portable barns for job sites

[lancek]

The other thing you could do is build a set of stalls that are road legal 102″ wide by up to 40′ long [no need to go that long but you could ! And place four jacks on it like you would a camper trailer that would lower it to the ground level! It would an extra trip to move you to site but you could arrange it to hold all necessary equipment food and water. This would also serve as a tax write off because the time and money spent to move is tax deductible

[mitchmaine]

pretty good idea. for that matter, lumber’s so light, you could build a small hovel and pick it up with your boom, set it on the pulp truck and move it in.
i still like carl’s idea. having them home every night. i spent years running twenty miles to do twenty minutes of chores, and it gets old quick. mitch

[TaylorJohnson]

If they are any distance or out of the way they are coming home if I am not working or if I go there to do choirs I am going to work. i do bring them home most of the time but some jobs it is just to far to haul every day . I wont drive that far just to feed and water ether , I use to but like ya said it gets old quick. I am also trying to take more time off , I found my self working many many days in a row just so I did not wast fuel on a job. Almost died last year from that type of practice so no more of that. Ideally it would be a one trip and every thing is there and I am drooping wood before dark .
My thought is a like Carl’s in that I would build a sturdy structure appealing to the eye to some extent but very practical. I will try and use aspen polls or pine of some kind to do this as apposed to 4x4s. . I think 4x4s would be cleaner and easier to work with but right now I have aspen and pine but no 4x4s so it is going to be aspen , pine , and some wood butchering 🙂 . Taylor Johnson

[Carl Russell]

This is beside the point but for years I would set up a small stack of logs, 1000-2000 bf and have a portable mill come a nd cut them up for me. I just can’t function without a lumber pile to pick and pull from. That’s why I own a small Wood mizer myself now.

I think you could do a pretty good job with small poles. I wanted to use lumber, but the thought of handling those panels with board attached was too much. I chose plywood, although more expensive, because I could use through bolts and wing nuts to attach the ply and then handle and stack the ply wood separately.

Carl

[perchhauler]

I have corral pannels I can make 12’x12′ boxes for each horse.. If i want a roof over them I’ve used pvc tied in the corners with elbows, drilled to drop a bolt through, to make a frame for a tarp or you can tie a piece or two of old metal roofing on.. In nasty weather I put this close to my trailer for a windbrake..

[perchhauler]

P.S. thinking of buying a gooseneck flatbed trailer. I could fit my corral pannels, skid cart, sled, arch, pvc lengths, and sheeting on it when starting a job, and I’ll weld uprights on it to haul logs on small jobs, good winch on-er and I’m all set..

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