How Big is Your Barn?

[moonwolf]

What is the size of your Barn? Is it one story, or more?
What is the way you use your barn mostly?
How are the walls, and the maximum ceiling height?
What materials have you used inside to section off for pens or whatever else you are using it for?
What does the floor in your barn consist of?

[Ravenlost]

Our barn is 40x40'. It has a large loft. There are six stalls, a feed room and a storage room downstairs.

We use it for hay and feed storage. We also use it for the horses in bad weather.

The walls are made of pine boards inside and concrete boards outside (we learned the hard way that it's not a good idea to use concrete board with horses). I'm not sure the ceiling heights.

The stalls inside are sectioned off with pine board.

The center hall of the barn, the storage and feed rooms are concrete. The stalls have dirt floors.

During construction three years ago:

[KCM]

Mine is 50' x 80'. The main section in the center is one story and probably 30' high. The floor is wood and earth.
The end sections are two story, with oak-partitioned stalls on the one dirt-floored end and cattle stancions on the cement-floored other end. The cattle stancions are going to be pulled out this year and will turn into a tractor garage and workshop. Thats because the main middle section is going to have new stalls installed for horses and I won't have room there anymore to park the tractor. These stalls will be sectioned with wood partitions.

[APPway]

1.What is the size of your Barn? Is it one story, or more?
Our Barn is 60x140 It is a 2 story it was built in 1927

2.What is the way you use your barn mostly?
Top is used for hay storage (it is also 60x140) we square bale our alfalfa. There is also 2 grain rooms in the upper level. there are 4 hay shoots so I can drop down bales.
The grain rooms we use for Brooder rooms for poultry

3.How are the walls, and the maximum ceiling height?
It is all wood with a sheet metal skin on the outside
The walls are wood and the ceiling is 10 feet tall I believe

4.What materials have you used inside to section off for pens or whatever else you are using it for?
We have 12 stalls in the lower level they are built with 2x10 planks and have metal pipe gates 2 of them do have wood gates and the stud stall has a metal door with bars halfway up.

5.What does the floor in your barn consist of?
The floor is concret in the stalls (which I Hate) and the isle ways are a square like cobble stone stuff (which I also hate). But I have to say I do love our barn and the only thing I would really change is one door is a sliding door and I would rather have a 2 piece dor their.
Guess thats about it

APPway

[rambler]

'Here' a barn is for livestock & their feed only. A 'shed' is for tools & machinery.

So, the barn:

40 x 90 I think. Bottom floor is dug into a sidehill, native rock & pre-concrete limestone slurry to hold the rocks together. NE side has 3 doors to the 3 pens. Concrete floors, each pen slightly sunken to the alleyways between pens. Big, med, & small pens. SW side of the barn is 85% under ground. Ceiling is about 8-10 foot clearance. To drive in, 7'10" door, so basically just under 8 foot clearence.

Upstairs is the drive in hay mow. The alley down the middle id double 1x planks to hold the hayrack. The N side is 2/3 of the barn for hay. The S side is 1/3 of the barn for straw. Each side is floored with single 1" planks. It is about 20, maybe bit more tot he peak of the mow.

The entire lower walls are stone. The entire upstairs is 1" wood plank vertical shiplap siding. The mow walls are 11' high, with a simple ptiched roof over. (No hip, gambreal, round, or other odd design....) Was originally wood shingles, with tab lock asphault shingle put over. When young dad threw me yp ther to peel the asphault off & we put metal roof on it.

The frame would be like a timber frame, no nails or bolts used. (Nails for floors & such of course - I mean just not for any of the frame structure. Wood peg. All the wood is southern yellow pine. All the rock was brought in from 3-4 miles away across the pond in winter, pulled by horses. Was built, I think, in 1909. Could be off 10 years or so, but think it was '09.

The downstairs pens have been revised several times, used to be a horse area, milking stantion area, calf area. Now just 3 pens. Two walk in doors were added over the years. There is a ~20x 110 foot feeding platform added outside on the doors side.

