Pole building construction pictures

[Johndeere3720]

That is a very nice pole building. I help build pole barns all summer with my grandpa and learn a lot and earn money. I used most of that money to pay for my yanmar. My grandpa used a bobcat skidsteer as well as an upright scisser lift. The bobcat digs the holes, sets the posts, moves gravel and dirt, and moves lumber. The scissor lift pretty much is used for everything else. Form working in the trusses, to putting on the metal, it is a very nice machine rather than constantly moving a ladder around.

 

[smfcpacfp]

Wow. Now I feel grossly inadequate for taking almost five months of weekends to get to the point of having a roof and exterior walls.

My thread is posted under the "Build-It Yourself" forum, which in retrospect, was the wrong place to post it. Here's the link if you care to see what one guy and a Kubota can do.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/153626-my-horse-barn-progress.html

Despite the pace of your work, it looks like you are doing a very good job, and saving ton's of money.

 

[smfcpacfp]

They concrete guys came out yesterday and cut the concrete. If somebody wouldn't have know what was going it, it might have looked like a fire with all of the dust coming out of the doors.

The contractors are done so all that is left is to do the electrical and finishing the grading and putting in the gravel drive which I will do. Next summer I will build a shop in the quarter of the building where the windows are located. I took a a picture of the final product from each side and two inside shots from the front and back.

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[Steve C]

Wow. Now I feel grossly inadequate for taking almost five months of weekends to get to the point of having a roof and exterior walls.

My thread is posted under the "Build-It Yourself" forum, which in retrospect, was the wrong place to post it. Here's the link if you care to see what one guy and a Kubota can do.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/153626-my-horse-barn-progress.html

That is a great looking barn with a lot of upscale features. To get it done in 5months was a very good effort.

I spent about a month just cleaning up my site when my old barn burned. I had to sift through about 30 cubic yards of wood ashes with a shovel to recover all the recyclable metal and I hauled them in a wheel barrow to a landfill pit a couple hundred feet away. I spent 4 complete days just removing charred wood from the sheet metal, cutting the sheets to length, flattening them out and loading the metal into a trailer for recycling.

The last two pictures show the old barn and its replacement. The origional barn was lined with OSB on the inside walls and the ceiling. That contributed to the heat of the fire and produced a lot of ashes.

I had considered building my barn myself but there in so way I could handle the 40 foot clear span trusses by myself effeciently. I figured it would take me about an hour to move one of them from the pile and walk them up to the top of the 14 foot wall and slide them into place by myself. There are 31 of them. I would have taken me 4 days to just get the trusses in place.

The crew the built my barn set all the trusses in about 1 hour.

The crew leader has been building barns for 35 years. I think that helps.
The labor part of the contract was the best $4800 I have ever spent.

 

[Steve C]

They concrete guys came out yesterday and cut the concrete. If somebody wouldn't have know what was going it, it might have looked like a fire with all of the dust coming out of the doors.

The contractors are done so all that is left is to do the electrical and finishing the grading and putting in the gravel drive which I will do. Next summer I will build a shop in the quarter of the building where the windows are located. I took a a picture of the final product from each side and two inside shots from the front and back.

Great looking building. Very attractive color combination. I also like the translucent panel on top of the one wall. I notice that the roor purlins are 2x4 standing upright rather than laying flat like they do when they are only spanning 4 foot. How far is it between your roof trusses, it apears to be 5 or 6 foot?

 

[woodlandfarms]

I agree that the use of the "clear" plastic was a stroke of brilliance, light, no heat, and waterproof.. Pretty great thinking...

Carl

 

[smfcpacfp]

Great looking building. Very attractive color combination. I also like the translucent panel on top of the one wall. I notice that the roor purlins are 2x4 standing upright rather than laying flat like they do when they are only spanning 4 foot. How far is it between your roof trusses, it apears to be 5 or 6 foot?

63" for some strange reason.

 

[wedge40]

why a roll up door and a slider?

Wedge

 

[smfcpacfp]

Because I am going to store an RV in the building in the winter, it had to be tall. Their is a height limit in my zoning district for auxillary buildings, so in order to comply with both, I used the slide door. I would have used two roll up doors, but the track on the taller garage door would have made the building too tall. I won't be using the slide door very much in any event.

 

[mjncad]

They concrete guys came out yesterday and cut the concrete. If somebody wouldn't have know what was going it, it might have looked like a fire with all of the dust coming out of the doors.

Think you used enough dynamite there Butch?

You'll like having those saw cut control joints. I wish my garage and basement had them.