They Turn Grain Bins Into Buildings

1995 - Volume #19, Issue #5, Page #04

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"They're totally maintenance-free and simpler and cheaper to put up than a conventional building," says A.J. Horinek who's come up with innovative ways to make farm buildings out of old grain bins.
Horinek and his son, Kelvin, of Atwood, Kan., constructed their first grain bin building - a 22 by 50-ft. calving pen - 12 years ago. Since then they've put up other buildings, including a 100 by 23-ft. open-sided machine shed that they started just after Christmas last year and finished in April. It was built with sections of 18-ft. dia., 3,250-bu. bins. Some were his bins; others he bought.
"There's plenty of room in there to store our three 22- to 30-ft. wheat headers, an 8-row air seeder, 8-row corn and row crop headers, our round baler, rotary grain cleaner and 400-bu. grain cart," Horinek says. "The biggest advantage of the de-sign is that machinery is stored in one long row so you never have to move one piece of equipment to get at another like you do in most machine sheds."
There's a 2-ft. high concrete wall on the back side of the building. Sections of 3 by 5-in. angle iron were bolted into the concrete every 20 ft.
On the open side, the men made sup-ports out of five heavy steel poles sunk in concrete. Two of the poles are spaced 23 ft. apart and two are spaced 26 ft. apart to accommodate various widths of machinery. An 8-in. I-beam welds across the top of the poles and pieces of angle iron weld to the I-beam.
Grain bin sections were then bolted to the angle iron in front and back.
"We had to do very little cutting," says Horinek. "We even used the old bin bolts, but we had to buy new neoprene washers for them."
The ends of the shed were made out of 2 by 6's covered by corrugated sheet metal. Horinek says the shed is rock solid. "There's not an inch of give - not even on a windy day," he says.
The Horineks plan to equip the open front with sliding doors. Total out-of-pocket cost for the building was $2,376.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, A.J. Horinek, Rt. 2, Box 154, Atwood, Kan. 67730 (ph 913 626-3992).

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They Turn Grain Bins Into Buildings GRAIN HANDLING Miscellaneous 19-5-4 "They're totally maintenance-free and simpler and cheaper to put up than a conventional building," says A.J. Horinek who's come up with innovative ways to make farm buildings out of old grain bins. Horinek and his son, Kelvin, of Atwood, Kan., constructed their first grain bin building - a 22 by 50-ft. calving pen - 12 years ago. Since then they've put up other buildings, including a 100 by 23-ft. open-sided machine shed that they started just after Christmas last year and finished in April. It was built with sections of 18-ft. dia., 3,250-bu. bins. Some were his bins; others he bought. "There's plenty of room in there to store our three 22- to 30-ft. wheat headers, an 8-row air seeder, 8-row corn and row crop headers, our round baler, rotary grain cleaner and 400-bu. grain cart," Horinek says. "The biggest advantage of the de-sign is that machinery is stored in one long row so you never have to move one piece of equipment to get at another like you do in most machine sheds." There's a 2-ft. high concrete wall on the back side of the building. Sections of 3 by 5-in. angle iron were bolted into the concrete every 20 ft. On the open side, the men made sup-ports out of five heavy steel poles sunk in concrete. Two of the poles are spaced 23 ft. apart and two are spaced 26 ft. apart to accommodate various widths of machinery. An 8-in. I-beam welds across the top of the poles and pieces of angle iron weld to the I-beam. Grain bin sections were then bolted to the angle iron in front and back. "We had to do very little cutting," says Horinek. "We even used the old bin bolts, but we had to buy new neoprene washers for them." The ends of the shed were made out of 2 by 6's covered by corrugated sheet metal. Horinek says the shed is rock solid. "There's not an inch of give - not even on a windy day," he says. The Horineks plan to equip the open front with sliding doors. Total out-of-pocket cost for the building was $2,376. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, A.J. Horinek, Rt. 2, Box 154, Atwood, Kan. 67730 (ph 913 626-3992).

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