And Yet another Horse Barn/ Pole Barn

Tscott9330 · Apr 30, 2008

FL4400,
Looking forward to seeing the next bit of progress. I am about to start one of my own and have been studying up on the design. Looks about like I have done in the past, and has worked well for me so far. Where abouts in NE Fl. are you? I am just north of Gainesville in Keystone Heights.

Tom

FL4400 · May 2, 2008

Tom I live in Glen Saint Mary but I work in Green Cove Springs so I am not to far from you. My machine will be here in the moring to start setting trusses and I hope to get the tin on tomorrow also, I will post up some pictures when we get done.

FL4400 · May 3, 2008

My machine and crew showed up today and we started setting trusses, I had built and braced off 3 trusses on the ground last weekend and we set them first thing this morning. We got a little busy and I did not get a chance to snap a picture of us picking up the three trusses but here is a picture of them after we set them.

FL4400 · May 3, 2008

We were stacking 5 trusses on the lift at a time and slide them into place, things were going well for most of the day.

FL4400 · May 3, 2008

We set a few trusses and started running the purlins, a friend of mine brought out a few of his guys from his grew and it helped out alot.

FL4400 · May 3, 2008

We were a little over halfway in the picture below, we had 4 trusses left to go when we broke for lunch.

FL4400 · May 3, 2008

We were moving right along we had to go back and straighten up the trusses back attaching a strap to the tractor and give it a lot tug. Once we got it straightened up we went back to seting trusses to get it finished up.

FL4400 · May 3, 2008

We got all the purlins done on one sided and after I trimmed the tails on the trusses we started running the tin. We were able to get one whole side donwe with tin while a few guys finished up the purlins on the other side.

FL4400 · May 3, 2008

It was a long day but this is what it looks like from the front now. It is amazing how much bigger something looks like once you get the trusses set. The guys worked hard but we ran out of time from running the tin on the other side so it looks like I will finsh this next weekend. I still have some bracing to put in the trusses and