New Pole Barn project getting started.

[Darrenone]

When I did mine, I already had a round bale spear that mounted on my front end loader bucket. I found a length of pipe that I used as a sleeve to slide over the spear to make it longer. With a short lengh of chain wrapped around the top of the truss and hooked to the end of the pipe, it worked well. I'd have a rope with a person on one end of the truss to steady/guide it. The main thing is to make sure you don't hit or bump the truss hard enough that the hook would jump out of the pipe. It helped that the tractor was a larger 90HP model and the loader has above average reach. Top plate of walls is 14 feet with the trusses another ~ 8 feet (from memory). Good luck.

I really believe I could do it this way. Tractor may be a little undersized. If I had more time I might try to rig something up and see how it would work but right now, I would hate to have 5 guys standing around on a Saturday while I was figuring out that I could not do it or it just wouldn't work. Safest bet for me is go with a boom truck at $100/ hr and push my free labors hard to get done as quick as possible. I hope to have all of the trusses up in 4 hrs so $400.

 

[ENG18LT]

Using a Wayne-Dalton will be a good choice. I have installed quite a few, the ladies over there are very helpful. You may want to ask about there installed price. As memory serves it was around 150 more for them to do it, then you could be working on something else at the same time. Just DO NOT go with an I-drive opener, they are problematic.

 

[Darrenone]

Using a Wayne-Dalton will be a good choice. I have installed quite a few, the ladies over there are very helpful. You may want to ask about there installed price. As memory serves it was around 150 more for them to do it, then you could be working on something else at the same time. Just DO NOT go with an I-drive opener, they are problematic.

Thanks for the heads up on the opener and verifying that Wayne-Dalton will be a good choice. I decides to post this process so that it might help others wanting to do something similar. I am by no means an expert and actually learning as I go. Seems like when I get to a step I just make a post and get the answers I need to continue. Thank you and everyone else for helping me through this building process.

 

[Darrenone]

Well after two weekends of bad weather to postpone the trusses, I finally was able to get them up. Four and a half hours for the operator was $450.00 but worth every penny. He could obviously get them up faster but we could not brace them any faster. Anyways, another big step done. Now I need to get the purlins up on 2' centers so I can then get the steel roof on. I hope all the money I'm saving by doing it myself is worth it. Considering a pole barn company is in and out in 5 days. Well, it will be worth it when I'm done.

 

[Darrenone]

Even got the family to help. What about child labor laws? He is just small for his age....

 

[Depmandog]

Your location in NY, I assume you get quite a bit of lake effect snow? Are those rafters 5 or 6/12 pitch?, and on 4' centers - WOW. Should be heck for stout. Mine are 42' freespan on 8' centers.

Nice scenery, beautiful location for a building.

 

[Darrenone]

Your location in NY, I assume you get quite a bit of lake effect snow? Are those rafters 5 or 6/12 pitch?, and on 4' centers - WOW. Should be heck for stout. Mine are 42' freespan on 8' centers.

Nice scenery, beautiful location for a building.

Hey Depmandog. Yes, we get quite a bit of snow normally( not so much this winter) so the trusses had to be made to handle the snow load. They are 6 1/2/ 12 because they are a scissor truss. The inside is a 3/12 to get more head rm for storage above an area where I will build my shop (wood working ). They are also on 4 ft centers. Seemed a bit much to me but had it engineered by a pole barn company not far from me. The scenery is beautiful and thanks.

 

[davedj1]

With that big tractor you have there you could have easily made a jib and set those trusses by yourself and saved even more $$$.

If you put the roofing on before the walls don't dally around getting the walls done, you will have a big kite.

 

[Darrenone]

With that big tractor you have there you could have easily made a jib and set those trusses by yourself and saved even more $$$.

If you put the roofing on before the walls don't dally around getting the walls done, you will have a big kite.

Well I thought hard about trying to set them myself with the tractor but thought with them being 42' long and heavy enough that two people could barely stand one up that maybe it wouldn't be such a good ideal. The top of the walls are 12' and the trusses are another 12' so I would have to have rig a long jib. Also, the truss people drop the trusses on the side of the building so it was easiest to lift them over the side wall to put them in place. With a jib, I think I would have had to carry each truss inside the building and then try the lift them in place. I just thought that was going to be too hard and didn't want to risk it not working while all my free help just stood around. Good advice on getting the walls up as quick as possible as I wouldn't want to show up there to work and find out my building was laying in a heap.

 

[rockshaft]

Even got the family to help. What about child labor laws? He is just small for his age....

Sometimes you need the little dudes to fit in tight spaces.
Looks like a good worker