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Location: Tenn. | Our barn is no where near done but we do have a roof on it so that is a plus! Barn is 36 x 60 with a 12 x 60 shed coming off the side, we plan on having (4) 12 x 32 runs on the shed side. Husband got a quote from different builders in our area and the cheapest was $13,000 to get it right where it is in pictures (I don't have a photo with metal on the roof for some reason). So we decided to just build it ourselves and as of right now we only have $6000 into it. Hopefully will have metal going up in the next few weeks. My husband is quite the handy man, he doesn't give his self enough credit! 
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Location: IL | Wow! Love seeing everyone's barns! Thank you so much for sharing them with me! Very much appreciated! 
I'm all for trying to build one ourselves but I don't think I'm going to sell my hubby on the idea :/ Pfft! Lol
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Location: Louisiana | trobertson - 2015-01-13 3:41 PM We bought old Chicken house trusses (steel) and built ours that way. We built a 40x60 barn at a $125 per truss totalling 12 trusses. That is not counting the tin or the lumber. It maybe something you consider.
At my mom's we used the same for trusses. We used drill stem pipe to gain more height-that we traded a FREE horse for! We bought tin for the roof and sides, leaving about a 2 foot gap for airflow-it's HOT in LA. Our stalls are wood built out of bulk roughcut lumber bundles from a sawmill a couple hours away. Super cheap. My grandpa built all 7 stalls (we had 7 horses and my mom refused to have an extra stall-she's no idiot LOL). We have a feed/tack room with rubber mates put down as a floor. We also built the whole thing up with a clay pad. |
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Location: NC | dashnlotti - 2015-01-15 12:46 AM trobertson - 2015-01-13 3:41 PM We bought old Chicken house trusses (steel) and built ours that way. We built a 40x60 barn at a $125 per truss totalling 12 trusses. That is not counting the tin or the lumber. It maybe something you consider. At my mom's we used the same for trusses. We used drill stem pipe to gain more height-that we traded a FREE horse for! We bought tin for the roof and sides, leaving about a 2 foot gap for airflow-it's HOT in LA. Our stalls are wood built out of bulk roughcut lumber bundles from a sawmill a couple hours away. Super cheap. My grandpa built all 7 stalls (we had 7 horses and my mom refused to have an extra stall-she's no idiot LOL). We have a feed/tack room with rubber mates put down as a floor. We also built the whole thing up with a clay pad.
For those of you that converted chicken houses how did you connect the leg extensions to get extra hight? Do you have any pictures? Thanks |
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Location: MS | dashnlotti - 2015-01-15 12:46 AM
trobertson - 2015-01-13 3:41 PM We bought old Chicken house trusses (steel) and built ours that way. We built a 40x60 barn at a $125 per truss totalling 12 trusses. That is not counting the tin or the lumber. It maybe something you consider.
At my mom's we used the same for trusses. We used drill stem pipe to gain more height-that we traded a FREE horse for! We bought tin for the roof and sides, leaving about a 2 foot gap for airflow-it's HOT in LA. Our stalls are wood built out of bulk roughcut lumber bundles from a sawmill a couple hours away. Super cheap. My grandpa built all 7 stalls (we had 7 horses and my mom refused to have an extra stall-she's no idiot LOL). We have a feed/tack room with rubber mates put down as a floor. We also built the whole thing up with a clay pad.
We also bought used chicken house trusses (steel) and put used tin on the roof. Then new tin on the sides etc. My husband planned on doing it all himself but just didn't have time so we paid somebody to do it. We haven't gotten the inside finished yet.
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Location: MS | Here's one before we put the sides on. Obviously, I wasn't taking a picture of the barn...
ETA: Got it resized.
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| DashNSpeckles - 2015-01-15 8:49 AM
Here's one before we put the sides on.
ETA: I can't get my picture small enough.
http://www.shrinkpictures.com
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Location: MS | bennie1 - 2015-01-15 8:57 AM
DashNSpeckles - 2015-01-15 8:49 AM
Here's one before we put the sides on.
ETA: I can't get my picture small enough.
http://www.shrinkpictures.com
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Location: South of Canada and North of Mexico | I live in northern MN and built a barn when we first got our land, its a 40x36 with a 16x36 upstairs, went with a local contractor and am very happy with it. We paid 23K for it put up, we did the insualtion and stalls ourselves, no telling how much we have in it now, but its been a process over the last few years. My horses come in for grain, I used it for 1.5 months while my horse was on stall rest, but it doesnt get much more use than that, as far as horses go. We have a 12x16 3 sided lean to, we used scrap plywood for the walls and bought new tin for the roof, the horses use it to get our of the wind and do fine. I do blanket my horses up here.
This was while it was being built or was "completed".
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Location: NC | bump |
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Location: IL | HorsesNHarleys - 2015-01-16 10:30 AM bump
Thanks for the bump! :)
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