Have any experience with this type pole shed?

C.Amick · Feb 16, 2018

Eliminates the need for a top band to set your trusses on. Looks like post spacing along side of building is pretty long. Uses 2 x 6 roof stringers set on their edge. Might be easier to build than wooden truss type?
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Kansasredneck · Feb 16, 2018

My neighbor's barn uses three 2X6 for the posts. The center one is cut short, and after you get it up you insert another piece of 2X6 to get the desired height. Then set the rafter in the post. The stringers are 2X4 set on edge. NO top band needed for them either.

Adirondack case guy · Feb 16, 2018

I can see that system working where there are no snow loads. There are no collar ties built into the steel trusses to keep the tops of the poles from spreading and the steel webbed trusses from breaking apart at the peak and collapsing. NOT a roof system designed for places that get snow.
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grandpa Love · Feb 16, 2018

Our cowboy church just built one like it. Fairly common in the South. Around here it's worth the money to let the pros build it. The labor price ain't bad. with out the right tools I wouldn't want to tackle it.

lee little · Feb 16, 2018

Most broiler houses built around this area{middle tn]} used this type of construction. Several barns and sheds too. I have seen quite a few of them come down from snow and wind. One was a shed about a mile from me built onto a rickety old barn. Wind came along and took the shed down, rickety old barn was still standing ! No way will I use but I am far from an "expert". Lee

bobwny · Feb 17, 2018

It says 40 lb. snow load, not for snow belt.

James Babcock · Feb 17, 2018

Very happy with this one using broiler house trusses, full steel. Not sure of any advantage to using wooden posts. In N. Central Arkansas. Not really in the snow belt, but every 20 yr or so, we might get a heavy wet snow and millions of chickens over in NW Ark get wiped out from broiler houses collapsing.
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Blackhole49 · Feb 17, 2018

I think I would have remover one more tree before I put that up. Nice looking building though.

James Babcock · Feb 17, 2018

The tree looks closer in that shot, plus it's leaning away from the barn (towards the high line). I thought the shade would be nice in the summer.

Leroy · Feb 17, 2018

How are those trusses fastened to the posts?

paul · Feb 17, 2018

Only design like that I've seen around here was caved in.

Not for our snow loads.

Looks nice, if/ where it works.

Paul

Mark-Mi · Feb 17, 2018

I see this type of building in my area of Mi-Oh.
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C. Amick · Feb 17, 2018

Thanks for the input. Think I will sitck with the conventional wood truss type.

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