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I've lived out "in the country" (10 miles from the nearest city, Duluth) almost my whole life, but something that has only caught my attention lately is the preponderance of pole buildings out where I live. It seems that everybody has one. On a roughly 2.5 mile drive down one rural road, out of the houses with yards visible from the road, I counted 10 out of 13 with pole buildings.
These homes mostly had garages separate from the pole building.
We have a decaying barn that serves for our "pole building" (our land, like many in the area, was once used for farming). It is not heated and now lacks a barn door, but we used it for storage.
Others, however, have sometimes gigantic pole buildings with very large sliding doors. Despite their size they seem to be very cheap constructions, vinyl-sided, white, without any aesthetic frills. Surely they would not receive permissions from the HOA or even possibly the city zoning board for construction in a suburb. They do not usually seem to be erected at farming households, and only a few plots of land which they are on own houses. What do they use them for? "Toy" (ATV/dirt bike/jet ski/boat/etc.) storage? Man caves?
Do you own a pole building? What do you use it for? Is it heated / cooled? Do you think pole building ownership, among the general population, positively correlates with country music listening?
Pole buildings are inexpensive (relatively) and easy to construct.
Around here many are used for equipment storage by contractors or farmers, municipal garages for public works, and in specific cases commercial construction.
An HOA would likely have covenants concerning them but zoning in areas might not.
What does any of that have to do with country music?
I just made a pole-barn style garage this past summer. My neighbor and the building supplies people all urged me to build using trusses instead. But it would have been far more expensive to use trusses.
Pole buildings are inexpensive (relatively) and easy to construct.
Around here many are used for equipment storage by contractors or farmers, municipal garages for public works, and in specific cases commercial construction.
An HOA would likely have covenants concerning them but zoning in areas might not.
What does any of that have to do with country music?
All one has to do it look carefully at any old barn then at any pole building to see that the amount of material to build a pole building is far, far less than any barn.
I just made a pole-barn style garage this past summer. My neighbor and the building supplies people all urged me to build using trusses instead. But it would have been far more expensive to use trusses.
I just made a pole-barn style garage this past summer. My neighbor and the building supplies people all urged me to build using trusses instead. But it would have been far more expensive to use trusses.
"Pole building" refers to a framework of vertical poles as opposed to supporting walls constructed of dimensional lumber. You can use trusses or rafters on either type of building, so I'm not really sure what you're getting at with this comment.
"Pole building" refers to a framework of vertical poles as opposed to supporting walls constructed of dimensional lumber. You can use trusses or rafters on either type of building, so I'm not really sure what you're getting at with this comment.
Vertical posts with horizontal beams and rafters. No trusses.
What I see commonly referred to as a 'pole barn' never uses trusses.
It all depends on the roofs unsupported span if they will meet the 100psf load requirement.
And the pitch of the roof, yes.
To borrow a phrase from a building contractor friend of mine: "some houses in this are were built to be able to park a tank on top of them". My house is like that. Seriously over-engineered.
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