Re: Want to build a polebarn, where to start?

Posted by Gerald J. on March 19, 2005 at 18:26:51 from (67.0.109.196):

In Reply to: Want to build a polebarn, where to start? posted by Mike from cny on March 19, 2005 at 17:23:00:

Menard's sells kits. UBC may sell kits. Other home centers don't know what a pole building is.

Midwest Plans Service offers a book of plans including details for making your own trusses.

You can't buy the high quality lumber the truss shops use so a home made truss with construction grade lumber will be at least half again as heavy.

You want laminated triple 2x6 posts. They are stronger and less likely to split than solid 4x6 or 6x6 posts.

You can't ever build it too big unless it covers the garden and laps over a property line.

Steel has jumped in price but last year I bought a building erected from Wick. They had the best price and decent quality. There were lower priced buildings, but the quality wasn't there.

Remember the trusses are on 8, 9, or 10' centers. That makes for really heavy trusses and takes a strong boom to put them up. You aren't going to lift one of those trusses with two hands on top the ladders.

Even if you go with a kit, let the various vendors show you their catalogs and their designs to give you ideas for details.

Door details will be the biggest pain with the need for special beams to hold trusses over wide sidewall doors. One of mine is steel, the other is laminated from four pieces of 20' long 2x14 clear douglas fir. More lumber you can't buy.

Gerald J.

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