So I’m finally getting the chance to build a barn on our new property, however, I need ideas. I’ve been thinking about a three stall shed row with a tack room/ feed room, also with an 12’ alley.
Who wants to share their pictures of their barns?
Stalls would be 12’x12’ with the tack / feed room the same just with a concrete floor. And a covered walk way making for a totaled width of 24’ by a length of 48’.
No one has any pictures to share!!! Doesn’t have to be shed row looking for things more built personally.
PLEASE HELP ME OUT AND SHOW YOUR PICTURES!!!
I only just saw this thread now but I can post some pics this week.
Where I work we have 18 stall shedrow. The stalls back on the indoor arena, hayloft above and has a tackroom as well.
Stalls are probably about 12 x 12 maybe bit smaller. Concrete and overhang in front of stalls is about 6 feet wide. Paddocks are not attached to stalls.
First time using shedrow stalls. I like them overall just not for working with young horses since have had the colt think about leaping over the door.
P.
I had a shedrow type barn when I lived in Florida. It was sort of U-shaped and 24’ X 51’. There were two 12X12 stalls side by side on the left, then a center aisle area that had a door with access to the tack/reed closet, then another 12X12 stall, then the right side of the “U” was a 12X24 foaling stall. Unfortunately I only took one picture, but it was a WONDERFUL layout
http://blumefarm.com/images/600_barn1.jpg
I now have a “gussy-uped” run-in shelter. Pics are on my FB page
https://www.facebook.com/BlumeFarm/photos_stream
If you are on FB take a look at this group https://www.facebook.com/groups/715889391836844/
I have my horses here on base with our military horse club. We each rent our own small field that has a run-in shed. Ours is the only one that had not been added on to so. This last weekend we added on to our run-in shed, it was a 10x10 and we added 10x16 to it. It gives me another 10x10 stall and a 6x10 tack/feed room. I am going to hang a 10’ gate on the left side of the opening, so I can keep one in if needed.
This is what we had before.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10334293_10152275135572273_653604099191914653_n.jpg?oh=615291e50714d74e56b308b7050147ce&oe=5485E034&gda=1421212427_31d94dd4b60e78713d718826381f5ed1
Here is what was done day 1. the closed in part is the tack/feed room area.
https://scontent-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10423857_10152275135657273_2702460772076102876_n.jpg?oh=54cf14f474be9c2fe3c0b3b53101c8f7&oe=54C53E03
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10710667_10152275135887273_4528211786099736167_n.jpg?oh=f32b45e2d94a0d6cd98f6795a47b3579&oe=54C6AFF7&gda=1417916698_75973acb7c4999a464202d5c75aa52e4
End of day 2. The tack/feed room door is going in the area that is open to the right.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10645088_10152275136077273_5201866623778481577_n.jpg?oh=e62a1ed7b1d8dd9f51a4fefac9878b00&oe=54BA614A&gda=1421187164_e7be355b04ec6ca954562da5a2922f84
Did you build this yourself or did you hire someone to build it?
There are a number of shed row photos on pinterest
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Did you build this yourself or did you hire someone to build it?[/QUOTE]
My DH and I have done all the work on the new part, that is way it is taking so long to get it done. He is a carpenter/cabinet maker by trade so that does help but it is not my first barn building. This will be the 5 time I have built a barn/run-in.
We did get some more work done on it last night. It will next week before we can get the roof finished.
