How to Install Headers and Toeboard Pole Barn Shop Build Part 6

Hi everybody, hey it's Corey from Country Family. Now that I got all my poles set, our next segment is going to be stringing some level lines across the poles to set our headers and set our toe boards the toe boards are two by eight pressure treated the headers are gonna be two by twelve SPF which is spruce pine fir - regular dimensional lumber except for over my to 10 foot wide doors I'm gonna use a laminated veneer lumber these because we're spanning ten foot there and it just really ties the whole building together a lot better that way so stay tuned keep watching appreciate it and if you haven't subscribed yet please do so thanks. okay now to find my level on all the poles I have what's called a Auto level so basically it's a scope with crosshairs in it and you level it off manually this is not an automatic level or not Auto leveling it's an auto level. Auto Level not autoleveling. You level it up you look through it mark your points on every pole and then you have a reference to go off go for a level line across all the poles so I've done that and to double check it I have stretched a string across my marks so that's the string and then I put on the string I put a line level just as a double check and prove that everything is level. Obviously you could use a laser level for this rotating laser which I have but for some reason I can't get it to calibrate so I had to revert back to the Auto level and then another way to do it would be with a water level. So the water level is actually the most accurate way to do it even more accurate than a laser but I don't have one and I was gonna buy one but it was only twenty five foot distance on the on the polyline and my barn is forty eight foot long so I don't think it would work on that. So now that I found my level points on all my poles I got this string stretch across I prove that it's level with my line level I'm gonna measure down the top of my toe board and mark it on both corners and snap a line across so have a nice level toe board all the way around and then my toe board is gonna be an inch and a half above the concrete so I'll take in account for that inch and a half I measure up ten feet that would be the top of my header. So I'll make all those measurements, snap all those lines, then I'll start installing my toe board and my headers I'm laying out my headers for the barn what I have here is a is two foot from my outside wall to the start of my first door it's a 10 foot wide door and then I have a 2 foot space 2 foot wall and then another 10 foot so because I have two doors so close together and they spanned 10 foot each I'm using an lvl which is a laminated veneer lumber so it's gonna span that whole 26 feet or 25 feet whatever it is. So what I want to do though is when I lay this out I'm gonna let it overhang an inch and a half so I'm gonna make that mark so that I'm gonna come in 2 foot because that's from the outside of my barn to the inside of this post which would be the opening of the garage door so at 2 foot I'm gonna make a pencil line so when I lift this up I know that this post has to go up against that pencil line. That's gonna ensure that all of my posts stay plumb if one's palm they're all plumb because they're all gonna be spaced out the same as they are at the bottom so then I go my ten foot make another mark and then two-foot so every both the inside and outside headers are all marked out so now we can put them up all the poles will stay nice and straight and plumb and then for the rest of the headers we're just gonna use two by twelves two of them one on the inside one on the outside and I'll mark all those out the same way also. A little more What if Jay and I lift and you hold at the same time Now if only I was left-handed. I need you to look at this line and tell me which way the poles gotta go So anyways, thanks for watching. Hope you subscribe. and see you in the next one. shut up chicken Jag what are you eating? Don't eat that!

Channel: Country Family Homestead

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Id: 2c3baQQVsK4

Length: 7min 35sec (455 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 19 2018