Ain't good to hear a crack

Don-Wi · Jul 12, 2014

After putting up another 500 bales yesterday my dad, one of the help and myself were bsing in the driveway drinking some beers and we heard a few random cracks coming from the barn. We got a few flashlights and started looking around, found a spot where some of the white wash started flaking off the ceiling. Needless to say, we ended up working in the barn until about 1 am putting in a couple posts to help hold the load.

I think right now we've got around 2300 bales in the barn and more to go yet on first crop. Most years we chop all of first
crop so we might only make 2000 total, of all crops. Hope to finish baling what we've got cut today and then we'll finish getting ready to chop next weekend... Plus I start a new job on Monday, eventually gonna have to work nights for a while.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Bruce from Can. · Jul 12, 2014

Been there Don. Had to slip a extra post in under a sagging beam or two a few times over the years. Always a surprise later in the winter , once the load is off and the post falls over. Many times I have thought of pouring about 4 inches of cement on the barn floor. Once it was set up ,it would spread out the load over the whole barn. Could even drive a tractor upstairs. Best of luck with the new job. Bruce

Nathan (SD) · Jul 12, 2014

Having a night job aint so bad. Leaves more daylight for farming.

fixerupper · Jul 12, 2014

There is a barn with a cement hay mow floor not far from where I live. I've never seen the mow personally but I drive by the barn whenever I go to town. I should sneak a peek sometime. Jim

used red MN · Jul 12, 2014

Whoa---Before you pull the trigger on that cement floor you better get an engineer to give you a thumbs up for adequate support.

Larry NEIL · Jul 12, 2014

Glad you were there drinkin beer and heard it in time to do something about it!

Pete Hall · Jul 12, 2014

I don"t think he has time to wait for engineer to figure this out,they are not the most qualified sometimes and would take a long time.
LOL
Just be careful !!!!!

dpendzic · Jul 12, 2014

I doubt very much that it would spread out the load.
a bridge deck is at least 7 inches thick with 2 layers of rebar and then it only spans up to around 8 ft

jennifer408 · Jul 12, 2014

good thing you were around to shore it up, you should toe nail a couple nails or screws in the top of the post so you don't get a surprise headache when you empty out the bales.

Billy NY · Jul 13, 2014

I know that feeling, early 2011, with snow load, our one barn with 50' clear span, common trusses, they never addressed a post that settled and resulted in a considerable sag, and 2 years prior the other end of the barn collapsed under a snow load, we rebuilt that, and I had beefed up or restored the trusses on the end with the bad post, that previous fall, but with that snow load, the creaking and cracking, impending doom, then having to shore it up, with the snow still above, like quickly, then we got the snow off, they since repaired it, I believe, its an awful feeling, one with nothing but urgency, good you caught it, never even thought of these things when we had 2 very large hay barns, and loading hay, the one barn had some stout beams for the floor with T&G floor boards, and it was enough to hold up a 2010 JD & FEL with a spreader hanging off it, one of the help somehow got it up onto the second floor, after coming down the hill behind it.

ss55 · Jul 13, 2014

Sometimes a roof rake is handy for removing snow from a roof without having to climb on the roof.

Billy NY · Jul 13, 2014

We have a pair of those, but with the span, and that sag, it had to be done by hand, and we even tried salamanders to get it to slide, but that sag was holding it up, we cleared that 85 by 125' barn roof by hand that year, small gas powered blower, I don't miss those days, insane amount of snow that year early '11, lot of barns collapsed that year.

The worst was making sure not to step in between the trusses, being 4' on center, the perlins are not so great, darned thing should have been torn down years ago, and I hate to say it but its true.

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