Part 1: Building a Large Post Frame WorkShop With TWO GUYS

what's up guys behind me you're gonna see a pretty large pad that's because we're gonna be building an 80 by 120 shop it's been a long time since we've put up a building this big and it's the first time that we've put up a building this big with just greg and i last time we did an 80 watt building we had three to four guys helping so it's gonna be a lot of work but i'm pretty excited we've already got started on this we've got holes actually we've got some of the holes dug it took a little bit longer than we thought to get everything laid out perfectly and to get these holes dug just because a there's a lot of them but b there's a lot of gravel so we were trying to be careful we didn't want them to cave in too much and i'll show you we're doing a bell auger on these side wall holes that are going to be supporting those massive trusses yes you guys did hear me right we're going to be clear spanning 80 foot with a wood truss so definitely stick around and i'll take you through that process how we hang those large trusses what we need to do different maybe than a normal building or just in general how those trusses do differ from a standard truss that you guys might have seen us install many times in the past so today it's a gorgeous day there's barely any breeze the sun's shining you can hear the birds chirping and we're going to try to get the rest of these holes dug but first we're going to run out all of these holes uh with our tubes so you'll see the tubes behind us and we're going to get those set and then we'll go ahead call a concrete truck in get as much concrete as we can on one truck and we'll use that to determine how much we need to finish this job i'm assuming we'll be able to get it in two trucks but time will tell because we do have a bell auger bottom if you don't know what that is stay tuned i'll show you the bell auger okay [Applause] inch and a half [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] good set good set nice well done nice gravel backfill so it doesn't go anywhere oh that's why i got before okay uh so when we're setting our brackets here these are uh midwest permacolumns we want our corners to match our side walls and that's mainly because we want the strength axis of the bracket and what we're going to do is line them up on our side wall string like so but then we're going to take our end wall string and put it inside because what we want to do is line up the edge of the bracket and plum it up to that string line so we're going to need to plumb this up on two different uh axis is axes here cool eight ten and a half because you're burning a foot so for those that don't know burn the foot means greg's actually holding the tape measure at a foot because it's easier than holding it at the very end and trying to keep it on our string line so we're burning a foot 16 10 and a half 24 10 and a half so we've got a mark there that we just marked out and we're looking to line them up eyeball them to the center of these brackets and i've had a lot of comments from people saying you guys are only plumbing them up this way so what i'm going to do is plumb them up off the string line eyeball the center to that black mark and this is plum and that's about it i could take this level plumb this out perfect but then what that's going to do is make this side imperfect because they have they have an opening they kind of open up so that the the post can sit in there and then get bolted together so we can't really plumb that up we're just eyeballing it uh center and then plumbing in and out yeah beautiful i can't believe we literally had exact concrete so 29 holes nine yards no spillover [Music] so our technique that we like to do is once we've dug the hole a couple times we're going to throw all that loose dirt back in the hole let the auger do the work it's a lot easier than trying to shovel all that mess away makes the holes dirty for the area around the hole dirty all right now i realize i'm in the machine here but we've gone through and we dug our holes and now we've got the just tools this is a bell auger and you'll see what it does when i put it to the ground and apply pressure it's going to open up to the shape of a bell and all we're doing is we're making our 18 inch hole have a 24 to 30 inch footing down at the bottom so i'll show you the whole when we're done is this one i've already done greg [Applause] all right [Music] and the reason we really wanted to do these is one because the building's so big so we want a bigger footing but also the sandy soil it's going to give us a really nice footing the key to this is not to over dig so you don't want to do too many rotations you can see we've already filled this thing up [Music] so also you can see right here i got a gauge that i can see it's got that black line so it's got all the different inches so i can see exactly how big of a footing pad i'm creating down in there so i'm going to push till i feel tension or pressure and then i'm just going to spin it around three times or so [Music] pull it back up you can hear it sounds like i got some rocks down there all right i don't know if i'm going to be able to see this very easily but if we zoom in here now you can kind of see what it's doing it's belling out the bottom so you see how it goes way back in there and because this is a sandy soil this is going to give a really nice footing for our holes now here's what a hole is going to look like normally just straight down and that's fine for most things but with this bigger build the bigger building this is a really good one here you can see what it's done created a big bell bottom and that's just tools i think they're in missouri great people family owned business that's where i got it i don't know if anybody else makes a bell auger like this but this goes anywhere like i said it's got anywhere from 18 to 36 inch diameter all right we just got this concrete truck out of here and wrapped up the last of our brackets so honestly and i've said this probably before maybe you've heard it maybe haven't but this part of the project is always the most stressful you would think you know the setting of 80 foot wide trusses with just two guys is going to be stressful no that's actually not getting the holes dug getting the concrete poured and getting those brackets exactly where we want them laid out perfectly or at least as close to perfect as possible square and all those things that's what stresses me out because this part right here is what sets us up for success down the road with a nice square building we've got material showing up in a couple days and we're gonna start building this so hopefully you guys come along for the ride once again this is an 80 by 120 shop and we're going to be attaching to this building in the background with a little little breezeway so stay tuned

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Keywords: Post frame, Pole barn, Barndominium, Workshop, Large workshop, Rr buildings, Farm shop, Insulated workshop, Construction video, How to build, Kubota, large post frame, building a large post frame, post frame work shop, workshop goals, new build, pole building, garage build

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Length: 11min 6sec (666 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 22 2021