Help! PHD won't go the distance

PaulT · Aug 19, 2003

Re: Help! PHD won\'t go the distance

Caught this guy escaping from prison by tunneling up through one of our post holes /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif I guess I'll have to put him to work 'til its time to lock him up again /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

PaulT · Aug 19, 2003

Re: Help! PHD won\'t go the distance

As some of you know, I have also posted this thread on CBN under Barns/Buildings. I plan to continue documenting my saga as I build the barn. Should I do it here, on this site, or on CBN, where there is a specific group for barns? Lets vote, and I'll follow the group opinion. Muhammed, is there a way that one can cross post to both forums, but only post it in one place?

kensfarm · Aug 20, 2003

Re: Help! PHD won\'t go the distance

That fill in the first picture looks pretty loose.. did you compact it in layers.. are you worried about settling? That whole section of fill will conitinue to settle & creep down slope over the years.. so will anything you build on it. If the inspector (if any) gives you the thumbs up.. then you're good to go.. just don't want all your hard work to slide downhill!

PaulT · Aug 20, 2003

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Good eye, Ken.

That slope is actually pretty loose, but I have about 20 yards of rock that I plan to lay on that slope to hold it up and to shallow out the pitch of it. I want to get the posts in and tied together, then backfilled before I move on to reinforcing the slopes.

The post hole is back a bit from the edge of the slope, and yes I compacted the fill. That post will actually sit directly on a cement slab that I covered with the fill. The slab will not move, even if the floor level settles over the next few years.

Once the posts are tied together with girders and skirts, I assume there will be little chance of lateral shift, as the other post holes are further upslope, and in virgin dirt, either entirely or partially.

I will likely have another load or two of crusher run spread on the floor base next spring, then wait another year or two for the gravel (and my bank account) to settle, then pour a slab.

Does this seem like a sound approach?

kensfarm · Aug 20, 2003

Re: Help! PHD won\'t go the distance

That's good.. I'd hate to see your driveway to the barn get longer every year! Since your post go down to the old foundation it should be okay. I've seen a lot of fill dirt push building walls in.. or retaining walls out.. just a matter of time & gravity.

The only thing I might've done diff. is skip the wood posts and use concrete pillers. Building on the pillers would allow you to re-level the building if settling did occured. Those wood posts.. even though pressure treated.. will only last so long.

Did your PHD extension break while drilling.. or while trying to pull it out? Keep those pictures coming

PaulT · Aug 20, 2003

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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Did your PHD extension break while drilling.. or while trying to pull it out? )</font>

While it sheared as I was lifting it out, I think it fatigued when I was working it back and forth to loosen it enough to lift it back out while digging previous holes. I wasn't really very easy on it.