Above 1200 Sq/FT Out on Quaker Road

jblnut · Jan 17, 2015

Lots of things have changed since this first post !! Read through and ask whatever questions you may have.

Hello from Albany, MN.

My wife and I purchased a 60 acre patch with a few buildings on it October 2014. One of them is a 24' square wood stove heated shop. Pretty well insulated as it doesn't take much to keep it warm in -20°F.

At any given time I'll have between 120 and 150 Holstein steers around. I run 750 acres with my dad give or take a few each year so a nice shop will be a must someday !!

My dad and I built a corner out in one of our 60x120 sheds to use for the time being. I can throw up some pics sometime. It's 22x30x14 with a single 16w 14h overhead. Just enough room to keep the skid and a tractor warm.

Half the building site.

Crappy interior pics of my "shop"

drivesitfar · Jan 17, 2015

JB: sounds nice and great pictures. that tractor you have in the picture is a monster or is it a combine or some other big machine?

is your 750 acres that you work at your parent's and is it close to yours or do you have a little commute to get back to your 60 acres?

welcome

jblnut · Jan 17, 2015

We own and rent land all over the place. The farthest fields are about 11 miles apart and I'm almost exactly in the center. It's quite convenient.

This is the combine.

The tractor in the picture is our primary tillage tractor. We use it to work all the dirt and get it ready for planting in the spring.

When it's being worked hard it drinks 15+ gallons of diesel an hour. That is roughly a 20oz bottle a minute and this tractor is about half the size of the largest one in production today.

This is the "farm shop." We poured a 40x60 pad of concrete in the west side of a 60x120 Morton's shed and built a 22x30 heated shop in the corner.

hicketts · Jan 17, 2015

Welcome. Nice place, just drove through there this summer. I see the 325 didn't make it to far from the factory. The farm I work at part time we have a 325, 275 and a 350 plus more. They milk 900 or so. Just how bad are the bugs out there in the summer, I saw a many adds for summer spraying?

rburke65 · Jan 17, 2015

Welcome from Ohio! Wow...that's a great looking place!

drivesitfar · Jan 17, 2015

JB: great pictures and you certainly know how to post them. any questions or goals you want to share here on your thread? please ask here and maybe somebody will see them and give you some ideas.

best place to get more specific answers is on the threads talking about the subject you have questions and ask there. enjoy the reading and i'll check back in to see if you need a little help or PM me if you have a question about vises or old tools because that is where i'm usually posting and reading threads.

take care and congrats on your new place. i'm in the process of taking pictures of all my garage, shop and storage places and going to start a thread on organizing. i like the steel look so metal racks, cabinets and benches are most of what i'm leaning towards using exclusively.

1/2 Cup · Jan 17, 2015

Hello an welcome from downunder, enjoy.

Many thanks for posting..

jblnut · Jan 18, 2015

drivesitfar said:
JB: great pictures and you certainly know how to post them. any questions or goals you want to share here on your thread? please ask here and maybe somebody will see them and give you some ideas.

I'd like some more ideas on useful and practical storage for a small space.

In the next farm shop I build out here I'm going to be putting some multi-purpose 12" square pots in the floor. They will be setup to be used for a whole host of things, a portable vice mount being just one of them.

drivesitfar · Jan 18, 2015

JB: awesome stand and even nicer Wilton. is that the 8 inch monster or their 6 incher? you might want to take a look at the vise stand thread i started in the fabrication section and of course post these pictures of yours with your Wilton. also the guys on the Vises of Garage Journal would like to see that Wilton on that thread. here's the link for the vise stands thread and we got a bit off subject tonight talking about belt grinders, but there are a few pretty cool stands in that thread. http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=252799

i'm getting ready to start a build thread building a couple of these welding tables which i'm going to use sort of like saw horses on big projects because i don't have a big shop like you do.

i'm also trying to find benches to mount a few of my pretty big 6 inch old vises so here's a picture.

jblnut · Jan 18, 2015

Yikes I wish that was my Wilton but alas, my pockets are not lined with the gold flake that they put on them beauties.

This summer I'm building a 54x96 Cattle Shed and next year I plan to build a new farm shop if mama can live in our tiny house for a few more years. I've got a few drawn up but am having a hard time pulling the trigger on spending $150k. It doesn't directly make me $$$$$ like a barn or a new tractor and I'm a tight *** so we'll see what happens.

If you haven't already discovered it this is the most amazing online design tool I've used to date.

http://fbi.icovia.com/icovia.aspx

I drew this with it. 2 48x48 heated areas and a 24x24 office/garage.

