CHOOSING THE RIGHT BUILDINGS FOR YOUR FARM ...ON A BUDGET! 

The carport is too expensive for me. I can build something with a lot less expense if I just call up the lumber mill and get some timbers and boards, get limestone from the mine, and make my own roofing tiles. (The larger pieces of limestone are for the foundation, and you cook the small pieces in a coal furnace to make lime, crush them, add water, and let it sit for a week or so, then you mix the slaked lime with screened soil and you have crazy strong mortar that self-heals cracks.) Roofing tiles are dead simple to make, and if you use a spanish tile kiln to fire them, You can make enough tiles for the roof in 2 firings. If you bathe the tiles in a wood-ash and ochre slurry before firing, they will not be porous.

Love how you’re often open about costs and prices. Many RU-vid’rs promise to tell ya all about it, keep stirring around the pot and tell you in fact nothing worth full. Love the channel dude!! Keep it up 👍🏼 Greetings from France 🇫🇷

You are 100% correct to say " what ever building size you THINK you want... double it. I learned that early on too lol

Always set down a post, even just a fence post by any corner, opening or door where you will be driving cars and equipment. You want to bump into the post 10-20" before you hit your building.

I love this channel. You are a hoot. We can always count on your honesty and straight forward approach.

Josh, never use the insulation you were describing in your garage, I'm in Tn so similar weather, I was talked into that stuff in my 50x100 building and within 3 years it disintegrated, you would touch it and it would fall to pieces. We had to replace all the wall insulation with thicker quality insulation and the roof still has the thin stuff and it's all hanging with flakes of it constantly dropping on everything. I now realize our builder just wanted to put more money in his pocket, just a heads up on your new building, love the videos. Woooo!!

Do what you can when you.. Better than putting yourself in deep debt.. Have a good night ☃️☃️☃️

Thanks for taking the time to make this video. Very informative.

Those metal buildings make for nice sheds. 👍👍👍❤️

You provided some great information Josh!

I got both a carport 21x21 and a 26x37 garage with 2 10 foot roll up doors and its 12ft tall walls. Paid just a little over $10k 3 years ago. Main regret is not getting a slab for both. Unfortunately for the carport our local metal mart sells a full galvanized 6 inch c perlin kit for just under $900. Would of liked that just because its 4 corner post and that's all. For the barn I do want to put walls on the side and in the back build some shelfs all the way up for storage you are right it's never big enough barn when you start building a 100+ acre farm. I am building another 20x20 roof for other storage material in the next month. I will be using the perlin instead. Reduces the amount of post I can hit with the tractor! P.s. trying to follow your footsteps with starting a farm in the future but with Longhorns instead! Who knows that might be some good RU-vid channel content possibility!! Best of luck for you wishing all your plans come to life. I'm tired of all the negative people who talk down on people that work hard

Champion Buildings built my shop. Great job and fully insulated. Never gets below 40 degrees in there in the winter and easy to heat with a small space heater.

Great video Josh. We all learned that lesson as soon as we put all our “stuff” in that new shed we thought was big enough!! Appreciate you going over this from your perspective!

Great Explanation on selecting steel buildings, options, and cost.

Thank you for info. I am 15 miles west of Duluth MN. Everything needs insulation, even if not heated, as the freezing can be -30. I am looking at putting up a building with heated floor, using containers as walls with trusses overhead. Tractor storage and project space.

So true about doubling the size you think you need. Boy it fills up fast.

Mrs., our two small kids, and I went from a mobile home to a split level house in 1986. It came with a two car garage. I thought this would give me all the storage I would ever need. Hah! Not even close. Maybe I should have bought a farm instead.

Excellent video. Very informative. Precise and to the point. Your property is looking good. I'm proud for you.

Great video. Thanks for being open and honest. Most people would never do that, especially with things that pertain to $!!! But this video was very helpful. My hat is off to you for living in a modest home and living modestly so you can get your farm going. The sacrifice will be worth it !

We put up a 60x80 poll barn with concrete floor under half of it with a dividing wall . Heated half so fully insulated for working on equipment the rest was cold storage. It was full in less than a year. It doesn't matter how big you build you'll find junk to fill it. Never keep it over 40 unless we were working on something. When my brother sold the farm it was the only building left standing.

Enjoyed the tour of the buildings Josh. We are looking to add a building and your information was very helpful. Get more than you think you will need to start with sounds like good advice. Thanks for sharing.

Here in Upstate NY not far from Lake Ontario, we have 50# per sq ft snow load and 100 MPH wind construction code. 2x8 5/12 pitch #2 southern white pine trusses 2 ft on center. Costs more to build in these parts.

