SIX years ago, farm shed manufacturer Now Buildings embarked on a path of re-examining the way farmers used their sheds.
National wholesale manager, Trevor Walker, said traditional sheds had three sides closed and one big side open, and had pillars inside to support the roof. Mr Walker said the company had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on research on better designs and better and quicker ways of assembling sheds. It had decided sheds could be built without pillars or 45 degree knee braces in the corners, and with wider gable lengths. That provided a lot of extra space for machinery, allowing farmers to stack bigger volumes of hay and provide for wider entrances. “We also had to find ways to improve connections systems so would we not have knee braces,” Mr Walker said. “So we developed a unique double bracketing system.”
Now Buildings can also supply combination sheds, with up to six 20 metre sheds beside each other and giving an opening as wide as 120 metres with very few posts.
