Nice New Pole Barn Is Finished & It Took Every Piece Of Equipment I Have!! [Brother's Barn Part 4] 

DIY amateurs?!?! There are no amateurs among my boys, son.You all amaze me with your talents and things you can accomplish. It looks great. The perfectionist in your Dad and his boys is a little tough to live with, but sure has great results. Makes it so easy to annoy your Dad.

Looks great! Might be a few decades before you need to worry about leaves in the gutters...

When I see the ground spray painted, you are not playing with the details! I love it when you are doing dirt work.

You guys all of you are the true meaning of the word family.

Pole barn looks great, Neil. I’m a big fan of these segmented videos showing the different stages of the project. Sweet pond your brother has. I’m sure many of your subscribers would love to learn more about that project.

I am back today watching again on this great channel! I love the behind the scenes commentary and explanations of things and your hands on approach. Great Job!

I think it is great to see how your family all pulled together to get this done. That seems to me to be the essence of America! Well done!

Another beautiful job! It’s great to see that your dad is keeping busy, I’m sure he’s missing not hauling grain. I too look forward to Sunday mornings with DDDiy! Take care my friend!

Nice job, Neil! In regards to the question asked, I like the look of stone around the foundation, but I also like to have gutters as well. A little overkill? Maybe, but having a dry foundation and a good looking stone feature around the building is priceless.

No matter how many times I see that little grader box run, it's still satisfying.

This building looks fabulous, your exterior lighting is very well thought out the color scheme looks great, I can't say enough. GREAT JOB! all the way around. What a good feeling that is when you know its all done right...

Steuben county a little north of you required gutters on my building. My floor was poured with rat walls to help prevent burrowing under the floor. Your brother should be happy with this building it looks good.

Great video, awesome job by the Dump Truck Driver, I did however get a little dizzy watching the John Deere doing circles with the box scrapper lol

Another great video. Watched with my wife on the big screen in the living room. She said it’s like watching little house on the prairie! That means you tell great stories!

Very nice pole barn Neil and property, thanks for sharing this project 👍🏻🙂🙋🏼‍♂️

I think your brother was right on with having you do all the work! Looks great!!

Everything looks great! I always look forward to your videos Sunday Mornings!

Coming from a lawn installer, a section of chain link fence, with some stiffener bars makes a great seed drag to run behind a tractor. It does great establishing sees to soil contact. I wouldn't worry about germination that late, I have done MA y dormant seedings and had great success, the only draw back is you would need to use straw or erosion control netting to help prevent soil erosion.

I agree with the beauty of the railroad iron. It looks great. The stone behind it looks great and I feel there is plenty of fall from the concrete to the RR iron. I’ll be interested to see the grass in the spring.

Looks great. Really liked the look of the railroad ties. Asked Nate about it this morning and he says they work awesome.

That turned out fabulous for Nate! Hope we see another fine pole barn job very soon! 😉

I like the rail road rails and gravel around the building. Looks vary nice!! This means no string trimmer running on the building metal.

Great work! No therapy like watching big equipment move dirt and rock.

This is the best Video for a pole Barn Ever .

The pole barn looks awesome. I'm jealous. What a great team effort.

Very good project ! Well done Guys ! Thanks for sharing with us 😉👍

Beautiful pole barn. I’m so jealous. Great work guys!

Neil, I love your videos and look forward to them each week. Great content, explanation and editing. I really do like the idea of the stone and Rail Road track. Very ingenious. My only concern is the RR track holding water in under the rock. I may have installed some drain tile, but perhaps I’m overthinking this. Great looking building - you guys did a fantastic job!!

Love the new building! Nice job! I would love to have a pole building like that someday.

