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[caper]

Hey guys, just getting ready to start preparing for a barn build in the spring,approx 30 x 30, if anyone has any nice pics of theirs that would be great or just any ideas that you would've done and didn't do the first time.....prob going to have two box stalls and room for a few poultry......

[mlappin]

If I was building a new pole barn I would absolutely do one of two things:

1: buy the cement pillars that you attach your posts above ground to.

2: use fabricated posts if you must bury the posts in the ground. The fabricated posts use 3 treated 2x6's in the ground then standard lumber above ground. All splices are staggered so you still get the strength of a 4x6 with out the twisting. It may be different now but the treated 2x6 is supposed to last longer as the treatment makes it all the way thru a 2x6 where it might not with a 4x6, granted this may have changed wit the new technology in treating wood.


I have several pole barns on the farm, both of them have rotten posts that have been changed. Not fun no matter how you do it, easiset is to dig a hole next to the old post, bury a new post next to it then bolt them together with all thread rod.

[cando attitude]

Check out Barn pros and Morton buildings.  They have hundreds of pictures to look at for ideas.

[caper]

thanks for the barn sites,lol, however I don't have the $ 250,000 smackers to build those barns, nice to dream tho, im talkn approx. 30x30, twp boxe stalls ,,some poultry pens, either board and batten or metal sheets.....love the sites tho