Two Tips for Farmers Who Don't Have a Lot of Storage Space on Their Farms
As a farmer, you probably need a lot of storage space in which to keep your farming equipment, your harvested crops and your livestock's food supply. If you don't have quite enough space for these items at the moment and cannot build additional farm sheds, here are some alternative solutions that you might find helpful.
Buy a 4-in-1 bucket for your tractor
One easy way to create more space on your farm is to sell off some of your tractor attachments and replace them with a single bucket that serves four separate functions. Most 4-in-1 buckets that are currently for sale can perform functions such as grading fields (in preparation for planting crops in them), digging into the soil, carrying manure and other farm materials and clamping and holding bales of hay.
Due to the fact that a typical tractor attachment is quite large, replacing your current collection of commonly used attachments with this single piece of equipment should help to create a lot of space in your farm's storage sheds, where you keep these items when they are not in use. Furthermore, buying a 4-in-1 bucket will mean that you won't have to travel back and forth from these sheds each time you need to use a different attachment, as you can simply reconfigure the one that is already connected to your tractor.
Utilise the wall space in your farm sheds
If you're short on space in your farm sheds, then it is important to try to utilise the wall space in these areas, as well as the floor space. For example, mounting several magnetic rails on your shed's walls will allow you to store any small farming equipment that is composed partially of metal (such as your rakes, spades and hoes) on these racks. Similarly, mounting a few heavy-duty hooks on these walls will enable you to hang things like your ladder and your wheelbarrow on these surfaces.
Utilising the space on these wall surfaces should make the floors of your farm sheds less cluttered and thus provide you with some much-needed extra room. If you decide to do this, it is very important to ensure that the rails and the hooks that you use have a high load-bearing capacity and that you attach them very securely to the wall surface. If you don't take these two steps, there is a risk that these items, and the equipment you hang up on them, could fall off the wall. This could result in this farming equipment being badly damaged, and it might even leave you with injuries if you are in the farm shed when these items fall off the wall and they end up colliding with you.