That turned out great my friend. Y'all worked hard and did a great job. Throw ya a little annual rye grass seed out to hold that dirt through the winter. This time of year I always seed with tall fescue and annual rye on new construction yards just so there will be something green and something to hold the dirt until it warms up enough for the fescue to get going. I wish I was that far along on my workshop. I envy your brother having a nice building to work in. Great video.

as always nice job.love the stone around the building.never thought about using railroad rails for edging, and since im a ex railroad worker i could have had all the rails i wanted.love the colors of the barn i did mine same way

Awesome! That is a great looking building! What a shop! 👍🏻

Looks great!! I like the look of the stone around the foundation vs gutters hanging. You don’t have to worry about the gutters at all if they are not on. I also like the green shirt! Combination of your logo and Deere style! 👍🏽👍🏽

ShoutOut from South Bend, Indiana. Would love to see how you prep your yard in the spring.

Neil, if I’d only known then what I know now… I had a screened-in porch and laundry room addition built on to the south side of our home. That happens to be where the top of the hill break and slopes toward Sassafras Valley. Before the addition, a swale ran along the house at about 8’ from the house. It carried run off down the slope and off into the valley. But, when you build a 20’ addition across the swale you end up creating a pond! The addition was finished in the autumn and our summer drought had not broken yet…. I was traveling a lot for work and barely had time to clean up the leaves on the weekends. So, I did nothing about the drainage system. About the time of the first freeze, the drought was broken by torrential rains. Water pooled about 6” deep against the foundation. My wife sent me a picture of it on Wednesday. It would be late Friday night before I could do anything about it. With my flashlight I went out to see what I needed to do to fix the problem. To my surprise the water was gone… the ground was solid and I thought ‘no harm, no foul’. Until I popped open the crawl space under the house… and smelled the damp musty truth that there was indeed ‘a foul’. The water had seeped through the opening where the septic pipe came through the foundation and had spread itself into the warm earth and gravel of the crawl space. I immediately put fans under there to get the air moving and vent it to the outside…. However, winter was approaching so I couldn’t blow constantly lest I freeze the water pipes. We watched the thermometer to know when we could vent and when we couldn’t. Due to high humidity outside, the drying process would go on for almost 6 months. But, what to do about the next rain? Well I took a good look at the contour. It was apparent that I couldn’t force the water to flow back uphill a foot. The swale would have to be moved. However there were two big oak trees in the way. I had to come up with another solution. Fortunately, the swale led to where that septic line had been trenched between the two trees. So, I put in a home made catch basin and trenched a drain line down the hill toward Sassafras Valley. It worked like a charm. The water was collected within the basin and channeled away from the house leaving the foundation totally dry. When I decided to double the space of my shop, the outlet of the drain lead to the location where the shop was going. So I made a catch basin there and extended the drain beneath the new shop. It now drains the water collected at the house and the water collected at the shop down into the valley. So yes sir… I agree that dealing with the drainage up front is the smart way to go.., because I now know what I didn’t know then! The railroad rails are a perfect retainer and barrier for your surface French drain around the barn. It’s cool and practical…. If you have a buddy who has several sticks of it lying around! My neighbor did the same thing… his bed was 6’ wide and bounded with railroad ties. It is 20 years in and even with decaying ties is still working. Nice job… I’m sure your brother is happy to be ready for those ‘inside jobs’!!

Beautiful 755. Love to have one

Seeing your stones (at the 2 minute mark) reminded me that my parents used to go out into farmers' fields (we lived in Naples) and find old Roman coins standing out like toadstools after the spring rains.

I love the looks of the apron, but I'd still put in gutters with leaf guard to keep the leaves out and have collection cisterns buried next to the building for the rain water. You can use the collected water for the yard and what ever else during a dry summer. My 4H leader did this with all of her barns/buildings because her well water was heavy with iron. The horses liked the rain water better than the well water anyway.

Nate got a nice building, I did the same thing with stone around my new shop too.

I did basically the same thing around my building. Used brick instead of rails. I also used landscape fabric and decorative rock. I also have no gutters and I am glad I don't. Nice job you guys did on this project.

