Barn Part Two

The reason I broke this into two parts was because it was hard to load all of the pictures. If you want to load pictures load them from the bottom up. This is the finished froms ready for the concrete. You can see the well and water tank behind. Those cylindrical tubes are great they make it very easing to make concrete piles that hold every thing in place. Notice there is no re-bar. The concrete we used had special fibers in it which help to hold it together. That costs and extra $9 per yard.





This is the truck that brought the concrete. I paid this guy $1100 on Nov 22.

Here is the finished foundation.














The barn came from Riverside, CA on a large flat bed 18 wheeler. There is no way such a truck could get into our place so I had to rent a smaller flat bed. They rent a fork lift to put walls etc. up so they off loaded to my smaller truck and we did the last three miles with it. This is the complete load. The largest pieces were 8' x 12'. It is all steel construction and the pieces kind of slide together.









The construction crew was from Southern California. There were 5 of them and three spectators from the Phoenix Distributor. They arrived the night before and we all got together at 6 am the next morning at the unload point except the flat bed semi got lost. By 7am we were together. These guys work fast. In less than 2 days it was up and they were gone. They did a super job. Everything was square and level. As it turned out it was a cold 2 days. The night between it got down to 25 deg. F. and there was a cold wind. We tried to keep hot coffee and served lunch and breaks.






This is the crew at break. Notice they are all bundled up. A little cold for Southern Calif guys. The foreman is on the front right. The second on the left and the second on the right were two young men named Jr. & Jr. I don't know how the kept them straight.













This is pretty much the finished barn. It has everything except the roof cap. The one that shipped was the wrong color. The company shipped a replacement and the distributor came down from Phenxi the next week and put it on. Thats me in the orange down jacket.

This is it. Up and working. Salt block between stalls and a corner of the water tank on left.