source: Farm and Food Report
Jack Taylor has been manufacturing metal structures since the age of 14. More than 30 years later, he figures he has gained some pretty valuable insight into the art of crafting reliable, competitively-priced horse and calving barns that are built to last.
“The design is a bit of a trade secret -- you can’t share everything, you know. I will tell you this: we pre-make the components at our own factory, and then we take them out to our clients’ yard and set them up. Our success can be attributed to the system we use for building them. In essence, we’ve been able to really cut down the labour cost of these buildings. That is why we call them affordable barns.”
Taylor and his family have set up shop at their Melfort farm, where they also keep about 150 bison, and 10 horses that they train and work with. They rent out the cropland, and have invested most of their energy into this manufacturing endeavour. They sell their barns just about anywhere in Western Canada.
“We’ve been selling these buildings for three years now. They are all steel framed. They tend to appeal to acreage and farm people. It seems that the majority in the last couple of years have gone to acreages, for people who have horses and livestock — they’re busy people, professional people and they want us to put up a barn real quick so they don’t have to do a bunch of work. We just come and do the whole thing. We pull up in the yard and in a couple of days they have a nice barn they can start to use.”
Taylor believes that his own experience with horses plays a considerable role in the concepts he puts forward in his designs.
“The stalls are made so there are no exposed edges of the wood for the animals to start chewing on, because horses sometimes will do that. Structurally, we use metal, which makes the barn extremely strong. It really contains everything nicely. Everything is customizable: from the stalls, to the colour of the barn itself.”
Above all, Jack Taylor likes the new relationships this business venture has allowed him to establish since he started Affordable Barns. “We like selling to horse people because we are horse people. We have met a lot of really nice folks over the last few years selling barns. Some people have even invited us to stay with them. It’s pretty neat.”
Taylor figures that making new friends while doing business is a pretty good indicator that his barns and their competitive advantage will keep him going for a while yet.
For more information, contact:
Jack Taylor
Affordable Barns
1-866-500-2276
http://www.affordablebarns.com
Jack Taylor has been manufacturing metal structures since the age of 14. More than 30 years later, he figures he has gained some pretty valuable insight into the art of crafting reliable, competitively-priced horse and calving barns that are built to last.
“The design is a bit of a trade secret -- you can’t share everything, you know. I will tell you this: we pre-make the components at our own factory, and then we take them out to our clients’ yard and set them up. Our success can be attributed to the system we use for building them. In essence, we’ve been able to really cut down the labour cost of these buildings. That is why we call them affordable barns.”
Taylor and his family have set up shop at their Melfort farm, where they also keep about 150 bison, and 10 horses that they train and work with. They rent out the cropland, and have invested most of their energy into this manufacturing endeavour. They sell their barns just about anywhere in Western Canada.
“We’ve been selling these buildings for three years now. They are all steel framed. They tend to appeal to acreage and farm people. It seems that the majority in the last couple of years have gone to acreages, for people who have horses and livestock — they’re busy people, professional people and they want us to put up a barn real quick so they don’t have to do a bunch of work. We just come and do the whole thing. We pull up in the yard and in a couple of days they have a nice barn they can start to use.”
Taylor believes that his own experience with horses plays a considerable role in the concepts he puts forward in his designs.
“The stalls are made so there are no exposed edges of the wood for the animals to start chewing on, because horses sometimes will do that. Structurally, we use metal, which makes the barn extremely strong. It really contains everything nicely. Everything is customizable: from the stalls, to the colour of the barn itself.”
Above all, Jack Taylor likes the new relationships this business venture has allowed him to establish since he started Affordable Barns. “We like selling to horse people because we are horse people. We have met a lot of really nice folks over the last few years selling barns. Some people have even invited us to stay with them. It’s pretty neat.”
Taylor figures that making new friends while doing business is a pretty good indicator that his barns and their competitive advantage will keep him going for a while yet.
For more information, contact:
Jack Taylor
Affordable Barns
1-866-500-2276
http://www.affordablebarns.com
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