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Originally Posted by SteelDust
It's great to see you get started, and I was glad to be of help in the initial planning. From the professional look of your drawings, I should have waited until you got started on this first.  It's funny, I originally planned to only make the loft area 24x12 as well, but after much thought, I figured I'd eventually use the space, and having that loft there was going to make putting up the center section of roof go a whole lot easier. The building is turning out to be as solid as it looks, with just the sheeting on the roof and very few girts there is very little sway at all in the building. By the time the girts and siding is on I'm confident it'll stand up to the worst that mother nature can dish out up here.
In case you didn't catch the other thread update, I ordered the roofing metal and trim on Monday (apparently avoiding yet another $0.06/lf price hike), it will be in for pick up on Thursday. I intend to get as much of it down as I can in the upcoming days. I'll try to get some pictures up in the thread once some of the metal is down. I found some really nice cedar 1x8 for fascia board the other day. I had originally planned on 1x6 but trial fit a section and really liked the "weight" it gave to the roof. |
SteelDust,
I hope that the other TBN's don't get bored with my project postings b/c the barn and the process of building it is going to look very similar to yours.
I too have thought about how I'm going to set the upper rafters where I won't have the loft to use. At the moment I'm thinking I'll build some sort of pole lift jig to raise them up using my FEL. That's a ways off though so I still have some time to think about it and figure out a plan. Unfortunately it's going to be a few weeks before we get back up there so things will have to wait. And you guessed it...it'll be 98f with 95% humidity by that point!
