Farm building?

Tequila

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Anyone put up one of these Pioneer metal arch building, or
have experience in their stability. Need a 30 by 40 farm shop.
Thanks
 
I have a Miracle Span arch building 40X60 thats been up for 14 year and has been a good building. I could have got it where the first sections on bottom were 5 foot tall before the arch started.This gives youroom to put stuff closer to walls. The hardest part of putting one of these up is getting the first two arches up.I wish I had some better pictures to show you.
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I have seen many of these, also was looking at them, found some people have problems with their township or county building ordinances being against them, apparently some areas have had someone that lived there that did not like the looks of them who managed to manipulate their building ordinances against them, so you may want to check before you buy. I personally think they would hold up very well.
 
If you get 1 do not tighten any of the bolts until you get every bolt in then go back and tighten them all. I speak from experience. I had to help straighten 1 up after another crew tried to put it together.
 
The instructions tell to only finger tighten till all sections are up.Then you make sure ends are plumb and then tighten. My building has 7,000 bolts in it.
 
I have a 40X60X16 and I can prove it would have been cheaper, and a whole lot faster to put up a pole barn. We had a crew of ten and it took four long days.(and I had the arches bolted together) That doesn t include the time and money back filling around the base of the building with concrete. If I remember right one bag of mix will fill three feet of the base and you have to do both inside and outside. My building is fine with lots of room with good clearance(12 at 6 feet from the wall)But there is no way to insulate it but spray foam. I have more in the foundation(poured to the instructions) than in the floor. The next one will be a pole shed.
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Not only that, but a pole barn has more usable space.

Sure you can park short stuff around the edges in an arch building but you can do the same thing with a pole barn AND put shelves up above to store even more stuff.

OR, you have tons more wall space for work benches or floor-to-roof shelving

OR, you can park the big stuff around the outside too, and have open space in the middle to maneuver and work.
 
Check prices careful, they used to be cheaper, but with steel prices up, wood a tad cheapish, you might find a regular pole building offers better bang for the buck these days.

Paul
 
I don't know about yours but I have been inside of mine when we had high wind storms and it doesn't creek or groan in a storm.You can get a good deal if you buy in middle of winter and take delivery in early spring.
 

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