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Deerlope

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<P mce_keep="true"> In a few weeks I will be start a new 26'X 32 ' pole barn. We had and old fashion winter and more than once I thought the "Twinkie" was going to cave in from the snow load. Twinkie is one of those tublar poles and fabric covered structures. It severed its purposewell and now its time to move on. When I get to be 70 years old I don't want to be pulling snow off the top of anything. </P>
<P mce_keep="true"> We started warping up the making of maple syrup today. By Thursday I hope that everything is cleaned and put in its place.</P>
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<P mce_keep="true">Deerlope do you retail any of your syrup? My girlfriend is crazy about the stuff and I'd like to get her some homemade maple syrup.She's pretty sweet already but a little more sugar never hurts. </P>
<P mce_keep="true">We lost half an older20' X 100' greenhouse this winter under 3 inches of ice. It was built out of 2 inch square Gatorshield mechanical tubing. That's the third one we've lost over the years.I've got another one that is so over-engineered that it will probably last forever.You gotta build 'em strong because Mother Naturehas no limits to what she can toss out...</P>
 
<P mce_keep="true">To any moderaters, I put this post here because this pole barn will house my RTV and related equipment.</P>
 
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To any moderaters, I put this post here because this pole barn will house my RTV and related equipment.</p>

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That's perfectly fine. I don't know if a lot of our membership visits other parts of the forum.</p>

I'm in the process of tearing down my "twinky" as well. The canvas is off but it's going to take a couple people to tear apart the tubing.</p>

Here's an old pic of my one wood shed with "twinky" beside it. I've used all the wood out of "twinky" and thinking that's where I'll put another wood shed. Probably 12x24' or 12x36'.</p>

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Here's another building I made and was planning on using for wood storage. It's not complete in the pic as it doesn't have the sides (I used Hardy Panel), stone for a floor or electric. It's 10x50' and I was planning on partitioning into (5) 10x10' sections.</p>

As it turned out, once completed it got filled with other "stuff" and there's no place for firewood.</p>

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The roof. I went with steel as it's in the woods and the steel can handle the impacts better than shingles. Also less chance of stuff growing on it.</p>

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<P mce_keep="true">Looks like you enjoy the wood splitting hobby ~~~ Woking the devil out of that RTV !</P>
 
<P mce_keep="true">Ican see that you do not get much snow load where you live. Not much pitch on the roof. Snow load for this area is considered to be 60 PSF so I am going with a little heavyer rafter at 66 PSF. My twinkie was up 8 years and it has delvoped a hole in the top.</P>
 
OK, what happened in your previous few posts. One word at a time???</p>

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Nope. Not much snow here. I was raised in the snow belt south of Buffalo and know all to well about snow loads.</p>

Actually, the snow load rating on the one with the steel roof (pictured during construction) is over 100 PSF. It's 18 gauge rated at 107# at 4'. My purlins are 2'.
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The loaded wood shed has fiberglass panels. They're not as strong as the steel but I've had no issues with them.</p>

On the twinky, I ran a bunch of extra purlins. It helped quite a bit but I'd still have to get out there at times and knock the snow off.</p>

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<P mce_keep="true">We don't get nowhere near the snow that Bufflao gets. This year was an old fashion winter. 60 " is normal for here but we got close to 73".</P>
 
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