Pole Barn Addition

[BoylermanCT]

After finishing my pole barn last month, I decided to start on phase 2 which is to add covered parking for my trailers and a future pontoon boat. I'm building two 12x32 parking spots with a four foot overhang which will be for firewood storage in IBC cages. One parking spot will have a 10' min height and the other will be 8'. The plan is a 28x32 roof attached to the south end of the barn. Two 32' double 2x12 beams will support the roof, each beam held up by four 6x6 posts.

Last Saturday we dug the eight 12" holes with the post hole digger. Holes 1-6 dug easily in under 10 minutes each. Hole 7 went through 4 sheer pins due to rocks and roots but we finally made it down to 45". Hole 8 was a bear, and the auger could not get past 10" due to roots. So we broke out the backhoe and spent an hour getting the roots out down to 24" and then we used the auger to get down to 45".

 

[BoylermanCT]

Monday morning we had the building inspector out to inspect the holes and then started on the far support beam.

 

[BoylermanCT]

Wednesday we set the remaining 4 posts and second support beam.

 

[BoylermanCT]

Friday we started the 28' 2x10 rafters. Just two of us working, me and my father-in-law, so we let the tractor do all the heavy lifting.

 

[BoylermanCT]

Today we finished the rafters, added the hurricane straps and trimmed the main beams to length. I have to go back to work next week, so work will continue on the weekends. Next is 2x4 purlins and then install eleven 28' metal roofing panels. Note the pics from my I-phone make the posts look off vertical. Don't worry, they are all perfectly plumb.

 

[EddieWalker]

Looks like a well thought out plan.

I'm impressed that your 3 point auger can dig so deep. Mine only goes down 3 feet.

Whey didn't you just build the building longer?

 

[BoylermanCT]

Thanks Eddie. The barn was a kit from DIYPoleBarns.com, and I tried adding a lean to shed through them, but they only offered a single 12' wide lean to, and I knew I wanted mine to be 24' plus the extra long overhang for the firewood storage. So I focused on building the 30x40 barn kit and getting it done, and then add the covered parking on my own. I didn't want the parking to be indoors as the town taxes barns nicely. My 30x40 is on the tax roles at over $1000 a year. Incorporating the parking into a larger barn would have made the taxes $1750 or more a year. Too steep for my blood. Lean to shed are still taxed, but at a much lower rate than barns. So its a compromise between what I would love to build vs what is affordable to build over the long run.

The post hole digger is a Bush Hog model. It has a 42" auger, but you can actually insert the top of the auger into the hole a couple of inches to get down to 45". Clean it out with a manual post hole digger and we were good to go.

 

[EddieWalker]

You shocked me with having to pay taxes on a barn!!! I never heard of that before. I can have as many barns, as big as I want, and not pay anything more in taxes. People build barns to live in so they can avoid paying taxes on their homes!!!

 

[bindian]

Looking good. I don't remember ever seeing black trim on a barn.
hugs, Brandi

 

[s219]

Cool, looks great! I added two lean-tos to my barn, one on a gable end like you're doing, and one on an eave wall (which I tied into the existing roof). I'd probably install more but I am running out of available walls to tack onto, due to existing doors!

I assume you already had some load bearing posts on that gable wall to support the ledger board? Reason I ask is that most pole barn designs don't put load bearing posts on the gable walls when roof trusses are used. There may be posts but they are there for lateral support or door framing only, and not needed to support main roof loads. So when I put in my gable end lean-to, I had to add new posts (sitting right against the outside of the barn wall) with footings to support the ledger and carry the new roof load. Had I planned this better originally, I would have put extra load bearing posts on the gable end of the barn to begin with. As it was, I only had a center post (for lateral support) and the two corner posts were already allocated for the primary roof load carried by the eave header beams.

 

[BoylermanCT]

CT taxes everything. House, garage, barn, shed, chicken coop, cars, tractors, snowmobiles, horses etc. plus 6% on every penny you earn and 7% on every penny you spend The state has been run by the political party with a donkey logo for decades and they pass new taxes each year. I can’t wait to leave for greener pastures!

