Barn Pix (For Perry Williams)

Interesting....I guess you are using pipe because it is readily available in the oil patch?

Here in Missouri it would be all 6x6 and 2xs...

Tom

Yes. All of the pipe used is 2 7/8" drill stem that was once used by one of my clients and is only good for barns and fence corners now.

Tom

I've never seen any barn that starts out looking like that, but I suppose it's a great use of available material. I guess I'd call that a shed, but that's just me.

Here is what a barn looks like to this Illinois kid...

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Andy

It's 30'x40'. Not a shed around here. 🙂

Took a helluva lot of dirt (about 150 bobcat buckets) worth of clay to make the pad.

Oh, BTW, I'm out about $200 thus far for it not counting my sweat equity. 🙂

Now there is a "Pole barn"

Andy

wow, it's hard to get the scale from the pic, but it's much larger than I thought... will it have a flat roof, or do you build something up once it's all braced together?

Andy

Yes, a flat roof. It is 11' in the front and 10.5' in the back. Scaffolding was a must on this one. I bet we've burnt a half bottle of oxygen and 30 lbs. of welding rods getting it together.

Interesting that you hauled clay in for the floor. Around here, clay is considered un-suitable material (except for dams). We would excavate it out, find a place to waste it, then haul in crushed rock.

Jeremy

Well, red clay makes one helluva base material. That and it's on sand, which isn't. Also, I had the clay on the farm already, I would have had to have bought the rock, and I'm super cheap. Around here, clay is the base for all houses, and after all, this is just a barn. 🙂

Jeremy

The biggest problem with clay is when it freezes and has a high moister content. It tends to heave and in many cases it heaves unevenly. I don't believe that Kris has those conditions.

Jeremy

Not often, that's for sure. Even when it freezes here, the ground doesn't typically freeze also.

Andy

If you are going to put tin on the roof you had better insulate the hell out it for sound. In a hard rain or hail storm the noise would be incredible.

Andy

I probably won't do that. It's going to be closed on three sides and simply provide cover to the tractors and other equipment.

Thanks for the pics.

That will make a nice barn for the equipment, though it looks awful big just to store bobcats. Around here, we just put them in a small cage.

Also, looks like a beautiful area you have there Kris.

Thanks Perry.

Yes, a flat roof !

Kris-

Yikes ! "Yes, a flat roof"

Look out for leaks !

Derek

Yes, a flat roof !

I kind of doubt it since the entire roof is one sheet of tin, and there is overlap between the tin sheets, but I'll keep a weather eye out. 🙂

>when the tin is on, then I will add the "wind bracing" that I asked for by name with cables and turnbuckles as recommended by my engineer cousin.

Okay, you're going to add the wind bracing *after* you have the metal skin on? Why? Is there some Texas A&M structural engineering guide that recommends this?

Jeremy

I guess if you can keep it dry. Around here it contracts and expands causing doors to not open and close properly. Sheet rock shows signs of cracking, ect. ect. There are areas near me in the summer where you could lose a shovel handle in the cracks.

I recently aquired 94 acres, several acres of which are sandy brick clay. Having a hell of a time getting in and out with a truck. Almost impossible at this point. Would sell you as much as you want.

I did read awhile back that if you add the correct proportion of sand to clay it makes a great road bed (roman times). Guess I'm missing alot of sand.