Old barn

cowboydoc · Aug 7, 2003

Here's an old barn that I restored a couple years ago.

Timex · Aug 7, 2003

Nice. Is that in Idaho or Iowa? Do you have "before" pics?

Timex

jlemon · Aug 7, 2003

Hey, give us more details! Where'd you get the siding? How hard was it to put the roof on?

I have an old hay barn that I want to restore which has a steep roof on it, and I haven't quite been able to figure out how to go about it. The barn roofer I called wants 7K to repair it, which is a fairly large chunk of change for a guy who only needs ~300 square bales per year. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

cowboydoc · Aug 7, 2003

Timex,

It's in Iowa. You hardly ever see barns like this out west. No need as all our hay is stored mostly outside. It's 45x95 and is probably 100 years old or so. The bottom used to be a milk barn. From the floor to the peak is 70 feet. Inside there is a loft that will hold about 8000 square bales. I had to redo the loft too.

The sides weren't too bad but the roof was no fun at all. We had a manlift on the bottom and lifted the steel up to three guys on the roof. We basically just crawled around on the purlins we layed over the old roof.

I had a local machine shop make all the peaks. The steel I got from a local mill that makes steel that is about three times the thickness of the regular pole barn steel. I wanted to make sure it lasted another 100 years. I sure as heck didn't want to put on another roof!!! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif