The last Barn. (maybe)

[bindian]

Now that the outside is completely done it's time to get the inside how I want it.
I needed a place to store firewood and a heated place for the tractor. Plan is to foam insulate the tractor area and I'll just use a 6' electric base board to heat it. I only want 40-50 degrees to ensure I don't have fuel/starting problems in the winter.
I'm waiting for it to warm up so I can continue the electrical work. I have most of the plugs done and some lights but still need more. Also a nice work bench where the blue barrels and plywood are.
Worth noting that currently the building has only a heavy duty extension cord plugged in on the back patio of the house running through the conduit into the panel in the barn. I'll run permanent power this summer after I get the hay shed done.
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Here is a short video of our barn build. Credit to my son Jordan for doing it.

Awesome video! The way Y'all installed the trusses blows my mind.
hugs, Brandi

 

[cat fever]

Awesome video! The way Y'all installed the trusses blows my mind.
hugs, Brandi

Brandi,
If you go to YouTube there is also a follow up video of some footage missed in the one you posted here. Just search for "massive barn build"

 

[bindian]

Brandi,
If you go to YouTube there is also a follow up video of some footage missed in the one you posted here. Just search for "massive barn build"

Cool! Thanks Lynn.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Do you have a close up photo of the tractor moving the poles? I am interested how you hooked and unhooked the poles.

I am leveling the pad now, for a 40x80 sawmill shed. My last barn, I wrapped a chain around the pole to put it in the hole, but it was slow. Seems lot faster with your guy on the forks with the pole.

What baffles my mind is no bracing on the poles at all while setting them.
hugs, Brandi

 

[cat fever]

This is the set up I used. (in Utah) Although this picture shows a 48" spear. The one on the barn I just built I had on a 36" spear. It did not work right that's why you see the platform on at first then my son was standing on the pallet forks. I was too lazy to change the spears but in hindsight it would have saved us time to just change the spears.

 

[keg99]

A great build thread . . . until I saw the confederate flag. Hard to understand anyone supporting a cause long understood to be antithetical to our country.

 

[CobyRupert]

A great build thread . . . until I saw the confederate flag. Hard to understand anyone supporting a cause long understood to be antithetical to our country.

Meh…I was mad at my wife for hanging a giant confederate flag on the clothesline. Turns out, it was just a white bed sheet.

 

[ovrszd]

A great build thread . . . until I saw the confederate flag. Hard to understand anyone supporting a cause long understood to be antithetical to our country.

I don't fly a confederate flag. I respect anyone that chooses to do so. Proud to live in a country where you can. Even though the gov wants them all taken down.

 

[bindian]

It's amazing what can get folks panties in a knot over stuff they have no control over.
hugs, Brandi

 

[cat fever]

A great build thread . . . until I saw the confederate flag. Hard to understand anyone supporting a cause long understood to be antithetical to our country.

Here's my take on the Confederate flag.

I lived in South Carolina and Georgia about 40 years ago. (loved it) The flag for me represents "southern pride" nothing more, nothing less.