Farm Office

locha

Just wondering how many of you have Farm Offices.
Was thinking of putting something in. Always seem to be up and down from yard to house. Was thinking anything from a steel 20ft to the body of a transit. Anyone done a good (cheap) job?

Dunedin

locha wrote: »

Just wondering how many of you have Farm Offices.
Was thinking of putting something in. Always seem to be up and down from yard to house. Was thinking anything from a steel 20ft to the body of a transit. Anyone done a good (cheap) job?

The beauty of having the house on the farm.......

Timmaay

locha wrote: »

Just wondering how many of you have Farm Offices.
Was thinking of putting something in. Always seem to be up and down from yard to house. Was thinking anything from a steel 20ft to the body of a transit. Anyone done a good (cheap) job?

If you have a spare corner in a shed, ideally the likes of overlooking the calving shed, you'd slap up the 2 internal wall and dryline it for cheap enough, throw in a window overlooking the calving pen also. A decent steel 20ft will end up costing the best part of 1000 by the time you have it dropped into the yard (having said that you can be in the right place at the right time and get them for nothing, but not something yo can bank on), the body of a transit I don't think will still be there in 5yrs time with rust haha, you'll certainly have nests of whatever vermits are around the place taking residence inside in it haha.

Who2

Something dry lined anyway. Nothing worse than damp paperwork.

The part time boy

I have a portabin in the yard for my new business. You have to have the heating on every day even for a hour to stop you having damp paper

pedigree 6

The part time boy wrote: »

I have a portabin in the yard for my new business. You have to have the heating on every day even for a hour to stop you having damp paper

Plastic Tupperware.

I've seen some people with business offices outside put their paperwork in different tupperware containers to keep them dry and sorted.

J.O. Farmer

What sort of paperwork do lads be doing that requires an office on the farm as opposed to in the house regardless if the house was close or a hundred mile away.
Surely it's a case of noting tag numbers or whatever and then completing the paperwork in an office which doesn't need to be in the yard.
I'd say trying to do paperwork in a cold damp office of an evening would put me off doing it rather than help.

Base price

We have an fully kitted out office (dry lined etc) in the garage which is attached to the house. I don't use it as a office as it's too cold most of the time. Nothing would coax me to go into it on a Winters evening to do paperwork. The filing cabinets are mostly used for storing paperwork for the 7 year requirement by Revenue.
A friend uses a old fridge (insulated) lorry body as an office but she has storage heaters in it. It is divided in two sections, the larger section is the office and the rest is divided into a kitchen area with a hob, sink, microwave and a small separate toilet.

The part time boy

Our office is nice and warm and inviting but that's cause some one in there everyday . I have actally been to a good few farm office that are cold and dam . Far from inviting . When there not used a lot it hard to keep them inviting .

The one thing I would think of if I was the op

whelan2

Dunedin wrote: »

The beauty of having the house on the farm.......

Have a hardback book in the dairy all calvings, serves, heats, treatments are in it, throw in feed dockets , knackery dockets etc into it and bring it into the house once or twice a week. Handy to have in dairy to look anything up to check it. Have started writting things on my milking glove now, pen in pocket very handy , then write in book