Machine sheds and heated shop ideas

getting a railing and putting floor in tomorrow !
this summer need to figure out a winch system for the stairs!
lots of fun to have a hobby shop.

I would build it. Costs you 26k a year plus interest over 10 years. If possible build it in a location that would work well for the next guy to get maximum value if you do eventually sell. Would you pay extra at an auction for a piece of equipment that has been shedded? If yes then subtract the premium for the equipment stored in it from the building cost and see how the numbers look. Easy for me to say as it's not my money!

Same debate for me, is it worth it with no family planning to take over. I don't know, I may as well just retire if I really think how far to go down that path of where to spend some dollars and future plans.

Ultimately, I think having equipment shedded leads to less stress and problems when i go to use it next season. I plan to keep most of my equipment for years yet so if I can keep it out of the weather then I think it makes it easier to keep it longer. If I could afford to trade every 5 years then no, I don't think a shed makes sense.

I really dislike getting different equipment, would rather run what I know and am familiar with. So some things I do find stressful. And so having a shed and equipment protected should mean less stress in the end. Ultimately I am managing my farm to keep stress lower. So I feel better with equipment shedded. I now have a good second combine if needed so one less stress item of worrying about my only combine having a major issue at harvest. Leaving the spare combine sit in the pasture is not the best, usually it isn't an issue but I think it is more "field ready" if in a shed.

Building a shed is not necessarily smart from making best use of dollars in the short term, but for me is higher up on the "nice to have" list than a newer tractor.

One of the things that limits me from how much I use the shop in the winter is I also had it crammed full of equipment vs leaving it stuff outside for winter. So my winter stuff gets done in spring when I move some stuff out. Not a big deal, I don't do massive projects so a week in spring can accommodate such things and there is summer for other stuff. But having a cold storage shed now has me already planning some shop work this winter since I will have more work room. Tandem trucks can be in cold storage shed, may move the sprayer out of the shop for winter for the first time. I never had to do a proper sprayer winterization before so will have to learn that one now. That gets me back to my posts over the years as to whether a guy is building a shop or a machine storage shed. I suppose if you can afford a 100 x 200 ft shed and shop all in one then sure, it's nice to have tools near by to work on anything. But since I was trying to use the shop as a shed also, it was less of a shop. Hoping now my shop is more convenient to be used as a shop.

The last thing I’d want in my shop would be a motion sensor light, that means I’d have to keep moving to keep the light on! lol

Or would it be better in some ways if it was possible to have a motion detector system along with a clock timer so that unless there was movement in the shop after a certain hour of the evening , it would time out and shut off all the lights and the compressor or anything else also desired to shut down and only by manually turning the system on again would it fire up. Then have a select few lights not on the system with their own motion detectors so its easy to walk into the shop and they fire up so you can find your main reset. I know, I just created an expensive electrical system with these few words !. I believe some have wired a switch near the man door that shuts the compressor magnetic switch from activating, allowing to turn off it and the lights all off so its a lot handier and easy to remember to turn off that compressor when its lights out for the night.