We have a 30 x 70 pole barn for family boats and my tractor and implements. Still some things have to sit outside because I do not have enough room in the barn. So I'm hoping to add another pole barn.
I have to decide on location and cost will play a big part of the decision. Pics below show aerial view of our house and pole barn. I have sloppily added potential sites A and B and things that need to be considered if I use those sites.
I was going to go with B. It's semi level. Nothing buried below to worry about when doing site prep, so I could concrete the floor of the pole barn. But I do not care for how I think it would look on the property. It would be long ways like the house with one side of the roof facing the road. Garage doors on each end ...knowing I still could not pull my boat straight through because there is not enough room on the house of of the site for truck with the boat hooked on due to shape of driveway.
Site A would have to be very close to the existing pole barn and is fairly level but slopes some towards the back of the property. Slope gets worse the further back we go. Gas line is buried underground also.
Power for either location would come from the 200 amp service I have in the 30 x 70 pole barn.
Site A would not be concrete floor. it would be gravel / dirt like my current pole barn. If I went this route I would then plan to concrete the current 30 x 70 pole barn floor once the 2nd pole barn was up. I could xfer the 'stuff' from the current barn to the new pole barn while the concrete work was being done. I really want at least one of the pole barns to be a concrete floor...if I can afford it.
I do not have any estimates yet but looking input on things I probably have over looked that might help make this project easier or better or cheaper.
These locations are not locked in. I do have room on the right side of the house but currently no driveway over that direction.
Thoughts welcome.
I have to decide on location and cost will play a big part of the decision. Pics below show aerial view of our house and pole barn. I have sloppily added potential sites A and B and things that need to be considered if I use those sites.
I was going to go with B. It's semi level. Nothing buried below to worry about when doing site prep, so I could concrete the floor of the pole barn. But I do not care for how I think it would look on the property. It would be long ways like the house with one side of the roof facing the road. Garage doors on each end ...knowing I still could not pull my boat straight through because there is not enough room on the house of of the site for truck with the boat hooked on due to shape of driveway.
Site A would have to be very close to the existing pole barn and is fairly level but slopes some towards the back of the property. Slope gets worse the further back we go. Gas line is buried underground also.
Power for either location would come from the 200 amp service I have in the 30 x 70 pole barn.
Site A would not be concrete floor. it would be gravel / dirt like my current pole barn. If I went this route I would then plan to concrete the current 30 x 70 pole barn floor once the 2nd pole barn was up. I could xfer the 'stuff' from the current barn to the new pole barn while the concrete work was being done. I really want at least one of the pole barns to be a concrete floor...if I can afford it.
I do not have any estimates yet but looking input on things I probably have over looked that might help make this project easier or better or cheaper.
These locations are not locked in. I do have room on the right side of the house but currently no driveway over that direction.
Thoughts welcome.