Pole Barn Addition

BoylermanCT · Sep 26, 2021

CT taxes everything. House, garage, barn, shed, chicken coop, cars, tractors, snowmobiles, horses etc. plus 6% on every penny you earn and 7% on every penny you spend The state has been run by the political party with a donkey logo for decades and they pass new taxes each year. I can’t wait to leave for greener pastures!

The gable ends of the barn have 4 load bearing posts, every 10 ft. Triple laminated 2x6’s that are buried 48” in the ground. The header for the lean to shed is attached to those posts with the same pole barn spikes I used to attach the main carrying beams on the barn that support the main roof trusses.

BoylermanCT · Oct 2, 2021

Worked on the parking shed today. Installed the 2x10 footer at the end of the rafters and installed all the 2x4 purlins. Metal roof is next.

rScotty · Oct 3, 2021

BoylermanCT said:
CT taxes everything. House, garage, barn, shed, chicken coop, cars, tractors, snowmobiles, horses etc. plus 6% on every penny you earn and 7% on every penny you spend The state has been run by the political party with a donkey logo for decades and they pass new taxes each year. I can’t wait to leave for greener pastures!
SNIP

Colorado taxes everything too, including a brand new tax on taxes....

BTW, comparing those CT percentages to ours in Colo. makes your CT taxes look pretty reasonable.

Although I have to say if I made up a list of reasons why I'd want to live in one area of the country over another, the way a state structures its taxes would be somewhere near the bottom of my personal list.

State and local taxes just aren't all that important to me. It's how they spend it and the particularly the overall results they get that I find more interesting.

BTW, nice shed.
rScotty

BackRoad · Oct 3, 2021

Mr. Boylerman, are those 28' long 2x10's or butted/spliced 14's. Are your 2x12's full length also?

Nicely done by the way.

Interested in your experience actually using the DIY Pole Barn solution.

Their online barn design tool is very user friendly for visualizing different color schemes.

BoylermanCT · Oct 3, 2021

BackRoad said:
Mr. Boylerman, are those 28' long 2x10's or butted/spliced 14's. Are your 2x12's full length also?.

Yes, the rafters are 28’ 2x10’s. Would have been a bear to get in place using ladders and manpower. We laid each one on the work basket on the FEL and raised them above the carrying beams and easily moved them into place. Just had to move them a couple of inches into the hangers on the header.

The main beams are 32’ long, and I could not get 2x12’s that long. Longest available were 24’ so I built each beam with two 24 footers and two 12 footers. I made sure the joints were always at one of the 6x6 posts.

Alan46 · Oct 3, 2021

What a great job! I wish I knew all of what you know!

BoylermanCT · Oct 3, 2021

BackRoad said:
Interested in your experience actually using the DIY Pole Barn solution.

Their online barn design tool is very user friendly for visualizing different color schemes.

I had a very good experience with the pole barn kit. Plans were well done. It’s nice to have all parts and pieces up front. Cost was very reasonable $13k for the kit (pre-Covid prices). If you have basic carpentry skills and common sense, anyone could build it.

Drewintoledo · Oct 3, 2021

Fantastic thread and Documentation! I too bought a barn from DIY pole barns. They are a couple hours south. I dealt with “Dustin” if I recall. Mine is 56x36. I think I’ll do exactly what you did. I seriously appreciate this thread and thank you for taking the time and posting! Here is my barn LOL!

BoylermanCT · Oct 3, 2021

Drew, you are in for a great project! Hopefully you can get your barn done much faster than I did mine. I was hoping to get started in Dec 2019, so the kit arrived in November, and the old barn was torn down on Dec 10. I went to start, but the town would not approve the holes as the ground had started to freeze so they said no. Due to work and other delays, we finally broke ground in June 2020. I stored all of the lumber in my garage with the exception of the trusses and metal which were under tarps. Due to my long term storage, I had some mildew issues, and ended up spraying the wood with bleach once the skeleton of the building was up. Also had a bought of ants with the trusses, so had to spray them as we set the trusses on the carrying beams.

The best thing we did while building our barn was the crane attachment we built for the tractor with a 20' 3" box beam and a Harbor Freight winch. Allowed us to easily move each truss from the pile and lift it into place within an inch of its final resting place. The winch allowed for very precise movements.