Winch Boxes – a Post Frame Miracle
Back in my M & W Building Supply days we had provided a pole barn kit package to a client in Woodburn, Oregon. One of Jim Betonte’s Farmland Structures post frame building crews was doing erection in our client’s back yard. Our office received a hostile phone call from this client about lunch time. He had come home to get a bite to eat and found his new building’s roof all framed up.
And on the ground.
And he was less than happy…..okay he was pissed off.
He was furious because he did not want heavy equipment, like a crane, run across his yard to lift his roof up. Luckily we were able to talk him down and assured him when he came home from work his roof would be up in place and there would be no tire tracks.
True to our word, when he came home, his roof was up, there were no tire tracks and he wanted to know how we did it.
Jim’s crew refused to tell him!
Our office wouldn’t either!
We were having way too much fun at our client’s expense. He was pretty sure we had used a helicopter, he even asked his neighbors if they had heard anything unusual.
Nope.
In much of our country, post frame buildings are constructed with a truss or trusses aligned directly with building’s sidewall columns. Purlins (generally and hopefully) on edge span distances between trusses.
I will share with you this miracle (in pictures) eventually. But first, a few words about my friend who has provided these photos.
Stay tuned to this station for our next exciting installment (and those promised photos).
