My 'new' tractor shed

Some of you may remember some pics I posted a few weeks ago of the concrete floor we poured in my new shed

Well it is all set hard now and I found some time this week to make up a gable truss to suspend the lean-to roof without the need for posts. I spent a day laying it out and doing the cutting with a stihl 12" saw and got it all tacked together with my hobby welder. Then I used the Honda petrol welder to weld it up proper

I burnt a complete box(120) rods on this and £!5 of petrol!
I also took delivery of a truck load (600)of 18"x9"x6" concrete blocks for the walls. Now was a good time before the girders go up for the lean-to roof, as the block grab on the truck could set them where they are needed.

I used my old tractor and loader to lift and turn the truss for welding. This tractor can lift about 1200 kgs and it was near it's limit with this truss, guess the truss weighs a ton or so

I got a guy to help me for two days this week and we managed to frame the lean-to roof. The sheds are second-hand so I painted all the steel and creosoted the timber to make it like new!, At least if I have to put any new timber in the creosote will help everything to match....

I also opened a new entrance and fitted some gates, the small gate is for my daughter's pony....so she doesn't have to open up the whole entrance!

The new truss in place ready for phase two, (or the second shed!) The next shed will be 120x40, the lean-to is 78x25.Should hold/keep some machinery out of our damp climate!

Just though some of you might be interested in how we construct our sheds (barns!)
Sam

Looks good. Do you reckon you could come over here? I need to build some hog sheds and a tractor barn and could use some help.

Looks very well designed. What rod were you burning? Jim

Just curious how you plan to deal with rain run off in the second phase.
From the pictures it looks like the second phase will be a gable roof where water from it and the existing shed will both drain to a center wall.

What is the design snow load for your area?

Sam- How about a close up of those gate hangers?
Looks kind of interesting to what we use, and I have
a couple to rebuild here shortly--

Sam, you folks sure build stuff to last! Not many concrete block machinery barns in the USA, that's for sure!

When we put two sheds together like this we install a 'valley gutter' actually a piece of 12" sewer pipe split in two longwise. There will be 3 drops or downpipes....adequate for the amount of rain we get here.
Sam

We dont get much snow, but a guy I do some tractor work for says that this will carry at least 2 foot of snow. In my 52 years on this earth the deepest snow we have ever had was about 6 inches and for 25 years in succession we had none!
Sam

Larry, exterior wood just does not last around here. we are too damp for too many months of the year. Our wood always has a green algae like moss or mould on it...horrible stuff. Plus the fact that concrete is cheaper than wood and if my sons decide to keep cattle again this shed will be very suitable and easily adapted.
Sam