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Blooming where I am planted! | We have some old grain bins we are thinking about doing something with. I've heard that if you reinforce with steel pieces or studs, you can cut out arches and make a nice gazebo. Has anyone here ever done that, or done something else with them? Seems like there' s a lot of nice material there to work with. |
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Rock County, MN | a nice gazebo or a low rent condo
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Highland Center, in Southeast Iowa | In weather like we're having now, that bin tin doesn't dissipate much heat. It tends to pass on a lot of heat instead of reflecting it. The remaining bin material after you've cut out your decorative parts can get hotter than the hubs of Hell unless there's other types of shade available. That aside, they really could be very attractive once the landscaping etc is done. Take pix.......we all wanna see!!! |
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NE Iowa | Recycle to a salvage yard and build something useful with the money. |
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Staffa, Ontario, Canada | Snowmobile shack :) |
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W.C. Mo. | Plan on using an 18' 5 ring as a peacock house. Putting it under a shade tree with an adjoining fenced in pen. Plan on putting a cut off hedge tree inside to roost. |
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MN | http://www.motherearthnews.com/Hands-On-How-To/Grain-Bin-Building.a...
Well You could do this and make a house |
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| There is an apartment house in Ames, IA built of bin tin. Someone wanted to do more but the city rejected the plans in the last few months. The Atrium of a building in Ankeny IA is built of bin tin. Lots of little bins litter the Iowa countryside, more after the recent high winds.
The circular shape makes for strong echoes and the tin conducts heat and the galvanize is better at absorbing solar energy than radiating it so they do run hot.
And on your farm probably not located for the most convenient gazebo, but might make a shed for garden machinery.
Gerald J. |
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ECIL | Back when ostriches were the rage a couple guys bought a 1000 bu. and a 2000 bu bin to use as ostrich houses. The floors were poured after the bins were put up so they just cut them off flush with the floor. A neighbor has a couple 1000 bu bins they've used for peacock houses before. |
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TX | http://www.gruenehomesteadinn.com/silo2009.htm |
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mn | I have never been so drunk or drank so much that I looked at a grain bin and said, hay, lets make a bird shed |
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South Of Town. | Take the bins down and to the scrap yard, get your money and buy or build something decent. |
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West Tennessee | 2x4 walls and roll up doors made 6 12k bu bins into 18 mini storage units. $35x18 = $630/mo. rent income. |
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Southern IA | In high school a bunch of guys got an old bin and turned it into a cabin. Moved it about a mile into the timber and we would all hang out there on the weekends. |
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East of Dowagiac Michigan | I built a 30' gazebo for a park last summer......project was sponsered by a township in memory of a local farmer who had suddenly passed. They bought a used bin for the project. I laminated the two heaviest rings I had into one double thickness ring , assembled the roof, had it raised with crane and drilled/bolted 10 hopper bin legs.
edit: Project was inspired by GSI's gazebo at the IL Farm Progress Show.
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Blooming where I am planted! | Genius!! Would you post a picture (inside and out) please? |
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Norton,KS | http://www.city-data.com/picfilesv/picv30480.php
This is at Colby, KS |
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Blooming where I am planted! | Lyle, what a great idea! Would you post a picture please? It sounds like it turned out extra nice! |
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Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | My uncle took a small bin and made it a tractor shed.
I know a guy in Old Pokey's neighborhood that bought a very small old bin to use the roof and maybe one ring to make a covered sandbox for his kids.
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So. IL | Might want to just sell it? I seen a old 24 footer sell at a farm sale a couple months ago for over $4,000. |
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NW Washington | Farmshow magazine has had upteen articles about folks doing something different with old round grain bins over the years. I just read about some guy who made a root cellar and storage shed out of a small one last night. Many have been made into homes.
http://www.farmshow.com/
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High Springs, Florida | Neighbor has one for a tool and garden shed. |
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| I saw one last year while traveling that was made into a gazebo. They used the roof & 1 ring & put that up on wooden posts. In our local town several years ago a guy built a small bin then built a house onto it. Local joke is that he had a problem at night getting out of bed & peeing in a corner and that the bin is thier bedroom.
Depending on size I have seen several used in various ways. From a kiln to dry wood, to storage. Just depends upn a person's imagination. But if it was me, I'd do like the other poster & take it to a salvage yard & put the money to use on something that would look nicer. JM2ยข |
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west central IL | If there is any water to be had in Kansas you could make a swimming hole. Wouldn't be a bad place to beat the heat. |
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N.E. North Dakota | A few guys here have spaced the rings a couple feet apart and filled with dirt to make a raised garden for strawberries. Can pick without bending over. |
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| BHTN - 7/20/2011 22:23
2x4 walls and roll up doors made 6 12k bu bins into 18 mini storage units. $35x18 = $630/mo. rent income.
And after three months of no rent, you get to keep or auction off someone else's treasures.
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Blooming where I am planted! | Thanks to everyone for the replies and the great ideas. I'm pretty creative, especially with the seeds from your ideas, so stay tuned! Good thing KSBoy can roll with my ideas...it's how he met his wife after all... |
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West Tennessee | I'll see what I can do. No pics anywhere that I know of on computer but I'll take some with my phone one day when I'm doing my rounds. Thanks |
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West Tennessee | It's probably obvious but these are outside and inside pictures. Best I could do with cell phone. Hope this helps.
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West Tennessee | Treasures........rarely. Junk............almost always. LOL
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Anyone ever recyled an old grain bin to something else?
