Building a Barn!

[Old Greenhorn]

MAN! That looks really nice!

[Nebraska]

Awesome!

[samandothers]

Looking Good!  Came along quickly.

[trimguy]

Looks good. Your walk through door looks a little undersized.😂

[aigheadish]

You're right trimguy!

And someone else just mentioned getting it all greasy and dirty real quick...

Thanks y'all, it's coming along nicely, hopefully I can have it inspected by Tuesday and start moving stuff in! Still lots of finishing work in my end though, grading it out, attempting to critter-proof, drainage... Then fitting out the insides. Woo! 

[SwampDonkey]

You've got your barn.

[21incher]

Congratulations and enjoy it. I found some used pallet racks on craigslist for mine and they really got a lot off the floor.

[aigheadish]

The builders are officially done! I hope to have an inspection by tomorrow and I'll start moving stuff in out of the weather. Woop! 

My FIL is giving me some racking he's trying to get rid of, I think he said it's only 16" deep but that'll be a great start. I just bought some used pallet racking and it wasn't nearly as inexpensive as I'd hoped so, so assuming I want some bigger, beefier shelving I'll likely build it with wood. We'll see. My FIL is shining through as a hero, and saving us a ton of money with stuff he has but won't use, very generous!



 



 

[hedgerow]

aigheadish   Nice looking building. If it was me I put another treated 2x8 around the bottom then I would put rock up to the building to about three foot from the building. It keeps the mud from splashing on the steel and its easy to keep the weeds and trees from growing up around the building. The rock seems to make the treated boards last longer. Lets it dry out quicker around the building. I have tried grass up to the building and its never worked out. 

[aigheadish]

Yup, that's exactly the plan hedgerow. I'm planning to dig a trench around to put some drainage lines in then back fill with gravel and add some sort of chicken wire (but probably stronger) down into the trench from the side of the building to help keep critters out. 

[Kodiakmac]

A question, aigheadish: are your vertical posts secured to concrete piers (sonotube forms) or do they go right into the ground?

[aigheadish]

They sit on concrete slabs 5 feet deep in the ground, and are treated but also surrounded in a plastic sleeve to protect them.

[aigheadish]

There's stuff in there now! 



 

And, though the final version the ground will be a foot and a half or two higher, the backhoe fits beautifully too!



 



 

[Walnut Beast]

Very nice!

[aigheadish]

This topic has reminded me that I need to update this post some... 

I drag my feet on stuff pretty badly, so I'm a slow go-er. Anyway, I've now got drainage around half the barn along with a mess of  2x8x16' around the base to fill in around the bottom where the grade wasn't quite right (my fault, I didn't prep/level the ground well enough to avoid this problem), I've also added wire screen to help mitigate some critter infestation, though I'm not sure how to accomplish that around the big doors. Next will be finishing up drainage and outside grading to meet permit codes, I think it's 4" of slope away from the barn over the course of 6' or something like that. 

Whomever above that said what I thought would be a huge building, and certainly all I could afford, but it won't be big enough was totally right. Space gets eaten quickly, but also my lack of organization doesn't help.