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Old 05-14-2008, 07:30 PM   #9 (permalink)
EddieWalker
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Default Re: Finally started on my Texas pole barn!

With all the detailed pictures that you are taking, this might just be "THE" thread for others to learn how to build a barn.

I love the plan and think Steel Dust is doing a great job on his barn. There is one thing that you might think about. On your open section for storing implements. you also have one side as being open. I did the exact same thing on my open storage area and have come to consider it a mistake. It wont take a second to walk around the wall to get to the storage area, so that's not much of an argument. Having that extra wall there will be very, very handy for storing stuff like yard tools. I'm desperate to find a place to hang my weed eater and hand sprayers. I'm maxed out on storage in my open area and having another wall will really increase my ability to organize more things better. You can always change it later, so it's not an issue either way, just something that I'm going to change on mine.

What program did you use for your design and what was the learning curve like?

I learned something new in your pictures. I lift posts all the time into holes with my FEL, but never thought of a blocking board. I just lay the post next to the hole and lift. It would sure make things allot easier doing it your way. Thanks!!!!

Eddie
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1. Fishing and Hunting with my kids.
2. Build my storage Shed.
3. Put my outside access bathroom together.
4. Fence in a quarter acre for Turkeys.
5. Build my gazebo for my front pasture.
6. Finish back pasture and plant it in Bermuda.
7. Start my food plots.
8. Build a comfortable deer stand for two.
9. Build a wood burning fireplace in my home.
10. New flooring in my home.
11. Build a pasture sprayer.
12. Get my old jeep running.
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