PistolPete
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- Apr 9, 2021
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- Tractor
- John Deere X590
After a long time planning, designing, and waiting - I’m finally making real progress on my new building. I’m putting in a 60x40x12 barn/garage/shop. I went back and forth between post-frame and steel, and eventually settled on a hybrid structure from Worldwide Steel Buildings. The columns and trusses are steel (12 foot spacing) and the girts/purlins/door framing are lumber.
I had the site rough graded (cut and fill in a mild sloped area) last year, had the steel delivered in October (I built a “tent” to protect the sheet steel over the winter), and then struggled for months to find a concrete guy to do the foundation and floor. BTW this is the one area where a steel building is WAY more expensive and involved compared to a pole barn. Footers consist of 12 “piers” under the columns and a narrow trench “frost wall” all the way around the perimeter. Up top, a six inch floor slab.
I had the site rough graded (cut and fill in a mild sloped area) last year, had the steel delivered in October (I built a “tent” to protect the sheet steel over the winter), and then struggled for months to find a concrete guy to do the foundation and floor. BTW this is the one area where a steel building is WAY more expensive and involved compared to a pole barn. Footers consist of 12 “piers” under the columns and a narrow trench “frost wall” all the way around the perimeter. Up top, a six inch floor slab.