TrentonMaple
New member
Hi
I've got a 24x36 timber framed barn I'm finishing up. The barn is made up of 3 bents or bays of 12' wide by 24' long.
(Here is a pic of it from another thread I made)
I've got it sided now and I'm moving on to making the stalls on the inside. I'm building a couple of box stalls to house some chickens, feeder pigs, and a jersey heifer. I'm going to make the box stall corners from rough cut 4x4 posts that run from the compacted sand floor up to the rafters, with 50" tall walls made from 2x8 rough cut white pine boards.
My question is with the vertical 4x4 posts that make the corners of the box stalls. I wasn't sure if I needed to sink the stall posts to the full 48" frost line depth that a load bearing post would need to be around here, or if they can just be buried a foot or so into the dirt floor to lock them in. Any suggestions?
This would save me a ton of money and time getting a post hole digger in if I didn't need them 48" down.
I've got a 24x36 timber framed barn I'm finishing up. The barn is made up of 3 bents or bays of 12' wide by 24' long.
(Here is a pic of it from another thread I made)
I've got it sided now and I'm moving on to making the stalls on the inside. I'm building a couple of box stalls to house some chickens, feeder pigs, and a jersey heifer. I'm going to make the box stall corners from rough cut 4x4 posts that run from the compacted sand floor up to the rafters, with 50" tall walls made from 2x8 rough cut white pine boards.
My question is with the vertical 4x4 posts that make the corners of the box stalls. I wasn't sure if I needed to sink the stall posts to the full 48" frost line depth that a load bearing post would need to be around here, or if they can just be buried a foot or so into the dirt floor to lock them in. Any suggestions?
This would save me a ton of money and time getting a post hole digger in if I didn't need them 48" down.