Moving/selling a barn? Anyone done it?

[SugarCubes]

Our farmette is currently on the market but we’re getting mostly non-horse people who are interested in the property, which I kind of expected (upscale, “equestrian” community, but no one really has horses but us) so DH and I were wondering if anyone had sold or taken a barn with them before?

We have pre-fab barn from Woodtex…L shaped, 3 stalls on one side, tack room and wash rack on the other. 12’ overhang/aisle was built on site.

We are looking to purchase 40+ acres so it could come in handy at the next place as a secondary barn or storage or something, or I wouldn’t mind selling it if someone would be interested…I just don’t know anything about how that would work. Best place to advertise it? Who would be able to deconstruct the roof and move it? Cost to do something like this?

Picture of the barn if that helps:https://www.instagram.com/p/BJ-ZtEhB6czvuUo5ih8gb-hzJ1DLvx9mn7bkmw0/?taken-by=hkijo

Thanks!

[fourfillies]

No help but love your barn. If I might ask how did handle the space created by the “corner”?

[js]

An acquaintance had to move their barn when they sold their property. Buyers didn’t want the barn so they disassembled the barn and moved it. I have no idea what it cost or was involved with the process, they had a large custom barn.

Love your barn!

[SugarCubes]

Thanks!! I assume you mean the “corner” behind the barn where the two sides of the ‘L’ meet? It’s actually a perfect 12x12 space so we added another prefab shed for additional hay storage, fits perfectly and is completely hidden by the barn. If you look on the left, you can get an idea of the “corner” before we added a shed.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BJ83yc0hSZQFMPnWSy0LmVQW_qMrxGzPx2LMiU0/?taken-by=hkijo

[Quelah]

Is the roof metal? A friend moved a 12 stall wood shed row barn 25 years ago. Major tip, number the pieces, ESPECIALLy of roofing, so they go back the exact same way. A framing contractor who is up for an adventure is probably the sort of person you want.

[tuppysmom]

A house mover should be able to handle that easily.

[SugarCubes]

Sorry, my quote function isn’t working…

JS - Thank you! That’s good to know, if a custom barn could be moved I’d assume my small, prefab barn would be a piece of cake!

Quelah - No, roof is shingled…but good idea about a framing guy!

Tuppysmom - Wow, really? Do you know who I would contact about that sort of thing? I’m guessing “house mover” isn’t listed in the yellow pages

I suppose I should call Woodtex directly and ask them as well, although they just discontinued all manufacturing of their horse barns so I’m not sure how helpful they’ll be.

Anyone else with experience doing this? Would love to hear numbers so I can determine if this even makes financial sense.

[Macimage]

I also occasionally see ads for used pre fab barns. Larger barns (such as a 40 stall barn) will often be sold in smaller increments.

[tuppysmom]

We have a local house moving company called Pacific Movers. They did all the tilting of the ship in the movie Titanic!

They moved our hay barn to a new location on our property and it was a very interesting process to watch.

Some neighbors here had a shed row barn moved by a builder. He took it apart in sections and the house mover toted it over to the new place and the builder put it back together.

[amm2cd]

My family’s original barn was dismantled and moved. It’s been it’s current location for 15+ years.
I have another dismantled barn that my boss was going to raze sitting on a trailer in my back yard awaiting site prep

[Macimage]

My post did not go through. Here is a professional barn moving company. Perhaps they will know of someone in your area:

http://www.horsetrader.com/viewdisplayad.asp?fastad=907153

Pre fab barns are frequently bought and sold in Calif. If you buyer does not want it, I would definitely take it with you. Good luck!

[walkers]

I gave away a custom(wood) perfect condition 3000sg ft 10 stall barn to equine rescue. The property had been sold for development and the barn would have been demolished. It was double walled pine stalls with asphalt roof,siding ,shutters,like a house and all bells and whistles.
The rescue group came out with about 12 people ,horse trailers and pick ups , by the end of the day they had taken it apart and away . it was turned into two barns . They took everything even the toilets so yes it can be done .
As far as having it moved by house movers L shape can be a problem and it must fit under power lines, the cost to raise power lines or stoplights is prohibitive, cheaper to build a new one.

[Hermein]

My BarnMaster shed row has been moved twice. It’s a factory-built barn, so taking it down and putting it up someplace else is fairly easy. You’d do best to hire a company that’s familiar with pre-fab buildings.

[DressageFancy]

Don’t know your location, but, around here the Amish are the ones to talk to about this kind of move. They take down. You transport it to new location. They put back up.

[CLB15]

If its prefab it’ll just need to come apart to ship the way it was delivered- probably as 2 shedrows plus supplies used to connect the two I sold two prefab stalls to someone that had a construction pro in the family move the sheds to their new home. A friend of mine bought a couple run in sheds and had them moved from one farm to another when she moved her horses, and she hired a friend with a car tow truck and simply hooked the corners and had them drawn up the flatbad.
If you don’t end up taking them to your new home and do end up selling your place to a non-horse person, if they aren’t being included in the sale then list them for sale and let the buyer worry about moving them

[gumtree]

Assuming this was delivered as a “unit” on flat bed and the over hang was added after the fact. It will be pretty easy to move. But not inexpensive.

The overhand will have to be remove. Which I assumed was framed and added after delivery. All the ones I have seen are.

How labor intensive this is depends on how it was framed. The shingles should be easy enough to remove where it is framed to the modular section. So there should be little to no damage to the roof cosmetics.

Whether is would be cost effect to remove the over hang as one section and reinstall is debatable. Depends on how it is framed and if it can be removed as one whole section will very little damage and transported with the modular/barn section on the same load.

It might be more cost effective just to demo and build a new one once the barn is moved. Would need a site review to determine this. The extra labor and extra equipment needed, ie a crane.

The material cost to build a new one would not be that much in the grand scheme of things.

Hiring a company to move this is not inexpensive. A friend of mine sold her farm and had 2 shedrow modular barns, 4 stall and a 6 stall. I let her store them on my property until sold. It took about a year but I am not sure how much effort she put into it.

I think she got around $4,000 & $6,000 for each. I thought about buying them but I could build the same thing cheaper myself. Nicer too.

The cost of pick up and transport to the new location and unloading on to the prepared site depends mostly on mileage.

The 2 barns were moved around 8-10 miles from here. I think it cost around $1,500 to $2,000 each? But this was on local rural roads and an “escort” car was not needed. There maybe fees charged by the state for transport on a “major road”? Plus the cost of an wide load escort car and driver.