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Location: IL | yankeeredneck - 2015-01-13 3:36 PM Looks like the uprights are anchored to concrete on that modular.
After posting, I was looking closer at the pic and wondered about that. I wouldn't mind having to do concrete for the posts but we definitely cant afford to have a full concrete pad poured or a concrete foundation. |
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Location: South | 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. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | TACKyPaints - 2015-01-14 2:31 PM mruggles - 2015-01-13 3:27 PM i guess you could call mine a modular and its has been great and i have never had an issue..............i went a lot of years with no barn so its very nice to have..:)
m Okay couple questions!
1) Did it cost you an arm and a leg? Because a couple of the modulars I priced out were just as expensive (sometimes more) than a post frame building from a place like FBI or Morton.
2) I refuse to pay to have any sort of concrete poured so, is your barn secured to the ground? I can't tell from your pics. The thought of a barn just "sitting" there scares me! lol
3) Obviously you get cold & snow, do you find it to be secure enough inside from snow/drafts, etc?
4) Who did you order your barn from?
p.s.i priced out every option i could think of and this was by far the cheapest up here...it took them 4 days to put it up and it usually takes them 3 but we got hit by a snowstorm
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | yankeeredneck - 2015-01-14 2:36 PM Looks like the uprights are anchored to concrete on that modular.
if you mean mine...it has no concrete what so ever...
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Location: IL | mruggles - 2015-01-13 3:41 PM TACKyPaints - 2015-01-14 2:31 PM mruggles - 2015-01-13 3:27 PM i guess you could call mine a modular and its has been great and i have never had an issue..............i went a lot of years with no barn so its very nice to have..:)
m Okay couple questions!
1) Did it cost you an arm and a leg? Because a couple of the modulars I priced out were just as expensive (sometimes more) than a post frame building from a place like FBI or Morton.
2) I refuse to pay to have any sort of concrete poured so, is your barn secured to the ground? I can't tell from your pics. The thought of a barn just "sitting" there scares me! lol
3) Obviously you get cold & snow, do you find it to be secure enough inside from snow/drafts, etc?
4) Who did you order your barn from?
p.s.i priced out every option i could think of and this was by far the cheapest up here...it took them 4 days to put it up and it usually takes them 3 but we got hit by a snowstorm
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Wow! Three to four days assembly would be amazing!
Okay, well if it's warm enough where you are then I'd say it should work here in IL. :)
Maybe I'll have to look into steel modulars more closely & do a little more research on them. thanks so much!
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Location: IL | 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.
Where would I go about looking for old chicken house trusses? I have not a clue where to start! lol |
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Location: North Dakota | My Dad, husband and I bought a 24X 96 pole barn and we each took half for $2000 total. (tearing down that building was it's own kind of torture) We scavenged some garage doors and did all of this ourselves. our finished barn is a closed lean 24 x 42 will hold 5 10x 10 stalls (I only feed in them and very rarely keep a horse. with plenty of room for a round bale, 100 squares and a feeding area.) My tack is in a different building closer to the house. It has electricity and the water is 20 feet from the door. I don't think we have $2000 total into this, but, I have to admit we can build almost anything. I've put tin on more buildings than I care to admit. BUT, if you are on a budget, you either need to learn how or go without until you can afford someone else to do it :) It's not real pretty but I love my barn-wish it was twice the size.
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| We're in the process of having one built by DTC Barn Builders. It's a 36x40 and we're adding a 12 ft lean to on the side the slider doors are on. It's just going to have 3 stalls and a tack room so I have room for some square bales on one side. They bid it at 11,600 but we aren't doing the wainscoting.
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | TACKyPaints - 2015-01-14 2:50 PM mruggles - 2015-01-13 3:41 PM TACKyPaints - 2015-01-14 2:31 PM mruggles - 2015-01-13 3:27 PM i guess you could call mine a modular and its has been great and i have never had an issue..............i went a lot of years with no barn so its very nice to have..:)
m Okay couple questions!
1) Did it cost you an arm and a leg? Because a couple of the modulars I priced out were just as expensive (sometimes more) than a post frame building from a place like FBI or Morton.
2) I refuse to pay to have any sort of concrete poured so, is your barn secured to the ground? I can't tell from your pics. The thought of a barn just "sitting" there scares me! lol
3) Obviously you get cold & snow, do you find it to be secure enough inside from snow/drafts, etc?
4) Who did you order your barn from?
p.s.i priced out every option i could think of and this was by far the cheapest up here...it took them 4 days to put it up and it usually takes them 3 but we got hit by a snowstorm
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Okay, well if it's warm enough where you are then I'd say it should work here in IL. :)
Maybe I'll have to look into steel modulars more closely & do a little more research on them. thanks so much!
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Location: IL | newracer - 2015-01-13 3:54 PM We're in the process of having one built by DTC Barn Builders. It's a 36x40 and we're adding a 12 ft lean to on the side the slider doors are on. It's just going to have 3 stalls and a tack room so I have room for some square bales on one side. They bid it at 11,600 but we aren't doing the wainscoting.