The gable ends of the barn have 4 load bearing posts, every 10 ft. Triple laminated 2x6’s that are buried 48” in the ground. The header for the lean to shed is attached to those posts with the same pole barn spikes I used to attach the main carrying beams on the barn that support the main roof trusses.

 

[BoylermanCT]

Worked on the parking shed today. Installed the 2x10 footer at the end of the rafters and installed all the 2x4 purlins. Metal roof is next.

 

[rScotty]

CT taxes everything. House, garage, barn, shed, chicken coop, cars, tractors, snowmobiles, horses etc. plus 6% on every penny you earn and 7% on every penny you spend The state has been run by the political party with a donkey logo for decades and they pass new taxes each year. I can’t wait to leave for greener pastures!
SNIP

Colorado taxes everything too, including a brand new tax on taxes....

BTW, comparing those CT percentages to ours in Colo. makes your CT taxes look pretty reasonable.

Although I have to say if I made up a list of reasons why I'd want to live in one area of the country over another, the way a state structures its taxes would be somewhere near the bottom of my personal list.

State and local taxes just aren't all that important to me. It's how they spend it and the particularly the overall results they get that I find more interesting.

BTW, nice shed.
rScotty

 

[BackRoad]

Mr. Boylerman, are those 28' long 2x10's or butted/spliced 14's. Are your 2x12's full length also?

Nicely done by the way.

Interested in your experience actually using the DIY Pole Barn solution.

Their online barn design tool is very user friendly for visualizing different color schemes.

 

[BoylermanCT]

Mr. Boylerman, are those 28' long 2x10's or butted/spliced 14's. Are your 2x12's full length also?.

Yes, the rafters are 28’ 2x10’s. Would have been a bear to get in place using ladders and manpower. We laid each one on the work basket on the FEL and raised them above the carrying beams and easily moved them into place. Just had to move them a couple of inches into the hangers on the header.

The main beams are 32’ long, and I could not get 2x12’s that long. Longest available were 24’ so I built each beam with two 24 footers and two 12 footers. I made sure the joints were always at one of the 6x6 posts.

 

[Alan46]

What a great job! I wish I knew all of what you know!

 

[BoylermanCT]

Interested in your experience actually using the DIY Pole Barn solution.

Their online barn design tool is very user friendly for visualizing different color schemes.

I had a very good experience with the pole barn kit. Plans were well done. It’s nice to have all parts and pieces up front. Cost was very reasonable $13k for the kit (pre-Covid prices). If you have basic carpentry skills and common sense, anyone could build it.

 

[Drewintoledo]

Fantastic thread and Documentation! I too bought a barn from DIY pole barns. They are a couple hours south. I dealt with “Dustin” if I recall. Mine is 56x36. I think I’ll do exactly what you did. I seriously appreciate this thread and thank you for taking the time and posting! Here is my barn LOL!

 

[BoylermanCT]

Drew, you are in for a great project! Hopefully you can get your barn done much faster than I did mine. I was hoping to get started in Dec 2019, so the kit arrived in November, and the old barn was torn down on Dec 10. I went to start, but the town would not approve the holes as the ground had started to freeze so they said no. Due to work and other delays, we finally broke ground in June 2020. I stored all of the lumber in my garage with the exception of the trusses and metal which were under tarps. Due to my long term storage, I had some mildew issues, and ended up spraying the wood with bleach once the skeleton of the building was up. Also had a bought of ants with the trusses, so had to spray them as we set the trusses on the carrying beams.

The best thing we did while building our barn was the crane attachment we built for the tractor with a 20' 3" box beam and a Harbor Freight winch. Allowed us to easily move each truss from the pile and lift it into place within an inch of its final resting place. The winch allowed for very precise movements.

 

[BackRoad]

Any pictures of your boom pole? Sounds interesting.