Mike The Pole Barn Guru - Making Pole Buildings Easy

Pole Building Design: Do It Right The photos above and quote below are an actual posting on a discussion website I belong to: “i got this late 60′s 102′x56′ pole barn/shelter. The poles are set 11′center squire. The purlins(nailed with 3 spikes each end)to the poles. rafters are 2×6,4′ apart,then 1×8 boards across and metal roofing [...]

What Is the Profit Margin at a Lumber Yard? What in the heck does the gross profit margin of the average retail lumber yard have to do with the price of tea in a third world country, or for that matter your new pole building? Keep filed away in the back of your mind – [...]

‘I want to see people build past minimum (code) standards’: Mike Holmes In a June 29, 2011 copyrighted article in Postmedia News, Mike Holmes says, “Anyone who knows me knows I talk an awful lot about building code. The code is a minimum acceptable standard for the construction of a building. It’s also a living, [...]

After what has seemed like eons of planning, changes and more changes, interviewing prospective suppliers, dealing with planning and building departments…..it is done. You’ve ordered your new pole building. Time to kick back and relax until it is time to build. Think again…. Your RV, fifth-wheel, a logging truck or a manufactured home could easily [...]

Let’s start in the forest… When David Friss of Anchorage worked for NOM ‘s Environmental Research Labs in Boulder, he was once asked why lightning sometimes spirals down the trunk of a tree. While the answer was not proven, we observed the path of least resistance might follow the spiral grain of the wood. He [...]