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jblnut · Mar 26, 2016

Well it has been over a year since my initial post and i thought it was time for an update.

The barn has been completed and it working wonderfully. We will be starting on a 48x112x18 hay shed this spring and I couldn't be more excited.

New well.

Dirtwork almost done.

Digging in the water lines.

Forms for the pump house.

This is one of my favorite construction pics of the whole project.

Pump house framed up.

Barn is done and the cattle are happy.

See, they're happy. Just about to feed them so they'll be really happy soon.

AND NOW SOME GARAGE/SHOP PICS !!

This was an easy adventure. I turned a old truck plow into something useful again.

I purchased this beauty for $1 at an auction and cleaned it up. It works awesome !!

All cleaned up and "pretty" New cord, switch and fuse.

Got some shop bling from work. We were cleaning **** up and I found this in the weeds so I made it mine. I also got my 4 6 lamp T5 fixtures mounted. It's like the srvace of the sun with all 4 of them burning.

NUTTSGT · Mar 26, 2016

I'd say welcome but that would be a little late. You caught my attention with the Quaker Rd title as there is a Quaker Road local to me.

I also you're not particular on a color of tractor but you did put green in your avatar. :beer:

Since this thread is a year plus old and you are showcasing the place, I'm going to move it to the gallery section.

jblnut · Apr 2, 2016

Dirt work has been done for a while now for the new 48x112 shed but I ordered rafters this morning so it has officially begun !!

upndown · Apr 2, 2016

Place is looking good! Looks like you convinced Mana to stay put for a bit. :lol_hitti

gotta love Minnesota and Wisconsin farm country, in the summer! I grew up in northwestern Ill.

Richard Cranium · Apr 2, 2016

looks good, it will be nice for you to have a new shop

jblnut · Apr 12, 2016

Lumber is here !

Headers for the 24' doors are here too.

The center gable poles are 32' long. Yowser.

Gonna drill holes and pour the cookies on the bottoms tomorrow and set poles Thursday. Pretty damn excited. Rafters should be here wednesday next week.

36truck · Apr 13, 2016

Very nice are you building it yourself?

jblnut · Apr 14, 2016

Being that it is spring and I want it up before I'm done with fieldwork I made the decision to hire out most of it. I'm going to help if I'm around to cut down on the labor a little but we're in the field finally so I won't be helping much.

Holes are drilled for posts and cookies are poured.

Pops in his favorite tractor doing what he loves.

jblnut · Apr 14, 2016

Poles are mostly up.

1/2 Cup · Apr 14, 2016

Fantastic, thank you for the update. :thumbup:

Now that is a shed. :thumbup:

Regards

jblnut · Apr 15, 2016

Poles are all up and perlings are on the north and west walls.

I am planning on putting a wall made out of 2x2x4 foot concrete stacking blocks between the hay shed and the barn to compensate for the 4' elevation difference. They were delivered today and we got a few set in place.

jblnut · Apr 16, 2016

Most of the first row is in place. I compacted 6" of crushed concrete under the blocks and put a slope of 1" over the 2' block width towards the hill they'll be holding back. I used a Lull to set them in place from the top side. It took some doing to get them as crooked as they are.

My 3yr old helped me drive the Lull while the 1yr old guarded my bucket.

drivesitfar · Apr 17, 2016

JBL: the barn and new shop are looking great. keep up the great posts and don't make yourself a stranger and post and read other threads in case you want to share some of that knowledge you have or want to learn something.

cheers and I did like the helpers that look more like supervisors.

jblnut · Apr 17, 2016

Back at it again.

The contractor was very excited to let me use his Lull, I did not turn him down.

Oh look what I've spotted out in the wild. Is it? Yes it is!!! A fellow Garage Journal member holding my blocks down. The little rascals tried to float away a few times so he took it upon himself to make sure it didn't happen again :lol:

Also appears the little supervisors are "helping" again.

Tile was laid behind the wall because I could. Also discovered I **** at math and counting and such. I'm seven blocks short.

All smoothed up and snazzy.

Looks like an amazing place for a pair of fuel barrels to me.

ABSTIFFGS · Apr 17, 2016

I sure am glad I could help hold them blocks down today Mike. I couldn't even imagine if I hadn't been there....

jblnut · Apr 17, 2016

Show me evidence otherwise. All I remember is a crooked top layer :lol:

ABSTIFFGS · Apr 18, 2016

Well, if you'd have seen the operator....

jblnut · Apr 18, 2016

Men enter here.

Machines enter here.

