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[Jonty49]

Hi everyone want some advice please, I’m thinking of building a shed about 20ft x 12ft 8 ft high to have my sheep feed blown into, bags cost an extra £400 last year. Going for steel uprights and beams, timber purlins and tin roof. Plenty on air vents. Concrete floor only thing is what should I use on sides? Will tin sheets be ok? My thinking is a lot of grain sheds have steel sides as do silos. Will my rolls get damp? Only going to have feed in it nothing else.

 

[Bob c]

have my cake blown in to a shipping container
if you bag up lots, get a bin
if have a pallet of creep, can put if there with manitou
and it is vermin proof

 

[crazy_bull]

Some folks have brought shipping containers and blown them into those, might be cheaper/easier, plus more vermin proof?

C B

 

[crazy_bull]

have my cake blown in to a shipping container
if you bag up lots, get a bin
if have a pallet of creep, can put if there with manitou
and it is vermin proof

Snap

C B

 

[Fergieman]

I would put a concrete panel around the sides.

 

[Jonty49]

I’ve a container at the moment for storage and it gets a lot of variance in temperature so gets condensation my thoughts with a shed is more air circulation

 

[Bob c]

Will my rolls get damp?

no troubles with damp in winter
its a hot summer , so have leave the door open or it sweets

 

[yellowbelly]

Can't you find a cheap grain trailer?
Easy to bag off the corn chute and you can use it for other jobs the rest of the year.

 

[Jonty49]

Thank you all for your inputs so far

 

[Fergieman]

If you just have 1 type of sheep feed delivered I would put up a bin that you can fill bags out of or a higher one if you want to use a snacker. Totally sealed, weather and vermin proof.

 

[Hilly]

Hi everyone want some advice please, I’m thinking of building a shed about 20ft x 12ft 8 ft high to have my sheep feed blown into, bags cost an extra £400 last year. Going for steel uprights and beams, timber purlins and tin roof. Plenty on air vents. Concrete floor only thing is what should I use on sides? Will tin sheets be ok? My thinking is a lot of grain sheds have steel sides as do silos. Will my rolls get damp? Only going to have feed in it nothing else.

I bought secondhand hoppers after doing what your doing much better, indoor hoppers are cheap.

 

[Jonty49]

If you just have 1 type of sheep feed delivered I would put up a bin that you can fill bags out of or a higher one if you want to use a snacker. Totally sealed, weather and vermin proof.

I’ve a 2nd hand one and damp gets in, new ones seem a lot of money for what they are, my thoughts with a shed is I can use it for other bits when not got feed in.

 

[Hilly]

I’ve a 2nd hand one and damp gets in, new ones seem a lot of money for what they are, my thoughts with a shed is I can use it for other bits when not got feed in.

Vermin will eat your cake, birds will sh!t on it and eat it and the walls will make it damp and get waste, put your leaky hopper in the shed.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Hi everyone want some advice please, I’m thinking of building a shed about 20ft x 12ft 8 ft high to have my sheep feed blown into, bags cost an extra £400 last year. Going for steel uprights and beams, timber purlins and tin roof. Plenty on air vents. Concrete floor only thing is what should I use on sides? Will tin sheets be ok? My thinking is a lot of grain sheds have steel sides as do silos. Will my rolls get damp? Only going to have feed in it nothing else.

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Brilliant idea .... and don't let them put you off with .... 'why don't you get a grain trailer or a bin'

Block or panel at the bottom and take the steel sheets done to the ground to keep the damp and wet off of those blocks or panels
Also remember it don't cost so much to go higher as it does side ways.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Also use plastic membrane below concrete floor and use fibre cement for roof

and allow some ventilation without letting in wee birdys and them Siberian hamsters

small pedestrian door but also a door big enough to get in with bucket

and a blower pipe

 

[mar]

Here is another option

http://www.forum4farming.com/forum/index.php?threads/opening-roof-shed.15522/

 

[bosses son]

Also I would make shed a bit wider and higher. Wont cost much more. Then you can keep feed away from walls and have more space the rest of the year. Assuming you have space.

 

[Matt-P]

A bin is the way forward, keeps feed fresh and away from vermin and gets emptied out regularly

 

[neilo]

If the bags cost an extra £400 last year, I guess the OP is only buying 10-15t of feed in total? A small bin (or siting his leaky bin under a roof) would likely be cheaper, and easier to use, than building much of anything weatherproof and verminproof. It would save the endless hours of bagging up from a shed floor with a shovel too.

Get a quote from Bildabin and see how that compares to buying much concrete, blockwork or roofing sheets.

 

[simmy_bull]

If the bags cost an extra £400 last year, I guess the OP is only buying 10-15t of feed in total? A small bin (or siting his leaky bin under a roof) would likely be cheaper, and easier to use, than building much of anything weatherproof and verminproof. It would save the endless hours of bagging up from a shed floor with a shovel too.

Get a quote from Bildabin and see how that compares to buying much concrete, blockwork or roofing sheets.

+1 for buildabin