Pipe post? In regards to pole barn construction.

641Dave · Mar 27, 2012

I was planning on starting on my barn/shop this spring.

I'm wondering about having a pipe frame built. Seems like it would solve any rot issues and I was just wonder who here has done so.

Sizes and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

JMOR · Mar 27, 2012

(quoted from post at 17:14:08 03/27/12) I was planning on starting on my barn/shop this spring.

I'm wondering about having a pipe frame built. Seems like it would solve any rot issues and I was just wonder who here has done so.

Sizes and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

built a 32x48 hay shed in 1993, using 3 1/2 diameter boiler tube. After almost 20 years some of the verticals (posts) are rusting through where they meet the concrete. 12 ft high...enough for double row stack of 109 round bales. Was a good deal for me since I weld & salvaged the boiler materials, 54 tubes@16 ft & 100# each plus 5500 pounds of shell all for my time & a couple tanks of oxygen/acetylene. Had to buy trusses & tin.

J-TEX · Mar 27, 2012

That is the way most do it here in North Texas, very few "wooden" barns lots of oilfield pipe around, built mine that way 15 yrs ago, trusses and all out of pipe, "C" prulin on the sides and top to screw the sheets to. never had a prob.
50 x 66 12"side walls, sliding doors on each end so i can pull through if needed

Janicholson · Mar 27, 2012

Using a concrete pier and a metal H bracket to hold
the lower end of the treated post at least an inch
above the concrete is excellent. I recommend having
the post lower end 6 inches above the bottom of the
exterior siding. This allows good hold down for
wind resistance, and discourages both moisture and
insects from even getting to the wood.
Jim

old · Mar 27, 2012

I have 2 buildings that use pipe for posts and have Mobile home I-Beam welded on them for the main frame. One is well over 20 years old now and still good and strong. I built it all from salvage stuff and have less then $300 in it

northvale · Mar 28, 2012

yes, I saw a pipe post shed blown over that had rusted where concrete touched the steel. Protect that area.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 28, 2012

(quoted from post at 14:14:08 03/27/12) I was planning on starting on my barn/shop this spring.

I'm wondering about having a pipe frame built. Seems like it would solve any rot issues and I was just wonder who here has done so.

Sizes and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

In '74, we built a picnic shelter next to the riverbank at home. 6 steel pipe posts (6"?) set in the ground/cemented.with a slab and a truss roof on it. Completely covered with water 2-4 times a year with floods. It was stiff thier when I drove by the place in 2010.......

Geo-TH,In · Mar 28, 2012

Old TV towers and close line posts did the same thing, rust where the pipe meets the cement. Just took one down.

BCnT · Mar 28, 2012

pipe makes a good barn but the price of used oil field tubing has gone thru the roof...years ago when i bought the pipe for my fence braces,my friend who worked the oil patch his entire life told me to coat the ends with a black mastic they used...commonly called "black b*tch cause its so hard to get off your hands and clothes...pipes only been in the ground 10 years so far but i know of other installations that pipe has been in ground for 60+ years and still in good shape.

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