Any one built a pole barn?

[kit279]

Has anyone built or had built a pole barn with an earth floor? Does anyone know a company that could build one?

I know these are very common in North America but everyone in the UK seems to build barns and stables onto concrete and I don't actually need concrete as the soil is so well drained.

Any recommendations?

 

[Bowen4Horses]

Has anyone built or had built a pole barn with an earth floor? Does anyone know a company that could build one?

I know these are very common in North America but everyone in the UK seems to build barns and stables onto concrete and I don't actually need concrete as the soil is so well drained.

Any recommendations?

can't recommend anyone, or indeed say anything about building one... but we had one when i was a kid and it was ace!

my current stables are also on a dirt/earth floor and we have no problems whatsoever (they are fully rubber-matted and have hardstanding out the front).

 

[*hic*]

Round here they source telegraph poles, dig holes, set them in and pack till they are upright and then go up in a cherry picker, front lift bucket or whatever to attach cross members and sheeting. It tends to be done by local labour - certainly ours was. Not a beautiful job but cheap and keeps the rain off.

 

[Bowen4Horses]

Round here they source telegraph poles, dig holes, set them in and pack till they are upright and then go up in a cherry picker, front lift bucket or whatever to attach cross members and sheeting. It tends to be done by local labour - certainly ours was. Not a beautiful job but cheap and keeps the rain off.

no amount of googling will find me a pole barn builder anywhere other than the usa... ^^ i think jemima_too is right, ask a local farmer for recommendations/ labourer etc.

or, buy this book... and build it yourself: *snort*
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Practical-Pole-Building-Construction-Outbuildings/dp/0913589160

good luck!

 

[*hic*]

Ours was built by members of the parish council and members of the local football club and some retained firefighters Some of them were members of more than one of the mentioned groups!

 

[mrussell]

Has anyone built or had built a pole barn with an earth floor? Does anyone know a company that could build one?

I know these are very common in North America but everyone in the UK seems to build barns and stables onto concrete and I don't actually need concrete as the soil is so well drained.

Any recommendations?

My hubby built ours using old telegraph poles and boxprofile steel cladding.

Have a word with a local farmer as they could shove one up in a couple of hours for you.

 

[Enfys]

Does it make a difference if the plans/ideas are from the US? I can't see why.

Here you are for a start:

http://www.easybuildings.com/


I just asked for "plans/how to build a pole barn" and came up with dozens.

You Tube came up with a few too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDYTOGHfRpI

 

[Bowen4Horses]

some retained firefighters

yum! i think i might build a pole barn....

 

[kit279]

Oh, I so very wish I had the time to build it myself Firemen though would be an acceptable compromise

 

[*hic*]

If it's any help I can ask the guy who organised ours if he can organise you one - complete with firemen. His main job is fencing. I have to warn you that "firemen" sounds great but in a tiny rural village like ours we don't tend to get the big fit muscly ones . . . more Pugh, Pugh, Barley McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb than the stuff that semi-naked calendars and dreams are made of.

 

[Dizzydancer]

We have one at my yard that stores the hay it has a natural floor, YO's son husband and son built it tho so cant help as to anyone to build but they work really well!

 

[cumbriamax]

I haven't actually built one but we have one at the yard- its great- built out of telegraph poles with steel sheeting cladding. if I could source telegraph poles in cumbria I would build another- so if any one knows where to get telegraph ples in cumbria let me kno please.

ours also has earth floor and we have no prblems- we just stand hay / haylage on pallets just incase rain ever does get in.