Advice on new barn construction needed

[Green Power]

Looking good.

 

[MF283]

16" oc, you'll be looking at 14" & some change in between. One thing i don't understand is why a realtor was asked about the size of building, regardless of value, i'd build what i wanted if i were planning on staying there the rest of my life.

Ronnie

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

16" oc, you'll be looking at 14" & some change in between. One thing i don't understand is why a realtor was asked about the size of building, regardless of value, i'd build what i wanted if i were planning on staying there the rest of my life.

Ronnie

This why 'reading comprehension' is stessed in grade school.

 

[daugen]

MF, I asked the realtor about building an $80K hvac'd work building, not this shed.
And you are right exactly, but I'm NOT going to be here for life, advanced arthritis, maybe ten years at most.
Then headed to a CCC. No wife, no kids, no one to leave it to.
and I have to get my investment money out.
so I built what I needed and not what I wanted.

now awaiting the metal, though pouring rain today, not today.
Major problem with mud between barn and shed, not draining, thought I could bring in topsoil but now I'm sure I'll need rock.

 

[deezler]

Looks real solid. My only concern that I haven't seen anyone else mention yet is those 2' roof overhangs on each end.... are only built out of tacked on 2x4s from what I can tell. I have seen a lot of buildings and sheds with sagging overhangs, and fear yours will too.

 

[daugen]

I need to take more pics, which I will, but I'm satisfied with the final result. About 100% more building than I wanted but that's ok. Just slightly overbuilt...
I walked the job with the GC today, the local fireman I wanted to do business with. And when the bill came in it was a bit over expectation and had a few charges for driving here and there. I smiled and said fine; he basically gave himself his own tip and I just paid the exact invoice.

Just got off phone with local trucker, and awaiting quote on one 16ton load of 57's and two 16 ton loads of ABC Crusher run or whatever the local lingo calls it. The big stuff goes down in the muddy area, and when it's all levelled out, and dried out a little, then I lay down the top layer of ABC and when that's all settled, I may or may not put topsoil on it. I have a huge pile of topsoil available from my water diversion ditch project. I initially tried using that and just made it worse.

ground is really soft now, and much more rain coming next week. Running out of time to get this done with a wet winter predicted.

 

[daugen]

Deezler, you may be right about those overhangs, let me make sure they were totally done.
I'm taking a fresh set of pics; that pic above was on zoom from the house.

hmmm, they did offer to finish/box in the bottom of the overhangs, which I suppose would have added some
strength. Think that would help? I kinda like being able to see what's going on in there...but maybe I only have three
legs of the chair now. For sure, construction carpentry is not my forte.

 

[LD1]

Just got off phone with local trucker, and awaiting quote on one 16ton load of 57's and two 16 ton loads of ABC Crusher run or whatever the local lingo calls it. The big stuff goes down in the muddy area, and when it's all levelled out, and dried out a little, then I lay down the top layer of ABC and when that's all settled, I may or may not put topsoil on it. I have a huge pile of topsoil available from my water diversion ditch project. I initially tried using that and just made it worse.

ground is really soft now, and much more rain coming next week. Running out of time to get this done with a wet winter predicted.

Looks good, but around here 57's is a top coat, Not something I would call "big stuff" to put in muddy areas. 57's is ~3/4" stuff (about the size of large marbles).

AND, since it is a top coat it cost more per ton cause they sell more of it. The larger stone we use for base and teh stuff with lots of fines and dust up my way is 2-3 bucks a ton cheaper than the top coat stuff. I would check when you get your quote that way you are disappointed trying to do a base over muddy areas with small gravel.

 

[daugen]

57 stone delivered, what a morning...truck driver with 16 tons on made big mistake of stopping before little bridge and buried the truck in the mud. We tried everything, Kubota just dug holes trying to pull it. Finally nothing to do but dump the load and that got the truck out. So now I have a lot of stone to ferry over. I am using the 57's first where I thought I would use ABC. And where the 57's were going I need to use either larger rock or sand. I was told by two folks locally to use sand. ??

 

[daugen]

after hand shoveling that gravel around the back side of the building about a foot wide, to keep water splash off the metal sides, I'm sure not ready for any more work today, but I keep looking at that last picture and I'm thinking, yeah go down there and blow it off, get it nice and clean. For once...