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| Talk to me about your experiences. We recently bought a new property and are in the process of fixing up the out buildings. We just finished our little barn, only a 2 box stall and an alley, so no room for a tack room. There is an old chicken coop (picture long and low building) that he previous owners were using as a hay shed. We want to scrape the building out and frame out a side for use as a tack room. My only concern being the possibility of a fire. It’s a wooden building with a metal roof, and old wiring. We have already ripped out the wiring and are debating what to do next. Has anyone ever had a fire in a hay shed? Or used a building as hay/tack storage? |
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stall barn.
Is there an open side or only open on each end of alley way ...
is roof peaked or a shedrow type roof ..
and if you want door to tackroom in or out of the weather??
Don't use the old electrical wire... |
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| Diagram of the barn is irrelevant, as we have no issues with that. Maybe a better title would have been “Hay Shed/Tack Room Fires”. More so looking for experiences if anyone has used a hay shed and tack room combo. As anyone who has been through the 4H program knows, the possibility of fire whenever there’s a large quantity of hay in an enclosed building has been drummed into us for a long time |
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Location: OH. IO | I don't know too many people that store their hay seperatly,so if it makes you feel any better,most people around here store their hay,tack and horses in the same barn.i would say that's very similar to hay and tack! Mostly be smart about it,no smoking etc.Im thinking you're doing ok because ide much rather loose my hay and tack over my horses:) |
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| Tundra - 2018-05-07 6:29 AM
Diagram of the barn is irrelevant, as we have no issues with that. Maybe a better title would have been “Hay Shed/Tack Room Fires”. More so looking for experiences if anyone has used a hay shed and tack room combo. As anyone who has been through the 4H program knows, the possibility of fire whenever there’s a large quantity of hay in an enclosed building has been drummed into us for a long time
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| BARRELHORSE USA - 2018-05-08 2:31 AM Tundra - 2018-05-07 6:29 AM Diagram of the barn is irrelevant, as we have no issues with that. Maybe a better title would have been “Hay Shed/Tack Room Fires”. More so looking for experiences if anyone has used a hay shed and tack room combo. As anyone who has been through the 4H program knows, the possibility of fire whenever there’s a large quantity of hay in an enclosed building has been drummed into us for a long time ******************************************************* ******************************************************* Before you pick up saw, hammer and nails ... YOU MUST HAVE A PLAN!! NUFF SAID....
The barn is already built! Pay attention.
We have a barn built in the 1920s. It's quite large, 100% wood interior with Tin roof. Our horses used to be housed in it, until parts of the stalls started falling apart. We still store around 400 small bales in it. It used to be wired, but we disconnected it when we put the horses in a new barn.
The fire you are speaking about would be spontaneous combustion from hay that is baled too wet and gets hot. While it's a risk, it's small, and if your hay person is smart and bales dry, the risk is even less. Hopefully your little barn has decent ventilation where the air can move through it as well. We open the back door to ours so the breeze can blow through when we get new hay. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Tundra - 2018-05-06 6:57 PM Talk to me about your experiences. We recently bought a new property and are in the process of fixing up the out buildings. We just finished our little barn, only a 2 box stall and an alley, so no room for a tack room. There is an old chicken coop (picture long and low building) that he previous owners were using as a hay shed. We want to scrape the building out and frame out a side for use as a tack room. My only concern being the possibility of a fire. It’s a wooden building with a metal roof, and old wiring. We have already ripped out the wiring and are debating what to do next. Has anyone ever had a fire in a hay shed? Or used a building as hay/tack storage? Yep fires happen, just use common sense, as long as its not near the horses area I would not worry about it, But I would be more concern about rats and mice getting to my tack. I have a hay barn, store all my hay and my feed in there but no tack, having a tack room next to your hay/feed is not a good ideal since rats and mice love your hay to live in and make tunnels under hay, having a tack room next to your hay or feed room would make a ideal home for the rats and mice and they love to chew up leather and make nests amongst your blankets pads and what ever else you store in there. Dont make a tack room next to your hay your going to regert it later down the road since this is a old chicken coop.
Now if this was a new barn going up it would not bother me to store my tack in a nice separate room built for my tack that is seal tight so no rats or mice can get in and then have a hay and feed area in the same barn as the horses, but since this is a old chicken coop nope on having a tack room in it..
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