My brother and I, and a friend pooled together and bought a quarter of land a year ago last fall. I had a bunch of pictures of the place that I took, but lost my phone, and all of the pictures with it unfortunately. The farm had probably been really nice thirty plus years ago, but had not been taken care of. There was a house, sixteen outbuildings, a grain bin, and a silage bunker. The only thing worth saving was the silage bunker, and one steel building. It was a machine shed set up for grain flat storage. When we took possession, it was divided into four grain sections, and a machine storage portion in the front. The grain storage sections had several hundred bushels of rotten corn and jars. Lots and lots of jars. The front was full of junk. All manners of junk. As were most of the sheds.
My wife and I had decided to put up our new house on our forty acres. So I wanted to move the steel building onto the same dry corner as the house.
First I had to clean it out. It was a mess. Here are some of the jars set out on the center dividing wall after I took down most of the tin. There were more. A lot more. That corn behind it was covering boxes of buried mason jars.
Here you can see the front side of the shed with my ‘85 K20 parked inside. I can’t remember what the measurements are. I’ll have to look them up. It’s like 34’ wide, and 44’ deep.
Here is the rear center after I cleaned it out. The center dividing wall was steel with tin. The front to back dividing walls were made out of ship lap. The bottom ship lap pieces were 2”x12”. I had no idea the made ship lap that big.
This is the Northwest section before I cleaned it out. It was a crappy job.
About half cleaning out. That aeration tube was buried in there.
Cleaned out, and divider wall taken down. That was tricky.
This is the neighbor who bought the land with us, helping me take it apart.
Using his telehandler to remove the ship lap. His wife wanted it. We pulled some out of some other barns, but those pictures are gone.
Next came the hard part. Taking all the hardware loose that was holding the shed down to the concrete.
Martin
My wife and I had decided to put up our new house on our forty acres. So I wanted to move the steel building onto the same dry corner as the house.
First I had to clean it out. It was a mess. Here are some of the jars set out on the center dividing wall after I took down most of the tin. There were more. A lot more. That corn behind it was covering boxes of buried mason jars.
Here you can see the front side of the shed with my ‘85 K20 parked inside. I can’t remember what the measurements are. I’ll have to look them up. It’s like 34’ wide, and 44’ deep.
Here is the rear center after I cleaned it out. The center dividing wall was steel with tin. The front to back dividing walls were made out of ship lap. The bottom ship lap pieces were 2”x12”. I had no idea the made ship lap that big.
This is the Northwest section before I cleaned it out. It was a crappy job.
About half cleaning out. That aeration tube was buried in there.
Cleaned out, and divider wall taken down. That was tricky.
This is the neighbor who bought the land with us, helping me take it apart.
Using his telehandler to remove the ship lap. His wife wanted it. We pulled some out of some other barns, but those pictures are gone.
Next came the hard part. Taking all the hardware loose that was holding the shed down to the concrete.
Martin
