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 Buttered Noodles Snacker
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Location: NC | Hoping to buy a place soon and will need to build a barn. I am thinking maybe a 4 stall barn with a tack room and possibly a wash area. We have three horses now. May start with a shedrow style with the possiblilty of adding on later. but not sure.... I live in NC so weather isn;t too too terrible summer or winter. Any building or money saving tips would be great!!! also please share any pictures of your DIY barns!!! |
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Location: Kentucky | Here is mine, we finished up in February. It has water and electric. Three stalls, but the two big stalls can be broken down to make 5 total stalls. The only money saving tips is that you will be building it yourself, and to shop around for the wood and metal. Get prices on any company around you. I got my gates on sale at Rural King during Black Friday, and used electric conduit for the stall fronts.
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Location: Arkansas | I have seen a couple of setups where they had taken the portable car sheds (one for each horse) and cemented them in the ground, side by side (shedrow) and made runs using panels from them. Maybe someone has a picture of what I am talking about. It was very neat. Each horse had shade and it wasn't too time consuming or expensive. |
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Buttered Noodles Snacker
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Location: NC |
Thanks. Any tips on building an A frame roof?? We have only ever built run in sheds with a slanted roof.... |
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Buttered Noodles Snacker
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Location: NC | Anyone else??? |
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 Cyber World Challenged
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Location: My Own Little World | If you start with a shed row, then you can eventually put another shed row facing it and a raised center to complete a full barn |
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Location: PNW | We recently revamped part of our shearing barn to include four stalls and a tackroom with large alley for tying.
I weld, so we bought all the steel and I fabricated the fronts instead of buying them from a company (like Priefert or Ramm). We used 1/4 inch channel to build the door and wall frames, with 1.5 inch steel tubing to make the grate on the front of the door.
We had 2x6 Douglas Fir milled up and tongue/grooved to put in the frames. Each corner is anchored by a 4x4 pressure treated column sunk into the ground with concrete. My metal frames are then bolted to those. We made the walls 8ft high from floor of the stall to the top of the metal frame. Each stall has a lift of rock fines and then is rubber matted.
For the rolling aspect of the door, I THINK we ordered the hardware and parts online - and it was actually more expensive than I imagined it would be.
I'm posting from my phone, and can't figure out how to put pictures on here. If somebody would give me their email I'd sure send them some pictures so they could post them on here. |
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Location: Where cold is the normal | This is NOT my barn or website but I think what alot of you are talking about is the car port barn like this.
http://www.mulligansrun.com/ourbarn.php |
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Location: Deep South |
6X7 Stalls???? That is TINY! |
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Location: Four Corners Colorado | BamaCanChaser - 2014-05-17 8:57 AM 6X7 Stalls???? That is TINY!
They are for mini's |
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| Just a few tibbits..
Use scissor trusses to get that vaulted look. Why- makes it look big AND gives more ventilation
Use standing seam metal- why? - all screws are covered- never any leakage or maintence
Use hurricane clips everywhere you can- why? Ties it all in together
Use an expert excavator - why? Foundation is everything! A building pad is the first defense against everything!
That's a start - Ha ha! Oh and build it as tall as possible- makes it much more versatile ! |
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Buttered Noodles Snacker
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Location: NC | rodeorun68 - 2014-05-16 8:33 PM If you start with a shed row, then you can eventually put another shed row facing it and a raised center to complete a full barn
I think we might do this. Or maybe start with a pole barn and then piece by piece add stalls and close it in.. |
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Location: Southern IL somewhere between KY and MO | I know the one thing we will be doing is making the doors big enough that my hubby can get into the stall with the tractor for good clean outs. At least that is what he is telling me he is going to do LOL |
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  Northern Chocolate Queen
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Location: ND | Here is what we did. We did everything ourselves so saved a ton of money. I do kinda wish we've have built stalls right away as it'd be nice not to have to use pannels. But at the same time it's really handy to be able to tear the pannels down quick & then I have a place to work colts.
https://www.facebook.com/sara.erhardtschank/media_set?set=a.1154062345135.24498.1634981968&type=3
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Buttered Noodles Snacker
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Location: NC |
Thanks Sarah!!! How big is your barn it looks huge!! |
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