WKY Horse Barn

[TwinWillows]

Here's a view from the side. Now to finish the ends above my large rolling doors & do the rake & corner trim to get it dried in.

 

[TwinWillows]

Here's a view from the side. Now to finish the ends above my large rolling doors & do the rake & corner trim to get it dried in.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

What kind of insulation is that, what R-value?
Wonder if I should put some on my pole barn.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

What kind of insulation is that, what R-value?
Wonder if I should put some on my pole barn.

 

[TwinWillows]

My dad was here over the weekend & we bolted a beam to the bucket using the holes for the optional bolt on cutting edge & used that to move the last 3 stall fronts into position. This was sure easier than carrying them into place by myself like I did for 2 others as each front w/o wood or the door weighs about 240#.

 

[TwinWillows]

The first 3 look like this (sorry for the bad photo but it was early in the morning). I'll get a better photo of all 6 later. With the stall fronts going up the inside is starting to look like a real horse barn.

 

[TwinWillows]

Well, it's been a while but the West end is DONE! Including hanging the yard light.

 

[TwinWillows]

Also have been working on the inside. Here's a shot of the stall fronts up & the wood fillers installed - 1 - 9/16 red oak treated w/linseed oil. We like the look a lot.

 

[EddieWalker]

That is an amazing barn!! I love the classic lines of it and was really impressed with your horse stalls. First class all the way!!!!

Thanks for the pictures,
Eddie

 

[CharlieTR]

Wow!!
That is some nice horse barn!
I am very jealous!

Are those poles PT lumber? If so and they are exposted to the horses you will want to cover them. The chems in PT lumber is bad for them and they will lick and nibble at the posts.

Great job!

 

[tensaw12]

GREAT JOB!!!!!!!! YOU SHOULD BE PROUD.

 

[TwinWillows]

Guys - Thanks for the replies - it sure has been a lot of work & we're very happy with it (flaws & all).

The work was mostly me & my Wife along w/Dad when he was visiting but on the big heavy stuff like standing poles & trusses frends & family helped. We could not have done it w/o them!

I have chew gurads on all the exposed wood edges whether or not they are PT so there sould not be any concern on chemicals.

The metal stall fronts are from Priefert but I had the red oak milled locally.

I did the welding on the grill dividers between the stalls & will start working on the swinging dividers for a mare/foal stall when the weather gets lousy.

Here's a photo looking down the hall of the barn. You can see more of the stall fronts.

 

[mudcat]

Outstanding job !!!!!

 

[TwinWillows]

mudcat - thanks, it sure was a lot of work!

 

[dullpain]

Exceptional Horse Barn, Great work. Believe me I know how much hard work went into this barn.

Would you happen to know if this style of Barn is called "Monitor Barn" ??

 

[TwinWillows]

Dull - thanks - I have a new appreciation for barns after bulding ours!

"Monitor" is the name I've heard although I did not know it @ the time we picked the design. We just wanted a barn that did not look like a garage/machine shop & neither of us like the gambrel (sp?) roof style.

 

[TwinWillows]

It was a beautiful weekend here so I thought I'd post one last photo of the barn - more of a side view.

 

[TwinWillows]

With the outside finished some inside work progressed this year. We got the concrete floor in the tack room poured, framed & batt insulated the walls, finished the TR walls & installed the manufactured tack rack.

For the 4" conc floor we placed, leveled & packed about 8" of crushed limestone then 6mil poly vapor barrier followed by 1" insulation (taped all seams) & WW mesh on conc bricks (keeps it in the middle of the slab). #4/s were tied to dowels driven around the perimeter to give the haunch some strength. My grade control was pretty good as I came out w/only 6CF extra (which ended up as a concrete head wall for my road culvert).

The tack rack is premanufactured by Dry creek tack Horse tack, equine tack storage, horse saddle racks, horse tack rack, garden tool organizer
& is a super system w/tons of flexability in positioning tack whereever you'd like & then changing your mind later.

Here's some photos of the conc & tack rack when new.

 

[TwinWillows]

One of the areas of trim I had the greatest difficulty figuring out was where my corners came up to meet the soffit on the back & front of the building W/our barn style there were 8 of these locations so I wanted a simple but watertight way to affect this.

I ended up w/a detail that looked like the attached - the top of the corner trim is notched & folded back to the building & the "J" trim on top slips into a notch cut into the siding. a fair amount of caluking was applied behind the J & between the J & top of the corner flashing to seal this. So far no leaks.

 

[3RRL]

Man, that is a Barn post card if I ever saw one!
Just beautiful.