Cheap building

jm.

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Location
Dover TN
There is someone on here always asking will a 2x6 span 12 ft or building questions. Well in rural Tennessee no building permits needed. This young hard working young man sure can do a lot with junk. The first photos are of what he is building now. He gets 10 ft by 4 ft pallets free from where he works. I was amazed passing how he did it all by himself. Now before you say it will never stand I snapped a photo of one right beside this one that has been there at least 4 years. He also gets some kind of plastic/rubber fabric , that is what he used to cover the first one with. Sure is a hard working young man.
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Works for me. Wish I had that much energy. My horses live under a billboard tarp for 4 years. I put up 2 posts and one over the top. Stretched it tight like a tent. After 4-5 years it started to tear where it rubbed on the board.
 
Most of the buildings I have are made from junk I had laying around. My shop might have cost me $300 to build and my hay barn around the same amount. But what is in them far out weights the cost of me building them. Hay barn is full of hay so that is close to $3500 worth of hay shop well I have no idea of the value of all the tool in it but by far a whole lot more then the shop cost me
 
I like his ingenuity, nothing wrong doing things with free stuff and keeping the costs cheap, looks good to me
 
Quite ingenious and I agree ambitious. I wonder if the only purpose of the horizontal ladder structure under the peak is to give him roof slope yet using the same length posts as for the side walls? He should triangulate pallet slats on both sides of that to help that be more supportive of his span. Sort of like and M next to a W. If you could picture that. I suspect since this is a second hand observation by JM, this suggestion won?t be passed along.
 

The pallets don't appear to be structural members, they just make up the wall between structural members. IOW- it's a pole barn from what I see. Am I missing something?
 
Bret, are you replying to my comment? I?m not saying how he built it is incorrect, l am just saying
he could easily take some of the material he has readily available and make his span under the
roof peak less likely to sag overtime. Next time you are in your local Walmart or farm supply store
look at the bar joist supporting the roof and you will see a likeness of what I am suggesting. Better
leave it at that, don?t want to get labeled as ...overbearing... here.
 
(quoted from post at 13:56:45 10/14/19) Bret, are you replying to my comment? I?m not saying how he built it is incorrect, l am just saying
he could easily take some of the material he has readily available and make his span under the
roof peak less likely to sag overtime. Next time you are in your local Walmart or farm supply store
look at the bar joist supporting the roof and you will see a likeness of what I am suggesting. Better
leave it at that, don?t want to get labeled as ...overbearing... here.

Nope, I was just noting what I saw, not critiquing anyone else's response.
 

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