Archive for August 6th, 2009

Author: Ashton
• Thursday, August 06th, 2009

As I’ve mentioned before, this is going to be a “pole barn” which means the entire structure relies on poles sticking into the ground. This epic barn will have (and had) 16 poles. We dug 16 holes, and now we have got to fill them.

8/4/2009: Bryon Harrison helped a lot in this stage. He lined up the poles with the appropriate holes:

Epic Barn Project:

Epic Barn Project:

Here’s the first four corner poles up and braced. (If I could do this again, I would have measured these corner poles to make sure they were placed perfectly (and square), plum them out and then fill them in.)

Epic Barn Project:

8/5/2009: Then we started bracing up the inside poles. Once they are all plum and centered, we braced them with the old purlins. Read the Rest of this Post