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Andrew Kappers

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In a few years i was planning on putting up a shop for restoring my tractors and implements. I need enough room for at least a 203 sized combine and want to have a car lift in a corner for my pickup and car. Door size would have to be wide enough to allow a 450 with 4-row cultivators to pass through. I was planning on cementing and adding floor heat with a second story area for parts and extra storage. What size would you guys recommended. I was thinking about a 40 x 60 but not sure if I need that much length. How high would you recommend. Would need to allow a mounted corn picker in. Thanks for the help.
 
I have a 32X32 and a 16X40 and between the 2 of them I still do not have enough room to park my tractors let alone the machines. I also have a shop that is I do not remember but big enough to a tandem axle dump truck and like I said still not enough room. So if you think a 40X60 is big enough build a 60X80 instead and only heat say 1/3 of it and even then you will run out of space yesterday
 
I have an 80X80 shed that is part of my 80x280 machine shed. I have semis and large equipment.
I would recommend a 50x60 It isnt that much money to go from a 40 ft wide building to a 50 but a big price jump from 50 to 60. you will be glad you put in floor heat. I did and I love it.
If your going to have a vehicle hoist make it have its own seperate overhead door.
 
Just double what ya thing will be good and when a couple years go by ya just might have enpough room to get two tractors in and maybe enough room to do and oil change on the pickup .
 
I would personally build a 50x70x16. That way you have some extra room on the sides and enough height to lift a car and small pickup. Put the hoist in the corner with its own 8x10 door. put a 24x14 door in the end. In a year or less after you build you"ll wish it was twice as big-serious. This is a nice size shop and you can always add a shed later for the storage. I would recomend radiant heat. In floor on a 35* + day won"t cool fast enough and will roast you out. Overdo on lighting as well, its worth every penny.
 
I have a 40 X 60 X 12 and I'm thinking I wouldn't have room for the activity you're talking about. I will honestly say that I have NEVER heard anybody say, "I built too big of a shed."
 
I just put up a 40x60x16, and it is already too small. I did put warm floors in and would do that again in a heartbeat.
 
When I was planning my shed I found it helpful to draw the dimensions of the building on graph paper and then trace in the "foot print" of the equipment that I wanted to store or repair.
That gave me an idea of how much space I needed to move the equipment in and out, door placement ,Etc.
You mentioned you wanted to have a storage loft and car lift therefore I would reccomend a 16' sidewall.
As others have mentioned you you cannot build the barn too big ,but there comes a point.
I believe that if you pay attention to the way the doors are placed and the number of doors you want that 40X60 is a nice size. However 10 foot wider makes a big difference moving equipment in and out.
I hope you find this information helpful and god luck with your building project
 
Doesnt matter how big or small the shed size they are never big enough or enough tools a buddy built a 60x80 and 2 years later built another one just like it next to it. Good Luck Kenny
 
You put a combine and tractor with a mounted picker in there it s over half full . You ll have to shoehorn your 450 and cult. in there . You have to remember in a yr. you wont be able to get 5 ft. to a wall that knocks it down to a 30x50 but build what you can afford and do it right . a 10x10 is better than none
 
Do as Stuart says--go with the length if you have room--40 wide is a lot of usable space- width-wise. Put in 20 foot doors. We put up a 42 by 80 in 1986 & should have put up 2. The price has doubled since then.
My cousin put up a 70 by 100 & the trusses & bracing look like a lumber yard up there. That is where the extra cost comes from with the wide sizes. Build what you can afford.
 
There are only 2 limiting factors when it comes to what size to build a shed. How much you can spend and the spot where you put it. If you have the room then the only limiting factor is money.
 
Thanks for the help. The shed is going to be only be used as a shop. When the funds catch back up again, I was going to put up a seperate shed with lean-tos on each side for storage. My plan is to collect IH tractors and equipment from the 20's up to the 60's. Since im only 22 i will have quite a little time to save up and get some nice sheds and nice looking machinery for my "museum".
 
Then go as high as possible. The higher the sides are the more leanto you can add on and still maintain an appropriate roof slope.
 
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