Another Pole Barn

[wedge40]

Thanks for the photos Mark. It was interesting to go through them all. I'm always amazed at what a couple of guys who knows what they are doing and hard workers can accomplish. The pouring of the cement slab looked interesting. I take it they had someone with a hook pulling the rebar up into the cement.

How are you going to bring water and power into the building? Photos please.

Did the safety inspector find any issues?

Wedge

 

[JDeerekid]

Nice polebarn. Only thing is it is too small. I am in the process of puting a 20' x 32' x 12' and it needs to be twice that because it is filled and does not even have siding on it yet.

 

[MarkV]

Mark, nice barn and thanks for the photos. Looks like they did a good job. It looked like the boom pole they used on the front of the skid steer for setting trusses could be extended hydraulically. Is that correct? I don’t think I have seen that before but it sure would be handy.

MarkV

 

[Mark_in_IN]

Yeah the boom could extend, it had one section that they manually pulled out and then there were 2 sections that telescoped out, I thought it was really cool and handy.

thanks for all the good comments
mark

 

[Mark_in_IN]

Finally got around to taking pictures of the finished barn, Last week I got the floor sealed and I started pricing my electrical service to the barn, thanks to this great site and others who posted on there wiring questions.

M

 

[skargo]

Finally got around to taking pictures of the finished barn, Last week I got the floor sealed and I started pricing my electrical service to the barn, thanks to this great site and others who posted on there wiring questions.

M

I love it! Very similar to mine, only nicer looking

 

[Mark_in_IN]

Here is the Update
I started tearing down my old shed (picture 1)
and ended up burning it to the ground (sorry no pictures)
Then i cleaned up the slab (picture 2)

oct 4th a friend of mine came over and brought his tractor, we moved 15 tons of 53's and the pile of dirt from excavation. (picture 3)

then monday i rented a TBL do tear out my slab (picture 4) and dig my trench (Picture 5) for power and water.

i have never ran a backhoe before and i picked it up very quickly,

And the lesson for the week is:



(drumroll please)



wait for it



when digging with the back hoe don't let the tractor fall into the trench.

I started at the barn and dug a ways then turned around and started at the house, while i was digging i realized i would have to drive over the trench already dug to complete the trench. I was digging along great each time pushing the tractor back with the hoe. I wasn;t watching and the left tires fell into the trench and there i was sitting at an angle, I tried using the hoe to reposition my self but i was tired and it was now dark out.
(sorry no pictures)

Tuesday morning i got up at the first light, i only had an hour or so before i had to return it, I got a railroad tie under the bucket and was able to push the front wheels out, i then placed boards accross the trench and set the wheel down on it, and then using the boom and right outrigger together i was able to pick the back end up and place boards under it. I then slowly picked the back up and inched it over untill the rear tires were on solid ground, i placed more boards over the trench and drove it out. in all i was impressed that it only took maybe 20 minutes to do.

Overall i was really impressed by the backhoe, It dug great and could move the machine pritty easy.

next up is get the wire and water run, inspected and backfilled

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