YAPB (yet another pole barn)

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From the tractor seat, I lift the rafter while my wife climbs the scaffolding...

 

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Once the truss clears the walls, I pull the tractor forward to until it lines up... and then set it in place.

 

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We quickly found that lifting the rafters in place was no big deal. Took maybe ten minutes to go get the rafter, walk it into the shop and set in place. What took the most time was squaring it up and then putting the temporary and later, permanent bracing in place. This took, on average, about an hour per rafter.

It took us about ten days to put up the first 31 trusses. Then we had to stop working on that for a while and build the front gable wall which was necessary to support the last (gable) rafter.

 

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I'm overdue for an update. Need to get the pictures processed quicker!

We've made lots of progress over the last month or so and are getting close to having it dried in.

In this picture, we are putting up the last rafter after framing out the front wall on the gable end of the shop.

 

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Then I boxed in a couple 2x12's under the load carrying GluLam beams over the garage door to give two feet of overhead above the doors.

 

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Next was 88 sheets of OSB to deck the roof. Thought about using 2x4 purlins but went with the OSB because it would do a tremendous job of bracing the roof rafters, and would (with 30# felt on top) quiet down rain noise on the roof. We're going to have a mini apartment/office inside so the second consideration was a big one as our metal roofed barn can sure be noisy!

To get the OSB on the roof, I found that the easiest way was to push them up the extension ladder in front of me as I climed the ladder and once I got to the top, give them a shove and flop them onto the roof. Used the same system later to lift the 21 foot long R panels on the roof, but used two ladders and two lifters (myself and my hard working wife!).

 

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Then we started putting the tin on the walls.

This is the south wall.

 

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north wall.

 

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Over the next couple weeks, we put 30# felt down on the roof and then R panels over that. Finished the rear gable end wall and also had two driveways and a wraparound sidewalk poured.

Added in edit: I had wanted to use a "concealed fastener" roofing panel, but they were not available when I needed them. Went with R panels instead...

 

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Added gable and eave trim on the three completed sides and were then ready for the front wall, which we wanted to make a little nicer than the other three walls. In this picture, the front wall remains the final frontier of this project.