multi power
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How long ago, and why did they go out of fashion?
Nissin huts, why did they go out of fashion?
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Machinery got bigger I guess.
Could tip a 3t trailer up in them well enough to empty but that was about it.
With a concrete floor they were perfectly adequate to store potatoes in, with bales round inside to form a bunker, and better than standing in the wet to riddle them too. Just taken a 16ft one own to access a barn conversion actually, but it had got pretty ropey round the base
Could tip a 3t trailer up in them well enough to empty but that was about it.
With a concrete floor they were perfectly adequate to store potatoes in, with bales round inside to form a bunker, and better than standing in the wet to riddle them too. Just taken a 16ft one own to access a barn conversion actually, but it had got pretty ropey round the base
Pilgrimmick
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Great huts fo a lot of uses. I would have bought one or several if I could get them at the price they were in another thread.
Old farmers weekly at £15 I think.
Old farmers weekly at £15 I think.
Nearly
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glasshouse
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What year was that?
Pilgrimmick
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There’s one on my place, guessing it might be as old as ww2? Approx 80x40 Tins still pretty good on it, farmer before my inlaws bought the place used it as a workshop, since then its had cows in it with an outside feed area. I’d love to either knock it down an put a portal frame over or or even move it to somewhere tidier that it could go back to machinery storage. I don’t fancy the work of stripping it to put back up but I don’t think it would be beyond the realms of possibility to lift it in 3 or 4 sections with 2 forklifts.
If it was up on 8-10ft walls it would be a decent enough grain store.
If it was up on 8-10ft walls it would be a decent enough grain store.
Nearly
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1960
glasshouse
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Plenty jobs
glasshouse
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They are not fancy enough for todays farmers who have to have new big sheds and all shiny tackle.
No make do and mend for them.
Selectamatic
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Would it be that difficult to make a new one?
Whats the point though, I suppose...?
Edit: Just seen the above link.
Whats the point though, I suppose...?
Edit: Just seen the above link.
multi power
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I REALLY like the idea of putting it up on walls
multi power
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Wonder how that cost would have compared to other types of buildings at the time ?
glasshouse
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You can put it on top of concrete lego blocks
glasshouse
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We built a cattle shed 150 by 60ft in 1969 for £10k
The old buildings had been destroyed by jan 68 gale
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Saw them used as potato cellars in Idaho. Set on concrete walls sunk down below ground leve and covered in soil over the top, stored spuds in outside condition Dow as low as -40 c. Filled with conveyors from intake grader outside.
New ones were still being advertised not so many years ago iiirc.
New ones were still being advertised not so many years ago iiirc.
two-cylinder
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The WW11 Nissen huts came in two widths 16 or 24 feet wide- they had a light angle iron frame.
The wider ones had a tubular steel frame and were known around here as Romney's.
There was also wooden ones built by a firm called Terran from Hull.
The wider ones had a tubular steel frame and were known around here as Romney's.
There was also wooden ones built by a firm called Terran from Hull.
This one is 16ft wide, not sure how long, about 25ft I think. It’s light angle iron and double skinned sheets. We kept up the paint work on the outside sheets which are still good but the inner sheets have rotted to dust. The original windows and doors blew out years ago so we yorkshire boarded the back and stoned the floor as it was just soil before, abit like a poly tunnel. The entrance is open but I set a lockable gate in front to lock the trailers behind, its a great shed, fits pickup and trailer in and loads of crap.
It was the tractor shed years ago, there’s still exhaust marks on the roof inside from warming up nuffields and mf’s, it’s still smells of diesel in one corner where the old fuel tank was and it’s still got the original grease gun from a grey ferg slipped in behind a perling.
As far as I know it’s from the war time used as accommodation, then bought second hand by my grandfathers, soon be 100 years old!
It was the tractor shed years ago, there’s still exhaust marks on the roof inside from warming up nuffields and mf’s, it’s still smells of diesel in one corner where the old fuel tank was and it’s still got the original grease gun from a grey ferg slipped in behind a perling.
As far as I know it’s from the war time used as accommodation, then bought second hand by my grandfathers, soon be 100 years old!