used 24 x 32 pole barn

[billconner]

my son is looking at an existing 24 x 32 x 10 (or 12 )pole barn, owner wants $5000 and buyer disassembles and removes. Not too old. Embedded posts on 8' centers, trusses 8' on center, 2 - 10 x 8 overhead doors, dirt floor, no insulation or interior finish - just farm equipment storage. I said offer to take it away and leave clean site - no money changes hands. Certainly not $5000. My son is one who could lable and reassemble using same holes in metal but I said allow for new roof metal. Also thinking he should go to sturdi wall plus (Perma Column wet set brackets) and add some diagonal bracing.

Thoughts?

 

[mike93lx]

I would work up a bill of materials to see what they cost new, then work back from there based on time and risk involved. 5k feels maybe a bit high for a basic shell plus having to disassmble

 

[PoorUB]

$5,000 seems like a lot for a pile of used lumber, which is essentially what he is buying. Plus good luck on reusing all the tin.

Menards has a 24x32 with 8 foot wall pole barn kit for $10,000.

Free might make some sense.

 

[kbs2244]

removing the posts will need heavy power equipment
(cutting them off at ground level would be OK)
and there is the insurance thing
I think a counter offer to remove it for free is going to be the best the guy gets

 

[dougf]

Free would be ideal, but even then I would have to think about it. Proper marking would really help, but your suggestion of new roof tin is probably a requirement for leak free storage. With new roof metal, fasteners, equipment for removal, time spent, etc... you're going to creep up close to the cost of a delivered pole barn kit from Menards.

Heck, I just popped open the app and theres a 24x32x10 kit for $7,447.

 

[manwithtools]

Probably put together with Pole Barn ring shank nails, could lose a lot of lumber and have extra aggravation trying to pull or cut those nails. Not worth the effort even if it's free to me. But I'm 63 and have money, if I was 30 and broke, I might give it a go

 

[Uncle murph]

$5,000 seems like a lot for a pile of used lumber, which is essentially what he is buying. Plus good luck on reusing all the tin.

Menards has a 24x32 with 8 foot wall pole barn kit for $10,000.

Free might make some sense.

Free is what I had in mind, I recently passed on a 24x36 in very good condition,they eventually found someone totake itdown for free.Actually the new owners hired Amish to take it down,move it ,and reassemble it.

 

[FredWanaker]

ask yourself if you had one on your property, and wanted to get rid of it, what you could expect for it. Considering the labor and risk involved, plus the guy getting rid of it has already specified exactly what he wants his land to look like when the "job/work" is done, I'd say he pays me to remove it. Tell your son offer $50 an hour labor to remove it, and if it is reusable when done, he will waive the landfill and hauling fees. If the guy says no then another one will be along not that far in the future. Tell your son to leave his phone number cause it won't be long before the guy is calling with a counter-offer that is more reasonable like he'll pay $500 - $750 to get rid of it.

 

[jives]

ask yourself if you had one on your property, and wanted to get rid of it, what you could expect for it. Considering the labor and risk involved, plus the guy getting rid of it has already specified exactly what he wants his land to look like when the "job/work" is done, I'd say he pays me to remove it. Tell your son offer $50 an hour labor to remove it, and if it is reusable when done, he will waive the landfill and hauling fees. If the guy says no then another one will be along not that far in the future. Tell your son to leave his phone number cause it won't be long before the guy is calling with a counter-offer that is more reasonable like he'll pay $500 - $750 to get rid of it.

This.. The most expensive thing on the pole barn is the tin, and used is filled with holes, and likely dents and bends from being torn down. Unscrewing 1000s of screws is a job for teens scrambling around on the roof. If the girts and purlins are nailed, be ready for a lot of damaged lumber. Are the posts in concrete? Either way they are likely rotting at ground level and may require cutting.

The owner is in la-la land.

 

[PoorUB]

The more I think about it, it has zero value. Try tear it down with huge sinker nails in the 2x material into the posts. IMO, all the 2x framing will be garbage by the time you pull the nails. The posts you might get out of the ground, but you will need some sort of loader or skid steer to get them out.

And like I said before, you end up with a pile of used building materials. I would not get excited over it if it was torn down and all I had to do was load it up and haul it away, for free.

I would pass and order a new building kit and start fresh.

If you could cut the posts at the ground, pick the whole building up in one piece and move it, then maybe, but even then it is sketchy.

 

[Tracs]

I just came across a local ad for a 50x100 insulated pole shed to be moved, for the low price of $120,000...

I see ads all the time for shops/garages/sheds for sale and must be moved and laugh to myself thinking the seller is lucky if they don't have to pay to have it removed.

 

[FredWanaker]

yes, almost as good as fill dirt, $10 yard, must guarantee removal of leaking fuel tank with it.