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Faunsdale, AL | You can also build the commodity shed that you can't dump a long trailer in. We have about a 30 foot apron along the front of our bays. Pour it thick on a good base since dump trailers will be stood up on it and put lots of pressure on it. Ours looks a lot like garvo's old one and it's a pain to ever repair it unless you only feed seasonally.
You need the concrete pad anyway just to work the loader in and out of the bays, so we did a plain gable roof instead of a high shed to try to get a trailer in it. We get a few things in live bottom trailers that unload out the back and an occasional load in an auger truck, but most comes in frameless dumps. Had a guy lay one over last spring when he was dumping a load one night. It was the owner, not the driver that usually delivered stuff and he dropped the tractor duals off about a 3 inch edge of the concrete apron, not even a sharp drop, but enough.
Be careful putting wet feeds next to anything dry unless you have a good poured wall between. Anything less and you may get spoiled/molded feed underneath the pile of dry stuff. We finally put our wet feed bays outside and have gotten along pretty well in our climate. | |
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more post for ak-47 and the other guy on commodity sheds
