Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrote:

"stryped" wrote in message
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Hi,

Been thinking, would it be acceptable to square in an area with treated
2x12's and stakes the size of the needed pole barn/garage. Then level
inside that area with gravel. Then as I get money for posts drilling
for posts outside the 2x12's and installing them? If the 2x12's are
square I am guessing the posts would have to be square then too.


Do the poles first, then form around them. It's quite easy, then, to use
stringers to build your external walls.
Better, even, to use square posts. They're a bit more expensive than used
power poles, but worth the price in the finished quality and ease of
construction for the rest of the structure. By the time you've finished
scarfing round posts for the rim beams, you'll wish you'd used square ones.

LLoyd




For my shop, we set the posts and poured the slab at the same time.

It was about 30' x 30', with a 15' lean-to on the back.
Nice sized shop!
But a couple of airplanes fills it up quickly.

Steel!

4 x 4 steel posts in the corners and side centers.
The center posts are taller to put some slope in the roof.

Weld on 10 inch purlins for the side "roof gables".

10" purlin across 30 feet to the other side - on 5' centers.

Screw the roof on and - wala - shade!

Took four guys two days.