The rock looks great, plus it stops dirt and mud from splashing up on the siding. These shops are just to tall to safely get up there to clean gutters. I hate heights so it’s a job that simply wouldn’t get done

Neil, I have built many structures (garages and roll off roof observatories) and never use gutters on any of them. Just like you said, make sure you grade around the structure with a good slope and use large enough stone (3+ inches) to prevent erosion. You have nothing to worry about even with the rail bars as edging. The water will just run over the rail bars during heavy down pours. They are actually helping by slowing the water down preventing erosion outside their boudary. They are far enough from the structure so any collecting water against them is no harm to the slab. Good job and thank you for the great videos! 👍🙂

Building came out great, I love his pond

Awesome! I like the lime stone beds. I hate the gutters on my house there are a lot of maintenance! I also noticed you were using a direct read rod. You don’t see a lot of them around where I am at being that it’s not flat country. Great video

I just found your channel and I really enjoy seeing other Hoosiers! The French drain should work just fine and should last for years. I'm partial to gutters and overhangs and the downspouts could have been buried to the pond or otherwise not dumped on the surface.

Looks great guys! I love the kids out there watching lol! I agree, no real need for gutters and what you did is a perfect solution to keep the water away from the barn, looks good! The same is on my list for next year around my barn and the house. Can’t wait to see what’s next!

Great Job Neil , love the track rails.

No gutters is the way to go. Looking good!

Neil, there is something about your videos and editing that in my opinion.... make you one of the best Tubers out there. I'm disheartened that your subscriber numbers haven't jumped as much as I thought they would. Your content and demeanor are top notch!! With Covid easing a bit... perhaps there just aren't as many eyeballs in front of the computers as there was a year ago. Maybe the winter season will bring more folks to the world that is your channel!! Keep up the good work!

When we built in 1991 we didn't put gutters on the back of the house. After the foundation was poured before back filling we waterproofed and put 2" foam all around. instead of corrugated pipe we used lateral pipe and put about 4' of clean stone before back filling. We let the ground settle for about 5 years before I put gutters on. The foundation drains are all tied together and run out about 200' in front of the house. No issues and drains like crazy.

Wow. Beautiful!!! Well done!!

Great video my good buddy built a pole here in upstate New York no gutters what a mess here where we get giant ice sickles that will knock you silly if you get hit gutters are a must

I like the look of your stone work in addition to the help for drainage it provides. My situation: I have gutters for one building (stand-alone garage) and not on the other (large shed). The 2nd building (shed) does have some stone around it but was not done on all sides and it now has both drainage and weed issues. There wasn't a border either. My other building (garage) has gutters but the grass/ weeds grow right up to the foundation with then presents the issue of mowing and trimming. I would prefer that my garage have stone like yours. Never would have thought about the rail steel. It would be nice to get some for my site.

I am new to the channel today and I must say you all did a fine job and It all looks so good. Can not wait to see it with some established grass in the up coming warmer months.

I think the stone is a great idea

like the looks of the rocks around the building....taking leaves etc from the eavestrough is a pain and sometimes dangerous....really like the building...wish i had room for one, i could really use the storage....all the best...great video as usual :)

Man the barn looks great! My buddy is dealing with a waterlogged yard from all that rain, and he wants to redo the entire property! 🤣 When I get ready to finally do my barn, I hope it turns out half as nice as your brothers did. You guys have a solid crew down there. 💪🏽

I hate cleaning gutters and love the idea and looks of your brother's rocks under the eaves.

That looks great guys you did a good job

I like the stone just so you don’t have to run a trimmer around the buildings when cutting grass 👍

That Baileys driver is the best!

you did a great job . that Volvo Excavator you used i really wouldn't call it a Mini Excavator lol you probably could used a smaller Excavator what you used but you did a great job with Volvo EC55B Mini Excavator and not hitting anything . just saying

Good work y’all

Evan with gutters the apron is a good idea.

We call that “three quarter open” vs “three quarter minus” over here in the northwest.

