel buildings. A 100 by 300 wood was around $500 000 My arena has wooden trusses and posts and is 25 years old and isn't even close to death so I'd say a 30 year lifespan is not accurate.
I have to agree with that, our shop here on our ranch is just a pole barn and it was built in 1952.....it isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Our machine shed & calving barns are also pole barns, and they were built in the mid 1970's. Our wood barn was built in 1906 and it's still standing too.
With that said, we went all steel, clear span on our indoor arena. 126' x 200' with insulation. Strange measurement on the width I know, but we had it custom made to fit the space we had to work with. We did all of the ground prep, water lines, electrical, hauled the dirt in, ect ourselves and still had $250K in ours. It's been a great investment and I don't know what I'd do without it. |
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| I wwould like to see pictures as wellespecially rockinas 1906 wood barn. Old barns are cool. |
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | sodapop - 2014-01-04 1:24 AM I wwould like to see pictures as wellespecially rockinas 1906 wood barn. Old barns are cool.
Here's a picture of our place.
New arena (2010) old barn (1906) and house (1912).
Can't see the shop & machine shed as they are back behind the house.
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| rockinas - 2014-01-04 10:01 AM
sodapop - 2014-01-04 1:24 AM I wwould like to see pictures as wellespecially rockinas 1906 wood barn. Old barns are cool.
Here's a picture of our place.
New arena (2010) old barn (1906) and house (1912).
Can't see the shop & machine shed as they are back behind the house.
beautiful! Is the old barn all wood....sides and all? If so, how much of it is original? Love old barns. |
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | sodapop - 2014-01-04 11:56 AM
Thanks!
Yes it is 100% wood and 100% original.
We had the original wood siding covered with steel siding in the 1980's so we didn't have to ever paint it again. And then we covered the original roof with
white steel about 15 years ago so we didn't have to replace shingles again.
But everything under all of that steel is as it was built by my great great grandfather.
The house is original as well. We put a new basement under it in 2009 and a new roof and siding in 2011.
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Those old barns are getting few and far between. No one wants to take care of them. We still have one on my mom's place. Its a huge old hip roof from the early 1900's. It was my dad's pride and joy and tried so hard to keep it up. After he passed my mom had it sided and roofed with steel like Rockinas did. That barn will hopefully last for many years to come. |
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Location: Oregon | CYA Ranch - 2014-01-04 11:43 AM Those old barns are getting few and far between. No one wants to take care of them. We still have one on my mom's place. Its a huge old hip roof from the early 1900's. It was my dad's pride and joy and tried so hard to keep it up. After he passed my mom had it sided and roofed with steel like Rockinas did. That barn will hopefully last for many years to come.
How much did the steel roof cost, do you know? I have an awesome old barn that needs a new roof.
Arena on the right, it was build in the early 90's and is still in good condition. Our old barn on the left, it is around 100 years old and is built without nails. |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | crapshooter - 2014-01-04 1:46 PM CYA Ranch - 2014-01-04 11:43 AM Those old barns are getting few and far between. No one wants to take care of them. We still have one on my mom's place. Its a huge old hip roof from the early 1900's. It was my dad's pride and joy and tried so hard to keep it up. After he passed my mom had it sided and roofed with steel like Rockinas did. That barn will hopefully last for many years to come. How much did the steel roof cost, do you know? I have an awesome old barn that needs a new roof.
Arena on the right, it was build in the early 90's and is still in good condition. Our old barn on the left, it is around 100 years old and is built without nails.
I don't remember at all. My dad passed 20 years ago and mom had it done maybe a year or 2 after he passed so its been a long time. Prices of steel have gone up a lot since then. Ours has the round top barn like yours does except ours has a lean-to on both sides. The hardest part is finding someone that will get up that high and yet do a good job. |
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| crapshooter - 2014-01-04 1:46 PM
CYA Ranch - 2014-01-04 11:43 AM Those old barns are getting few and far between. No one wants to take care of them. We still have one on my mom's place. Its a huge old hip roof from the early 1900's. It was my dad's pride and joy and tried so hard to keep it up. After he passed my mom had it sided and roofed with steel like Rockinas did. That barn will hopefully last for many years to come.