Also a 10x15 feed room connects the (unused bad) silo to the barn. Feed can be dumped in through a tile manhole by the hay mow door, and falls into the feed storage bunk.

Water comes in at about 5 lbs of pressure from the bussied cistern up the hill a ways. Today the cistern is feed from the deep well; used to be fed from the windmill & shallow well, and cistern feed the house as well.

Did I leave anything out?

--->Paul

[DaleK]

Tiestall barn is 2-story, 70'x160' with 62 tiestalls head to head in the centre, 7 pens along the north wall, 7 pens along the south wall and 5 large heifer pens in a leanto on the south side beside the milkroom. Ceiling varies from 6-7' and is too low by far. Floor is all cement and the pen dividers are either welded 2" pipe or heavy 14' steel gates. Freestall barn is 50'x140' with 83 freestalls and a drive in -back out feed alley. Parlour/handling area/milkhouse under construction is 44'x88'. Hay barn for dry round bales is 40'x60'. Old bank barn at my father's down the road is 30'x70' 2 story used for smaller machinery. New machinery shed about to start construction is 50'x120' with a shop at one end. Current shop is 32'x25' with a 13'x32' leanto for a woodshed and will be converted for seed/pesticide storage.

[Irish Pixie]

Originally Posted by moonwolf

What is the size of your Barn? Is it one story, or more?

40 x 90, I think. It's two story older (1920) dairy barn.

What is the way you use your barn mostly?

Hay storage in the mow, we also keep chickens in walled off rooms in a side room off the mow.

How are the walls, and the maximum ceiling height?

Downstairs has to be 12' ceilings, the mow is huge 100' in the center. The walls are part fieldstone on the bank side of the barn, but some spots have been replaced with cinder block and concrete.

What materials have you used inside to section off for pens or whatever else you are using it for? Hemlock for stalls, and the stalls that have wood floors are also of hemlock.

What does the floor in your barn consist of?

The foaling stall (15x 16) is wood floored, both the smaller horse stalls are dirt, and the old gelding's stall is concrete. The aisle is concrete as well. I hate the concrete/dirt in the stalls because I have to use large amounts of shavings. We have two more foaling stalls, and a regular stall yet to build and rebuild the other stalls and put in wood floors.

Stacy

[haypoint]

100x100, two story over the livestock area and machine shop area
Central part is largest, 36x100 is hay storage, that part has 20' sidewalls, 6"x6" posts every 5'. The rest has 8' and 12' ceilings.
Stalls are 2x12 Oak and Maple on the lower half. The upper half is galv. metal hog panels in 15' lengths.
Floor is gravel in most of it, we put pallets down to keep the hay from spoiling. Livestock area is concrete with a litter carrier on overhead track to move the manure out easily.

[Karin L]

Originally Posted by moonwolf

What is the size of your Barn? Me thinks its about 36 ft x 36 ft (rough estimate)
Is it one story, or more? one story and a half
What is the way you use your barn mostly? For shelter for sick cattle, and for storage (top level is used for storage)
How are the walls, and the maximum ceiling height? Can't say much about the walls except that they're wood, holey here and there, but still holding up strong...I'm guessing they're made from poplar wood (the only hardwood found around here). Maximum ceiling height, for the ground floor is 8 ft.: Top, over 12 ft.
What materials have you used inside to section off for pens or whatever else you are using it for? Nothin's been sectioned off.
What does the floor in your barn consist of? Good ol', dried up, dusty cow poop. Of course there's wood floor underneath, about 6-12 inches underneath all that fecal accumulation.

[Freeholder]

I think I have a serious case of barn envy right now, LOL! But, if we built a 'real' barn here it would raise our property taxes beyond what we could afford to pay. So, I'll make do with what I have.

I have several 'barns'.
Doe shelter: Costco carport shelter, 10' X 20'
Buck shelter: cattle panel hoophouse, 8' X 10 1/2'
Ag. shelter, to-be doe and kid shelter when I finish building the pen: 12' X 24'
Metal shed which is to become a greenhouse, plus rabbit housing and maybe chicken housing under the rabbits: 10' X 13'
And, when the does get moved into the Ag. shelter, I'll take their Costco carport, and combine it's frame with the frame of the one that blew down a while back, and make one 10' X 33' (approximately) shelter which will house the bucks and the hay.
Then the cattle panel hoop house (that the bucks are in now) will become a second greenhouse.

