Farm Shop Designed for Expansion | TOP SHOPS® | Successful Farming

[Music] [Applause] ray and son Travis Freiberg realized that they would outgrow their shop before it was even built so they strategically planned for a structure that would accept additions in the future let's go talk to Travis Freiberg about their shop and machinery storage complex overall the under one roof right now what size structure do you have 200 by 160 is the structure of the shop and the cold storage 30 by 30 is the current office space so that actually wasn't all built at one time you started out with what is what we're standing right now was a shop that was that original building was what 100 by a hundred okay now what was unique about that I think your dad had made the comment about how you built the shop around the doors yeah that's correct we wanted to have easy access be able to pull machinery in and out without turning around we wanted all of our our doors facing south because of the prevailing wind and and just didn't want to limit ourselves on where to locate stuff because he couldn't get things in and out we'll talk about the door size and placement in this case you've got three doors facing South correct and what sized doors are those those doors are they're 20 feet wide 18-feet tall to create an overhead door that would be wide enough to readily consume their biggest equipment the freiburg's innovated the center post that readily swings out of the way when both of the overhead doors are open so Travis your dad and you engineered something unique with the manufacturer on the double set of overhead doors right you can take the center pivot about pillar out I'm sorry we can't correct yeah there are east end of our shop we wanted to be able to have a big opening we wanted to have overhead doors so we built two to 20-foot doors side by side with a common pillar between them that both rails both doors commonly go to this rail and both of those doors are up that pillar swings up into the header so we've got a 40-foot clean clear span to get something white into the shop and so when both both overhead doors are up and that pillar is swung up we made it impossible or dummy-proof I should say that the doors can't come down I caused a heck of a wreck so the the door though the pillar has to be in place and secure before the doors will come down or go up so that double door that creates kind of a super large door what will you use that for then we use that to get in some of our wider machinery era Cedars combines with headers 12 row corn heads on a combine or a 40-foot 40-foot platform we kind of have to wiggle wiggle a 40-foot header in to get it in here but but but he'd been able to work on something you know if it comes in out of the field broke down we don't have to worry about getting a header trailer or whatever we just pull it right in and work on it in here in a nice environment so Travis we have a door off to our left here that leads into what would stage 2 in the attraction of your buildings correct yeah we kind of found once we built this place that it kind of turned into basically a parking garage and we didn't want our working shop to be a parking garage so we wanted some place to store machinery and whatnot so our second phase of the of the structure was we built a hundred by hundred exactly the same size as our shop storage to the west here and additional thing that we added to the structure was is that provided provided some dead air space because our prevailing wind in this country is from the north kind of Northwest so it it helped our energy consumption in this building out a bunch too by by putting it on the west so but the main main reason we wanted is just some storage so the shop just inject more cluttered up with vehicles being parked now that was the that was number two edition you were done Yeah right you kept outgrowing your machine story as well as the shop you put on a third edition that we did you know and that was across the back of what are now essentially one big building but over two constructors yeah we built on a lean-to to the north again strategically placing that so our so our warm area of our shop is in the southeast corner of the structure and so we have dead air space now on the the west and the north and so we built a lean-to on like you said the full strut full length of the structure to the north and the the dimensions of that are sixty by two hundred one of the best editions the freiburg's felt they made to their shop complex with this 25 by 60 foot combination wash and paint Bay talk about the wash bay so you you were really washing outside prior to that yeah yeah we were actually before all this we did everything outside I mean in the winter put on your car hearts and you he did it did it all outside but I think the wash bay is probably the single best thing that's probably the addition to the shop yeah we just we there is something in there two or three times a day every day so we doing kind of find washing in there because you also have an outdoor what we do yeah we have a 2,000 Yellin tank inside our wash bay that fills on a float system it's up to a garden hose and that goes to actually cattle water float fills up and then we've got a two inch two inch line that goes outside that goes to a gas pump and then it Banjos to a fire hose and anything that comes in that's that's super soil you know whatever you're gonna blast it blasts off a fire hose outside to keep all the big chunks of mud away from our from our pit in there and try to get as much to the big stuff off outside before it comes inside Rek farm sits in the wide open spaces of Eastern Wyoming with dealerships sometimes located hours away the solution the Freiburg's came up with was to create a storage depot of critical parts you run a lot of machinery this is a big operation you have a lot of parts in you're a long ways from a dealer our closest dealer is Cheyenne and it's it's kind of a smaller agricultural store so they don't keep a huge inventory of the parts that we actually use and their closest past that of Sydney and so we have to keep a lot of our own spare parts because it's the lead time to get get reap get stuff is just it's just a long time so we try to keep anything and everything that we might need and I break down or whatever in crunch time we try to keep spare parts so how did you determine with time the parts you had get outside of the basic stuff it was it just experience that taught you we want to lay in more parts of a certain type yeah we we told the John Deere dealership we want every belt made on our on our combines you know up time for us in wheat harvest is essential so if we can come back to shop and get a belt that takes ten minutes versus an hour trip to shine an hour back that's two extra hours of uptime so we keep every every belt on every combine that we've got in storage the important takeaway from the Freiberg shop tour is that any existing structure can be added onto too often building contractors are unwilling to make additions to buildings preferring you put up a separate structure but there are cost savings as well as conveniences to be had with the shop addition I'll see you again on a future Top Shop tour hi I'm Dave moats thanks for watching if you liked this video hit subscribe right here if you haven't already and click that little bell right here to be notified when we post a new video and click here to see more great videos

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Length: 7min 59sec (479 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 04 2019