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45Ricochet
Mar 10, 2014Explorer
Napria wrote:
We are also looking to build something for a 40' fiver. Do you feel you built the right size? Do you slide out your slide outs in your pole barn?
Well looking back now I wish I had changed a few things like:
I got it to close to the bigger building, roof snow shed gets pretty tall between the two and the passenger door can't be used in winter. Also have a killer blind side backing it in.
It is about the right size, but bigger would have been better. I would have needed to take out about a dozen trees and bring in a excavator to level out the mountain. So I just worked with what level land there was so to speak.
It's 16x40 with a 14' door and slides extend but I rarely extend them inside. I have about 2' walking distance on front and back.
In the end it does what I wanted, keep the snow off in winter and sun off it in summer.

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