"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" wrote in message
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I plan on digginh the hole with a tractor auger and using rebar and
concrete. Is this ok for 2 feet? What is a "deadman"?

Nope, not unless the concrete footer is at least another two feet deeper.
You _NEED_ at least four feet in the ground to give you the lateral load
resistance required. (unless you're talking about a continuous footer
around the whole periphery of the barn. But then it's not _quite_ a "pole
barn" anymore.)

LLoyd



What Lloyd said. When mine was built, the holes were about 5' deep and the
contractor just poured a bag of dry ready mix concrete into each hole before
the poles went in. He said the moisture in the ground would set it up and
it would be plenty of foundation for the bottom of the poles. Had no reason
to doubt his method, as he'd built many, many poles barns in that part of
Southern Indiana with no history of problems.

Garrett