All sheathing is now up. The tack/feed room is now all closed in, we just have to hang the door.
https://scontent-a-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/l/t1.0-9/1473054_10152279222967273_6565368685900599950_n.jpg?oh=19ed7cc32af8e38a0404adc96df383d8&oe=54B21E9A
https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10428008_10152279223317273_7789681185566846466_n.jpg?oh=7dc82cc7b2783dd0b903e3267cd6e94d&oe=54C53CA1&gda=1421893086_b24ef22363116bfb8f128c6c222e4db9
You can see how the two fit together in this photo. I am going to put kick boards around the inside on both. Not sure why they didn’t do that with the first shed.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10660150_10152279223827273_962235682802387813_n.jpg?oh=04b08493cc3f2efb221d6efe0782f9b5&oe=54CC196F&gda=1418089733_c0fc3f05c3a6a0f77624a04983308513
We are building it this way because I am paying for it but it is not on our land and when we are posted again I can’t take it with me. I am trying to keep the cost down. I will have spent around $700.00 when we are done. but seeing as I only pay $25.00 a month for my pen/field I don’t mind spending the money to have what I want for my two horses.
Not sure? what area of the country you’re in…but look at fatappys…If you’re going to have the ‘front’ of the shed row ‘covered’…why not enclose it, as she did…put a large door basically on the ‘front’ center? or wherever it works, and put end doors too. great for airflow in summer…great for a ‘enclosed aisle’ in winter — truly expands your useable area. I did the ‘same’ in a sort, but not of the scale of your barn, or hers. My little barn is only two stalls, but I have a counter top and full matted aisle with a window and a corner tack armoir for use year round. can open my big double doors all summer (this opens into my large outdoor wash groom area/entrance) and have dutch doors at both ‘ends’ of the aisleway: one into the run in, one into the adjoining shed/feed/storage area. I like a shedrow that utilizes enclosing the ‘aisle’!
where are you going to store your hay? that was the biggest mistake i made when originally outfitting my property–totally underestimated the amount of hay storage i would want.
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where are you going to store your hay? that was the biggest mistake i made when originally outfitting my property–totally underestimated the amount of hay storage i would want.[/QUOTE]
Agree. I totally underestimated how much room the hay would take up too. I have basically filled a 18x22’ 2 car garage (sorry cars) and that’s for one horse and a mini and a donkey.
Sadness.
This is my barn I would not be terribly unhappy if it were to burn down (as long as the horses are out, the expensive saddle is in the trailer and I didn’t just fill the feed room with hay.)
Looking at it, it isn’t a horrible design: tack room on left, two stalls, then feed room. However, I live in a very windy place with snow. It is hell to feed in that barn during a blizzard. The stalls have doors off the back into paddocks that are never closed and I get to shovel snow not only from the aisle, but from the stalls too depending on which direction the wind was blowing. And where snow goes rain also goes, so sometimes I have a muddy aisle. Hopefully fingers crossed I’m finally getting pea gravel and mats for the aisle in a few weeks so at least I won’t have mud there anymore.
Were I to build my own I actually would stay with this general plan but make some changes. I’d make a bigger aisle and enclose it, so winter feeding wouldn’t be so hellacious. My tack room is smaller than some walk in closets, and while I make it work I wouldn’t mind more room. I’d have a larger feed room that the hay wagon could actually back the stacked hay into and drop it instead of dumping it outside the barn and us having to stack it. I’d extend the roof over the corrals out so the roof runoff wouldn’t be landing right outside the doors, plus it would hopefully help a bit with the snow coming in. Also, I’d like a drive through parking space for the trailer 
And I really can’t talk about my barn without sharing the chandelier I put in my tack room
I have a Klene pipe that is probably the record setter for the longest project ever. I’m not going to tempt fate and discuss why we kept having to put it on the back burner but we got the roof up at 10pm the night before last because the forecast changed to heavy winds and we were halfway done, so now we have a three season patio at least!
It faces south and is the location we originally had the pens in, sheltered by the house from winter storm winds. It’s going to have two stall fronts and an enclosed 12 x 12 feed/tack room, the bulk of the hay will stay in the loft where it currently is stored and get shuttled over several bales at a time, I’m hoping to just put in a new door to the house so I can stay in there to mix feed instead of freezing.
It was intended to be a regular portable deal but DH decided our run in would end up in the next county the way the wind is around here and built the stupid thing a full foundation that is set up to drain, got layers of rocks, pipe, you name it.