Ha, I was excited to see this final episode, but it had little to do with the actual building. However, it dealt with important aspects of the job, namely water management. In real estate, I tell people water is the enemy of the house, more so than fire or really anything else. How a property is graded to how it handles the displacement area of the building (roof) itself matters a lot. Certainly nothing DigDriveDIY didn't already know. So while the video wasn't what I expected, I was glued to learn any maybe new technics. I do like the stone apron, really cool idea. Skipping gutters at your house for the trees, I get it, looking at your brother's house and shop, it's hard to say the trees were a deciding factor there. I was also stuck by how deep your trenches had to be. Was that because of the basement level or code for frost line? In Florida, we don't have basements and also don't have a frost line, so plumbing is usually only a foot or so deep, electric is maybe 2-3 feet deep depending on type of wire and code. Very interesting project Neil, for scope or frame of reference, when was the start date and finish dates? I gather finish was very recent, but didn't know you were working on it in the summer. It's possible I wasn't paying as close attention as I should have been in some other videos. Looking forward to a follow up in the spring.

the soil around there looks like tough digging.....needs a little sand mixed in 😊

Was thinking, when you find lines, pipes take pictures and a map if not a trace wire maybe a good idea.? God bless.

I use gutters to capture rain water for lawn & garden watering so I dont have to run a water well.

Good morning. Your channel just came across my feed. I like what you have created. I also like the way you present and show things. I subbed! My family lives about 25 miles west of chicago. Just throw that out there. I know I am always interested to know where people are from. I hope you are having a good day. Blessings, Ed

Nice video. Thanks Neil!

I have not watched yet, we’re on our way for coffee, but I’ll be watching before noon. 💪🏽

Awesome buliding!

Looks Great!! Nice job!!

I like the looks of the stone around the perimeter. That’s rail stake is used to keep the rock in, but it would not also stop the water from escaping hitting the steel and potentially coming back up to the concrete? Eavestrough would have been perfect at building, I don’t see too many trees? I can totally see how the rock system works at your house. You did something with the chimney on the house once and I saw your eavestrough was full of leaves. Not fun. Keep the videos coming!

well done look great

Awesome video. For me personally, I like the look of the stone border, but I would have gone with gutters based on cost and the fact that I would have had to use hand tools to spread the rock. I'm far too cheap to pay someone to do it and far too lazy to do it with a shovel and rake!

think i would for sure poured some at least 10' aprons in front of the doors.

That looks great!

I'm guessing that do in the pond is a lab, and they look as happy as a tornado in a trailer park!!!

Hi Neil ,, going with no gutters and use ping a perimeter of stone obviously works and works well but if as they say the climate is going to change a means of gathering water from that huge roof would be to tempting for me not to put gutters up ,,

Looks great Neil I would love one 12,000 dollars no thanks.

I like the stone with no gutters

Looks beautiful

Looks Great!

Looks fantastic!

Looks good. Nice job!

Love the rr rail idea

What a saga you all had putting this building together. Is the idea to use the spray foam insulation or the normal one from the hardware store? A company around here that does the spray style advertises a ton.

excellent idea, and way less nightmare

I really like the rail road track idea. Do you have any other ideas for products that may accomplish the same thing?

That looks great, I just subscribed so I can follow along.

Hi Neil. It looks amazing! While watching this series, I can help thinking how do you know how to do all this, to have such a nice result? The stone looks great and the railroad track is something I would never have thought of. As you mentioned, you shouldn't need gutters as long as the drainage is good. Thanks for the build series! -mike

How about an update on how this pole barn project turned out?

Great touch with the limestone apron. That DDD hat is definitely broken in😁. Do you have any for sale. I think I’ll treat myself for my 52 Birthday on the 9th. Is it possible to buy one? Thanks

I am going gutterless. I have pines all around, and they shed like mad. I am not climbing 20' up to clean the gutters 6 times a year like I have to on the house and garage...

good gutters and gutter guard works grest!

Great video.

I like and think I'll be stealing the idea, I have had critter problems behing my barn.

Super nice