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  That's White "Man" to You
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| We are in preperations to build a barn. I look around and see so many barns that are just used for storage. Would you rather do too much barn than not enough? My "everything I want" version is about $150k but I'd like to keep it around $100k. What are your must haves and what did you spend money on that you never use?
Dual purpose building, wife gets half of the bulding for her wood working business. Right now we are thinking 72' x 48'.
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| Ours is I'm guessing 55x55. But we have 4 large runs and some on the ground hay storage (plus a new loft above the runs). There's an aisle in front of the runs and then our tacking up space and tack room.
It's been a work in progress, the main 24x40 barn was relocated from my inlaws up the road when they put up a new one. From there he added a lean to on each side and off one end. Last year we came off the other side of it with a 35x40 shop that we've concreted and plan to insulate and heat.
The whole under roof area footprint at its longest and widest would be 53x95 or so. It is not square though.
Someday I'll take pictures. We like it. |
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 Guys Just Wanna Have Fun
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Location: OH | Mine is 40 x 160 and I cannot find a place to put the dang lawnmower. IMO---washrack = waste of space, build one outside. It is normally summer when ya spray off anyways. Lotsa water spigots---can never have too many.
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| In my opinion you can never have enough storage for equipment, I would at least build more overhangs than you think you need. We have a 40x 80 shop, 40' overhang that runs the length of it, hay barn the same size, all full of trailers and tractors, shredders, etc. I don't have a wash rack and have never missed it. When I built my current barn I made sure I had room for all the stuff that goes with owning horses. I have a decent size feed room 15 x 10, hay storage for a couple hundred bales and a 20 x 15 storage, 1/2 full of alfalfa, other 1/2 blankets and other horse junk. |
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That's White "Man" to You
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| Good to know on the wash rack. Weather wise we are rarely over 100^ in the summer and rarely colder than 0^ in the winter. What about insulation in the barn?? What about stall dividers, Pre-fab or stickbuilt? |
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Guys Just Wanna Have Fun
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Location: OH | Whiteboy - 2017-06-19 4:37 PM Good to know on the wash rack. Weather wise we are rarely over 100^ in the summer and rarely colder than 0^ in the winter. What about insulation in the barn?? What about stall dividers, Pre-fab or stickbuilt?
I put Tuff-R foam sheets down and metal roofing over top---it is nice but the dang birds have pecked away at it a bunch. Stalla are 10 wide by 12 deep and I got channels that the tongue and groove wood just slides down into to make my stall walls.
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Miracle in the Making
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| Whiteboy - 2017-06-19 3:33 PM We are in preperations to build a barn. I look around and see so many barns that are just used for storage. Would you rather do too much barn than not enough? My "everything I want" version is about $150k but I'd like to keep it around $100k. What are your must haves and what did you spend money on that you never use?
Dual purpose building, wife gets half of the bulding for her wood working business. Right now we are thinking 72' x 48'.
we went with 100by 70 open on 75 then 25 with side for stalls 12x12 with with railing we had plenty of room tractor bushog trailers 2 of them hay about 150 bales we had 7 or 8 head plus i was a fan of leaving them out as much as weather permitted if icy they came up |
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Miracle in the Making
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| Mighty Broke - 2017-06-19 4:43 PM Whiteboy - 2017-06-19 4:37 PM Good to know on the wash rack. Weather wise we are rarely over 100^ in the summer and rarely colder than 0^ in the winter. What about insulation in the barn?? What about stall dividers, Pre-fab or stickbuilt? I put Tuff-R foam sheets down and metal roofing over top---it is nice but the dang birds have pecked away at it a bunch. Stalla are 10 wide by 12 deep and I got channels that the tongue and groove wood just slides down into to make my stall walls.
even with chicken wire they get it |
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Shelter Dog Lover
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| I love my big stalls 15 x 15 out of 2 x 6. No help with insulation, my barn is open concept for the heat we have down here, we don't know what real winter is. |
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Red Hot Cardinal Fan
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| Whiteboy - 2017-06-19 3:37 PM Good to know on the wash rack. Weather wise we are rarely over 100^ in the summer and rarely colder than 0^ in the winter. What about insulation in the barn?? What about stall dividers, Pre-fab or stickbuilt?
I love my stickbuilt stalls, as they were so much more affordable than prefab but they also look good in my opinion. However with my next barn, I will have to do some more thinking on how I want to do them. At a previous barn that I worked for, they had prefabs and the dividers folded back if needed. So 2 12x12 stalls became 1 12x24 foaling stall. In your situation, as I think you have a stallion, I would think that this would be a great feature to have for mares and foals. Or for myself I would have used it when I've been rehabbing a horse, but I didn't have that option. Just something to consider. |
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That's White "Man" to You
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| countrygirl2006 - 2017-06-20 12:06 PM Whiteboy - 2017-06-19 3:37 PM Good to know on the wash rack. Weather wise we are rarely over 100^ in the summer and rarely colder than 0^ in the winter. What about insulation in the barn?? What about stall dividers, Pre-fab or stickbuilt? I love my stickbuilt stalls, as they were so much more affordable than prefab but they also look good in my opinion. However with my next barn, I will have to do some more thinking on how I want to do them. At a previous barn that I worked for, they had prefabs and the dividers folded back if needed. So 2 12x12 stalls became 1 12x24 foaling stall. In your situation, as I think you have a stallion, I would think that this would be a great feature to have for mares and foals. Or for myself I would have used it when I've been rehabbing a horse, but I didn't have that option. Just something to consider.
