Building an "old fashioned appearance" new barn
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nickel plate
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An aesthetic suggestion-while framing the 15'-6" main door opening, in the two upper corners install diagonal members half of a Y brace) at a degree that you're "eye comfortable" with-perhaps on the same angle of your lower roof lines and run the siding over them.
Beautiful place that you have.
Beautiful place that you have.
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Thanks for the kind comments and suggestions.
Here's pictures from the big day today:
How the site looked this morning. Still had shipping container which was used for storage for the past 3-4 years.
Rented skidsteer w/ hydraulic auger, drilling 4' deep:
Wife, kids, and part of our menagerie sat and watched for a little while. The goats and burro will be happy to get a permanent home.
Set the posts in their holes on top of a dry 90 lb sack of concrete. Used my Kioti DK45 w/ pallet forks to get the posts near the holes, then tipped them in and manhandled them upright.
Sold the container for $1900 (without shipping). Some young guy who knew my contractor wanted it. I only really wanted around $1500 for it, but the guy offered $1900 when I asked him to make an offer. Felt like I was cheating him. Then later, the contractor told me the guy is part Indian and gets $45,000 /month in proceeds from Indian casinos -- tax free of course. (OK that makes me sick, especially when 40% of what I earn goes to taxes! End rant.)
End of the day:
End of the day from up near the house:
Here's pictures from the big day today:
How the site looked this morning. Still had shipping container which was used for storage for the past 3-4 years.
Rented skidsteer w/ hydraulic auger, drilling 4' deep:
Wife, kids, and part of our menagerie sat and watched for a little while. The goats and burro will be happy to get a permanent home.
Set the posts in their holes on top of a dry 90 lb sack of concrete. Used my Kioti DK45 w/ pallet forks to get the posts near the holes, then tipped them in and manhandled them upright.
Sold the container for $1900 (without shipping). Some young guy who knew my contractor wanted it. I only really wanted around $1500 for it, but the guy offered $1900 when I asked him to make an offer. Felt like I was cheating him. Then later, the contractor told me the guy is part Indian and gets $45,000 /month in proceeds from Indian casinos -- tax free of course. (OK that makes me sick, especially when 40% of what I earn goes to taxes! End rant.)
End of the day:
End of the day from up near the house:
Oh no, I have a Kioti DK45SE which you can see in some of the pics, and I also have an auger, but I would have broken about 50 sheer bolts because of the rocks and I didn't have a big enough auger. Even with the skidsteer w/ it's down-force it still took them most of the day to drill 16 holes.
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+2 on your beautiful site and handsome design. But also +2 on your needing more bracing where the upper roof meets the sheds. That upper roof will want to push out on the shed roofs at the bottom of the upper rafters. To resist that, you'd need to move the collar ties (short "ceiling" ties) down, or increase the member size of the rafter itself. With a larger rafter, the high ties (bolted well) can hold the rafter and it won't bend.
If you're using 2x10s or better, and your gussets are glued/nailed, you're probably all right. Can't tell from the SketchUp drawings - maybe you've got that covered. Good luck with it, though, and keep the pix coming.
Jim
If you're using 2x10s or better, and your gussets are glued/nailed, you're probably all right. Can't tell from the SketchUp drawings - maybe you've got that covered. Good luck with it, though, and keep the pix coming.
Jim
Thanks for the advice on the collarties/roof. Some parts are not on my sketchup drawings, but I had not planned more than 2x6's for the rafters b/c of short span. If the collarties are dropped lower, the loft ceiling will be too low. The posts will be strongly tied together by the loft floor, and the posts only extend 3 ft above the loft. Does that make a difference?
Yes, there will be either wood diagonal bracing or cable cross bracing in the walls. Thanks.
Marcus
Yes, there will be either wood diagonal bracing or cable cross bracing in the walls. Thanks.
Marcus
dodge man
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A agree, very nice place. As a flat lander, my mind is trying to digest those tree covered things. I've heard people call them mountains?? Around here, just about everything is planted in corn or beans if possible.
Good luck with the barn, and I suspect it will look great.
Good luck with the barn, and I suspect it will look great.
chad22
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lol Did you know http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/members/muhammad.html the site admin and founder of tractorbynet doesn't own a tractor? GASP :laughing:
Here's from the admins bio
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I'm surprised the owner of the site doesn't own a tractor? :ashamed:
lol
As to the topic at hand. That's looks like it's gonna be a great barn. It always breaks my heart to see an old barn be torn down. Nice to see someone build the old style.
Looking forward to seeing the progress.
Chad
The floor should hold everything together IMO and the collar ties will strengthen the roof. If you don't think the collar ties are enough you can always cut plywood into triangles and nail them from the collar ties up to the peak. Looks great!