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40x48x16 1 10x14, 12x14 and 2 10x8 Garage Doors, 2 Walk Doors, 1 6 Foot Wide Double to access a "shed" built into the structure. Bays are 14, 14, 11 and 8 Foot wood with a truss spanning between the 14 foot bays to get an open 40x28x16 Foot Shop area.

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So I ran into some issues on this build and basically put off finishing it for about 5 years (should that go into the "mistakes" thread? :dunno:)

Anyway, spent the last two months wrapping up the exterior. 23 Squares of 8 1/4 hardiplank by myself. My tendonitis hurts something fierce!

Currently working on the interior (sometimes).

It's a 40x48 pole barn with vertical framing.

Front view: 10X14 door, 12X14 door and 10X8 door:

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Rear view

10X8 Garage door, and 72" French man door. The French man door serves an enclosed "equipment" area inside for lawn mowers, weedwackers, shovels and gas.

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Front/side view.

Two 36" man doors. One towards front serves a separate room, the one in back enters the main garage area.

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Other side view. Just a buttload of siding.

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And of course, roof water "drainfield".

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Framing on gable end.

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That's the first time I have ever seen a roof built on the ground with the post between. Nice job. Lookin' forward to more pics :thumbup:
 
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I couldn't find a picture online to post but a device similar to a boat trailer winch is mounted on a piece of metal. This is nailed to the post so that the hand-crank is at whatever level is comfortable for the operator.

The cable runs out of this device and up through a pulley that is mounted to the top of the pole. The cable then runs back down underneath the truss or rafter that you are lifting.

A total of 4 of these are used to lift simultaneously because the truss assembly is built around a mininum of 4 poles.

So 4 guys simultanenously crank it up until it's that the proper height. One guy could do it if he ran around to each winch and cranked up a few inches at a time but your arm would fall off by the time you reached 16 feet.

There are a total of 4 bays. The Purlins for the adjacent bays were laid on top of the assembly being lifted into place in order to prevent having to lift them up there by hand.
 
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That sounds very similar to how round galvanized grain bins are constructed around here. You build the roof first, crank that up a few feet, then add a ring of sidewall, crank, rinse, repeat.

Very interesting to say the least.
 
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Big Stamp from county says "NOT TO BE USED AS LIVING SPACE".

WTH does that mean?
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I would say don't divide it into a bedroom or kitchen, but that doesn't mean you can't finish the floor, put a couch and TV up there with some adult beverages in a frig. Maybe even a pool table or something like that. Heck, I'd put up a shelf, set an old carburetor on it and if the county asked what the space was used for, I'd tell them "parts storage" :)
 
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JohnK007 said:
I would say don't divide it into a bedroom or kitchen, but that doesn't mean you can't finish the floor, put a couch and TV up there with some adult beverages in a frig. Maybe even a pool table or something like that. Heck, I'd put up a shelf, set an old carburetor on it and if the county asked what the space was used for, I'd tell them "parts storage" :)
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Yeah, I am just not sure if I can heat it or not.

It's 800 SF.

The area over the garage is 28-48 with a 4-12 pitch roof giving me 6 feet of clearance in the center. Lots of storage space there too, just not for anything too heavy.
 
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Which company did you purchase your building from?
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A Bankrupt one. In all seriousness, I have lost all faith in my ability to hire the right people to do the work as it pertains to my own life. I am good at it at work, but I can't help but feel that the entire building and electrical service industry is full of careless, greedy hacks. :confused:

I went off on an absolute balistic cussing fit to the contractor. I had made all my payments with Visa so a letter to them netted charge back that in the end was my only saving grace. Our states lets you check judgements against a contractor and right now his company is being sued (actual debt is more than shown) for $60,000.00 by different suppliers.

The building is not purchased as a kit. None of those types of buildings meet code around here.

You simply hire an engineer to draw up a plan and then order material from local suppliers.
 
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What ever happened to this build???????

I'm VERY interested in how it turned out!!!!!! I'm contemplating building something similar but to the scale of 60X80. Would love to see how things have been going with this build!!!!!!
 
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Hi - I'm new here but was wondering if anyone has more info or pictures of the jacks used to lift the trusses into place. I am carpenter but have never seen this done -- seems like a great labor saving way to build.

Are the jacks similar to proctor or tranzporter wall jacks?

http://www.tranzsporter.com/walljack.html

Thanks
 
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mikefromme said:
Hi - I'm new here but was wondering if anyone has more info or pictures of the jacks used to lift the trusses into place. I am carpenter but have never seen this done -- seems like a great labor saving way to build.

Are the jacks similar to proctor or tranzporter wall jacks?

http://www.tranzsporter.com/walljack.html

Thanks
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No

They aren't jacks, they are wenches.

Basically it's a boat trailer wench welded to a piece of flat stack that gets nailed to the post. The cable runs out of that wench and up and over the post through a pulley and back down underneath the truss assemblies.

They use 4 of these (one for each post of the assembly) or probably sometimes 2 if they are lifting just a truss itself.

I did a Google Image Search and see absolutely nothing like them anywhere online but all the builders around here use the same device.
 
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First post updated and repaired with old pictures and new pictures of semi-completed garage.
 
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CTO: Happy to hear you finally have the garage built and sorry to see it took so long and was a real pain. only thing i can say in any contractor's defense during the times you started your garage was the banks all just pulled the rug out from under everybody in that profession. i had builders and developers with millions of dollars in the bank that couldn't get a loan so the guys just working to make a paycheck to feed their families and pay their rent were really left out in the cold. not saying it's any excuse for any of them to drop the ball or keep getting paid for work not done, but it came as a big surprise to all of us and I was just their agent (Realtor).

any new pictures to post since i saw you have it built please do. also ask questions if you have any and i'm sure I (we) will be happy to help if we can.

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First post updated and repaired with old pictures and new pictures of semi-completed garage.
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So are you saying that you don't have the garage completed yet? We need a view of the whole garage. :thumbup: The view, the whole view, and nothing but the view :lol:
 
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