![]() ![]() The grain bin being weather tight would make a good secure place to store pallets of feed, place to store yard equipment/tools or machinery, you could put some more floors in it and turn it in a play house or a she shed or man cave or anything else you have an interest in if you dont want to try to sell it. If you just build a goat building or a pig huts or whatever for housing for your animals you are going to be a lot more happy with it and get a lot more use out of it. Anyone and everyone I know using the deep bedding method is doing it on dirt.for a reason or doing it with just poultry. We have to clean our stalls/pens then use a heavy coat of barn lime to cut down the ammonia and it is again a week or less and all bedding needs to be removed and the process repeated.Ĭement is nice because you can clean and pressure wash it but it has definite down sides. Our animals are not confined to stalls/pens in warm months so thats just occasional bathroom use and the urine can mostly drain away off the cement slab. Even in an open barn with a cement floor if we go more then 2 weeks without cleaning out our stalls/pen it makes your eyes water and you get light headed. Either way in a matter of days the ammonia is going to be so strong nothing can stand/live in there. Basically you would be making a barn with a pool of urine and feces below the animal floor if you left the dryer level in, if you took it out even with deep bedding the fact the urine can not drain off is no good. I would not use the metal grain bin with concrete slab for goats no, the metal will rust out quickly and by the nature of the design of the grain bin there is no place for the urine to go. Even those ones in the "condition good for converting" are only being sold for 2k or less, I have seen some for $700 but there is no way feed could be stored in them and they are generally more rust then metal at that point. Most of the grain bins people convert are the short small ones on the cement pads, those are generally not worth much as they dont hold much and dont hold up well to the elements. Some people are selling for 2k and other people are selling for 10k, depends on size and condition. I do know the used Harvestore Silos cost about 12k to buy but used metal silos kind of are all over the place in price. If you are talking a 20-30ft tall grain silo in the smaller diameters those are around 20k new. In agreement with and that was the first thing I thought, metal silo are seriously not cheap to buy new and about anyone who farms is always interested in picking a good used one up. Has anyone done or seen anything like this done before? Would the concrete slab below the drying floor be a problem with urine seeping through bedding and then having no where else to drain (I haven't gone under the drying floor, so no clue if there's a drain in the concrete slab or not, but assuming not)? We also get some wicked winds and cold being in north central IL, so we get the full weather range. When I went in there today (about 80) it really wasn't too warm at all and cooled off even more once the door was open for a few minutes. I know we would have to cut in windows or something else for ventilation (and light). I'm wondering how that would effect ventilation requirements (there is an open spot where the dryer used to be on the backside, so there is some airflow through there that would go up through the floor. The conversions mostly look like they were moved from elsewhere, and I'm wanting to try to use as it stands. I've seen conversion pictures online, but I haven't found any with it not at ground level (more or less), or with a drying floor. It's on a concrete slab, and has a drying floor in it currently which raises the floor up enough to need a few stairs to get into the door. We have 3 NGD's coming next month and have a place set up for them in our small barn, but I'd really like to utilize the grain bin if possible to use the barn for pigs or cows. ![]() I have no clue how many bushels it holds, but it's tall enough to be 2 stories. We will never have a need to use it for its intended purpose, and it's really not worth it to us to try and get rid of it. Our property came with a metal grain bin that is in good shape (the farmer we purchased the property from used it until last year). ![]()
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