This past spring we purchased an older farm. We have been redoing the 100 year old barn. Currently we have 4 stalls and are getting ready to do the other half of the barn which will give us another 2 stalls. In the process of this renovation I will be losing my tack room. Which is okay since the barn is not ideal for keeping nice leather (most needed more than regular cleaning due to mold and mildew this past summer). So we found and purchased a 30’ pup trailer (smaller tractor trailer trailer) to use as a tack room. Plans are to remove the wheels (this is where the men come in) and sit it on the concrete pad beside the barn. I’m curious has anyone else done a trailer or shipping container conversion to a tack room? I’d love to hear your conversion story and see pictures of how they turned out. Also looking for suggestions.
Not a tractor trailer, but I had friends who converted a railroad boxcar into a cottage-type home.
Granted, a rather long, narrow home, but quite comfy.
I’d think your main consideration would be insulating the interior and probably between the floor and the cement pad, or you’ll end up with the same problem as your current tackroom.
Condensation.
Also what will you do for an entry door?
Those problems solved, it sounds like a good idea.
I would recommend some sort of ordinary entry door cut into the structure. The regular cargo doors are hard to work with anything in your hands, and cannot be closed from the inside. (Plus, woe to you if someone DID close it from the outside with a person in it.) You probably also would benefit from a little gutter over the door area, so it doesn’t drip on you if you have to go in and out.
Shipping containers are quite a nice choice for this kind of job. Mine has a wooden floor, and is sitting on railroad ties. I don’t think a trailer is quite as nice but I could be mistaken. There are people who specialize in converting the containers into little houses. You might find some of those websites and browse for ideas.
You will want to add some kind of ventilation also; they can get quite hot from the summer sun.
We actually have two on our property. I would have thought the white one would look more tidy, but it turns out the orange is the one that blends into the landscape better and is nicer to look at.
There is already an entry door installed. Actually it’s a double exterior house door. The trailer was set up as an office trailer for construction sites. Containers are a lot more expensive in my area (unfortunately) so we had to go with. I do like the rail road tie idea. We are going to insulate and there is currently wood of some kind on the interior walls (maybe just plywood I couldn’t get a good look). And depending what it is it maybe covered up with something nicer.
Since the trailer was already set up for an office trailer, it may have some of the extras already there. That entry door is perfect. I think it would be a great tack room. You may want to consider the humidity in it, and put in a dehumidifier if needed.
Cool! Please submit photos when ready.
That is very common here and they work fine.
Most ranches have some of those for feed storage and better ones for tack rooms by pens.
Some even make barns out of them, adding an overhang and stalls in it, or putting two across from each other and a roof over both, then adding stalls on overhangs.
Yes, please post pictures of what you end up doing with yours.
