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SE Iowa | Can’t help you with stalls or any of that stuff, we use them for early spring calving to keep the wind and snow off the newborn calves backs and equipment/hay storage the rest of the year. They work beautifully for those types of things.
The Good- they are cheaper than a steel building of comparable size atleast the last I checked. They are cooler in the summer than steel and just as warm as steel in the winter, kind of the best of both worlds. 6 foot sidewalls are an absolute must in my opinion if ur putting cows in it.
The bad- not as durable. Keep ur insurance up on them cuz when you get that high wind and it is facing the wrong direction.. it’s over. They can take a lot, we have 6 hoop buildings on 2 different farms and they’ve seen some 80-90 mph windstorms and survived but it reaches a certain point and they just cant anymore. We had a tornado in 2008 that wrecked the 2 we had at the time. They don’t last as long as steel either of course.. 25-30 years max on the tarp and you’ll have to replace if the wind doesn’t get you first lol.
They work just fine for us but I’m not sure I would have as many of them if we could do it over, I was just a kid when most of them went up.
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