buffalofish
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- Joined
- Oct 11, 2011
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- Tractor
- Kubota BX2660
With a large amount of thanks to TractorbyNet and all the great forum posters, my pole barn project is almost complete!
I had grand plans of building the barn myself (plenty of experience and all the right tools), but my wife finally convinced me that the year of Saturday's it would take me to build wasn't worth it (I travel 4-5 days/week).
After much anguish, I hired a local contractor - Parco Buildings - to do the work for me (they've been great).
The barn itself is 30'x48' with 10' side walls. A 16'x30' section will be walled off and used as a woodshop, with the remainder used to store stuff (i.e. keep the tractor attachments and my plow truck out of the snowy Buffalo winters).
What's been done so far:
- Land cleared (the building site was heavily wooded - the wood will be put to good use heating the house, with a mountain of wood chips I can use for landscaping)
- Site leveled (took down average of 8" to get to hard-pack clay, then filled with bank run gravel and leveled as there was an 18" front-back slope (took about 260 Tons of fill))
- Utilities roughed in (power, nat'l gas)
- Building has been built (2 12'x8' overhead doors, 2 man doors, 5 3'x4' windows) - it took about 7 days from start to finish for the Parco folks!
What remains:
- Install overhead doors (they go in tomorrow - Parco subs this part out)
- Install electric (I will be doing this part with cousin who's an electrician over the next month or so - can only work on it on Saturday's)
- Install concrete floor - next summer - need the fill to settle over the winter
I'll add some additional posts with in-progress pictures as time permits.
I had grand plans of building the barn myself (plenty of experience and all the right tools), but my wife finally convinced me that the year of Saturday's it would take me to build wasn't worth it (I travel 4-5 days/week).
After much anguish, I hired a local contractor - Parco Buildings - to do the work for me (they've been great).
The barn itself is 30'x48' with 10' side walls. A 16'x30' section will be walled off and used as a woodshop, with the remainder used to store stuff (i.e. keep the tractor attachments and my plow truck out of the snowy Buffalo winters).
What's been done so far:
- Land cleared (the building site was heavily wooded - the wood will be put to good use heating the house, with a mountain of wood chips I can use for landscaping)
- Site leveled (took down average of 8" to get to hard-pack clay, then filled with bank run gravel and leveled as there was an 18" front-back slope (took about 260 Tons of fill))
- Utilities roughed in (power, nat'l gas)
- Building has been built (2 12'x8' overhead doors, 2 man doors, 5 3'x4' windows) - it took about 7 days from start to finish for the Parco folks!
What remains:
- Install overhead doors (they go in tomorrow - Parco subs this part out)
- Install electric (I will be doing this part with cousin who's an electrician over the next month or so - can only work on it on Saturday's)
- Install concrete floor - next summer - need the fill to settle over the winter
I'll add some additional posts with in-progress pictures as time permits.
