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We built our own barn  out of 4x4 6x6's, pole barn construction, 5vgal. 
steel roof, plywood/barn siding, and used plywood over 2 2x6 and one on top 
for dividers.Cost us 2,500$ and our labor. (24x24 , 4 doors all open 
out.)Also 2 clear panels for light. Dutch doors. How ever, if I did it again 
I'd just build a one or 2 stall /shed as I don't let them in it, unless it 
is really nasty, they hang out under the shed we added this winter 
mostly.I'd just have a stall for a sick or injured horse and have a shed 
roof.(less cleaning). And I'd have an asile. We keep our tack/feed in our 
garage/basement(about 50 feet away), to keep out varmits and mildew.
  You may want to fence the trees off. I had 2 hourses get corneal tears(I 
think it was them messing in the woods.) and they may eat the bark of 
hardwoods and saplings.Every barn around here has "eaten trees" and then 
they die ,if girdled and you get firewood, lots of firewood. I have had to 
fence individual trees and encircle one group.
 I know someone who got a metal barn and made an apartment in it.(it did 
burn down, but that is another story).  Keep your hay in another building, 
will also effect your insurance rates.
  High ground, high ground, build on high ground ,(won't tell you where our 
barn is ).   Laurie and Rascal

> From: LTYearwood@xxxxxxx
> To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [RC]   moving to my own ranch
> Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 08:32:12 EDT
>
> hi everyone
>
> i am so excited -- i just landed a contract in northern california --
> humboldt county. i'm going to move there in the next few months. most 
> likely,
> i'm moving to a few acres (between 5-9) of meadlowland. i'm a little
> overwhelmed by the all the options sunddenly avaialabe -- build a barn with 
> a
> loft and live there first, or build a barn and rent somewhere for awhile, 
> or
> build a teeney weeney house and a separate barn -- versus the amount of 
> money
> all this could cost.
> do any of you with experience boarding your own horses have any suggestions
> about how to go about choosing barns or barn lofts and/or building your own
> homes with barns? you know, the huge pitfalls to avoid?
> i know it's a big question!
> p.s. the place i have my eye on is near a very cool town called arcata. 
> it's
> eight acrs of meadowland and one acre of wooded land. it even has a 
> babbling
> brook! if i do this, i end up spending almost all my money on land. so i 
> need
> so i'm looking for creative options...
> thank you again!
>
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