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Other things that come into play that you didn’t say–are you doing it yourself or paying someone to do it all, and do you need it all done at once? And also what type of everything do you want. For instance, all wood or no-climb fence or electrobraid, plywood or plank stalls or fancy fronts.
If you answer no to diy and yes to all at once, it’s going to get into big money, I would think.
We bought 51 acres that had an old tobacco barn, a garden shed and one line of fencing, but it’s beautiful land, at the right price, in a location we love, and we are super handy and DIY, plus I have the time to DIY.
For us, we fenced 51 acres with t-posts and electrobraid–1 30 acre pasture, 1 10 acre pasture, 1 five acre pasture, and 2 paddocks. Less than $3500. We didn’t know exactly how we wanted it fenced because we didn’t know how water flowed, so we needed something that we could move as needed. Now 1 1/2 years later, we are moving some of the fence lines to what works better and are probably going to be getting some wooden posts pounded in on certain fencelines, but will be staying with Electrobraid, except for my dogs’ yard. LOL–the dogs are currently fenced in with Electrobraid too, but I’ll be going with some kind of mesh along the road to keep the neighbors little yappers out of the yard.
Our horses pretty much live out, so we opened up a side of the tobacco barn to make it user friendly as a run in shed, and I built a plywood stall in one corner for in case, and a “tack room” in the other. The garden shed got a reinforced floor and is a perfectly adequate run in shed for our stallion.
We are completely DIYing our barn. 7 12x16 stalls, 15 tie type feeding stalls, a 16 foot aisleway, indoor wash stall, and 12x16 feed/tack room. Monitor style pole barn with eventual hay loft over the center aisle. Cost for supplies only is between $10,000-12,000 depending on where I get the lumber–and I’m really only looking at the big box stores like Lowes and 84 Lumber. I’m not charging for my labor. We are doing plywood walls 4 foot high with rails above that, stonedust floors, except in the wash stall, t1-11 type exterior walls. Doors will be racetrack type webbings in the aisle way and dutch doors on the 7 box stalls. Later down the line, we’ll had the hayloft floor, mats in the stalls, maybe some drop down windows to add more ventilation, dress up the tack room, auto waterers and so on. It will be safe and workmanlike and as attractive as I can make it, but so, so, so far from fancy. But we don’t have boarders who might complain.
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Don’t want to hijack, but I have a question for you.
Those 12’ x 16’ stalls, do you like them like that, or would you, given the space, have made them 14’ x 16’?
We can do either, can’t make our minds up!
We have 25’ from column to column and could do two 12’ x 12’ stalls in each one, but the runs off the stalls are just too narrow for us at 12’ wide, horses fuss too much there.
We are going with three 16’ wide runs and so stalls, but can do 12’ or 14’ x 16’ for every two 25’ bays.
To the OP, yes, buying already built is considerably cheaper, even with light remodeling, over building today, as expensive and complicated as everything is getting to be now.
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