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Rivers, MB | My dad put up a 60x120 half round Quonset. Made by Zipperlock. Very commonly used as potato storages up here in Western Canada for some reason. We find it very usable for parking machinery. I think the key to those sheds is that too often they are made too short, therefore the side walls are on quite an angle. Especially if the shed isn't very wide. Dad was adamant when he built it that it needed to actually be half-round so the side walls were nearly vertical. So its 30' tall in the center which makes it easy to have tall doors in it as well.
We have a 36x90 Quonset shed that's been converted into a shop and its difficult to get stuff right up to the wall. But as a shop, it works great.
We will never build a pole style building. I don't care what kind of warranty you have, if you put wood in the ground, at sometime you WILL have issues.
As the first picture shows, we can get combines, sprayers and 4WD's very close to the wall. We would have at most 3' of "wasted" space at the edge which often gets all sorts of loose ends. Most straight wall sheds I've seen usually have at least 1-2' of "error" room alongside the machinery to the wall so I figure we're not much worse.
No bird issues except on the tracks for the overhead doors.
An interesting bit of info about that shed is that there are next to no screws, fastners, or nails that hold that shed together. The only screws used were to attach the doors and maybe a few for the end walls. Each curve is crimped onto the next one. Whole shed was put up in 3 days I believe.
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Has anybody put up a quonset, curvet, half-round barn the past couple decades?
