I enjoyed listening to your detailed description of the barn build. I think it's one of the better built barns around. Best of luck with your hay making this summer.
Hello Humble Haymakers. I’m glad you shared the why and how of your barn. Have you made a video highlighting the history of the farm that might even predate your great grandfather? It is so very good that you have a known connection to the land.
I'm in the process of designing a hay barn that we'll also use as an overflow for our heifer replacements. I am looking at at 90' long by 30' wide x 16' tall building. This video gave me some great ideas. Thanks!
Lots of good ideas! Longer overhangs protect your siding and structure. Finish up your doors and you'll get a couple lifetimes use out of it. If you are considering asphalt under the hay (maybe do a test square in a corner for a season with the same hay on dirt vs on asphalt), you might search around for 'asphalt millings' which are ground asphalt removed when replacing roads/drives and is often landfilled for a fee -- which means sometimes you can get it free or just a delivery fee. Research best ways to compact it. People use it for drives and parking lots so it can take weight after installation. Another option is grid out wood pallets along both sides of the building, these can often be found for free if shipping/manufacturing is nearby -- effectively gives you a wood floor (find the 'HT' for heat treat versions rather than chemically treated ones). Infill slats with parts of other pallets or get the solid topped ones. Gives good airflow under the hay. Our old hay barn had a slatted floor with a wind tunnel that was used for drying loose hay before balers were available. Try stacking bales on edge (maybe you already do but I only saw 'strings up' left here and there). We found bales stacked on edge/strings on the side, stacked tighter and look better when removed from the mow, 'a better presentation' to the customer. Putting the cut side up might keep the bottom row from wicking moisture (seems like that's the way we did it). Only recently did I find videos on the New Holland 'stackliner' (with tie row upgrades) and 'stackcruiser' -- those would have completely changed how we did hay back then (your building would be perfect for one), there's a youtube video with a 1950s tractor picking up bales with a '1010' and another with a functional walk through on a '1012'. Baler needs a simple modification to drop the bales on edge for the auto-stacking wagon.
I like that barn. I am looking at replacement options for the 40'x80' building that collapsed on me a year or so ago. Nothing is very affordable right now lol
Really Nice Barn! Lots to think about before breaking ground. We’re planning to start our barn soon using power company poles. The oversized dimensions 32’,are a plus as our 4x5 bales laying on their side three high give a little wiggle room on the sides. The window at the top is a great addition.
@@HumbleHaymakers The schedule is; Rebuild old HD sprayer into a Nitrogen applicator Clear 8 acres of old pasture to make new hay field, repair fencing for horse, then build a 90’ x 30’ x 14’ tall hay barn, all before July. The first two projects are about half-way through. Farming keeps us busy! Wait a minute, I forgot we have to bale 3000 straw bales the first of June. Squares Do Y’all ever feel any pressure Farming?
Thx - at the time I built the barn, there was a carve out for commercial and ag. I assume it’s still there - last time I checked, the round fence posts at TSC were treated with it.
Just ran across this vid. This is pretty much exactly what I am looking to build. We get a lot of wind too in the piedmont foothills in NC just south of you. I was thinking 2/on center was a bit excessive but probably not. I dont have to deal with as much snow load as yall so might get away with 3 on center…. What was your budget? Did you end up going over budget? Did you run any utilities like electrical/lights?
You have a nice barn there Mr.! Plywood, steel, trusses.. everything looks real good. The only thing I will never understand is why people put the posts in the dirt. You did go the extra mile and tried to get it treated as good as possible but its still the weakness in my opinion. That barn on concrete piers should last for many generations. But maybe its not so bad if the posts are rotten after 100 years one can dig it up and put new ones underneath or even put concrete piers in then?
I enjoyed listening to your detailed description of the barn build. I think it's one of the better built barns around. Best of luck with your hay making
this summer.
Thanks!
Hello Humble Haymakers. I’m glad you shared the why and how of your barn. Have you made a video highlighting the history of the farm that might even predate your great grandfather? It is so very good that you have a known connection to the land.
