How To Build An Inexpensive Pole barn
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"We needed additional barn space during calving season to shelter cows with new calves or for sick calves that need to be out of the weather. The price of lumber has risen so much we decided to build with poles instead, cut from trees on our own ranch," says Heather Smith Thomas, Salmon, Idaho.
We used the biggest poles for uprights and smaller, longer poles for rafters. The uprights range from 12 to 16 ft. long with the longest poles in front so the roof slopes to the back. We set them 3 to 3.5 ft. in the ground, firmly tamped. The rafters are covered with metal sheeting, screwed to the pole rafters, which rest on double cross bars nailed to the upright poles. The pole rafters are spaced 2 ft. apart and reinforced with criss-crossed poles underneath.
To put up the building, we worked on top of two cattle trucks that we used as scaffolds by putting boards across the truck racks.
The open-sided barn was partitioned into stalls using portable panels fastened to the upright poles. We can take the panels out and move them to the side for cleaning the barn with a tractor and to use the barn to store machinery."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Heather Smith Thomas, Box 215, Salmon, Idaho 83467 (ph 208 756-2841).
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How To Build An Inexpensive Pole barn BUILDINGS Livestock 21-5-7 "We needed additional barn space during calving season to shelter cows with new calves or for sick calves that need to be out of the weather. The price of lumber has risen so much we decided to build with poles instead, cut from trees on our own ranch," says Heather Smith Thomas, Salmon, Idaho.
We used the biggest poles for uprights and smaller, longer poles for rafters. The uprights range from 12 to 16 ft. long with the longest poles in front so the roof slopes to the back. We set them 3 to 3.5 ft. in the ground, firmly tamped. The rafters are covered with metal sheeting, screwed to the pole rafters, which rest on double cross bars nailed to the upright poles. The pole rafters are spaced 2 ft. apart and reinforced with criss-crossed poles underneath.
To put up the building, we worked on top of two cattle trucks that we used as scaffolds by putting boards across the truck racks.
The open-sided barn was partitioned into stalls using portable panels fastened to the upright poles. We can take the panels out and move them to the side for cleaning the barn with a tractor and to use the barn to store machinery."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Heather Smith Thomas, Box 215, Salmon, Idaho 83467 (ph 208 756-2841).
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