Wow! Is that just for the building, labor only, or building & labor? |
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| TACKyPaints - 2015-01-13 3:51 PM
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.
Where would I go about looking for old chicken house trusses? I have not a clue where to start! lol
Chicken house trusses are pretty regional. Here in SW Missouri we see them on Craigslist all the time.
You might search your local Craigslist farm and garden section for trusses and see what turns up. |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | We got lucky with ours. When we bought our current property it had a 30 by 40 foot metal building already on it. Full concrete floor. I did NOT like the idea of them on concrete, but we made do with it. Hubby literally build the entire of the inside, stalls and all, 100 percent by himself. From March 29th of 2013 until June 2013 when I came out with the horses. And with mats down, the concrete has been a blessing. The horses don't seem the least bit bothered by it at all.
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| Right now on our craigslist, there are 2 40ft by 100 foot chicken houses for sale for $5250 each. It's unclear to me if they are already taken apart or not. They are a bit short for horses, but a construction friend of mine says you can put them on a concrete footing to make them taller or build a stem wall (I think is what he called it)
http://springfield.craigslist.org/grq/4844949121.html
Here's a 60 foot long for $3250
http://springfield.craigslist.org/grq/4834750802.html
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Hmmm, good ole' Craigslist. I'll have to look into that and see if I can find any near by!
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Location: IL | Thank so much to everyone who has posted a pic or commented!! I really appreciate it! |
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Location: IL | missroselee - 2015-01-13 6:43 PM We got lucky with ours. When we bought our current property it had a 30 by 40 foot metal building already on it. Full concrete floor. I did NOT like the idea of them on concrete, but we made do with it. Hubby literally build the entire of the inside, stalls and all, 100 percent by himself. From March 29th of 2013 until June 2013 when I came out with the horses. And with mats down, the concrete has been a blessing. The horses don't seem the least bit bothered by it at all.
Wow!! Very lucky!! That's a nice building!!
Unfortunately there were only two building on our property when we moved here. There's an old corn crib that would cost probably just as much to convert as it would to build new. And there was an old barn on the property. Had concrete blocks about 4-5 ft up and then wood rest of the way. Had a HUGE loft and would have been a nice barn had the prior owners maintained it. The roof had a huge hole in it for many years and the rain and elements had rotted the trusses. On top of that, the owners had decided to try and convert it to a body shop and cut through important supporting beams and had things dangeroulsy "rigged up." So yet another building that would have required a small fortune to make useable. We just recently knocked the barn down this August to make room for a new building. But I suppose that's what ya gotta work with when you purchase a foreclosure home. On the plus side we got a place in the country, by a dirt road (perfect to exercise horses down), on 5 acres for an incredible price. So, silver lining I suppose! |
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| TACKyPaints - 2015-01-13 3:59 PM newracer - 2015-01-13 3:54 PM We're in the process of having one built by DTC Barn Builders. It's a 36x40 and we're adding a 12 ft lean to on the side the slider doors are on. It's just going to have 3 stalls and a tack room so I have room for some square bales on one side. They bid it at 11,600 but we aren't doing the wainscoting. Wow! Is that just for the building, labor only, or building & labor?
Building and labor but we will do the inside ourselves, build the stalls, wiring, concrete, etc. |
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Location: IL | newracer - 2015-01-13 9:29 PM TACKyPaints - 2015-01-13 3:59 PM newracer - 2015-01-13 3:54 PM We're in the process of having one built by DTC Barn Builders. It's a 36x40 and we're adding a 12 ft lean to on the side the slider doors are on. It's just going to have 3 stalls and a tack room so I have room for some square bales on one side. They bid it at 11,600 but we aren't doing the wainscoting. Wow! Is that just for the building, labor only, or building & labor?
Wow!! That's an amazing price!! Wish they did work in our area! :( |
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| I have two of these buildings. This is the first one that I had built. It is actually 2 two car carports together. It cost about $2000. It has room for 3- 12 X 12 stalls but I only put up two stalls in it the other one has 2-10 X 12 stalls in it. It is HOT here and I did not want walls but you can have them closed in any way you want.
The second one I had built in another pasture is a two car carport which is actually almost as big as the first one. Cost about $1000. I found a guy on craigslist to build it so much cheaper.
The first building withstood hurricane winds of around 80 mph with absolutely no damage. Who in the heck would have thought we would have had a hurricane in NORTH EAST TX??? I hope I never have to go through that again.
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| TACKyPaints - 2015-01-13 2:08 PM We've discussed buying a small pole barn kit but my husband thinks doing the trusses will be a pain....any opinions on that for those of you that built your own?
We built our own and it was a LOT of work - the next time, I would at LEAST buy a nail gun. We hammered all the nails by HAND. We had a 30 X 40 pole barn kit from Sutherlands. |
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