I use them for animal and feed housing primarily.

Construction is tubing frames with tarps over (most of them). The shed is thin metal sheeting on a metal frame -- the roof was severely damaged about a year ago when a chunk of ice fell out of the sky and landed on it, so I will remove the roof, attach hoops of PVC pipe, and fasten greenhouse plastic over it.

The Costco shelter is about ten feet high at the center; the Ag. shelter is 12' high; the cattle-panel hoop house is only about 6' high; and the metal shed is squashed, LOL! The walls are around five feet at the side wall, but once I get hoops over it, it will be quite a bit higher, maybe 11' or 12' at the peak.

For sectioning off pens I mostly use cattle panels. I use pallets for gates, or short chunks of cattle panel.

Floors are all dirt, with deep bedding in the pens (else the goats would be standing in water half the winter -- their current location is a low spot. New location should drain better.).

Actually, except for needing more feed and hay storage space, these 'temporary' shelters do work quite well. The goats are all doing great in them. The only major hassle is that goats, being chewers, are pretty quick to destroy flimsy tarps. I'm hoping that the heavier (and expensive) cover on the Ag. shelter will last a lot longer.

Kathleen

[RLStewart]

Our barn is 60' x 60'. The haymow is over 36' x 60' with 12' shedrows on both sides. It is built entirely of wood with most of it hardwood inside, hemlock outside. It has 7 horse stalls made of hardwood with hog wire on the top half of the fronts, feed room, tack room, wash stall. The shedrows are tractor storage, sawdust storage and run-ins for horses. We also have a 46'x50' metal sided building that we use for an indoor arena. All of the floors are packed clay although we will probably cement the tackroom and feedroom floors someday and maybe asphalt the aisle. Oh and the ceilings are 10' in the main part of the barn and higher in the shedrows and arena area. Not sure how high the haymow ceiling is but its up there.

[ponyboy123]

I haVE 10 barns, 250' long 30' wide. 1006 mink cages in each.Also we have a 70' x 40' old barn used for bedding and machines

[highlands]

Zero square feet - We don't have a barn. All the livestock are outdoors although they can go into open sheds or dens if they like - they don't.

Cheers

-Walter
Sugar Mountain Farm
in the mountains of Vermont
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[oz in SC]

Originally Posted by moonwolf

What is the size of your Barn?

30'x36'.

Originally Posted by moonwolf

Is it one story, or more?

Two story.

Originally Posted by moonwolf

What is the way you use your barn mostly?

Well the upstairs will be where we live and the downstairs is .....anything we want it to be.

Originally Posted by moonwolf

How are the walls, and the maximum ceiling height?

Outside walls are sawmill lumber,lap siding 1x8 maybe.The ceiling height is 10' upstairs and I 'think' 10' down,although it may be less.

Originally Posted by moonwolf

What does the floor in your barn consist of?

Concrete.

[Jim S.]

What is the size of your Barn?

40x60

Is it one story, or more?

Two. Large hay loft (holds 1,000-plus squares), with the door converted so I can load round bales up there with my front end loader.

What is the way you use your barn mostly?

Goats occupy one shed end, equipment storage, hay storage. I have a 1951 GMC 5-window pickup in the middle bay.

How are the walls, and the maximum ceiling height?

Ceiling is 10 feet on first floor, I dunno upstairs but would guess 18-20 feet at peak.

What materials have you used inside to section off for pens or whatever else you are using it for?

The barn is almost 70 years old, and was built of oak sawmilled off the place, built on a concrete foundation that comes up a couple feet off the ground in most places. Oak planks section it off, and it has a cob corn crib in it that I would like to disassemble to make more space.

What does the floor in your barn consist of?

Dirt. Best barn floor ever, IMHO.