Courier
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Got a Fold Yard and Ex-Self feed silo here total 65' x 80' with a valley down the middle - Went up about 1955 - 1960 using creosoted ex Electric / Telegraph poles fully concreted in.
pole barns
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I'm talking about pre-useless tanalising.
Got an old Gales tan doug fir building which has a lot of failing stanchions, a number of my own 'constructions' using both sawn and peeled tanalised. Lots failing right where they meet the concrete/ground.
Anyway, you're sure, so go right ahead.
youre right of course.
concreting timber in is bad for it full stop. different expansion and contracting soon makes a c rack around and moisture ingress,or dampness gets held there but also oxygen for that damp rot to occur ,which is actually the same as happens in the ground in the area just where it comes out (tanalising wont deal with that white rot at all.thats why it all fails. ) anywhere with stakes gatepost etc. they wont last 5 mins.
even creosote unless its tarry will wash out over time if outdoors. CCA didnt wash out at all,it st5ill had to be done right tho, ie dry wood and pressure to push it in .
Will and have done 35 years plus
how bout a pole in a barn for dancin' 
not laughing at your wound.....just that you support oxford
You can go off folk you know!! lol ......... can change anything in your life except your football team.
Well, by Brother in law insists they are temporary structures so don`t need any.
You may notice the lower of the two is hidden by the shipping container he keeps the tools in.
The larger version is not visible to anyone except Dick & Dom his neighbours in rural Devonshire who are "not particularly concerned" about PP as they suggested he should do it!
The smaller one is 50% log store and where he parks the truck and the larger one is his haybarn where he also keeps "Sir Alex"
his Fergie and the "organic meadow hay" for the local horsey folk!just a boy then!
is that Magda again?...I told her she should stop doing it.how bout a pole in a barn for dancin'
spin cycle
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- north norfolk
...better than the 'boothen'
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That's the tidiest pole barn I have ever seen!
Tomr10
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I'm not sure if it should belong in this thread
primmiemoo
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- Devon
biggles
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- derbyshire
Where’s the best place to get hold of some half decent poles to build a barn from? Everything I see about is well past it’s best, cheers
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- Scottish Highlands
I can see my architect being very concerned about the apparent lack of diagonal bracing but maybe that is done with steel ropes not visible in the photographs and the buildings are in an area where they don't get strong winds? Even with the ventilated sides, winds would impose considerable stresses on that design up here in the north. Sorry, but someone had to ask.
Try scanpole ltd Newport s wales