Shop second story

37 chief · Jul 26, 2009

What I call my shop is the barn my Dad would store his hay until he sold it. It has a lot of space,and a good roof, and sides. but it is filling up with stuff. I thought about of putting in a second floor across part of it. Has anyone done this with a old barn? Will I just be encouraged to collect more stuff? Stan

kyhayman · Jul 26, 2009

I'm not sure what you mean by a second floor but an old barn is my shop. I had a metal pole barn with a concrete floor. It was a farrowing barn when I bought the farm. I used it to store square bales. When I cut back on square bales I covered the inside with OSB, ran some conduit and upgraded the power panel, and strung up some lights.

Uncle Ernie · Jul 26, 2009

Sure you can do it and sure you will collect more stuff. But isn't that what you want the space for? If you do not want the space/ stuff then you are already there.

TGIN · Jul 27, 2009

Ya gota keep collecting stuff . I keep tellin them they ll have all this to sell at my estate sale . The more I drag home the more they can sell .

Leroy · Jul 27, 2009

California may be different but here, Ohio, a barn had a driveway, a section on the side for horse stables and there was a floor about 8' above that called a haymow where the hay was stored for feeding the horses, the other side possibly hay stored on floor at same level as drive or same stable setup with mow overhead or floow for machinery storage with mow above that machinery. All barns had at least one overhead mow.

El Toro · Jul 27, 2009

We had a Jamesway barn that had a driveway to the hay & straw mows. The dairy cattle beneath that
with 2 big silos at one end. It was warm as toast during the Winter where the cows were. The horse barn was was smaller, but didn't have a driveway. We had to use a hay fork and a track system to get the hay into the barn for the horses. There was a large manure pit adjacent to the horse barn where all the manure was dumped
and hauled out and spread usually in Feb or March
if the ground was frozen. The farm has been sold a few times since then and has been divided. One owner bought the horse barn & manure pit and had the Amish to make a home out of it. They used that manure pit for the basement since it was all concrete. They have did something with the cow barn too. That manure pit was warm too when hauling manure out it. Sure would've been nice to have a loader back then to load that. Hal

noncompos · Jul 27, 2009

Stuff will always accumulate to fill all the available space (it's a Law of Nature: Nature Abhors A Vacuum).

Anonymous-0 · Jul 27, 2009

The rules say"who collects the most wins".

James Howell · Jul 27, 2009

When Nancy and I built our barn, we put a second floor over the area in front of her tack room.

You are right; it got loaded with extra "stuff" instead of hay.

The problem with a second floor is that you have to lift or throw "stuff" higher.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 28, 2009

will the structure hold another storey,?

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