Ours is a 36 foot version of this basic model http://www.klenepipe.com/store.asp?pid=30886 Sitting on this https://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10574209_834349499931746_5565623283663398899_n.jpg?oh=dfc233eac495f5a2b0193c88be09c30a&oe=54CC7E4E
Built by a guy who used to build boats, custom wood framed windows and doors and furniture and who cannot do anything the quick way. Ever. It should outlast both of us, and the horse!
My U shaped shedrow.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Xbn18bm9TQNDM4M1FtOHpzRjQ/view?usp=sharing
10 stalls, tack, feed, grooming and equipment on the 3rd side.
[QUOTE=Equibrit;7790714]
My U shaped shedrow.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Xbn18bm9TQNDM4M1FtOHpzRjQ/view?usp=sharing
10 stalls, tack, feed, grooming and equipment on the 3rd side.[/QUOTE]
This is very similar to what I want to do. May I ask, how is it oriented? Which direction is the open end?
Open end is East. My house is across the open side with the driveway in between. Step off the concrete of the rightmost stall and it’s 30ft or so to my back door. The stalls facing the camera face south. The pic was taken about 10 ish am. Around here the weather usually comes in from the West/NW.
Thank you. Very good information for my situation. 
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I have a Klene pipe that is probably the record setter for the longest project ever. I’m not going to tempt fate and discuss why we kept having to put it on the back burner but we got the roof up at 10pm the night before last because the forecast changed to heavy winds and we were halfway done, so now we have a three season patio at least!
It faces south and is the location we originally had the pens in, sheltered by the house from winter storm winds. It’s going to have two stall fronts and an enclosed 12 x 12 feed/tack room, the bulk of the hay will stay in the loft where it currently is stored and get shuttled over several bales at a time, I’m hoping to just put in a new door to the house so I can stay in there to mix feed instead of freezing.
It was intended to be a regular portable deal but DH decided our run in would end up in the next county the way the wind is around here and built the stupid thing a full foundation that is set up to drain, got layers of rocks, pipe, you name it.
Ours is a 36 foot version of this basic model http://www.klenepipe.com/store.asp?pid=30886 Sitting on this https://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10574209_834349499931746_5565623283663398899_n.jpg?oh=dfc233eac495f5a2b0193c88be09c30a&oe=54CC7E4E
Built by a guy who used to build boats, custom wood framed windows and doors and furniture and who cannot do anything the quick way. Ever. It should outlast both of us, and the horse![/QUOTE]
Oh my. That foundation is impressive. Just wow.
[QUOTE=Desert Topaz;7789825]
This is my barn I would not be terribly unhappy if it were to burn down (as long as the horses are out, the expensive saddle is in the trailer and I didn’t just fill the feed room with hay.)
Looking at it, it isn’t a horrible design: tack room on left, two stalls, then feed room. However, I live in a very windy place with snow. It is hell to feed in that barn during a blizzard. The stalls have doors off the back into paddocks that are never closed and I get to shovel snow not only from the aisle, but from the stalls too depending on which direction the wind was blowing. And where snow goes rain also goes, so sometimes I have a muddy aisle. Hopefully fingers crossed I’m finally getting pea gravel and mats for the aisle in a few weeks so at least I won’t have mud there anymore.
Were I to build my own I actually would stay with this general plan but make some changes. I’d make a bigger aisle and enclose it, so winter feeding wouldn’t be so hellacious. My tack room is smaller than some walk in closets, and while I make it work I wouldn’t mind more room. I’d have a larger feed room that the hay wagon could actually back the stacked hay into and drop it instead of dumping it outside the barn and us having to stack it. I’d extend the roof over the corrals out so the roof runoff wouldn’t be landing right outside the doors, plus it would hopefully help a bit with the snow coming in. Also, I’d like a drive through parking space for the trailer
And I really can’t talk about my barn without sharing the chandelier I put in my tack room[/QUOTE]
How big is your too-small tack room? That’s my project for next year.
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