Our New Pole Barn

[Gordo 56]

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Our New Pole Barn
Posted on July 10, 2012 by Gordon Milligan
One of our main goals for 2012 was putting in a new pole barn to store our tractor. We were keeping our tractor at my friend Tom’s place. He lives about 8 miles from our farm and he had a trailor that we always barrowd to haul the tractor back and forth from the two places. Last year, on one of our trips to the farm he let his brother use the trailor so when we got down there we had to drive the tractor along the highway the 8 miles to our farm and back and that is when we decided that we wanted to build this year so we wouldn’t have to do that again.


This is a picture of the building site the way it looked before we started to build. Notice the fresh cow pie on the right side of the picture.
The building site was not real flat, so the first thing we had to do was have the site leveled.


Building site after it was graded
The pole barn is 24 x 32 with 10ft high walls.


Building in progress


The finished Pole Barn

I love the colors we went with, we have not seen many pole barns with this color scheme. We picked the white roof because it is supposed to be 25% cooler with it reflecting most of the sun rays and because of this it will last longer as well. Barn is already framed to add another overhead door and we will add some windows once we move there. We plan to build our Pole constructed house the same way with these same colors.

 

[johnk]

Very nice website. Looks like it is all working out for you.

 

[Gordo 56]

Thanks Johnk for your kind comment. I am glad you checked it out and liked it. The farm is working out for us but it dosn't always go as planned, but that is the way most things go. We are having fun in seeing it come together though.

 

[creekbend]

That is a nice structure. I enjoyed the link. Best wishes in regards to all your future endeavors.

 

[1bush2hog]

Looking Good Gordo! Did you run any electric yet?

 

[Gordo 56]

That is a nice structure. I enjoyed the link. Best wishes in regards to all your future endeavors.

Thanks creekbend, I hope you signed up to follow so you can see all the future progress.

 

[Gordo 56]

Looking Good Gordo! Did you run any electric yet?

No 1bush2hog, we have not run any electric yet. We might do that next year. We will not move there for another 3 years and we don't want to pay the 35.00 a month that we would have to pay if it was in stalled now. We are tight wades and trying to save for our Pole barn house.

Thanks for your reply

 

[johncorbin]

I really enjoyed reading about your farm. Great building.
Living in Louisiana, I understand only too well you problems with flooding.
You were misled by your realtor and the seller by not informing you of any problems
that were present .
Good Luck in the future.
John

 

[Gordo 56]

I really enjoyed reading about your farm. Great building.
Living in Louisiana, I understand only too well you problems with flooding.
You were misled by your realtor and the seller by not informing you of any problems
that were present .
Good Luck in the future.
John

Thanks John for your kind comments. I bet you do understand too well about flooding living in Louisiana. You guys are right smack in middle of hurricane country.

Thanks for visiting my site, I appricate it very much. Make sure when you are on my site to hit the follow button, so you will get a email and will be able to see all the progress through the years.

Best Rergards,
Gordon