I really like the idea of having a couple stalls with the folding divider. Good recomendation. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Mine is 36x48 with 14' sidewalls an 11' deep horse porch down one side with walkout doors for every stall. Very open, insulated, big roof vents, and its soooo nice in the summer. I can close the big rollup doors on either end in the winter and block most of the wind. 5 stalls but 1 is double sized. We added a separate shed on the other side from the porch for equipment/trailer storage. I love my setup. The only thing I would change is to put a spigot inside--all my plumbing is outside. I could make do with less, more would be a luxury, what I have is just right for me. |
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Location: the end of the rainbow | Mine is a 36 x 36 mare motel with 24' runs off each stall. It's going to be 117* here today, we need shade & air flow, not insulation. Lol. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | willrodeo4food - 2017-06-20 12:38 PM
Mine is a 36 x 36 mare motel with 24' runs off each stall. It's going to be 117* here today, we need shade & air flow, not insulation. Lol.
Roof insulation keeps it cooler. |
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Nut Case Expert
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | My newest barn is 36 x 60 with a an additional 12' shed on the south side that covers a portion of the 4 runs on that side. Sidewalls are 14' which makes a huge amount of difference in how hot the barn gets here in Okla. it is all steel construction, which was very cost effective for us as we were able to buy the uprights and rafters used. We have 5 12' x 12' stalls, 1 12' x 24' stall and a 12x12 tack room. I use one of the stalls as a feed room. The outside walls are lined with rough-cut 2" x 12" oak boards which are virtually indestructable. Stall fronts and dividers are Priefert. You can usually make a deal to get some discount on Priefers products when you buy in bulk. The bulk of my hay storage in in another barn that is 48 by 50 and also contains a couple of stalls and a drop side that we use as a run in shelter for the horses turned out in pasture. |
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Location: Bandera, TX | Three 4 Luck - 2017-06-20 12:40 PM willrodeo4food - 2017-06-20 12:38 PM Mine is a 36 x 36 mare motel with 24' runs off each stall. It's going to be 117* here today, we need shade & air flow, not insulation. Lol. Roof insulation keeps it cooler.
I agree on the insulation! I asked for it in my barn and my husband noticed the difference so we pulled up the tin on his 4000 sq ft shop and put down large rolls of insulation. The impact was very significant. We live in the TX Hill Country so it gets plenty cold and oh so hot! We built the barn out of cinder block-can work in that on triple digit days, it stays cool. |
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Location: North Dakota | Whiteboy - 2017-06-20 12:15 PM countrygirl2006 - 2017-06-20 12:06 PM Whiteboy - 2017-06-19 3:37 PM Good to know on the wash rack. Weather wise we are rarely over 100^ in the summer and rarely colder than 0^ in the winter. What about insulation in the barn?? What about stall dividers, Pre-fab or stickbuilt? I love my stickbuilt stalls, as they were so much more affordable than prefab but they also look good in my opinion. However with my next barn, I will have to do some more thinking on how I want to do them. At a previous barn that I worked for, they had prefabs and the dividers folded back if needed. So 2 12x12 stalls became 1 12x24 foaling stall. In your situation, as I think you have a stallion, I would think that this would be a great feature to have for mares and foals. Or for myself I would have used it when I've been rehabbing a horse, but I didn't have that option. Just something to consider.
At a place I used to board, they had 4 stalls in the barn which could be converted to 2 foaling stalls. They just had 2x6s (maybe??) set in sliders as walls, that could be removed but just lifting the boards out one by one. I'm probably not describing it very well. Of course, I was taking a picture of my horse and not the barn but you can kinda see. Of course, they hand-made their own stalls.
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| A sliding door going from the stall to the outside. I see alot of barns without and I think it would be nice to separate horses or close during winter. |
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Location: Bandera, TX | I would put a medication and bandage storage room near the treatment area. I hate having to walk back and forth to my tack room. Make sure your lights are cool and bright. Plenty of airflow, ROA is tough on horses that are stalled. If you need super ventilation in your area have a jack-knife wall put in. Lots of electric outlets and water at both ends and the middle. |
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | I would never have insulation put in a barn ever again without first putting chicken wire mesh so the birds can't pick at the insulation.
I got talked into it in my stall barn but I refused in my arena. It does sweat a little bit when the weather is just right. But it's not enough to worry about vs the birds destroying the insulation. |
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