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The plan: Machinery shouldn't sit outdoors unprotected. That's my opinion. I hate to build a barn on the "land" The listers are like vultures. I'd pay an extra $500 a year in tax with a $2000. structure. I talked the local steel/scrap dealer out of an old oil tank. It's 8' diameter, 18 feet long. The "new" 450B won't quite fit inside 8' diameter. I'll cut it, and flatten two cut edges making it stand a bit taller with a gravel floor. We may build end closures, and swinging doors. Mrs. B hasn't been there in years. I'll plant Norway Pine around it. Given a few years, she won't notice it. She didn't notice the IH 385 for more than a year, and often she parked her car beside it. 3 miles away, she ain't gonna know about this. Maybe I need to paint the tractor red. Think she'll notice this tractor has no tires?
An optimist is usually wrong, and doomed to disappointment. he is unprepared. A pessimist is usually right, delighted to be wrong, and is well prepared.
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Stan Disbrow
- 350 crawler
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Hi,
Oh, yeah! She will notice a crawler, all right! Looks too different....
Stan
Oh, yeah! She will notice a crawler, all right! Looks too different....
Stan
There's No Such Thing As A Cheap Crawler!
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Have: 1950 M, 2005 x495, 2008 5103 (now known as 5045D)
Useta Have: '58 JD 420c 5-roller w/62 inside blade
Useta Have: '78 JD350C w/6310 outside blade
Useta Have: '68 JD350, '51 Terratrac GT-25
Have: 1950 M, 2005 x495, 2008 5103 (now known as 5045D)
[quote="Stan Disbrow"]Hi,
Oh, yeah! She will notice a crawler, all right! Looks too different....
Stan[/quote]
You haven't met Nancy. As long as she only sees one tractor at a time, that's how many tractors there are. However, among 10? stuffed animal Christmas decorations, one gets eaten by our son's giant Yellow Lab. That she noticed!
Oh, yeah! She will notice a crawler, all right! Looks too different....
Stan[/quote]
You haven't met Nancy. As long as she only sees one tractor at a time, that's how many tractors there are. However, among 10? stuffed animal Christmas decorations, one gets eaten by our son's giant Yellow Lab. That she noticed!
An optimist is usually wrong, and doomed to disappointment. he is unprepared. A pessimist is usually right, delighted to be wrong, and is well prepared.
Check your local codes as to how they deal with 'Picnic Pavillions.'
Around here if you keep it under 24', leave the sides open, and no electricity, it falls outside of codes, just an $80 permit, no assessment. Every municipality is different.
I love my country and agree we should all pay taxes, but the horsecrap I had to deal with when I built my house last summer was crazy.
Long story short, I got delayed a year and paid $5k for an elevation study to prove to some pencil pusher 30miles away that I am indeed 69ft above the 100 year flood plain. I even call BS on that, I bet its closer to 150ft.
Check your ordinances, and good luck. I'm thinkin your oil tank idea would be a lot of work before its all said and done, and maybe not the 'handiest' structure.
Around here if you keep it under 24', leave the sides open, and no electricity, it falls outside of codes, just an $80 permit, no assessment. Every municipality is different.
I love my country and agree we should all pay taxes, but the horsecrap I had to deal with when I built my house last summer was crazy.
Long story short, I got delayed a year and paid $5k for an elevation study to prove to some pencil pusher 30miles away that I am indeed 69ft above the 100 year flood plain. I even call BS on that, I bet its closer to 150ft.
Check your ordinances, and good luck. I'm thinkin your oil tank idea would be a lot of work before its all said and done, and maybe not the 'handiest' structure.
[quote="s281jim"]Check your local codes as to how they deal with 'Picnic Pavillions.'
Around here if you keep it under 24', leave the sides open, and no electricity, it falls outside of codes, just an $80 permit, no assessment. Every municipality is different.
I love my country and agree we should all pay taxes, but the horsecrap I had to deal with when I built my house last summer was crazy.
Long story short, I got delayed a year and paid $5k for an elevation study to prove to some pencil pusher 30miles away that I am indeed 69ft above the 100 year flood plain. I even call BS on that, I bet its closer to 150ft.
Check your ordinances, and good luck. I'm thinkin your oil tank idea would be a lot of work before its all said and done, and maybe not the 'handiest' structure.[/quote]
In Hurricane Irene 2011 I was not in the flood hazard zone, therefore I was not eligible to buy flood insurance. At one point behind myself a usually dry old brook channel was 18 feet deep. Inside my barn water was 5' deep. In a span of 4 hours flood waters carried away 3,000 Cubic Yards of earth mostly giant boulders averaging 5' across. The concrete floor of the barn hung from the building. Below that, there was room for Abe Lincoln in a top hat to walk! The front lawn and town road lay 5' beneath raging flood water. Miraculously, the house, and garage were spared.
Around here if you keep it under 24', leave the sides open, and no electricity, it falls outside of codes, just an $80 permit, no assessment. Every municipality is different.
I love my country and agree we should all pay taxes, but the horsecrap I had to deal with when I built my house last summer was crazy.
Long story short, I got delayed a year and paid $5k for an elevation study to prove to some pencil pusher 30miles away that I am indeed 69ft above the 100 year flood plain. I even call BS on that, I bet its closer to 150ft.
Check your ordinances, and good luck. I'm thinkin your oil tank idea would be a lot of work before its all said and done, and maybe not the 'handiest' structure.[/quote]
In Hurricane Irene 2011 I was not in the flood hazard zone, therefore I was not eligible to buy flood insurance. At one point behind myself a usually dry old brook channel was 18 feet deep. Inside my barn water was 5' deep. In a span of 4 hours flood waters carried away 3,000 Cubic Yards of earth mostly giant boulders averaging 5' across. The concrete floor of the barn hung from the building. Below that, there was room for Abe Lincoln in a top hat to walk! The front lawn and town road lay 5' beneath raging flood water. Miraculously, the house, and garage were spared.
An optimist is usually wrong, and doomed to disappointment. he is unprepared. A pessimist is usually right, delighted to be wrong, and is well prepared.
[quote="lurch85"]*cough I know a lot of people that would take the floor out of a school bus and put the rest on posts...paint it green if you want.[/quote]
I like the idea! Dry storage cheap, and no property tax.
I like the idea! Dry storage cheap, and no property tax.
An optimist is usually wrong, and doomed to disappointment. he is unprepared. A pessimist is usually right, delighted to be wrong, and is well prepared.
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