Hay storage BUildings

[Herefordcross]

If you store your hay outside this doesn't apply to you. What type of buildings are you using to store your hay in? Quonset huts? Pole Barns? Metal framed?

 

[msscamp]

We've got two of these, with a 3rd coming soon. Any hay that will not fit under them is tarped, and the bottom layer of those stacks are ground for our own cows.

 

[Susie David]

Pole barn....also built a calving stall at one end.
I know...it keeps things alot easier when the girls don't have to calve in the snow...not the cows, it's Susie. Makes me bring in the calves too when it gets below zero.
Some things you do to keep the peace....to many months of cold weather up here to have a unhappy wife.
Don't store outside even tarped...snow thing again.
DMc

 

[Herefordcross]

Considering another 30x60, pole barn for hay storage but, stuff is so high now, materials.

 

[dj]

Well I store mine outside so I guess I shouldn't comment.
But Bez posted something awhile back that led me to believe the quonset hut type frames covered with the new tech tarps were very cost effective. Sure see alot of them utilized around here for what you would think are supposed to be permanent structures. Can you say casino? :lol:

 

[NorCalFarms]

Lots of hay grown around here, mostly to sell to dairy and feedstores, so it all has to be stored in a barn. Mostly wood pole barns, most in the 45'x120' range. At 20' tall you can get around 500 ton in one. This size is popular because all the hay in hauled and put in the barns with squeezes or loaders (not by hand) so the barn has to fit the units of hay. Some steel barns went up in the last few years, but not many lately as steel has gone up so much. Wood pole barns are around $7.50/sq foot with no sidewalls.

Msscamp, that barns looks like a prefab steel barn, I've been looking at some similar for equipment sheds, do you know where it came from and what they run? That looks like about the right size. Thanks

 

[endebt]

We have a 50X70 metal pole barn. Got tired of loosing protin. That is the only thing on the ranch that will pay for it self in a few years. We can put up 210 bales. That is about what we use in a year. We fill one side then the other. Hope this helps. Good Luck.

 

[KenB]

I just finished building a 35X45X16 ft. high metal pole barn for hay, with a 15X45 side shed for a sick bay for cows and equipment storage.

 

[Herefordcross]

That's does look like on of those prefabs, have seen them advertised before but, like anything else I can't find the info when I need it.

 

[Herefordcross]

That's does look like on of those prefabs, have seen them advertised before but, like anything else I can't find the info when I need it.

There is just too much loss in storing outside, We do get some pretty good Alfalfa off and on and after it sits outside it loses at lot of it's value and once the barn is full it's hard to get that second cutting of alfalfa out of the weather, we have done the tarp thing, consider tube wrapping but, they say it doesn't work the greatest on dry hay???

 

[glover36]

if yoru every building one add an extra 12 feet for junk that u will neevr think of owning

 

[milkmaid]

Folks that used to own our place had a sawmill, and the old barn (they call it a shed ) has concrete floors and enough room to store most everything I could want to fit in. Doesn't look like much on the outside, and the hay HAS to be stacked on pallets to prevent spoilage of the bottom bales, and I do have to be careful where I stack it to stay away from the leaks in the roof... but otherwise it works great. :lol: The roof is high enough for a tractor/stackwagon to come in without too much trouble. I have room for around 20 ton or a little more, the way I stack it (by hand, small bales). Stacked without pallets and in ton bales I could fit a lot more in.

 

[msscamp]

Msscamp, that barns looks like a prefab steel barn, I've been looking at some similar for equipment sheds, do you know where it came from and what they run? That looks like about the right size. Thanks

Yes, it is a prefab steel barn that came from somewhere in South Dakota - I don't know exactly where, but I could probably find out if you're willing to wait a day or two (my folks are delivering hay to Colorado tomorrow, so will be gone all day). No clue on what it cost, but I can get the brand name off the barn tomorrow and do a search if you like. This particular barn is a horse barn, but maybe the stalls and such things are optional - I don't know. It's approx 72' long by maybe 40' wide.

 

[Herefordcross]

Most interested. Thanks so much

 

[Saltydawg]

I have a 30x40 pole barn with a big ole hay mow.

Fill it top and bottom every year and the extra stuff i stack outside and tarp and feed it out early.

 

[Herefordcross]

if yoru every building one add an extra 12 feet for junk that u will neevr think of owning

We don't add 12' to anything, it seems like everytime we build a building for hay it gets filled up with equipment because, I'm anal when it comes to TRYING to keep my stuff out of the weather, 12' wouldn't even hold a drill or a tractor.

 

[KenB]

if yoru every building one add an extra 12 feet for junk that u will neevr think of owning

We don't add 12' to anything, it seems like everytime we build a building for hay it gets filled up with equipment because, I'm anal when it comes to TRYING to keep my stuff out of the weather, 12' wouldn't even hold a drill or a tractor.

:roll: How big are the tractors at your place? :shock:

 

[rkm]

With the growing popularity of big square balers I'm seeing more and more of it stacked out side with no cover. Now we have a lot of weather here, both rain and snow. I was wondering, does big squares have more or less loss than big rounds stacked outside?

 

[Herefordcross]

I doesn't take much of a tractor to suck up 12' of space on the ground.

If it hasn't been done already, I'm sure that some of the U's will be doing loss studies on it.

 

[KenB]

I doesn't take much of a tractor to suck up 12' of space on the ground.

If it hasn't been done already, I'm sure that some of the U's will be doing loss studies on it.

8) My 75 H.P. 4 wheel drive is less than 8 ft. wide, and not much longer than 12 ft.