Cape Cod Barn

[bebster]

I thought I'd share a few pictures of a new barn that I'm building. It's not a pole barn, since the local building code requires a 4' frost wall. So it has a poured concrete foundation. Since it's on a grade, I can put the JD 4410 tractor and attachments in the drive-out basement, with workshop above.

Here's a picture of the site, showing the barn site on the left (excavation just starting) and the farmhouse in the middle. The dirt from the excavation is being used to level the ground on the left.

 

[Docsknotinn]

Wow, Pretty place. I can smell the salt air and lobstahs just looking at the photo. I have only been out that way once. To P-town. I bet you can guess what week in the spring my wife and I inadvertantly decided to visit. It was a beutifull place I hope to visit again. Those 4' concrete runners can kill a budget in a hurry. Dave

 

[Gatorboy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I thought I'd share a few pictures of a new barn that I'm building. )</font>

I thought 'a few' was more than one. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

 

[bebster]

A few IS more than one, so here comes another. I've decided to build the foundation walls 9' 8" high so I can get an 8' high overhead door into the basement. So their is a lot of digging to do.

I thought about using my backhoe to do it, but thanks to cautionary posts on TBN, I did the math and figured that at 30' x54' plus all the extra dirt to be removed to prevent cave-in of a 9' dig would be about 600 cubic yards of dirt. My 16" bucket holds 1/20th of a yard. So that would have been 12,000 scoops!

So I had to hire the machine on the attached picture to do it for me. This photo is after about 8 hours of digging.

 

[bebster]

Here's one more of the excavator reaching waaayyy down.

 

[bebster]

Here's a drawing of an elevation of the barn as it should look when finished. I'm struggling with how to construct a sliding barn door, yet have it well insulated (no air infiltration and R factor of at least 10). All suggestions are welcome.

 

[lamarbur]

Large 2 X 4 framework with T111 outside and inside. In between sandwich styrofoam insulation. I believe you can get high density now somewhere around R 17 or so. With the double sided T 111 maybe be at R 19..

 

[theonlybull]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Here's a drawing of an elevation of the barn as it should look when finished. I'm struggling with how to construct a sliding barn door, yet have it well insulated (no air infiltration and R factor of at least 10). All suggestions are welcome. )</font>

look into freezer doors. we build door track kits, that are life time door tracks, (not like the one's farm supply dealers sell) that will work with doors that are 6-8" thick. they also are made to wedge in against the wall, to creat a seal.

these are used as forklift doors, in huge industrial freezers.

e-mail me if your interested
william.berry@ns.sympatico.ca

 

[s1120]

Got to love that Cape Cod digging huh? Dig for days, and never find a rock. Where on the Cape are you? I have a house in West Yarmorth, and eaven though I was just there 3 weeks ago, I miss it.

 

[bebster]

Paul,
This is in Truro, which is pretty rural (I'm trying to do my share to make it even more so). One issue this barn project faces is some pretty stiff NW winds in the winter coming off the water which isn't far away.

This past weekend got about 2/3 of the foundation dug out. Here's a photo of all the fill that is going to help smooth out a depression in front of the farm house (the house is 200 years old and used to be a whaling ship captain's house, and there are tons of old clamshells that were shucked over the decades and left in a big shallow pit). I could fool some of my non-TBN friends and tell them I piled it all up myself. But this is a JD 4410 tractor, so it gives some perspective on the amount of sand coming out of the hole. On the left is the topsoil that was pushed aside to save to put back onto to the top of the newly graded sandy surface. Needless to say, this will be a lot of hours to move this around and then be ready for planting. More on this over time...