Garrett Fulton wrote:


"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
My Morton building used pressure treated 6x6s made up from three 2x6s nailed
together with a with about 12" of rebar crossways IIRC 6" from the bottom.
They used a tractor-mounted auger to punch holes about 18" in diameter and
5' deep for each "pole". They dumped one bag of Sakrete in the bottom of
the hole, then placed the pole and added a second bag. The hole was then
filled with dirt. Ground moisture did the rest. Then there was the 5"
concrete pad that held them all down 8o). Take great care to tie things
together to prevent wind from lifting the shed off/out of the ground.
Thunderstorms/microbursts can really suck things up out of the ground.
--
Keith Bowers - Thomasville, NC