Grain bin made into chicken coop

Thermopkt,

Yea, what's with chickens and Styrofoam/foam? Leave a cooler outside, expect a hole pecked in it. Fill a hole in a building with fun foam (expanding foam-DH has fun) chickens peck it. I tell them no, they do not listen.

Oh, I also know someone out this way who dismantled a small one, took it home and mostly buried it to make a really cool root cellar.

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We are in north east Colorado. Summer gets very hot with bright sun. Winters can get into negative temps. Very windy too. We used 2 of the bins and had no issues. We started with a dozen or so and at one time were up to about 75 chickens. We put shred paper or wood shavings on floor.

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Small ones like that which might be 18' diameter are hard to sell. Farmers like the bigger ones.

I have helped put them up but have not torn one down. Putting up or taking down is an interesting process because you are always standing on the ground. You first bolt one round section together and then put on the roof. With 3 evenly spaced special jacks... you raise it up just enough to bolt on another ring .... then jack up and add another.

no scaffolding needed

I assume taking down would be simply a reverse process

That is a very neat idea! I wish it was more hilly here, I want a root cellar. I think I'll either have to dig one or build my own hill.


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Yeah I think the smaller ones are around the 18'. I'll measure them come spring when they are empty. I'm not sure if the farmer has emptied them completely yet.

That isn't at all how I imagined the process of assembling them. Very interesting.

@1sttimemom What size were the bins you used?

~MrsE~

Three jacks on a small one .... larger bins require more jacks

Great ideas!!
A friend was wanting the grain bins off his property because he didn't want to pay taxes on them. He was giving them away. We took one, but paid to have it hauled and put back up on our property as we farm and use it to store our grain.
He also found out that even though the bin itself was now gone, because the concrete pad was still there, he still had to pay taxes on it. Not sure if it might be that way for you, counties differ. In the county north of us, if you have one of those little out buildings built on skids and can be moved, you still have to pay a tax on it.
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We did sell one of our larger bins. It was a real pain. Took the buyer forever to dismantle and haul off. Plus really you don't get a huge amount of $$ for them due to people hating to move them. I would not be able to put up a building of near that size for the $$ I got. I found using them for chicken coops a good thing for us. We also used them to shelter goats and one of the larger ones we raised 5 feeder pigs in over the winter one year! And they make real good water proof storage. I suppose if your climate is very humid it might not be as good.

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That is interesting. I don't know if we pay taxes on them or not. I've tried looking it up and I'm not finding anything. Although, it could be that I'm just not understanding what I'm reading.


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We do get very humid in the summer at times. I guess I'll just have to spend this year monitoring them and the temps it gets to be inside. I'm not planning on rushing into anything so I have time


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Here In Pennsylvania a building to store feed or food on a farm is tax exempt. A building for livestock or to store equipment or supplies is taxed.

So in my state it is not taxed but if I converted to chicken house or a tool shed it would be taxed.

I can't even fathom cutting them up, love to have some more grain storage on my place. We've rented out bins and rented ours out and never had any problems.

Disassembly is the reverse. I'd guess the pictures one to be just under 3000 bu. to small for a lot of things but a good size for seed wheat or seed for grinding.

How do you go about finding what the laws are on them? Would I just call my county and ask? I never knew specific buildings were taxed. Is it figured into land taxes? Or the mortgage?


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Call your county assessors office

Alright, thank you!


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