Building turned out great. A few good sized solar panels, an inverter and batteries and you would not need to worry about the solar generator limitations.
17:55 "there's not a dark spot in this building..." your shadow pops out challenging that statement. Perfection! Great work, great help, really looking good!
Good morning Adam….That building is phenomenal…great job on the lighting. Looking forward to watching many videos in the future. Stay safe Have a day 😊
Wow, it all looks great!! Your friend did a good job!! 👍That ladder looked scary to me!! You're a brave man, Adam!! God bless you and your family!! Thanks for another great video!! ♥️🙏♥️👍
Glad I watched this video series. Gave me some ideas on the renovation and bump out of my existing pole barn. I will be using the book shelf framing (commercial) as your contractors have used. I am also going a bit overboard and installing Zip-R (R6) sheathing around the entire building walls and EPS for the base slab. Then I will use Rockwool to fill in the bookshelf framing to finish it off inside. Thanks for the content and looking forward to your next video.
The lighting looks as great as the building!!!!!!! Have you given any thought to put netting up on the trusses to keep birds from nesting above your sawmill area? It might save some bird poo poo on you 😲 We had a 33x40 pole barn built 2 years ago, and they used netting. Have a Jesus filled day everyone Greg in Michigan
That was a great job Adam. You are braver than me because I would not trust myself on a ladder that high. Smart move getting the electrician for the more complex part. You are going to love your new building. Stay safe healthy and cool. Bill H from Cranberry Township
This is a very well designed open structure built to high standards. I appreciate the method you used for the girts which increases the structures ability to withstand wind loads and also increases the buildings verticle load capacity. And the resulting structure is attractive and well suited to your intended use. Great job. Ray Stormont
Love the camera viewpoint when spreading the gravel, nice job! Here in Europe we often place anti root cloth under the gravel, for suppressing weeds and keeping the gravel from sinking too much
Love the DIY where appropriate and hiring professionals when you should. The non-OSHA methods can be debated. What I am concerned with is fire safety. You keep everything cleaned up, but now that you have structures you NEED some extinguishers near by.
100% agree I worked in the industry. Keep an extinguisher at all times beside each machine. A worthwhile inexpensive investment. Checkout farmcraft101 fire on his boom lifts. He now has extinguishers everywhere !
It’s going to make working late easier on the eyes, I personally would have used conduit and external water/splash rated outlets, I’m looking forwards to seeing the splitting layout
You should look into some of the more larger sized battery station. You could set it up in a corner in a little locked area (while no garage doors) and throw a few panels on the Lean to and it should keep it charged if you spec it out right. Would also allow you to consider a powered garage door for one or more of the bays.
i agree cement or dirt. if you get gravel in a log there goes a blade. if you have to you can recharge with your genorator.. i went and got a old lull telehandler because the rental, hauling, insurance and other fees were so high if will pay for it's self in a year.it was going to cost more than$ 3500 a month. take care, be safe and well.
Well lit building my friend.... have you considered laying down an old conveyor belt?? That's what we use to keep our splits off the ground and not deliver gravel to our customers..
Looks nice, love the lighting and your method of powering the barn. Now a couple of solar panels to keep the batteries topped off and you'll be good to go.
I really like your new work space. I understand completely about high places. My pole barn style work is only about 16 ft at highest point and I don’t want to be on a ladder working up there. I want to put insulation in my ceiling but not from a ladder!
Love the building! So jealous of all that space under roof! Looks like it's going to be a great space. You probably could have gotten away with using the "interior" scissor lift on that material. Just would have to make sure there weren't too many big rocks where you were running it.
Someone mentioned something about old conveyor belts. I got a couple of rolls from a gravel yard. They were about 5ft wide and 60ft long. Best thing ever. They get pretty slick with snow however
Building looks great! Only thing you might have to worry about is birds with having the open rafters. When I was building my shop before I had the doors on the birds were getting in and nesting in the rafters. You might want to look into a detourent for them.
Get yourself remote outlet switches to enable lighting it up from the house or as you approach in dark conditions. Amazon has some that advertise 1000 feet....
Howdy Adam! The building looks nice. I was up there yesterday and cleaned out your roadside stand of $20 bundles. We used up the last of the first batch I bought on Sunday evening. Have a great week,take care and God Bless!!!❤😊 .
That’s got to be a huge, huge relief to wrap that project up. You knocked it out of the park on this one. One thought, you’d mentioned that your trail & pick up was shy of fitting in your new building. I can’t remember exactly, I want to say you had planned on placing some of your wood processing machines under the lean to maybe? I thought the lean to might be a good location for your truck & trailer when connected. All that said, super job!
A dirt wood yard is fine when it's dry or covered. Not so good when exposed to rain and snow which equals mud. The building looks great. I'd love to have something like that. Dave
Yeah. All of my expense is in putting a roof over the wood yard. Putting concrete under it would be nice but since it will be dry it will be a little unnecessary at the moment
Looks good. I’m speaking from experience here but put some bird netting up if you’re not going to have doors for a while. Next nesting season you’ll have more birds in there than you want. I’m east of you in Schuykill County. I’ve had birds nest in my pole building in late February early March because I failed to keep the doors closed.
Not Gonna lie when you said an electrician buddy was comin out I thought it might be Kyle form SpicerDesignsLLC.. this video helped me out a lot I’m getting ready to put in lights in my new 45’x55’ shop.
Have you thought about getting a couple of their wall mounted lights for the far end wall (outside)? You’re going to have quite the collection of the 3 B’s in those trusses • Birds (nests) • Bees (nests) • Bats
work and drive on that dirt long enough, and no water on it, and it might as well be concrete. compacted dry clay is damn hard. Building looks spectacular.
Nice building Adam. I think when the snow flies a lot of it will end up blowing into the building through those big open door ways. Doors ain’t cheap but I think you’ll be getting them at some point.
Yes we will probably. Just have to wait for the budget to allow for it. The biggest thing is getting the equipment out of the sun. UV rays are really hard on hydraulic hoses, rubber and paint
Adam, excellent video with great content. If not dirt or concrete you may consider pavers for the saw mill area. Also for recharging the battery you may be interested in installing a small solar panels system with BMS, than can be grown in time.
Do you have any issues with barn swallows there? I have a 27' x 60' building that has two bays that aren't fully enclosed. There were fluorescent tube fixtures mounted to the joists and barn swallows were building nests and pooping on everything. I removed those fixtures and put up 1/2' foil coated foam board to keep them from nesting, but I still need to put some lighting back up. I can see them quite happily building on top of those lights, and I haven't run across a way to prevent that yet. Any ideas?
I hope you have a bigger battery for when you will need it. Also go ahead and install solar panels. I suggest ground mount so you can clean them off occasionally. I made a mount for ours from store bought 2x4's, but that's me. Ours were cheap, but so a m I.
Technically that's crushed stone, not gravel. Great job on everything. 100% agree on the concrete or bare ground (or maybe a layer of woodchips that can be scraped out and replaced).
I think I would fell way more comfortable being in a basket on the end of an excavator (with an experienced operator like you) than any of the other options including an indoor man lift even if you could use one of those. I also really like the lighting solution and am seriously considering that for my own garage build.
