My uniquely built 30x50 Pole barn

[bill ns]

Very impressive I am collecting power poles right now for my garage Now i can show the wife what i was talking about .Very good looking job I usually get so wrapped up in a project i forget to take pics

 

[Gizmo2]

LD1, you are one lucky guy and yes I am jealous. Very nice.

 

[Kyle241]

Very nice! I like the colours as well. Can you explain or do you have a photo of how you framed your man door and windows? I saw the one of your man door and was trying to determine whether you have a solid post on each side or you built a frame of 2x6 and somehow secured this to a post? Just asking because I have finished my pole building as well however I am uncertain on how to frame a man-door or whether I should wait until I have concrete poured in the spring. I am thinking the latter makes more sense as that is when I plan to build the interior 2x6 walls, insulate, etc.

Good job on doing it all yourself. I am doing the same and you have certainly done it well!

 

[LD1]

Very impressive I am collecting power poles right now for my garage Now i can show the wife what i was talking about .Very good looking job I usually get so wrapped up in a project i forget to take pics

I am the same way. I wish I hat taken more pictures of the action. Like actually setting the trusses, and pouring the concrete, and setting them I-beams instead of just the before and after pictures.

And I hope you are not a perfectionest if you want to use power poles. They arent straight and they arent all the same size. That Is hwy I had to make my won trim around the doors, because the header thickness between the outside of the pole and the inside board was different on all the doors. And most of them weren't the same all the way across. Like 14" at one end of the door and taper down to say 11" at the other due to the poles being different thicknesses. But I just bent the trim accordingly.

 

[tlbuser]

Very impressive I am collecting power poles right now for my garage Now i can show the wife what i was talking about .Very good looking job I usually get so wrapped up in a project i forget to take pics

While this method does work well, I cheated on mine. I took the power poles to a sawyer and had them squared up. The 1x and 2x that came off got used for the bottm chords.

While local code exempts ag. buildings ( 5 acres or more) from the permit process, they do have a "no-go" for telephone/power poles. By squaring mine up, I created 28 foot 6x6's that pass either litmus test.

 

[tlbuser]

Like 14" at one end of the door and taper down to say 11" at the other due to the poles being different thicknesses. But I just bent the trim accordingly.

Looks great

 

[ruralNearDallas]

Concrete floor?

Our barn is parrtial concrete. We planned on parking the tractor on the concrete, but then I remembered that I was told (might be in the Kubota manual) that concrete is bad for tires--especially when in 4WD, so we have just been parking it in the bare ground area. I also don't want to park the disk or the plow on concrete.

I thought maybe to cover the concrete with leftover carpet from somewhere, or wood chips.

What do you think?

Also, thanks for telling your story. Seems very solid. Interested in more details on the electric.

 

[jimmyj]

Fantastic job and wow is that shed going to be a handy thing! I have a question about the loft, I can't tell from the pictures, what is the overall support for it? You said I beams but they look like wood - are they wood beams of laminated boards? And the joists, are they 2x6? What stops them from sagging in the middle? Sorry for all the questions but I want to make another shed like this one day and I love your design! :thumbsup:

 

[LD1]

Concrete floor?

Our barn is parrtial concrete. We planned on parking the tractor on the concrete, but then I remembered that I was told (might be in the Kubota manual) that concrete is bad for tires--especially when in 4WD, so we have just been parking it in the bare ground area. I also don't want to park the disk or the plow on concrete.

I thought maybe to cover the concrete with leftover carpet from somewhere, or wood chips.

What do you think?

Also, thanks for telling your story. Seems very solid. Interested in more details on the electric.

Concrete is bad for 4wd but only for constant/extended use and trying to turn. Just pulling into and out of the garage isnt going to hurt a thing. And if you are worried, just take it out of 4wd when parking in there.

What details would you like to know about the electric?? Sorry those are aparently the only two pics I took. Just straight forward and basic. Cheap 4' shop lights. Wire to the plugs for those is done with 14ga wire on a 15 amp breakers. There are 3 circuits. One for the "shop" area, one for the "tractor" area and one for the loft.

There is receptical by every pole (every 10') around the entire garage including tractor side. With the only exception being on the wall/partition built to divide the two sides. This is done with 12ga on 20a breakers.

I also have a 30a 220v breaker for the air compressor and a 50A breaker for the welder. But the welder plug also doubles for where I plug in the window air-conditioner that I put in this summer. It actually keeps it nice and cool.

 

[LD1]

I forgot to mention that the "shop" part is insulated with R13 in the walls and blown in 6" in the ceiling/floor if the loft.

As to getting power to the building, my breaker box in the house is 200A. I had enough space in the bottom to install a 100A breaker there. Then I ran aluminum undergroung (direct burry stuff) from that breaker to the 100A main breaker in the garage. Even though it is direct burry, it is ran in grey electrical PVC conduit including in the basement of the house.

I also ran a coax cable out there so my shop part also has cable TV. No water or plumbing though.