Pole Barns

[gregorylee]

Those of you that have bought / had built, what where your experiences, things that you thought of after the fact, would have added or done differently?

We recently bought some acreage and are looking to put one up but I am interested in everyones thoughts. Currently I am looking about 50 x 100 with a 20' overhang on one side. Steel, with concrete floor, either end with an overhead door, 12 wide by 12 high and one walk door.

 

[Best Buckeye]

My Step father has put up a few and he always buys seconds from the factory. He always saves a ton of money.

 

[gregorylee]

How does he go about doing that? Does he have connections, or who is the manyfacturer?

 

[Best Buckeye]

How does he go about doing that? Does he have connections, or who is the manyfacturer?

He gets them from a place south of Mount victory ( south of Kenton)
Pm me and i will see about him calling you or vice versa

 

[WonderMonkey]

A suggestion I have is to offset the large door on the end to one side. This assumes you are going to have a sliding or overhead door. Instead of having it in the center, put it to one side to maximize the usable room. We did this on a building not as large as the one you are looking at and it made life nice.

I'm getting ready to build an out building. Was looking at prices today. Mine will be very much like a detached garage for me to make my wood working shop.

 

[gregorylee]

MY thought for keeping them centered was more along the lines of a crossbreeze and the fact that one end will be stalls, and I wanted to build a woodshop on one side of the other end. Leaving roughly 50 x 70 minus the shop of storage and usable space.

 

[WonderMonkey]

Right. Your usage makes sense. The one we offset was a general use type deal.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

what is the barn for? hay burners?
are you going to heat it?

 

[gregorylee]

Multi-use, Horses, implement, woodshop, storage. Probably heated to a degree.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

id insulate it and get a high efficiency furnace, run the thing when it is cold at a low temp say 50 degrees. thats me. id also consider more than your two big doors. thats a big building, see what kind of configurations you can get with doors in the side, it can allow for cross ventilation in the summer and might pay dividends in getting things out of there when its full.

i mean you have lots of things to consider, but without seeing it, the lay of the land, what you want in there, how you want to space it etc etc its hard to give you good advice.