Pole barn done.

JayinNY · Oct 23, 2015

I helped my brother build This pole barn this summer, it's done except the interior! It was alot of work.

wvfarmboy · Oct 23, 2015

looks great

JayinNY · Oct 23, 2015

Thanks.

Hobo,NC · Oct 23, 2015

Nice the only question is why a pole barn whey not all steel..
I would think cost are ease of building it steel is not that hard why do folks go with wood in the ground...

That being said there is only one pole building around here that I know of what are we missing...

markct · Oct 23, 2015

Cheap, materials available local, can nail
stuff in easy, assemble easily with hand
labor, no costly concrete work and minimal
excavation. So pole barns definitely have
advantages, I agree steel is nice but I
wouldn't run from a pole barn just cause of
wood in the ground as long as you used
pressure treated posts

Steve@Advance · Oct 23, 2015

Straightest, squarest, nicest pole barn I ever seen! You're not building them like they used to! LOL

Some years ago I helped turn an old house with a detached "pole barn" style garage into a church. We finished out the garage, turned it into the Sunday school/fellowship hall area. Man, what a job squaring that thing up!

MarkB_MI · Oct 24, 2015

Nice job. Was this a kit from a building manufacturer, or is it a lumberyard package? I'm guessing the latter, given what appear to be standard 4/12 roof trusses.

MarkB_MI · Oct 24, 2015

Post frame construction can't be beat for cost. Unless you're talking about one of those cheap trussless buildings which I would not recommend.

JayinNY · Oct 24, 2015

Yes it was a lumber yard package.

Sean Feeney · Oct 24, 2015

around my parts he would need a 4' foundation and footer not for pole barn
My .02

john in la · Oct 24, 2015

I think you can stick frame with 2x4 for less cost than poles.
Where pole barns shine is when the walls get over 8 feet tall.

Mark - IN. · Oct 24, 2015

Looks nice. Use it in good health.

There's a place sets off of the road a bit, US 12 in Three Oaks, MI that is one heck of an idea for an office, whoever thought of it. Big red pole building that has I don't know how many windows on all four sides, lower and upper level. Probably near as much window glass as sheet metal. Windows, windows, windows. I gave up trying to count them from the highway. At first I wondered why, but then thought about it. If are sealed well, and are double or triple pane, sure has to cut down on costs of lighting during the day when most businesses are open anyway. Lower cost, more efficient building I'm guessing. You got some good sized office windows. None of my barns do, but a couple have sky lights. One day if and when I decide to build an office in one as many tell me I should, I guess I'll work it in then.

Mark

JayinNY · Oct 24, 2015

My brother how did work as a window glazer or something, so when he put new windows in a commercial office building, nothing wrong with these window so my brother took them for free. Yes there insulated pretty good he tells me. He put them in on the south side for light and some solar heat.

Dean · Oct 24, 2015

NICE looking building. Love those windows.

I had a 32X64X12 pole building to match my 5 year old 36X72X12 existing building built this summer. (No matter how big it is, it is not big enough.) It was just finished but it does not have the great looking windows as does your brother's.

Dean

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