I'm in the process of designing a hay barn that we'll also use as an overflow for our heifer replacements. I am looking at at 90' long by 30' wide x 16' tall building. This video gave me some great ideas. Thanks!
I am glad you mention hay has a curing process. Most people who don’t bale think its wet.
Lots of good ideas! Longer overhangs protect your siding and structure. Finish up your doors and you'll get a couple lifetimes use out of it.
If you are considering asphalt under the hay (maybe do a test square in a corner for a season with the same hay on dirt vs on asphalt), you might search around for 'asphalt millings' which are ground asphalt removed when replacing roads/drives and is often landfilled for a fee -- which means sometimes you can get it free or just a delivery fee. Research best ways to compact it. People use it for drives and parking lots so it can take weight after installation.
Another option is grid out wood pallets along both sides of the building, these can often be found for free if shipping/manufacturing is nearby -- effectively gives you a wood floor (find the 'HT' for heat treat versions rather than chemically treated ones). Infill slats with parts of other pallets or get the solid topped ones. Gives good airflow under the hay. Our old hay barn had a slatted floor with a wind tunnel that was used for drying loose hay before balers were available.
Try stacking bales on edge (maybe you already do but I only saw 'strings up' left here and there). We found bales stacked on edge/strings on the side, stacked tighter and look better when removed from the mow, 'a better presentation' to the customer. Putting the cut side up might keep the bottom row from wicking moisture (seems like that's the way we did it).
Only recently did I find videos on the New Holland 'stackliner' (with tie row upgrades) and 'stackcruiser' -- those would have completely changed how we did hay back then (your building would be perfect for one), there's a youtube video with a 1950s tractor picking up bales with a '1010' and another with a functional walk through on a '1012'. Baler needs a simple modification to drop the bales on edge for the auto-stacking wagon.
I like that barn. I am looking at replacement options for the 40'x80' building that collapsed on me a year or so ago. Nothing is very affordable right now lol
Thx - yes, everything is so expensive these days.
Really Nice Barn! Lots to think about before breaking ground. We’re planning to start our barn soon using power company poles.
The oversized dimensions 32’,are a plus as our 4x5 bales laying on their side three high give a little wiggle room on the sides.
The window at the top is a great addition.
Thx - best of luck building your new barn…👍
@@HumbleHaymakers The schedule is; Rebuild old HD sprayer into a Nitrogen applicator
Clear 8 acres of old pasture to make new hay field, repair fencing for horse, then build a 90’ x 30’ x 14’ tall hay barn, all before July.
The first two projects are about half-way through. Farming keeps us busy!
Wait a minute, I forgot we have to bale 3000 straw bales the first of June. Squares
Do Y’all ever feel any pressure Farming?
@@williambrewer6346 Pressure - yes, even in the dead of winter.
Well that’s interesting good to know about the CCA I thought it was 100% band by now but that’s guess you just got a special order?
Thx - at the time I built the barn, there was a carve out for commercial and ag. I assume it’s still there - last time I checked, the round fence posts at TSC were treated with it.
Just ran across this vid. This is pretty much exactly what I am looking to build. We get a lot of wind too in the piedmont foothills in NC just south of you. I was thinking 2/on center was a bit excessive but probably not. I dont have to deal with as much snow load as yall so might get away with 3 on center…. What was your budget? Did you end up going over budget? Did you run any utilities like electrical/lights?
No electric. No budget, but no big frills either.
You have a nice barn there Mr.! Plywood, steel, trusses.. everything looks real good. The only thing I will never understand is why people put the posts in the dirt. You did go the extra mile and tried to get it treated as good as possible but its still the weakness in my opinion. That barn on concrete piers should last for many generations. But maybe its not so bad if the posts are rotten after 100 years one can dig it up and put new ones underneath or even put concrete piers in then?
There's no such thing as "over" building a building.....You get what you build.....