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Originally Posted by Megado
Simply amazing! Calling it a barn does not do it justice!!! Great job!
Would love to see some pics of the interior and on your framing details for the capability to park your tractor on two floors.
Jim H.
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Thanks a lot, I am pretty pleased with how it turned out. I always think barns can be pretty too...
I should have built it bigger though
I knew I'd think that as soon as I was done.
I'll take some pics for the framing details, but basically I used engineered wood I-joists 1' on center, with blocking every 2' or so. Steel beam down the center on 4 lally columns. Deck is 3/4 advantech, 2 layers, laid perpendicular.
All that was spec'd and signed off by a local engineer. Only $500 for the engineering of the building, which I thought was ridiculously cheap. A fair amount of engineering went into the foundation, it's on cantilevered footings. I told him "General Rommel will be pleased" when he handed me the foundation drawings, it was like the Atlantic Wall in Normandy. The upstairs is also engineered - split structural ridge of LVL