Zagray Farm Forum

Goal:  clean up tractor barn by removing 'support' equipment. Provide storage areas for lawn equipment, excess building materials, and golf carts.

Currently, golf carts, the zero turn, mowers and construction equipment are necessarily housed in the tractor barn, a building that should be museum only.

I'm proposing to clear back the overgrowing trees behind the tractor barn and add additional fill where needed to expand that area as much as practical. We can build 200 sq foot sheds that do not require building permits, etc. 

Beginning at the rear center door of the tractor barn (as far back as possible) and going south, we would place 4 buildings 10' X 20' with 10' between them. Two building would house golf carts (4 per building), one building dedicated to grounds maintenance, and the fourth to building tools, excess materials, and perhaps batteries/charging.

Concrete slab on grade for easy access, 2x4 walls, 2x8 roof rafters, two sets of doors 8' x 8' on the front, saltbox roof style with perhaps some overhead storage.
I have pipes installed for power currently at that point. Estimated cost per building is about $3,000. 

We have nothing cut at the moment from the mill, but the requirements are not large. 

thoughts?  

  

Sounds great Art, will help clean up and organize a bunch of commonly used stuff and having a permanent home for the batteries to charge and be safety stored will be a huge savings in the long run! 

It looks like we can maintain a 40' buffer to the wetlands and build a 20' X 48' storage building. it just so happens that we have plans for a building like that with 4 sets of 8' x 8' doors. our woodworking building plans will work just fine in this application. 
Might go for trusses as we have a lot of orders into the sawmill for lumber to be cut already. using trusses will speed up the project considerably. 
We may have to shift the building south a little to get the 40' setback from the wetlands rather than start it at the existing RV post. 

Tree removal will be needed all along the wood line behind the tractor barn, along with harvesting of several pines.