My Trikes Got a New Home...

[kb0nly]

NO i didn't sell them... They gonna have to bury me with them!

I got a new garden shed for the front yard, its gonna be the trike shed, well maybe i let the kids store their bikes in there, but thats about it... LOL... I plan on running at least a 20 amp circuit to it for a light and outlet, would be nice to keep the battery maintainer on the 200ES in the winter when she is suited up with the plow. I got just enough room to turn it around with the plow on it and still close the doors, although you have to step over the plow blade to get in, but hey its better than a tarp and bungie cords like last winter! She really had a rough time getting buried in snow drifts and getting dug out each time. Now i can park her in the shed and plug her in to the maintainer and even put a heater on her if i need to warm her up. I got one of those magnet block heaters, yeah i know doesn't stick to the aluminum but i use a block of wood to hold it up to the bottom of the motor and that helps a lot to get her blood warmed up before i go plow on a subzero day.



Just watched the weather tonight and the Western half of SD has a winter weather advisory, and the Easter half of SD and Western portion of MN are in for thunderstorms, maybe even severe weather... What a strange forecast for the next couple of days! I just got done rebuilding the Cycle Country plow for the 200ES.. It got new bushings on the pivot point, some washers that were welded around the holes for the angle adjustment to beef it up because the holes where getting wallowed out, and new bolts, and new plow shoes... Pictures of that to come soon! Its all ready for the coming season!

[Big G]

Nice set-up you got there KB. Let it storm and snow all it wants now eh! Ha ha. Couple beauty trikes you got there too. One day I'll have a 200ES like yours...one day.

[Ghostv2]

I was thinking about building my own little shed or even just build a frame and make a little enclosed canopy with tarps for now.
What did you do for a foundation? Just level out the ground and set it right on top?

[Motorgidd]

Nice trike shed. Kids bikes... maybe.... Looks like you have room for one more wheeler!

[kb0nly]

I think i can sneak one more in the other back corner yet, say another 90 or 110, possibly a 125... Who knows what might happen!

I was going to build something to but after i did the math on paper and figured the materials cost and time involved this one was so much easier. It was on sale locally, it went together in about four hours from unboxing it to rolling the trikes in the door. So not bad! I had the ground there nice and level and just put some gravel down to smooth out the ground a bit more and done. I thought about pouring a slab for it, but here is the thing... In MN if you build a permanent foundation for it then it becomes a permanent structure which in turn is permitted and taxed. By being a "temporary" assembled structure then its not under the same regulations. As for power, as long as its powered by plugging it in at the house end, for example i can bury a run of UF cable out to the shed but at the house end the UF comes into a junction box and out the other side is a 2 foot length of heavy gauge cord with a twistlock 20a connector that plugs into an outlet by the breaker panel, that makes it a temporary extension and it doesnt change the rating of the shed or require permits for any of it. I have done this for a few garden sheds now, perfectly acceptable and passes inspection each time.

Thanks for the compliments guys! I was going to pack away the 90 at a friends place for the winter but now that i got this shed i think it will stay here with me. My other shed where it would normally reside got taken over by the lawn tractor and attachments, just no more room at the Inn so to speak!

[kb0nly]

One more quick note... If anyone buys one of these, grab a tube of gray caulk while your at it! If you look in the second picture above you will see some light coming through in a few places where the wall sections join together. The wind driven rain we had the other day leaked through in a few spots. So i caulked all the seams from the inside until i couldnt see light through anywhere, now its dry as a bone inside.

Also finished today with the electrical, it has a light, an outlet, and for now just an extension cord over to the house. Not sure if i will get a line dug in before the ground freezes this year or not, i will try to but running out of time quite quickly unfortunately.