Pictures of new Pole barns

[powergod]

very nice barns, in the process of getting one myself

 

[woodlandfarms]

Nice barns, I just had a 40 x 60 x 14 put up to replace the one I lost in a fire.
New barn on left, old barn 3 pictures on the right. Old barn was framed with a scissors truss so even though it only had 10 foot side walls it had 13+ foot clear height in the center, new barn has 14 foot side walls and a 12' wide x 13' high insulated overhead door

Wow, nasty fire... I was amazed at the vinyl siding on your house.. Hot darn fire. What started it and what else went up in flames?

 

[Brahmus]

Nice barns, I just had a 40 x 60 x 14 put up to replace the one I lost in a fire.
New barn on left, old barn 3 pictures on the right. Old barn was framed with a scissors truss so even though it only had 10 foot side walls it had 13+ foot clear height in the center, new barn has 14 foot side walls and a 12' wide x 13' high insulated overhead door

Any interior pics? I have a 40 X 60 slab and 27 extra poles waiting...

 

[Steve C]

If the fire department had been 5 minutes later, the house would have gone up also. It cracked all the windows on the south side , melted the siding and scorched the OSB. We had gone away to get parts to fix the water heater in my camper. (we are living in it while we work on the house) We were gone about 3 hours and when we got back the barn was gone. The fire department was just rolling up the hoses. We don't know what started it. It seemed to start at the base of the power pole, followed the fence line, spread out into a "v" went completely around the old chicken coop (that my wife has been after me to tear down) and found its way into the barn. Perhaps it was a freak lightning strike, I was working in the bathroom earlier installing a mud base for the new ceramic tile shower and I heard a boom and the lights blinked off and came back on. I didn't think nothing of it. We are remodeling our house so the barn was full of building supplies, and our kitchen cabinets and everything that would go in the kitchen cabinets. I had to remove them to rewire the house and put insulation in the walls of the old part of the house and install new drywall, so they were stored out there along with all their contents. Strangers stopped by and moved my snowmobile trailer with my machine in it that was parked right next to the barn and they pushed my dirt bikes a large generator (on wheels) and my wifes snowmobile out, but I lost all my hand tools, a large air compressor and my 16 foot aluminum boat and 40 hp motor was a melted puddle on the floor along with a 40 year accumulation of other stuff. We had 2 cats that lived in the barn, mom cat made it out but her son didn't. He was a gentil giant of a cat but was afraid of strangers. I found his body about 3 feet from the door while digging through the rubble. It was a heart breaking moment. Things can be replaced but living things can't.

 

[FxdGrMind]

Sorry for your loss.

Arround here, when it get's dry, we see similar fire patterns from Sig butts thrown from car windows.....

We have been lucky, 2 fires in the last 3 years 2-3 acres each, one needed a DNR helo with water buckett to put out the flames in the forest. The other repeated pumper trucks and water trucks for 2 days to completely put out.

All it takes is a spark, ember and up it goes.

You are right, about loosing living things, but it's nice to know you have good people arround willing to stop and help save some of your things! Good people are a comodity not found everywhere!

Nice new barn though! I'm looking for solutions to my storage problem myself. Funny how a 24x36 PB after 10 yrs just isn't enough room anymore... Thinking of adding another... for elbow room.

 

[jbenson304]

I don't think I have neighbors like that in my neck of the woods that would help me out in that situation.

Not to say I don't live around nice people... they just all tend to keep to themselves.

I just had a 24x38 installed to store some of my collector autos. I'm thinkin it will work out well.

@Fxd - are you telling me that in a few years I'm going to wish I had a 30x40 or something in a short amount of time?

 

[Steve C]

I don't think I have neighbors like that in my neck of the woods that would help me out in that situation.

Not to say I don't live around nice people... they just all tend to keep to themselves.

I just had a 24x38 installed to store some of my collector autos. I'm thinkin it will work out well.

@Fxd - are you telling me that in a few years I'm going to wish I had a 30x40 or something in a short amount of time?

40 x 60 with 14 foot side walls is a nice size.....you can double stack your collection, 8 cars on each 60 foot wall, double stacked = 32 car capacity on side walls + nine more in the center isle for a 41 car capacity...........everyone needs to set goals......he he.

I am so gratefull that they stopped. The dirt bikes and snowmobiles would not have been covered by my insurance. They reduced my loss by about $10,000. As it was I was underinsured by about $40,000.

The folowing thread explains what I have learned about insurance, at least here in Michigan. Anyone with barns and outbuildings will probably find it to be of some value.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/152523-there-mom-i-fixed-2.html#post1757105

 

[schmism]

She wanted an old style barn and I think we came pretty close.

hmmmmmmm

this is my version of an "old style barn"

English Style Wooden Barn

and check out that hay loft!

 

[bpsooner]

Now! That is an "Old Style" Barn. We would have loved to have been able to build such a barn. No telling what something like that would cost today to build.

 

[Steve C]

Now! That is an "Old Style" Barn. We would have loved to have been able to build such a barn. No telling what something like that would cost today to build.

This is my old style barn, unfortunately it is over 120 years old and the north third fell down last year