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Roof over existing silage slab yard

  • 14-08-2018 05:50PM
    #1
    patsy_mccabe
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    Looking at putting a roof over an existing silage yard here. Want to use it for calving cows. Yard is about 28 feet wide and 3 bays long. Poured reinforced walls on both sides. Left side is wall only. Right side has cavity blocks on top with uprights for cubicle shed down through the wall centre. I've been looking at the DAFF spec on sheds, S.101 for stanchion and rafter sizes etc.

    Number of options, but the one I like the most is uprights on left outside wall with right uprights 10 feet in from right wall. So 10 foot feed passage on right side. I can pour the foundation piers on left, no problem but I'm not sure how to handle the right uprights. Floor of silage slab was buit in the 80's, no reinforcement and thickness is questionable.

    Would it be best to get in consaw, dig down and put in proper foundation piers? Would anchor bolts into the existing floor be adequate? I don't see any spec on the DAFF site for doing this.


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  • #2
    White Clover
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Looking at putting a roof over an existing silage yard here. Want to use it for calving cows. Yard is about 28 feet wide and 3 bays long. Poured reinforced walls on both sides. Left side is wall only. Right side has cavity blocks on top with uprights for cubicle shed down through the wall centre. I've been looking at the DAFF spec on sheds, S.101 for stanchion and rafter sizes etc.

    Number of options, but the one I like the most is uprights on left outside wall with right uprights 10 feet in from right wall. So 10 foot feed passage on right side. I can pour the foundation piers on left, no problem but I'm not sure how to handle the right uprights. Floor of silage slab was buit in the 80's, no reinforcement and thickness is questionable.

    Would it be best to get in consaw, dig down and put in proper foundation piers? Would anchor bolts into the existing floor be adequate? I don't see any spec on the DAFF site for doing this.

    What I'd do is dig down enough to stand steel barrels in the holes for the stanchions and set your stanchions in these. I'm assuming the ground would be sound 3 or 4 feet down.


  • #3
    kollegeknight
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    White Clover wrote: »
    What I'd do is dig down enough to stand steel barrels in the holes for the stanchions and set your stanchions in these. I'm assuming the ground would be sound 3 or 4 feet down.

    Lads that built my neighbours slatted shed did exactly that and twas a great job.


    He got the barrels in mcinerneys in ennis


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