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Moving a Post Frame Building!

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Beatles65

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I have the opportunity to purchase a roughly 70 x 40 x 12 pole barn and the parcel it is on in a small town 300 miles away from me for $10,000. My question is, has anyone ever moved a pole barn from where it is standing and rebuilt it onto another site? The building is only a few years old, and a new one would be considerable more expensive. Currently, with all my toys, I am about out of space in my 80 x 42 x 12 building and would like to get something else up to store more stuff in.

Has anyone ever undertaken such an endeavor?

What would your suggestions be if I were to buy the building and move it?

Would I be able to save the poles that are buried in the ground? They were placed in cement when they were put in.

Thanks for all the replies!

From Denton, Nebraska.
Andrew Kean
 
They are quite easy to move. You can do it two ways. In sections ( not so easy ) or take it completely apart (easy). I would # all the roof sheets & all the side wall sheets & then start taking it apart piece by piece. As far as the poles being in cement just cut them off at ground level & then when you put it back together bury new shorter poles 8'-10' beside the original ones & bolt them together. Gerald
 
What sets your barn to the ground? I've moved a few chicken coops, 1 barn and a green house. If your barn posts sit on a sill timber, you're great. If your post, however, are set in the ground, it's not as easy, but still do able. Your goal is to disassemble the barn in panels that will go back together. If your new barn has post set in the ground, you may want to consider reassembling it with a sill timber. Also, set a laser level to give you a level line accross the inside of the barn, before you begin. Don't cut it there, but when you reassemble the barn, you can measure up or down from that line and have a level deck. This is more important if the barn is not sitting as level where it is.
 
I hired a mover to move a 40 x 75, 14 foot sidewall between two of our farms. 1998- cost $4500. Distance was only a mile. We were selling the farmstead but wanted the building. He raised it with hyd jacks, did not cut off posts. With your distance involved, marking everything and dismantling would be the way to go. Too many low wires in 300 miles.
 
If you pull and test a few posts you may find they were set in dry concrete which is easy to remove.
I drill a 5/8ths hole as close as possiable to the post just deep enough to hold an 8 inch long punch in place when tapped in. If the concrete was poorly cured,a whack with a sledge usualy splits it clean with minimal chips flying about.
Even if the concrete proved difficult to break off,I would pull them before cutting so the site is cleaner.
 
At 10 grand I think you are at new price. Local ad has a 104X50X10 listed at 13,800.00 plus labor and you are going to have twice as much labor in a used one, not to mention all of the fuel you will use going back and forth.
I would bet a local lumber yard can quote a building, steel cut to length and delivered to you site for less than 12,000.00
 
I think the only way to move the building that far is to completely dismantle the building. Before I would consider that I would look and see if the tin on the building was put on with nails or screws. If it was done with nails I would't touch it. I live in Texas. Here you can purchase a steel frame building kit for roughly about that price.
 
504 is right. $10K is way too much. If the price was, say, a couple of grand, it would definitely be worth looking into. Check the materials cost on a new building from a local lumberyard and I think you'll agree.

The only way you can move a building that size 300 miles is to dismantle it. You would be paying for the privilege of demolishing their building.
 
Just how big is the parcel of ground it's on. You did say the offer included the ground.
Are you planning on reselling the ground?
If you can resell ther ground after removing the building, it's worth it.
And YES you can recover all of it--or most of it.
The posts--dig em out and it the concrete with a sledge it break off.
 
I would price a new one from a timber builder such as Cleary etc. Morton will probably be double that price. You are going to end up replaceing a lot of the material that you damage when you take it down plus if you don"t guard the material a lot of it will disappear before you get it moved. Thieves love building material.Liability is a big issue. Kids love to play on piles of lumber etc.
 
I have been around 4or 5 that have been moved.

Tearing down took longer then reassembly. And some boards were broken or ruined.

Everyone of them ended up buying new roof steel. Seems as hard as you try the holes will not line up with the perlins for reassembly. Or sheets were damaged in removal. However these were nailed roofs not screwed.

3 out of the 5 said they would never move one again.

Gary
 
Back in 1974, a friend and I got a job moving a 20x60 open-front machine shed across a barn lot for a guy. When I came onto the job, the building had been disassembled and the new post holes had been dug, and the posts had been set NOT in concrete]. We had to replace a few of the 2x12 headers over the door openings, and of course the nail holes in the roofing didn't line up with the 2x4's underneath. We took the roof trusses up via ladder, set them upside down on the framing, and then rolled them over into position.

When we got done, the difference on the roof cap from where it originally was, ended up being something like 2 inches over that 60-foot run...not bad, we thought, for a couple of amateurs dealing with a building that had 10 years to warp out of square before we ever saw it. For the "extra" holes in the roof...my buddy got a pint can of pine tar, dipped the heads of some roofing nails in it [individually as needed, of course] and then dropped the nails into the holes.
 
With the poles set in concrete, and that depends on how much concrete, I don't believe it would be a worth while effort for the money. That's a lot of money and a lot of work for a pole barn. A steel building would be a different story. I'd check prices in your area because that's not far from new price depending on the gauge of the metal.

Jim
 
10 grand is way too much to spend to move a pole barn, plus over 300 miles. For 13 or 14 grand you could build new. Think of the hassle of tearing down a building that size, the material that you will damage such as posts, metal, headers, two bys and such that will need to be replaced. Just not worth it. If you did it, in the end you wouldnt be happy and youd have half a building that is still old. Not worth it.
 
ya we moved one several years ago did it i sorta sections, also have move lots of used grain bins. i would do the grain bin idea again BUT I WOULD NOT DO THE MACHINE SHED AGAIN. the price you are paying to me is WAY TOO HIGH. I would not even consider that shed at that price or distance. good luck
 
I would price materials for a new one - consider that you will do over twice the work to tear down and rebuild, probably need new roof steel, plus trucking all the materials 300mi - $10,000 is way more than I"d give in that situation.
 
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