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"How to build a cost-efficient,
inexpensive standard pole barn"
Suggestions, Secrets,
and Shortcuts
A jam packed construction guide with tips
like these that can save you time and money.

  • Over 50 color photos to help you
    design, build, and finish a pole
    building that specifically fits your
    site and needs.
  • Stake out and square the building
    by yourself in 10 minutes.
  • Learn how to cut metal sheathing
    easily with tin snips.
  • Learn how rest nails can help you
    work without a helper.
  • Build horse stalls easily, quickly,
    and inexpensively.
  • Build sliding track doors that you
    can push with a finger.
I’m not an architect or structural engineer, just a builder who’s been building
barns locally for almost three decades.  You should have the style and
specifications of your barn examined by an architect or structural engineer.  
Also you should see that all required local and state permits are obtained
and that all applicable building codes are adhered to.
Texas and southern states has been the focus of most of my barn-building
activity.  If you live in an area that gets heavy snowfall, some of the designs will
need to be reviewed and modified.  Of course you'll still be able to use the
suggestions, secrets, and shortcuts, but you may have to make a few changes
to the design of your unit.  My framing system is best suited to southern states
and warmer climates.

Let's Build a Pole Barn:
A Step-by-Step Construction Guide

by Darrell Davis
28 years of hands-on experience packed into an illustrated guide
Site Selection
Plan Selection, Materials
Staking out, Squaring
Batter Boards, String Lines
Finding the Magic Number
Perimeter Band
Leveling and Bracing
Cutting Rafters for Pitch
Measuring End Rafter Height
Roof Purlin, Wall Purlin
Cutting Rafter Tails and Post Tops
Putting on the Roof, Ridge Row
Back Wall and Gables
Windows and Personnel doors
Corner Trim, Rake Trim
Open Side Flashing, J-Trim
Track Doors, Clear Spans
Tack rooms, Horse Stalls
 Pole barns and post-beam structures have enjoyed a rebirth of
popularity in recent years.  They are attractive and relatively inexpensive
when compared to other types of construction.  

More importantly your site does not have to be leveled and prepped
before construction.  The unit can be built on a site that has an uneven or
a sloping grade.

Whether you decide to do site prep, pour a slab, bring in road base, or
do nothing is up to you.

It’s from this hands-on experience of building barns for 28 years that I’m
able to offer you the shortcuts, secrets, and suggestions for minimizing
your headaches, busted fingers, and building time.

Since very few barns are the same in style and each sloping site is
unique, I have also included numerous photos to suggest ideas that may
help you in the designing stage.  

Individual needs and preferences vary greatly, so this guide sets out to
provide basic information on how to construct a inexpensive, standard
pole barn.  

Modifications in design are simply an extension or contraction of the
basic plan.  
Plans and architectural drawings are not included in the book.   Let's Build
a Pole Barn does include over 35 color photos of different style pole
barns that I've built plus framing views and interior photos of some of the
units. . All of the units were built using my straight-forward erection system of
nailing rafters to the posts and setting purlins on the rafters.    

Let's Build a Pole Barn sets out to show you how to frame a unit and
how to put on metal sheathing.  Along the way, I've tried to give you the
suggestions, secrets, and shortcuts that I've learned from 28 years with
hammers, chain saws, and screw guns in my hands.  The units are totally
wood framed and each is built essentially the same way, whether it's a
pump house or a raised center-section horse barn.
The simple straight-forward wood frame that I use looks easy.  It can be!  
Let's Build a Pole Barn is designed to take you quickly and easily
through the "should-I's" and "how-to's" as you build your pole barn.  I think
that you'll agree as so many others have:

Let's Build a Pole Barn
"is a powerful instructional tool to guide you in building"

Decks....Screened-in Patios....Porches....Workshops
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Equipment Sheds....RV Covers....Pump Houses
Garages....Carports....Greenhouses
Within 5 minutes you can have this step-by-step
guide and the suggestions, secrets, and shortcuts of
a man who has spent a lifetime building pole barns.
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step-by-step guide for building pole barns by your side.  Be pleasantly
surprised as you learn shortcuts that can only come from someone who
has "been there, done that".  Adobe PDF-formatted (Adobe Reader), you
can easily print all 52 pages or just the ones you need.
Your purchase and payment is handled through Paypal and the digital delivery
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site to download Let's Build a Pole Barn and contact information.  
Also a special 3-page section on a Country Carport is included in the
Let's Build a Pole Barn e-guide.  This attractive, easy-to-build open
cover and can be used in so many ways.   A material list, framing and
roofing dimensions, pictures, and suggestions can help you get started.