Earl we need to see more earl please great video as always

Great morning Josh and wifey. Loving Life 😁😁

Thanks for the tour Josh. May be too small but they are nice to have.

Hi.... Thank you 🎥👍👍👍

Dude!!! Love this type of video!!

The IF,s win in this vid...good advice on shelter choices However inventory control helps

Great video! Currently shopping around, thanks for the tips!

Nice

Maybe one day we'll go inside and make ourselves right at home! BOOM P.S. got any beer in that fridge? 🤪

Thanks for sharing prices.

Another excellent video. I am considering building a building for my tractors and stuff so this was very helpful.

Man you should see the very first building on our farm. Dad bought nails, and salvaged tin, and had a friend bring a portable saw mill. Lean to, sasafrass posts, 4 inch pine logs for rafters and oak boards for siding. It's been there nearly forty years and still a strong little shop, just looks hick as hell lol

Thanks for the transparency. It's expensive to run a farm, we're learning very quickly

If you orientated your next large building East - West and you spec the building to take solar panels you could generate off grid energy and store that energy into batteries and then use an inverter to power stuff!

Amazing thanks for this! Was just what I was looking for!

my list got wiped clean and i,m trouble finding all my channels, just found yous so we get back to seeing green grass in the middle of our snowy winter,,hello from the upper peninsula of mich.,, yup ya dont have nough hiding spots for when the BOSS gets mad,, be blessed and safe

I'm using one inch thick strofoam for insulation

When I used to put up pole barns we would charge roughly 75% of cost of building only for labor. We could not keep up with the amount of work we had.

Recently had one priced near NC coast for my boat and tractor, have to find another company. I priced a engineered building for 150 mph wind load, 40' x 50' with 12' legs, vertical sheeting with the R-9 roof and wall insulation, 2 insulated 10'x12' doors and 1 man door, 4" slab. Their website advertises that building with horizontal sheeting, 4" slab, no insulation, 2 8'x8' doors and man door for approx. $18k installed. The building I wanted came back priced at $44k. They wanted well over double advertised price for larger insulated bay doors, R-9 insulation, 12' legs instead of 8' legs and vertical sheeting instead of horizontal.

Glad your building plans worked out well for you and you continue it grow and improve your farm.

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks! Good tp hear your experience. And that dog house wow.

The shed your saying is facing the wrong way that has sides on it I am also certain and some what sure you can remove those sides, a few of the panels to dry it out when you need to without it falling down? So you finally showed us where you sleep when the boss is angry with you :))

Thanks again for talking honestly about what you paid for the structures. We seem to have a weird stigma about money where we do not talk about how much things cost. It helps your neighbor!

Wooo...Josh...you are going right direction with right mind set.....American dreams come true....great President, what good can we ask more.....praise the Lord you will see more blessing done in miraculous way.

Your probably the most helpful person on RU-vid. Thank you

Josh, if you want to insulate your large building have you considered going with two inches of closed cell foam? You can get really good r rating out of it and the longest part would be moving the contents out and back in. Just a thought though

Love it. I thought they'd cost more. I could deal with smaller living space as long as I have the out buildings. (who wants to stay in the house all day?)

Thanks! I have really enjoyed watching your farm grow and progress over the yrs.

Hey Josh, great timely info! We will be starting our homestead this year and I been wondering about a barn/workshop. Thanks for the pricing info, very helpful.

...GREAT INFO. THANKS...

Neat thanks for sharing my friend it really helps.

Thanks very informative clip

Hey Josh thank you for the video I enjoyed it and thank you for taking me along with you showing me around I appreciate it man

Very interesting. Thanks

Josh my brother, if I was a stray dog, I'd definitely find your farm. Lolol😃 that kennel is dog heaven! 👍

Sometimes you can call the local carport distributors and ask if they have any “demo” models left over and you can get those for half off! We set two connex’s and put a carport between them. Supper economical way to have secure and dry storage. Only issue is fabrication of ventilation for the connex’s and power hookups.

Had a metal carport added at the end of house extending the enclosed garage. Not enclosed. Cost $5,000 and is worth it. It is huge, can park three vehicles. Rated for 200 mph winds. Know what you mean about metal frames. Bent one of mine with the bucket on the tractor not paying attention. Like how you do things on a budget, work with what you have, don't overextend yourself.

VERY informative to a semi city girl. Live and learn! Good job though - thanks.

Thanks for sharing

Great video!

