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Everything was pretty much by myself other than concrete and setting the big posts.

Well, the time has come to actually start building. It will be a 36x48 monitor style barn(mainly for looks and to fit in with neighbors). The front 24x36 will be storage and eventually be my shop and the back 24x36 will be a small 2 bedroom living area for my family to live in while we wait to...

I'll be nailing to the face of the posts not installing bookshelf girts.

I had a similar response from my local plan reviewer about needing a footing but after a second discussion about structural loads being on the posts he approved the plans without the footing.

Ok so what do yall use. 3.5 ring shank hand driven or will 3.25 smooth shank from a framing nailer work. I cant seem to find ring shank nails that long for my gun. Also how many nails on each end of a 2x6 girt. 2 or 3? Thanks guys. I will be starting a build thread pretty soon.

The other attachment shows the framing layout. The dark squares are posts, you can see i eliminated one on the bottom, that's the reason for the big lvl

I'm trying to determine what face mounted bracket i will need to use in order to attach my glulams in between two posts. I think i have added an image that has the sizes of the beams. There are two different sizes and the biggest is 24" tall to span 24'. I don't even know if they have brackets...

it is only a 12' span. It is a monitor style barn and the trusses are for the center aisle. Live in Louisiana and they trusses were calculated by the truss company for 12' OC.

I did a drawing similar to this as well. The center trusses are going to be in notches in the middle of the post. The end trusses would be attached to the outside of the post. My pole layout had 12' from outside of pole to center of next. So i guess I am right about thinking the trusses will be...

I was under the impression they were all 1 ply

So I'm planning on using 3 ply column, if i can get them around my location. If the gable trusses are mounted to the outside with a cripple stud under it for support wouldn't the truss spacing be as follows 12'1.5"-12'-12'-12'-12'1.5". i was going to hang my purlins between the trusses also.

Ok, this may be a super easy answer but for the life of me i can not figure it out. If i have a pole barn that is going to be 48' long with post 12' OC and the trusses are engineered to be 12' OC as well, i feel like i would end up short when installing. Basically truss #1 starts on the outside...

Welcome, I am in Prairieville, LA. Planning a 36'x48" monitor barn right now.

What about something like this. It looks like they used a beam to span down the center aisle and then placed a smaller post on top of the beam in the middle. This is basically how I am wanting to frame my pole barn. Just with the beams a little lower so the joists can be used as the ceiling for...

I have thought about that framing idea. How would i go about attaching my shed rafters to the 2x6 wall framing? Also 2x10's would just be the floor joist that would attach to whatever size beam it is that i would need.