Barn Building Update 4
forms cannot contain us
Clearly my goal of getting back on a regular writing schedule didn’t happen. Hopefully this week will go more as planned and I’ll get another one written and I can get some positive momentum going to keep at it.
Work continues on the barn, the first three posts can be found here – update 1, and here – update 2, and here – update 3.
At the end of Update 3 they had gotten all the posts installed and standing square and level on the cement discs (which probably have a technical name but I don’t know it). Once all the posts were up they started installing the wall girts which are the boards that run horizontally around the building.
They were also getting ready to pour the concrete around the posts. If you are also wondering how they were going to get those concrete forms around the posts that were already installed in any way that would be useful you are not alone.
Turns out they had a plan, but that plan did not work as expected.
As you can see the concrete chose to ignore their efforts at containment with the form and instead just filled the whole cavity. After the first several they just gave up and poured concrete into the entire hole. Unfortunately that meant they ran out of concrete before they were able to finish, having planned for significantly less. This means the last six posts on the northwest corner don’t have any concrete yet; but they will be getting some when the concrete truck comes to do the posts on the south end.
After the concrete got poured they finished up with all the wall girts and moved on to the and headers and/or eave struts. I’m not totally up on my pole barn anatomy so I’m not as certain on their name, but the larger beams running horizontally along the top.
Can you tell which holes are missing their concrete?
Next up – trusses!