How much did the steel roof cost, do you know? I have an awesome old barn that needs a new roof.
Arena on the right, it was build in the early 90's and is still in good condition. Our old barn on the left, it is around 100 years old and is built without nails.
Awesome place! I bet that old barn is so cool. Love the no nails....probably super sturdy. |
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Location: Oregon | Yeah I didn't roof it 20 years ago because of the price and I sure wish I would have done it then. It sure isn't any cheaper now. It was like 10K then and way more now. I had one guy quote me 60K to straighten it (it lists 10 degrees one direction) and roof it.
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Location: PNW | We just "rebuilt" two old barns (1900ish) on our property - one is now the horses' habitat. Anyways.... All of the uprights in the barns are two foot diameter TREES that were just stumped and limbed and set up straight. And they are still SO STRONG. So we didn't replace them, but we jacked the barn up and straightened and braced everything. But gosh those old barns are gorgeous. |
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Location: Wide open spaces, Canada. | crapshooter - 2014-01-02 3:26 PM
porky - 2013-12-31 5:32 PM Wood has a lifespan of about 30 years. Steel is way longer..... To give you an idea on cost though I just got a quote for a 120 by 300 clear spam metal with a 30 by 300 lean to on one side and the building with insulation ( not including heat, water, cement, piles or dirt work , or doors) was $850 000 . That was a cheap quote compared to most steel buildings. A 100 by 300 wood was around $500 000
My arena has wooden trusses and posts and is 25 years old and isn't even close to death so I'd say a 30 year lifespan is not accurate.
I agree, but for a public building where I live that is the lifespan according to a persons ability to insure it for things like snowload... |
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| We put ours up last fall. It's 100 x 225 with 16' side walls. We have 8 "stalls" on the south side in the lean-to part. We wanted a very open feel so we put curtains on the sides. In the winter they are down so snow and wind doesn't fly through, in the spring-fall they are rolled up so it's more of a covered arena.
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| And about wood barns...this is a little different but we have a barn on our property that we are converting into our house. It was built in 1957 and is a cement block building with wood rafters, post and beam construction on the inside and it had a shingled roof. At some point they put a steel roof on it and steel on the side walls. When we took the old steel off the wood underneath was in prestine condition. We didn't have to replace a single board. Our farm has several old wood buildings with steel roofs and they are all in great condition. My husband's grandpa had a big old wood barn with a shingled roof and it is in far worse condition because the shingles weren't kept up. Steel roof is more expensive up front but in the long run I think it's the best choice. |
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| About what did his place cost o build? |
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| And go with standing seam metal roofing! It has no exposed screw holes to rust out and leak in the future! It is a ad more expensive but NO future maintenance ! |
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Location: High heels in the air... | Depends on where you live...here in north texas you can buy the arena from one of the local manufacturers and sub it out to be erected...Anything wider than 60 goes to steel...there are close outs and repos too...if you buy one "on the ground" you will probably have to buy extra skin and bolts...tear downs are always missing parts so be prepared to be short something...it's 30k cash on average to put one up...arenas start at 80k up...in texas, you need snow load and a minimum of 18 side wall (distance from ground to lowest roof edge) or your arena will be hot!!! I built a pad for 30k...but have not purchased the arena yet...piers will have to be set with cement , no biggie but the cost is there...lights and wiring are not even figured into it...I know a lot lol...have been researching for mine for some time!!! |
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| porky - 2013-12-31 8:32 PM Wood has a lifespan of about 30 years. Steel is way longer..... To give you an idea on cost though I just got a quote for a 120 by 300 clear spam metal with a 30 by 300 lean to on one side and the building with insulation ( not including heat, water, cement, piles or dirt work , or doors) was $850 000 . That was a cheap quote compared to most steel buildings. A 100 by 300 wood was around $500 000
i don/t think you can clear span 100' with wood ? |
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| roanrider - 2014-01-02 4:46 PM 100 x 225' clear span, 16' side walls, 3:12 roof pitch steel building $190,000 erected. Site work, concrete and electric were done by owner.
thatts pretty good i did mine in 1998
itwas about 150,000 everything ligts dirt
160 x200 but clear span 100 16 'wing on eith side |
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