Originally Posted By: Brettski
a) other than a small tractor for hobby farm level type of maintenance, what other equipment "height items" should I be thinking of?
b) Does an 8' door height totally preclude ingress/egress of the desired items in question "a" ?

a) Heightwise - probably nothing. There are darn few implements that a hobby farmer or tender of a modest piece of property would need that are taller than a tractor, IME.
b) FWIW, Bski, I measured my tractors this A.M. The smallest is about 7'4" to the top of the rollbar. The biggest is about 7'8". If you get an honest 8' opening, you may be OK for most tractors you would want to use. As we mentioned earlier, many new ones (Kubotas come to mind) have fold-down roll bars anyway.

We needed 9' doors on my shop to park our hrose trailer, which is 6" taller than "normal".

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