The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: feldar on October 12, 2012, 09:41:25 pm
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Here are some piccies of our new barn, we've waited a long time to get it! can't wait to lamb in it!! :excited:
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It looks huuuuge. It's going to be great :sunshine: look forward to seeing the piccies once it's up. :eyelashes:
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It looks huuuuge. It's going to be great :sunshine: look forward to seeing the piccies once it's up. :eyelashes:
Are you talking about the barn still ?
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I see you needed a lot of help getting it up but the finished item should look great.
So what are you going to put in it?
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It looks huuuuge. It's going to be great :sunshine: look forward to seeing the piccies once it's up. :eyelashes:
Are you talking about the barn still ?
Of course :eyelashes: :roflanim:
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;D Looks the business :thumbsup:
Although I have a shed, I still get shed envy when I see big, empty sheds that other folk have ;) I have to share mine with my dad and his hoarding tendencies ::) :innocent:
Looking forward to seeing photo's once it's finished.
Karen :wave:
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wev just done the roof on our barn wev put 00 12 box profile on the top iv also got girders put in by each leg so i can put lenghs of timber in to enclose it .iv had all this rain and onley a drip so Happy days you will love lambing in side get some power in and light it up .
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Looks very good, your sheep will love it.
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It is huge and there's going to be a covered yard too! We spent years lambing outside in all weathers and last year we had a polytunnel to lamb in that was luxury. this year we've got a sheep hotel!! though hubby is threatening to put cows in it :P he says they pay more.
The planning took ages and at one point, we never thought it would get built. We've almost bankrupted ourselves doing it, but the land will be worth so much more when it's up and running and then hopefully it will start paying us back a bit.
Perhaps we can stop living off bread and cheese then :-J
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It looks really superb Feldar - I can just dream at the moment - your going to have a great time lambing in there :thumbsup:
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i posted a few questions last night about your shed the administrators in their wisdom pulled it giving the reason that it appeared like robert posting on my account. if you go to the top of the page it clearly states here to help you. i am bewildered that pulling a post with per tinante questions is helping either you or anyone else that is intending constructing a shed. it is all good and well dan requesting only good comments but how is this going to assist either yourself or anyone else that could be getting ripped off or as another poster posted getting pumped. incidentally that comment was never removed anyway once again i am going to ask a few questions. is it a shed erector that is doing the shed and with fixing the roof sheets are they pre drilling the holes for the roofing screws or are they just bashing them through the sheets. if this post is left on your thread and once you have answered the 2 questions i will come back and explain in more detail why i am being persistant in trying to assist both yourself and others that may get a shed erected.
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why not just explain the difference anyway.
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Wow! Now I've got shed envy too! ;D
are they just bashing them through the sheets.
Yes, do tell. When I did our woodshed, I bashed a very small dent with a centrepunch to make sure the screw didn't wander, then put the tek screws straight through / in with a cordless screwdriver. The heads of the tek screws were the self-drilling type, and I thought this worked very well.
What have I missed?
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lill the fixings have drill ends on so the tool drills through the sheets and when fixings tight they spin so it just pinches the bolt the profile is 005 007 and 0012 plastic coated in lengths of 1 foot to 32 foot iv just done my barn makes a good job took 3 days last week I'm naw blocking 1 end up and dry stoning the front of the blocks iv got timbers for the sides that will make a space of 100 foot by 50 i used the rope access boys to do the job they have the tools the sheets were 20 foots second hand from a power plant £12 each
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Wow! Now I've got shed envy too! ;D
are they just bashing them through the sheets.
Yes, do tell. When I did our woodshed, I bashed a very small dent with a centrepunch to make sure the screw didn't wander, then put the tek screws straight through / in with a cordless screwdriver. The heads of the tek screws were the self-drilling type, and I thought this worked very well.
What have I missed?
I'm wondering the same ??? we use the curved profile steel for pig arcs and fix them with self drilling roofing bolts (the ones with the rubber seal and metal washer on them) think that's the same thing. We just drill them straight in, always on a high bit and never in a valley (cos then there's more chance of leaks ;)) it has worked fine for the last few years - through lots of rain :raining:
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hi lill/ Robert? a contractor has done all the ground work, we just don't have the access to machinery to do that but OH and his helpers are fixing on the roof to save some money.
They are using Tek screws supplied by the roofing company these self tighten i believe ??? but i'm a girl so a bit ignorant on those sorts of things, but he did say something about pre- dilling the sheets first with the bolts supplied, so i think that means they self drill. OH is currently fast asleep on the sofa in front of fire, sensible man, so i will find out a bit more when Sleeping Beauty awakens :innocent:
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Any pics of the finished barn?
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yes would be good
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Hi Guys will update you soon, weather has been awful and we have been away for a short break before the fun of lambing starts, so i will try to get pics this weekend. TROUBLE IS IT'S SO DARK IN THE EVENING AAARHH I can't even get some after work cause it's black as your hat :(
The covered yard is done and partially boarded down the side too and they are now starting on the big barn.
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found the camera and took some more pictures, sheep are in now, first lambs due around 4 th December
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Hubby works as AI man for a dairy so we are rearing some nice Swedish red x holstein
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I am well impressed. :thumbsup:
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great barn. I can't wait till ours is done.
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Wow - it looks fantastic and being put to such tremendous great use. If only it was as easy explaining your ideas to planners in the start and get rid of all that planning headache and hereso.
Seems like the planners now like to block almost every avenue for great ideas and smallholding/small farm expansion, especially for those of us who are not 'huge' commercial outfits - its because of their paranioa of people converting barns after or livestock housing disturbing non farming rich neighbours who like to visit their quaint little farmhouse in the summer months. ;)
What nice barn - bet its going to make a real differnece.
Guess your problems with planning started when you mentioned honestly what you were going to do with it - seems easier to build a hay barn than a lifestock barn - although they do always mingle in the end ;)
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The barn looks fantastic :thumbsup: just in time for this winter weather ;D
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I have serious Barn envy. :D Planning would not let us build a barn and was only allowed to build wooden stables, not much chance of converting them but it is still so much better than keeping the horses 9 miles away as they were before.
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Wow!
Today we put our ewes to (Foobar's) ram... just as yours start to lamb :D