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| I've got a 40 x100 shop on a farm I bought several years back and we've been using it for grain/equipment storage. This year I'd like to petition off part of it so that I can use less space for grain but hopefully go higher on the walls and still store about the same bushels.
The shop has a 2 foot concrete footer then has 2x6, 14 foot walls. 2x6's are on 2 foot centers. In the past we've just put 4x8 sheets of plywood on the walls and piled about 4 foot on the sides and has worked fine. Does anybody know how much higher I could go and not blow out the walls? Ideally I'd like to get 8 ft high on the walls but doubt the walls will hold that without extra support.
I've thought about getting some of those concrete bunker blocks and stacking them so I could go higher but that puts quite a bit of weight on a 2 ft wide strip of concrete if I go very high with the bunker blocks.
If anybody has any input or suggestions that'd be great. Thanks in advance.
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How much load can my shop walls take for grain storage?
