pole barns

Tomr10

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My old man used to get them off the back of the bt lorry. They were uploading them onto trailer as police turn up. Had a phone call the new lorry had a tracker and was being used when it should of been in the yard. They thought it had been nicked
 

ARW

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Location
Yorkshire
You want a quarter of the post in the ground ideally, 16ft to eaves, 4ft in the ground 16ft out the ground. A cross brace is a good idea it help reduce movement. Set a flag stone base and fill in as hard as you can
 

yellowbelly

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Livestock Farmer
Location
N.Lincs
Don't panic @spin cycle - just dig some holes and drop your poles in and backfill with what you dug out.

Pole barns, Dutch barns - don't know who thought of 'em first, the Poles or the Dutch but we've got a vintage model. It came to us, second hand in the early '60s.................
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.....not sure if the telegraph poles were 'new' (i.e. sourced from the GPO) then or wether they'd been holding it up at the previous place :scratchhead:
We moved it in the early/mid 70's.............
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.......pic taken tonight.
So the telegraph poles have done about 60 years of holding a shed up after doing their stint of holding wires up.

They look a bit weathered(so do I at a similar age) but they're as sound as a pound....
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(y)(y)
 

Bury the Trash

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Mixed Farmer
They don't usually fasten sheets of tin to them to catch the wind though.
Mine are dug in 3'. They have been there 2 years or more so far without blowing over. They haven't got any tin fastened to them either. :D
I still park my trailer in the pole barn even though it is just 6 poles sticking up.
A lot of the old farm buildings around here were timber legs and I've never ever seen one with the legs 'blown out of the ground.

They either rotted off and keeled over or previous to that the tin roof blew off and of sides fell out.
 

Bury the Trash

Member
Mixed Farmer
Saw some massive 33kva twin poles last year put in by WPD, they just dig rwo 5ft holes, and lots of steel bracing joining them...
I phoned up about one (single) with 11kv wires on it in one of our fields, as it was leaning at a crazy angle after long exposure to the sometimes quite 'strong swesterlies that prevail here, I was told that the helicopter checker wasn't concerned about it , they said that the wires would' hold it up ' :D

They did change a eventually after several years but only because they were changing one on the same line that someone had 'clipped ' with the hedge trimmer :whistle:😏
 

steveR

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Mixed Farmer
I phoned up about one (single) with 11kv wires on it in one of our fields, as it was leaning at a crazy angle after long exposure to the sometimes quite 'strong swesterlies that prevail here, I was told that the helicopter checker wasn't concerned about it , they said that the wires would' hold it up ' :D

They did change a eventually after several years but only because they were changing one on the same line that someone had 'clipped ' with the hedge trimmer :whistle:😏

Got a sequence of 3 like that here, the last in the series is really listing to starboard, possibly as a result of a "goose strike" on the wires, that bore a remarkable similarity to someone reversing into the pole, while feeding beet out of a telescopic loader bucket to cattle ...
 
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