Telegraph pole Barn

[Dancingbrave]

Have got a lot of the high quality big thick poles been left by the electric guys am fancying build a straw shed out of them anybody got an idea how wide i could make it ?

 

[Mc115reed]

Have got a lot of the high quality big thick poles been left by the electric guys am fancying build a straw shed out of them anybody got an idea how wide i could make it ?

we knocked this up a couple years ago at work and I’d say it’s about the limit of how wide we could have gone without centre supports, off top of my head it’s about 30ft with 4ft overhang on the front then 14ft bays

 

[Karou you]

that's great, if I got the material do you know anyone who could do it for me, I'm in East Sussex?

 

[spin cycle]

that's great, if I got the material do you know anyone who could do it for me, I'm in East Sussex?

@TristanP .. . looks a useful lad

 

[Karou you]

thanks I've mailed him.

 

[Hilly]

Have got a lot of the high quality big thick poles been left by the electric guys am fancying build a straw shed out of them anybody got an idea how wide i could make it ?

Depends on how good a joiner you are , my advice dont even go there pole barns are thr work of the devil , sell them and but a proper kit and build a
Proper shed , i pulled my pole barn down 2010 couldnt
Stand it no more .

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Depends on how good a joiner you are , my advice dont even go there pole barns are thr work of the devil , sell them and but a proper kit and build a
Proper shed , i pulled my pole barn down 2010 couldnt
Stand it no more .

have you seen the price of steel? I was told it has gone up from £450/ton to £1750/ton

 

[wr.]

I put this one up in 2014. 18' bays and 30' plus 6' overhang on front. We used rsj's for the trusses though. The uprights are dug in 6' minimum and it is in quite an exposed position.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

we knocked this up a couple years ago at work and I’d say it’s about the limit of how wide we could have gone without centre supports, off top of my head it’s about 30ft with 4ft overhang on the front then 14ft bays
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My kind of shed , Chainsaw and Hammer Shed , looks good

 

[Hilly]

have you seen the price of steel? I was told it has gone up from £450/ton to £1750/ton

Yes , you get what you pay for . Last two
Insurance company’s i have used wont insure them now anyway , after a life time building them with my dad i dont blame them .

 

[Derrick Hughes]

NFU insure all my sheds and have paid out on my Hammer and nail sheds so above is not an issue as long as you don't insure with cowboys

 

[Hilly]

NFU insure all my sheds and have paid out on my Hammer and nail sheds so above is not an issue as long as you don't insure with cowboys

Funniy enough it was the nfu that tried to cock on my claim on a pole barn , they are the only insurance company i have ever had that i have had bother with , they did cough up in the end , the one thing i did learn most of the insurers are inly as good as there area reps. The mutual just fines people for loyalty and bribes them to join the nfu which apparently they have no conection with