"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" wrote
Or, you can build the barn on the stand as-is, and proceed to fill and
level
piece-meal as you have money and time. One of the advantages of a pole
barn
is that it's an open structure until you decide to close it in. That
means
you can do a lot of the work normally done up-front after the structure is
up. Leveling, placing a slab, enclosing bays -- all can be done after the
poles and roof are in place. You can even do it one bay at a time, if
you're so-inclined.

Building a pole barn on an out-of-level lot is a lot easier than it
sounds.
You get poles that are longer than you need by at least the greatest
height
out of level. You sink them all to the prescribed depth (as discussed at
length in other threads here).

Then you secure your collar beams level on the poles, and cut off the tops
of the poles after the fact. You'd end up doing that anyway, even if the
lot were perfectly level, because it's hard to get all the poles buried so
precisely that all the pole tops are level with one-another. Better to
seat
them without paying too much attention to precision depth, but well and
hard - so settlement won't occur unevenly - then trim them all to finished
height.

Bingo