Pole Barn Project Pics 40x72x14

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keving-
Looks awesome!

What are you going to do the floor with? Concrete?
The place we just bought has a new 30x40 pole barn with 2 - 16' overhead doors and 20' from the gravel floor to the bottom of the trusses... We are trying to figure out what to do for the floor...
Part may get built like a deck with 3/4 TnG Ply - for a wood shop... then concrete the other half...

Cost of concrete is HUGE...

What are you gonna do?

 

[keving]

keving-
Looks awesome!

What are you going to do the floor with? Concrete?
The place we just bought has a new 30x40 pole barn with 2 - 16' overhead doors and 20' from the gravel floor to the bottom of the trusses... We are trying to figure out what to do for the floor...
Part may get built like a deck with 3/4 TnG Ply - for a wood shop... then concrete the other half...

Cost of concrete is HUGE...

What are you gonna do?

Floor is going to be concrete and you are right it's expensive!

20' ceiling is way high! You could put a loft in there...

 

[keving]

On Monday they added all the trusses. Today they put one side of the roof metal on and added the shed roof. These guys work fast, smart and pay attention to detail. I've been very impressed.

The shed roof is on the backside of the barn. It is 64 x 16 with a clearance of 9'10"

 

[wkasak]

Who is the pole building contractor? I'm looking to have a building built in MD.

 

[EddieWalker]

It's a beautiful thing to see all those trussed all lined up!!!

Another suprise that they did was to put a fascia on the ends of your purlins. I've never seen this done before, and I'm curious to see how they finish it off.

Eddie

 

[keving]

Here's the progress for today. They finished the 16x64 shed roof that you can't see on the other side, finished the other half of the roof, framed out the doors and windows and started the 3' of brown metal from the base. The remaining 11 feet up the sides will be a hickory moss color.

Eddie, I'll get some close up shots of the finished facia this weekend.

 

[keving]

Here's the lastest. Concrete is being poured tomorrow!

Eddie, Here's the eve detail. Looks pretty straight forward, huh?

 

[patrick_g]

My back and shoulders are getting sore just thinking about building a pole barn (lots smaller than this one.) I was thinking 36 by 48 with 12 ft walls and open on the south side under a shed roof with doors at both the east and west ends. I will be logging and milling all the wood for stringers, rafters, purlins, and likely 1x6 oak board and batten siding (may consider painted metal siding.) I don't want to spend enough to get a concrete floor AND metal siding so I may go with a fairly deep layer of gravel with a French drain buried in the gravel on the open side.

Lots of Paul Bunyan action in the woods. We have cut timber (oak and hickory) and milled most of the lumber needed for my buddy's 24x36 and I am next up on the 2 person co-op's list. NOt exactly a barn raising like in the movies but help, helps.

I will recycle cardboard boxes (held by bands of duct tape) to simulate sonotubes unless someone can convince me that a local wood can be self treated sufficiently to prevent rot. I am thinking of mounting the poles to steel holding fixtures set into the piers (formed by sonotube.) This may require a little different bracing in the structure but is doable.

Wow, what a grand barn/shop you will have. My all metal out building with concrete floor is 35x70 with 14 ft roll up doors ar both ends and you could put it inside of yours as a prefab room. Great pix, cool project.

Pat

 

[bones1]

Simply fantastic.That is one nice building.What company is putting it up?.

 

[joes_427_vette]

Very nice building. I got bids from several pole builders. I ended up getting a friend to assist with the 40 x 72 concrete floor. I added a course of concrete block to the exterior perimeter and placed a 2 x 6 x 12' stud wall on the block. Sheeted the outside with blandex and used 2' on center attic trusses for the roof. Vinal sided the exterior and used asphalt shingles to make it look like the house. I really like the 12' wide upper deck for storage ( 264 square feet ) I have a wall at 32' for heated working area and the remainded for cold storage. There is a 2' overhang on the ends and 30" on the sides covered with aluminun soffit material. Two 12w x 10h plus 2 9w x 8 high insulated overhead doors. With tin and insulation it came to just over 17k for materials and crane rental for the trusses. There is a 200 amp power service and a 75k modine ceiling mounted heater. Working alone it took a ton of hours but looks like it belongs matching the house.
When you start storing cars and tractors the space quickly disappears. Great place to work out of though.