Recent content by mercuno

O.k. I joined this forum around a year ago and I have been building barns and house frames/rough ins out of steel. We weld all our buildings and until recently we have been using square tube columns and in house designed rectangle steel tube trusses. Now transitioning to I beam construction...

well been a while. I went into the barn building business with a heavy learning curve. With trim and a 10x10 door and galvalume r panels concrete lag bolts screws misc my materials are right at 1650.00 I hire labor out at 10/hr and pay one guy about 250 to help me build on the weekends and...

might look at doing away with wood trusses and gable and go with a sloped Ibeam roof with purlins. I found out on my much smaller :) barn that the posts are better off being wood and the roof is better off all steel. Are you looking at clear span or will some posts in the middle work. (another...

well put on 5 sheets of skin to get a feel of finished look. might go into the barn building business. lol http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n257/mercuno/goat%20barn/

I plan on putting a gutter up to collect rain water for them to drink and a couple of solar panels for a light or two. I am so proud of how cheap and strong this is turning out to be.

here is what they had before and then from my back yard

made some progress today. Did this entirely by myself and I am tired and hungry.

cant make em any smaller but they are here now. I will scan the reciepts also and post a detail cost analysis. I was going for funny--not A@@hole lol but the truth sounds like it sounds. The thread is how well and how cheap can you build an economy 20x20 or so sized barn

wow that was giant how bout this one

here are some pics.. i hope.. <a href="http://s114.beta.photobucket.com/user/mercuno/media/goat%20barn/IMG_0692_zps34b13f6f.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n257/mercuno/goat%20barn/IMG_0692_zps34b13f6f.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"/></a>

Well it does get hot here but we have a good steady breeze and I have many large trees out here. the galvalume color reflects most of the heat but its still hot lol. I bought my posts purlins and 5 of the 19 sheets with lag bolts screws and some string line for a grand total of 581.61 with tax...

Hahahahahahaha. Thats funny mr Vegaman. First off, Im Texan, so those so called conservative gun hatin mouth running bureaucrats can put their permits where the sun dont shine. I live in the coooooountry woods so I think that anything goes here lol and if not, well good luck gettin out here...

I did take a look at the carports today and they kinda gave me an idea. I will still use 4x4 posts on 5 foot centers but the major change is that I will use no horizontal supports as the horizontally laid sheets will add that structure and the rafters will be 8" c purlins. the c purlins were...

had a re-look at it and may try and follow those all steel carport designs and just use 4" c purlins and skin sideways

ok rough math on rough guess for sheet. @ 2.00/lf = 1.5 per square 20x9=180sqft x4 walls=720sqft x1.5=1080 plus 400sqft roof x1.5=600 total for sheet 1680?? wow that blew the budget idea or maybe my numbers are bad because I am still thinking about this at 1:30 on a wednesday night so that...