Feeding space and meal spoilige under a cantilever

[J 1177]

I'm in the process of ordering a new shed 90 ft long 45ft wide with a 4ft6 cantilever, the sheds to be split into 3 45x30 pens with cattle hurdles, 7 bar ones. (I like the idea of being able to move them).
The floor is going to be hard core with limestone fines whacked down.
I'm not 100% sure what to do 're feeding them (it's for bulls) they are on rolled barley, silage and barley straw. I know I can go down the hopper route with gates on the 90ft open front and three ring feeders.
It just seems a shame not to use the 30ft width of each pen to feed from. Would barley spoil if I tipped it on a concrete pad the length of the shed under the cantilever with barriers rather than gates. Last thing I want to do is waste feed.

 

[JMTHORNLEY]

I was toting with the same options and I actually went for a 6ft canti to try and elevate the problem, I’d go 7 or 8 ft if I were doing it again, unbelievable how valuable that room underneath actually is. Make sure you spec your hight to under your cantilever as well, if it’s 14ft to the eves you’ll loose a hell of a lot of space with a 6+ foot canti

 

[J 1177]

I was toting with the same options and I actually went for a 6ft canti to try and elevate the problem, I’d go 7 or 8 ft if I were doing it again, unbelievable how valuable that room underneath actually is. Make sure you spec your hight to under your cantilever as well, if it’s 14ft to the eves you’ll loose a hell of a lot of space with a 6+ foot canti

Thanks the sheds 16ft to the eves. Il ask about a bigger cantilever

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I wouldn’t have anything less than a 6ft overhang and I wouldn’t not concrete the floor

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Get a concrete bunker trough to go along the Front instead of feed barriers

 

[J 1177]

I wouldn’t have anything less than a 6ft overhang and I wouldn’t not concrete the floor

Actuall shed floor? I was thinking lime fines that's what my brother in law uses. Better for straw usage?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Actuall shed floor? I was thinking lime fines that's what my brother in law uses. Better for straw usage?

What about mucking out? Won’t you lift it?

 

[J 1177]

What about mucking out? Won’t you lift it?

Perfectly honest I'm on a budget as the crops are nothing flash. I muck out with a grab bucket rather than grab so was hoping it would be ok for a year, then if no good I'd concrete it. Those look a hell of a set up mind.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Perfectly honest I'm on a budget as the crops are nothing flash. I muck out with a grab bucket rather than grab so was hoping it would be ok for a year, then if no good I'd concrete it. Those look a hell of a set up mind.

I understand. We put a shed up 120 x 100 and couldn’t afford to concrete it out for a few years and it was torture...it ended up needing about an extra 400 ton of hardcore but it was on clay

 

[J 1177]

I understand. We put a shed up 120 x 100 and couldn’t afford to concrete it out for a few years and it was torture...it ended up needing about an extra 400 ton of hardcore but it was on clay

This is on a pretty dry bit and iv got 4 old buildings to come down to make heavy sub base and build it up, by choice I'd concrete it but needs must.

 

[Tarw Coch]

I was toting with the same options and I actually went for a 6ft canti to try and elevate the problem, I’d go 7 or 8 ft if I were doing it again, unbelievable how valuable that room underneath actually is. Make sure you spec your hight to under your cantilever as well, if it’s 14ft to the eves you’ll loose a hell of a lot of space with a 6+ foot canti

I’ll second that, I have a shed with a 6 foot cantilever, if doing it again I’d go wider.

 

[penntor]

I like to use lime dust for shed floor but found it gets chewed up at the feed barrier so now have 10' wide strip of concrete behind the feed barrier and lime dust for the rest of the floor.