New Additions to the Farm

[Rick Spivey]

Rick, it looks great! is that one of those barns that uses the metal trusses 10-12' apart? I have aspirations of a shop about that size, "one of these days!"

Al

Al,

This one is built with metal trusses that follow the roof line, and are attached at each end only, so each truss half is 25' wide by about 2' tall. That gives me a ton of headroom, as I intend to put a lift into one bay inside.

[Don McCombs]

I hope to use the barn to control my "acquiring" habit.

Forget that thought... Never happen.

[Bill Hudson]

An immutable law of physics is that what you acquire will rapidly fill and exceed all available space. When I was working with farmers considering building a machinery storage building, I encouraged them to do the planning on paper using scaled templates to determine the size needed. Once that was done, double the size and hope you have enough room.

Bill

[Barnyard]

I thought my old barn was big enough at 40'x112'. Then I built my 40'x60'. It just doesn't work out.

[ScottyD'sdad]

Looks great, Rick.

Ed

[Lt.Mike]

Rick that barn is awesome !
You know, with all that porch space it’s got Cubfest written all over it
Seriously, I am jealous as all get out now.

[Super A]

Rick, it looks great! is that one of those barns that uses the metal trusses 10-12' apart? I have aspirations of a shop about that size, "one of these days!"

Al

Al,

This one is built with metal trusses that follow the roof line, and are attached at each end only, so each truss half is 25' wide by about 2' tall. That gives me a ton of headroom, as I intend to put a lift into one bay inside.

That sounds like what I was talking about. I like that style. Our "new" barn at school uses that style of truss and I've been happy with how it turned out. Several vendors do everything from standing roof kits which is just the roof and the posts, to fully enclosed buildings.

Al

[Tezell]

Both looks really good.