What You Need to Know About Portable Wood Horse Barns

by | Jan 23, 2017 | Barns & Structure

When you operate over a large acreage, it can be time-consuming moving horses from the furthest fields back to their home barn. portable horse barns in Nevada KS, can provide you with a safe shelter that can be moved by tow hooks from one field to another.

Build the Barn as A Permanent Structure

When you have a need for portable horse barns in Nevada KS, your planning and design can be very similar like when you consider your requirements for a permanent structure. You will still build the stall with the same 4 foot door, use windows with metal grills and strong wood for kick boards. At the top of the kick boards you can install a guard made of steel so that your kick boards remain intact.

By talking closely with your material supplier experts, you can receive guidance about the best wood to use within the construction. You may choose wood, metal or shingle for the roof, always considering the weight of the unit, where you will attach tow hooks to drag the unit across the fields.

What Size Barn?

Although you may at first consider that you should limit your build to a one stall horse barn, once you have checked the towing weights of your tractor, you may easily be able to pull up to a three or four stall collection of portable horse barns in Nevada KS.

Most stalls are 10 x 10’ or 10 x 12’ and occasionally, 12 x 12’. Should you decide that you require several portable barns for your horses, they should be built so they can be aligned together to make the most of their collective shelter from the poor weather.

Flexibility within your designs means that you can add a tack room or even a horse run within your barns. The key to your design is to ensure that the tow hooks work efficiently and effectively when you move the structure from one location to another, perhaps several times each year.

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