Those 24"x24' headers don't look nearly as large when they're 16' off the ground ... Posts on either side are 8ply 2x6's. It should hold.

Eventually the new shed will be surrounded on the north and west sides by hostas of a few different varieties. I love them as they're no/low maintenance and I think they look nice. Plus, my mother has a ton she wants to get rid of. Price drives decisions around here. These are planted on the north side of the steer barn.

imitationdave · Apr 19, 2016

Nice build. Good to see other people from central MN on here.

I'm getting ready to break ground on a 32 x 38 in Avon.

Dave

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Ajustable · Apr 20, 2016

Great thread, that rolling landscape is bueatiful. Keep the updates coming!!!

jblnut · Apr 20, 2016

Well Well Well, look what we have here.

We even managed to get a few up today.

There will be a 4'over-hang on the south side with the doors and no over-hang on the north side.

Not really a progress picture but this is part of why I enjoy living out here.

jblnut · Apr 21, 2016

So I thought something was funny with the rafters yesterday and today it became oh so obvious. I ordered them to have a 4' overhang on the south side and no overhang on the north. Well they came with a 2' overhang on both sides. The rafter manufacture told us to just "Cut off one side and extend the other" Uh ... Ok I guess. I told them they would have to come out and okay it when we had them installed and sign off on our work so if the overhang falls off or something stupid they saw it and approved it. We ended up putting an 8' 2x10 on the south end to extend it so there's 6' nailed onto the rafter and 2' more sticking out. It should work just fine, or so I was told. It was signed off on and approved and I got it in writing that the "redesign" was approved by the manufacture and the modified rafters have the same 50yr guarantee as they did before.

But wait, it gets better. They sent enough rafters for a 96' building, not a 112' building so we are two short ! ! ! Yesterday I counted them to make sure what was on the shipping slip was what we got and it was. It didn't click that 13 wasn't enough while the truck was still here. Well, they are suppose to be sending two more out first thing tomorrow. I told them to make sure to build them wrong as well so at least they are are all the same in their incorrectness.

On a positive note, I love this time of year. There are 5 days a year that make me all giddy inside. When the first wheat comes up, when the first corn comes up, when the first beans are up, when we start harvesting and the moment after the shower I take after blowing off the combine.

Well today the first wheat we planted is up.

jblnut · Apr 21, 2016

imitationdave said:
I'm getting ready to break ground on a 32 x 38 in Avon.

Dave

Township or city ?? Who is doing the work ??

imitationdave · Apr 21, 2016

jblnut said:
Township or city ?? Who is doing the work ??

St Wendell township, just waiting on the county to issue the permit.

Klein out of St Joe is doing the work, also doing a 20x26 addition and remodel on the house.

drivesitfar · Apr 22, 2016

JB: it looks like you are making great progress on the new building. sorry to hear about all the issues with the trusses. just curious why you didn't do a over hang on all sides? was it just cost, easier access to the roof, did you like the look better, or do tell?

good luck and best of luck that those little seedlings grow into a great crop of wheat.

jblnut · Apr 22, 2016

drivesitfar said:
JB: just curious why you didn't do a over hang on all sides? was it just cost, easier access to the roof, did you like the look better, or do tell?

I am a tight *** and the overhangs on the other three sides of the building serve no functional purpose. I do not want to get dripped on when I lock and unlock the doors on the entrance side, that is why there is an overhang there.

madison069 · Apr 22, 2016

jblnut said:
Eventually the new shed will be surrounded on the north and west sides by hostas of a few different varieties. I love them as they're no/low maintenance and I think they look nice. Plus, my mother has a ton she wants to get rid of. Price drives decisions around here. These are planted on the north side of the steer barn.

I hear ya on the Hostas, I got a hillside full of them since I didn't want to cut the grass on that hill! They are starting to come out now which I'm glad cause I was getting tired of seeing just brown mulch and rocks on the hill side.

drivesitfar · Apr 22, 2016

JB: no you just want to spend your extra money on TOOLS. :beer:

good luck and I like HOSTAS too and have a few a couple steps out my front door. since you like new plant growth how about my front yard that is maybe on it's second flower blooming this year already. you can see a small hostas in the bottom of the picture and I have 2 bigger ones closer to the front door.

my machine for cutting grass is a bit smaller than your combine too.

NUTTSGT · Apr 22, 2016

jblnut said:

I'm curious about what I see here. Are these rollers (like on a conveyor) for the large sliding doors. It seems most guys are putting in O/H door anymore around here, less hassle during the winter. Or are they part of some head gates for the cattle ?

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