Value of a round top building

[SpringBrookFarm]

I have an opportunity to purchase a 40' x 60' by 14' Round Top building that sits on a lot thats not much bigger than the building in town. It has 14' wide doors on each end and is very accesible and plent of room to move machinery in and out. The floor is dirt, as far as i know it has electricity to it. Its about 10 miles from the farm and fifteen from where i live, but being we have no storage of our own at this time and with erecting new buildings being so expensive thought this might be a good chance for a building to store my combine, grain cart, header, baler and a few odds and ins. 

Not sure when it was built, probably in the 80's. Its in very good condition.

Any idea what the value might be.

[sawman1851]

 sawman1851 here. I won't address the dollar value, not my area. However there are other value assessments.  If you live  in a heavy snow area, the buildind has more value. A heavy snow load will slid-off, harmlessly to the ground, a regular building with normal pitch and shingle roof will hold the snow load, [ especially when un-heated ], and every now and then a warm spell comes, witha heavy rain,  , it can be very bad. [ collapse, in case you missed it ] .  Next, with planning and care; the metal building can be dis-assembled, and moved to your farm and re-assembled; but not as it is, no, you did your homework and built the foundation higher than the existing foundation. 2 feet higher, maybe even 4 feet higher. You will need new hardware to connect panels, but again, all do-able. p.s. if you bought the land that has the building, you can sell the land and with luck maybe get building at no cost.

 the details of the doors is easy, if this is something you are going to explore, send me a message and i can give you details on the doors, ect.  Hope you like my input,  sawman1851

[SpringBrookFarm]

You cant move it, the poured the footing up and around the bottom of the building, totally set in concrete. the "land" is not enough to sell seperatly from building. Maybe 20ft on the edges, 50 ft at the back to the alley

[James22]

I would consider this structure good for storing wagons,trailers and anything else I could tow at a reasonable speed behind a truck.  I wouldn't want to drive a combine or tractor an extra ten miles for storage. 

[SpringBrookFarm]

I would.....we currently have no storage for any of our equipment. Grain cart, combine, semi, baler all sit outside when not in use, I bought the 1460 4 years ago, guy who owned it before stored it, had original paint on it. Looked beautiful, now four years later you can tell the damage the sun has done. The shop will pay for itself just in keeping our equipment in good shape.

[sawman1851]

  Sorry about that. I was fairly sure those Quanset style buildings were assembled on the foundation and bolted down. What I said about heavy snow-load still holds. I repaired a trussed roof building after the condition I had described. Luckily not a full collapse. Also, being a metal building, if it has good locks on good doors the building has more value for being more secure. That's the best I got for you, without seeing the whole works. I hope the building works well for you, if you get it.  sawman1851

[dave.charlesworth]

you may want to check out this websitefor fabric coverd buildings. You may be able to get more building for the money and have it on your farm and save to drive to town.  www.siouxsteel.com

[mvp farms]

I drive my combine home 8 miles at night just to make sure it doesn't get rained on.  10 miles for long term storage is nothing,  I store my flex head and water trailer 20 miles away.

[SpringBrookFarm]

I second that. I worked for a farmer in western kansas. They had four shops spread over 40 miles. Machinery storage was on one end seed storage in the middle, work on shop was at the other end. I made countless trips from one end to the other to get something repaired or to take it to storage. 

I drive my combine three hours to the nearest dealer to have it worked on. Yeah its a long trip but its cheaper than the 500 dollars they would charge me each time they have to haul it. I spent 4 years at Kansas State, that was a three hour trip just about every weekend, one difference is im only going 18 mph.

[James22]

I avoid road time; less chance of an accident.  Don't even like hauling wagons five miles to the elevator, would purchase a truck if much further.  To each his own desires or devices, but I would purchase the Quonset for the easily roaded stuff and build a lower cost  fabric shelter on the farm for the combine and tractors until I could afford a metal shed.  Unless it was a real steal price wise I wouldn't have purchased a "good" combine unless there was local storage or the goal was to only keep it a few years and trade up..  Otherwise would have bought an inexpensive combine as we did the first few years ( diesel mechanical IH 715) and upgrade after building or accruing local storage.