Budget 30x48 pole barn shop in progress

[gibby2268]

Hello all, been hanging around here reading for a while, finally decided to add my own thread. I am in the process of building a fully insulated 30x48x10 pole barn. Going to have 2 8x10 rollup doors, one in each end wall and one walk door. It has taken me awhile to get where I'm at, I've done all the work by myself, other than having a couple friends and a boom truck to help raise the trusses. I have both side walls done but I'm leaving the end walls partly open for now until I get the floor poured, which will hopefully happen before the end of the month.
I live in a somewhat rural part of Middle TN, so luckily I don't have to deal with codes. The one thing I have had to deal with is rock. Solid limestone, makes it fun to set the posts. I could have just poured a slab with footers, but that would've increased the concrete costs, and I have been trying to keep costs as low as possible. I ended up renting a big compressor, a rock drill, and a jackhammer for a day to dig (more like beat them into submission) the holes, and if I never have to look at another rock drill again, that will be ok with me! I did get it done,but it was a loooong day!

Had a bobcat guy that was going to level the pad for me, he told me to get all the sizeable stumps out first, so I did alot of digging by hand before I could pull them the rest of the way out with the tractor....
http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m307/rgibson30/shop/?action=view&current=Picture1032.jpg

I did have some help with the digging, just not where I needed it!
http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m307/rgibson30/shop/?action=view&current=Picture1033.jpg

After all the work I put into getting it ready for the bobcat, of course the bobcat never showed and I end up with a freaking bulldozer leveling, so all my stump diggin was for nothting! All I can do is laugh to myself as he's leveling!
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m307/rgibson30/shop/Picture1142.jpg

Got the posts in the ground and trusses up, and start putting it all together.
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m307/rgibson30/shop/Picture1165.jpg

Purlins done, time to start sheeting! The insulation I'm using is the "double bubble" variety. No the best stuff by far, but it is easy to work with, a BIG plus for me!
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m307/rgibson30/shop/Picture1168.jpg
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m307/rgibson30/shop/Picture1167.jpg

Roof is done and starting on the sides. Sorry for the crappy pic, it was taken through the upstairs window and the flash screwed it up. I took more pics during the process, but it looks like someone erased them off the camera..
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m307/rgibson30/shop/Picture1170.jpg

Anyway, right I'mworking on leveling and compacting the gravel getting ready to pour the slab, its going to be 5 inches. Once I get that done, I can install the rollup doors and then it will probably have to sit until spring before I can afford to wire it up.

 

[atvmech]

Looking good, what do you plan on doing in this shop?

 

[sharpshooter]

Where are you located???

 

[gibby2268]

I'm located in Chapel Hill, about 35 miles due south of Nashville.
The shop is basically my getaway where I can hide from the wife! Its basically for storage of all my stuff, tractor etc. I have an old K5 Blazer that I'm working on,and do alot of gun refinishing. My dogs think its going to be a large doghouse, and they are partly correct.

 

[Bib Overalls]

Where did you get the metal roof trusses?

 

[gibby2268]

I bought the entire barn as a kit from a local company. It came with everything except the rollup doors.

 

[64HemiSavoy]

And that local company would be???

 

[kbs2244]

Yeah,
I would like a little more information on those trusses.
How do they attach to the posts?
How did you put them up?
Were they all pre-fabbed for you or was there any site welding?

All the pole barns you see have the spiderweb trusses and a flat celing.
One of the advantages I have always thought the metal truss guys had was the valted celing.
But they always had to supply the wall posts as well as the celing.
Nice and simple and strong but expensive and hard to put up.

Those look to be a nice alternitive that would give you the cost saving of pole construction but still let you have the vaulted celing.

 

[gibby2268]

I bought the kit w/trusses from http://www.discountmetalroofing.com/ they have 2 locations in Tn, one in middle Tn thats about 25 minutes from me, another in East Tn.
The trusses came in half sections (15 ft)that you bolt together, then bolt the bottom brace on. Once you lift them into place they bolt to the post with 2 bolts that bolt through each post. I got lucky in that my father-in-law has access to a boom truck that we used to lift them into place. Had a couple buddies come over to help guide them into place, but it was really easy. It took about 2.5 hrs to get all five up, and that includes the time it took to bolt them together.
The trusses really aren't that heavy, maybe 250-300lbs or so but it would be tough to do without a lift of some type. I have a friend that built a 40x60 from them a few years ago, and he used a big front end loader to lift them up.

I still haven't really done much more to mine, it's sitting waiting on the floor to be poured, looks like my timing was bad and Christmas is taking my $$, plus its cold to be pouring concrete!

 

[kbs2244]

On the trusses.
It looks like there is a tie piece that goes from side to side about ¼ of the way up the joist part of the truss?
So you do not have the completely open vault that the metal building gives you, but you do have a lot of space between the trusses?
How far apart did you put the trusses?

Even with the tie in the way, this looks like a good comprise between cost and space.

 

[woodbutcher]

click the bottom link img on your photobucket. it will post pic automatically

 

[gibby2268]

The trusses do have a cross piece, so no, it isn't the completely open space but it is higher than wood trusses would be. The trusses are at 12 ft intervals, so I have 5.

 

[SWSS]

Did we ever get it done?

 

[gibby2268]

No, long story....I was doing the floor pour myself, and doing it in 16 foot sections so as to be in thirds. Got one section done late that winter, then ended up getting a divorce, which of course put an end to my shop building for awhile. Ended up keeping the house though and it's on the top of my list of things to do! I have partially wired it, have 4 4-bulb flourescent fixtures down each side, going to put another on each end. Don't have permanent power run yet though, and for now I power it with an extension cord from the house. SOON!!

 

[SWSS]

Understood...I am looking at property east of spring hill. 7 or so acres, enough for a little shooting range and a shop. I looked at their website, how is it holding up?


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[gibby2268]

It has held up fine, no complaints.