Hay barn size

FarmboyBill · #1 04/19/10, 03:46 PM

Whats your guesstamate of what size a barn should be that is 26ft wide, to hold a 1000 bales of hay up to the rafters on a 10ft high walls. Im guessing 30/40ft.

whatrset · #2 04/19/10, 03:55 PM

Whatever size you choose, make sure you add at least 20% for inefficient stacking or having that extra 200 bales.

carasel · #3 04/19/10, 04:20 PM

With a 14"x18"x48" bale. You would have room for 1011.5 bales. With a 30' wide building.
Go with the 40' if you can.

Wolf mom · #4 04/19/10, 05:24 PM

I get 200 - 100# bales easy in an 8' wide, 8" high and 40 ft long steel container. Dunno if this helps....

huisjen · #5 04/19/10, 05:57 PM

To the rafters, or to the collar ties?

If to the rafters, what roof pitch? Gable or gambral?

Okay, a 26' wide building is going to be, functionally, about 25' wide inside. For 18" wide bales, that's 16 bales wide, plus some slop. At 14" high, you'll stack them 8 bales tall to 112", or, collar ties permitting, 9 tall to 126", but that top rank might be 15 bales wide. Splitting the difference, 8.5 x 16 is 136 bales. You'll need 8 bale lengths to get over 1000 bales. If your bales are 48" long (mine end up closer to 42") then you'll need the building to be 32' long.

Dan

FarmboyBill · #6 04/19/10, 07:49 PM

It has to be 26ft wide, and 30?40ft long. Im talking to shere the roof plate startswhere the sidewalls join the rafters. Not includeing the rafter area will give me the surplus as was mentioned in another post.

I have never intentionally made 100lbs bale. I have easily made bales much heavier and longer when I baled green Haygrazer that was high and thick, and I didnt have a crusher to run through it, and get it dry, Im used to 40l/50lb bale, and thats what im going to bale them at.