Have you think about work up an old - fashioned pole barn ? I have … but have n’t even gotten around to it .
I see to it my Po River Box a span of weeks ago and was thrilled to find a package from one of my pet squatter : Pa Mac .
In the past tense I ’ve posted some of Pa Mac ’s videos . If you are n’t familiar with the hombre , go here to see his YouTube duct – he ’s not only very well - informed , he also take a shit great video ( my baby call him “ the funny guy ” ) .
So – what was in the package ?
A nice note , plus a copy of his new book , plus a DVD appeal of his hilariousFarmhand ’s Companionepisodes . My children promptly borrowed and watched the DVD as I looked through the book .
As you may have guessed by the name of today ’s post , Pa Mac ’s young book is titledBuilding an Old - Fashioned Pole Barn .
I have a pole barn of my own at the moment , but presently may be build a young one count on where we end up . It ’s a structure often exempted from the tax tax assessor ’s baleful eye , thanks to its usual lack of a concrete foundation , so establish one is really a nice way to add storage and animal space to your property ( or even some hugger-mugger living space ) without racking up new revenue enhancement that end up wasted by the localkid prisonspublic school .
Building a rod barn , therefore , is a radical act .
Or , at the very least , an act that make a courteous infinite to store your rusting lawnmower after you supersede the yard with a food forest .
Okay – where was I ? Ah yes , a book review of …
Building an Old-Fashioned Pole Barn
With five chapters and 107 black and bloodless illustration , Building an Old - Fashioned Pole Barncovers everything you need to know about the issue . It ’s also write totally in a breezy southerly dialect , which is amusing .
Excerpt ( from page 13 ):
“ After the four corner poles are up and make quite the perfect rectangle ( hopefully ) , it ’s no botheration to stretch a string from the outer side of the poles on each of the long sides of the rectangle . Then measurin ’ 11 feet down the string from either terminal ( on both long slope ) will give me the midpoint locating for the halfway poles , so I dig ’em and set ’em . And now with all six of ’em arrange and plumb , this pole foundation ( which is the whole reasonableness a pole barn is call a rod b ) is ready to be joined by level baseball bat that ’ll allow for a self-colored framework . ”
It ’s like Mark Twain telling you how to build a b .
Pa Mac is exhaustive , entertaining and panoptic in this book . Even if you start from a shoes of just above zero knowledge , like me , you ’ll be able to establish a pole barn . If you watch Pa Mac ’s videos , you could even see quite a bit of how he build the barn in the book .
My stake is that this book of account would well yield for its leverage toll in the first 15 minute of arc of a pole barn construction labor . Just the way he repose out the tool and challenges will save you a lot of thinking . He ’s done it , made mistake , done it again , generate it right , then shared the noesis so you’re able to avoid the same mistake .
He also covers the kind of things you do n’t normally see cover by modern writers , such as the value of different tree species for Sir Henry Joseph Wood in various parts of the edifice ( instance of function let in sweet gum , pine and oak tree , all for different parts of the b ) for the squatter using domicile - milled timber . He also peach about recycled windows , vintage tools , homemade measure stocks , the consumption of rocks and string … I love that variety of thinking .
Anyhow , work up an Old - Fashioned Pole Barnis great Bible from a great guy . I numerate myself golden to have once encounter Pa Mac in person back when we were both live wholly dissimilar lives as wireless professionals .
Both of us walked away from successful careers to follow our passion for homesteading and teaching others to do the same . The only difference is that Pa Mac is in reality patient enough to build a building from start to finish … whereas it ’s taken me three years to almost finish a tree fort .
Heh . That ’s why I ’m a nurseryman , not a carpenter .
Though when I do finally knuckle down and start building at my young homestead , this Scripture is going to be my go - to reference . give thanks you , Pa Mac .
