Has anyone put up a polebarn hanger by themselves? TElephone poles are
in place, but the airport manager doesn't have the time to work on it
so I'm thinking of doing what I can. There are other PB hangers in the
immediate area, so I can copy from them. Big concern is lifting the
trusses and any other heavy or arkward stuff; thinking about a tripod
or gin pole. If you've had experience, I'd like to hear any hints - Mike

Around here the favorite way to get a pole building up is to hire a
mennonite work gang. They know exactly what they're doing work hard
and fast. Plus they're reletively cheap.

If you're going to do it yourself there's nothing hard about it just
start at the bottom and work your way up. It's possible to muscle 40'
trusses into position but much faster and easier to just hire a boom
truck for a couple hours. Get 1or 2 helpers that day. It's really
tough installing steel siding by yourself a helper for that is a good
idea as well. A scaffold on wheels makes a lot of the work easier.

>Has anyone put up a polebarn hanger by themselves? TElephone poles are
>in place, but the airport manager doesn't have the time to work on it
>so I'm thinking of doing what I can. There are other PB hangers in the
>immediate area, so I can copy from them. Big concern is lifting the
>trusses and any other heavy or arkward stuff; thinking about a tripod
>or gin pole. If you've had experience, I'd like to hear any hints - Mike
>

Bingo on the Mennonite or Amish work crew, that's common here too. If we do
it ourselves, we borrow or rent one of those large forklift/tractors with
the extendable boom. If you nail the steel on yourself, nail it on the rib
and not in the valleys, remember that the steel will expand and shrink. If
the nail is in the valley it will pop or shear the head off the nail or pull
it slightly out of the wood and then you've got a lot of leaks. Also use
neopream washered stainless or galvanized ring shank nails. Snap a line on
the outside of the steel to identify where your backing is to prevent
unwanted extra nail holes. A slide hammer welded to a set of visegrips or
horse hoof trimmers make a great set of nail pullers that won't leave tool
marks in the steel.

Jim

("Jim Burns" wrote)
[trimmed with my horse hoof trimmers]
> A slide hammer welded to a set of visegrips or horse hoof trimmers make a
> great set of nail pullers that won't leave tool marks in the steel.


Honey? Have you seen the horse hoof trimmers? I'm heading out to the airport
and I can't find the darn things!! :-)


Montblack

ROFL... you probably left them in the bathroom next to your nail clippers!
:) Wonder if they'd work for pulling... staples?!! hehe ;)
Jim

"Montblack" > wrote in message
...
> ("Jim Burns" wrote)
> [trimmed with my horse hoof trimmers]
> > A slide hammer welded to a set of visegrips or horse hoof trimmers make
a
> > great set of nail pullers that won't leave tool marks in the steel.
>
>
> Honey? Have you seen the horse hoof trimmers? I'm heading out to the
airport
> and I can't find the darn things!! :-)
>
>
> Montblack
>