These are pretty nice structures Josh. I've seen these used to store RVs, and Motor homes in. They're pretty handy for that. I'm thinking of doing something like that.

Love those buildings yours look great

Thanks for sharing the information about your buildings. I totally agree with your statement about the size of the building or shed, you will run out of room fast.

I built a wooden pole barn 18x30 for 4500.00 . My dad had a 30 by 50 installed for 8000.00. I wish I went his way. Of course that price was 12 years ago.

I just finished a garage last year. I build the building by myself from wood. It's 28 x32 and lumber was around $14,000 but what real drove the price up was the concrete. It cost twice what I had budgeted for. It is the hidden cost that bits you in the rear. That and building inspectors.

I like to much your channel every video is amazing

Stoney man u in to something different all the time me and my wife love watching y'alls channel man

Nice hat

Definitely insulate the bigger building. Those things tend to sweat.in our humidity. It's no fun to have it raining inside your shop. I would also warn people against using the warehouse style metal roll up garage doors they sell with these buildings. If you plan to heat or cool the building you will quickly hate them. There is no way to make them air tight and they transmit heat and cold very well.

$14,500 for that last one, for concrete and all, that’s goooood..

Nice beautiful farm, thanks for showing! and the smart useful tips :) Whoohh

Hi Josh. I too have fallen victim to the situation of " should have gone bigger " Also, when you kept saying " we hit it with the tractor" I assume you don't include Mrs. Stoney Ridge in the "we" part.

Thanks for this video. I’m constantly trying to figure out what size building I need and it keeps changing. Hint: It keeps getting bigger.

Thanks

I would use strapping screwed on the tube posts and screw corrugated metal roof panals onto that add two corrugated panals for two doors add a man door on one side then it would be a nice enclosed building

You should look into R&R iron works in morganton.

A small building is much better than no building. But if you can afford the incremental cost to go up in size, by all means it's the way to go.

My how much Stoney Ridge has grown looks great. love n prayers

Good video Josh nice building's you got there.

GreatVideo Again. Keep em comin.

That great information I have a 24by 30 shop myself just like the one you have the equipment in I love mine I do paint and bodywork in mine brother keep up the good work

I'm not too far from you (Albemarle). I built two 30'x40' buildings (each with a side door, two windows and two rollup doors) with insulation on a 30'x110' 4" 3000 psi slab for right at $30K. That price included grading, concrete finishing and building erection. I have vertical roof panels but horizontal siding (like yours). You have nicer big doors (mine are non-insulated rollups). My insulation is the "bubble" type you mentioned. The insulation does seem to work okay. The buildings were erected (once the concrete cured for a few weeks) over two days in 2016 and have held up extremely well. I keep my three tractors (Kubota 4701, Mahindra 4025 and John Deere 850) plus all the implements in there as well as other farm supplies, a John Deere Gator, my son's Miata and a host of other "crap" that shows up when you have storage Wish I could post a picture of the buildings to show you what $30K buys you.

Ok why don't you use Seacan with an open Span ?? Much cheaper with much more space. I will soon start a youtube video series on it once I am laying ground on my property.

Neat idea for these, they just dont work here in the northern midwest sadly. We have to build everything to handle 36inches of snow and 100mph winds. A 26x 40 would have to have a foundation, 3x as many trusses, and probably 2x as many uprights. They sell those carports here cheap, they dont hold up but maybe a couple winters at best.

Thank you for the insight Josh.

Josh...if you bring the sides down a sheet(3 feet), it would keep a lot of rain off.

Thanks for this video. Very good information based upon your experiences.

FYI years ago I built a 24 x 36 2 stall barn.... I felt I got a better building with the sawmill lumber.... I paid friends to help saved 50%.... I got a quote for sawmill lumber... now it's the price of the metal....

Wonderful info Josh! Thank you ❣️👍

Great video 👍 as always.... after several pole barn builds.... I got the insulation, taller ceiling and 200 amp service when possible.... I like the stand along carport building also great engineering... WTG with your farm

Excellent info. We are looking to get an outbuilding soon so this was helpful. Thanks.

Excellent video Josh! Thanks!

I bought a building like that but I put sidewalls and a back on it. It is my tractor shed

Thanks for the information Josh.

I’m currently playing heck with my new enclosed carport, leaks galore. Trying to get the company to make it right. Fun fun

Great useful information. Love this type of content.

Josh, couldn't ya have the people who errected that one building come help ya rotate the building so it faces East to West? But a very good tip though cause it shows how much thought goes into planning before erecting a building like that. Hope all is well at Stoney Ridge Farms? Take Care till your next video and stay safe.