I am thinking of disconnecting the home service with the utility company and keeping the pole barn 200 amp service, most of the heavy hitting equipment is in the pole barn. I would need just an AC line running to the panel in the house from the solar shed, which is 100 - 150' run I am guessing. I can build the shed next to the pole barn to house all the equipment.
That is what I would do in your position (actually I DID do this, sort of, but the other way around, disconnected the shop, kept the house service, but for similar reasons you have in mind.
If you plan to run big equipment, you either keep the utility for that, or you build a lot more inverter supply power (for the inrush currents) - typically the house loads don't run at the same time as my shop, not sure in your case.
{If you Official Solar Tester (spouse) is like mine, they find a way to swtich on 'darn near everything' all at once.}
Some of the guys on the forum just leave bigger stuff that doesn't run that often on the grid, ie Elect Dryer, Double Ovens, Elect-HWT, depends on how big a system you want to build, and what the cost of utility power is in your neck of the woods.
For my shop I did ok with 13kW of inverters but with 19kW It really shines.
To put the rest of the house on solar, and keep the Official Solar Tester happy at all times, I will eventually update my system to twin 12kW = 24kW output capacity. For us it is the double oven that is the final hold-out, LOL, mostly due to the oven and electric dryer could both be running at once.