snow damage

To the south of us lots of cattle,hay,and machine shed roofs collapsed.A great many found out that they had no coverage for ice or snow damage.Not only will they have to stand putting their own shed back up,they also found out that any damage to machinery-vehicles-etc in the shed also wasnt covered.Can you imagine a $50,000 shed falling on a $200,000 combine and its all yours to fix.?

Most people have inadequate insurance on their farm buildings.I was only covered for $13,000 on a 64' by 88' machine shed.I raised it to $40,000 and for $31 extra got snow and ice coverage.

An older couple was in ahead of me one day at the insurance agent..They had $8000 coverage on a 45' by 90' Morton building built in the 1970's that would cost nearly $40,000 to replace.

Everyone,check your insurance policies over.Dont find out the hard way that you arent covered!

I saw a crack in a rafter in our 45x72 Morton shed.

Went and borrowed two space heaters from neighbors and had two of my own.

Fired them all up and in about 30 mins it all slid off in one big swoop.

And guys are talking about hanging engines from the bottoms of those rafters. Don't think I would.

Gary

But on open raftered buildings it works great.

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I've got a camp that doesn't have a steep enough pitch for the amount of snow we get. Every fall we shore up inside to keep it from falling in.
When it was built in the '60s my great uncle would go out after every storm and shovel it off. He continued doing that until he died in his 60's...

I live too far away to drive up and shovel it off every time it snows.

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