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Pole Building Construction
* If you want to save money
* If you want to build it yourself, but lack experience.
* For small buildings, barns, cottages and camps, even homes.
This one-of-a-kind book will save you money, labor, time, and materials in building a small home, barn, or other structure.
Involves limited grading, no excavation for a foundation, use of sites unsuited for other types of buildings, good wind resistance, and fewer materials.
You can build it yourself with this book, illustrated with plans, drawings, and photographs.
Construction techniques are carefully explained.
This book will make pole building construction THE answer to your building needs.
Plans for
* Year-round houses
* Vacation homes
* Garage and tool shed
* Woodshed
* Solar cottage
* Small pole barn
* Storage shed
About the Author
Ralph Wolfe has written Storey's Low-Cost Pole Building Construction with the expert advice of Doug Merrilees and Evelyn Loveday. It has received acclaim from Countryside & Small Stock Journal: "The definitive book on the subject, Low-Cost Pole Building Construction, is cheap enough and sufficiently valuable to belong in every homestead library." Ralph has since passed away.
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81 of 85 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pole construction - a wonderful alternative for great value.,
This review is from: Low Cost Pole Building Construction: The Complete How-To Book (Paperback)
I gave the book five stars because there was a total lack of books on the subject when I read it months ago. Thanks to Amazon, there is now more available. I am a developer of lots. I have seen what the family faces with home buying. The pole house will only be for the stout-hearted, brave and good humored. But for those few souls it will be a wonderful experience. This book takes you from day one - walking onto your lot - to the finished product. And it tells you everything in between like, how to get your friends to gleefully help you plant your poles to having an old "barn raising". It's good stuff. It's dated, but if you're an ol' fashion American pioneer like me, you'll love the challenge.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Decent, but not modern enough for most folks.,
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This review is from: Low Cost Pole Building Construction: The Complete How-To Book (Paperback)
Decent, but doesn't cover modern techniques for post frame construction well enough. This is pretty old-school stuff. Most folks are more interested in modern techniques, and need more up to date info.
9 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
READ ME! How to build a house cheaply,
This review is from: Low Cost Pole Building Construction: The Complete How-To Book (Paperback)
I thought this was a great book, I picked this up at the library and this was a wonderful read from front to back.
PROS: 1. Learn how to build at a low cost. 2. Provide shelter/housing one weekend at a time. CONS: N/A I also purchased a real estate book on how to get land cheaply: Investing Without Losing (ISBN: 0978834607 NOT on amazn, on other stores)
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- Home Energy for the Eighties by Ralph Wolfe on page 37, page 167, and Back Matter
- House Form and Culture by Amos Rapoport on page 9, and Back Matter
- Harnessing the Wind for Home Energy by Dermot McGuigan in Back Matter
- Build Your Own Low-Cost Log Home (Garden Way Publishing Classic) by Roger Hard in Back Matter
- Your Engineered House by R. Roberts in Back Matter
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- Homing Instinct: Using Your Lifestyle to Design & Build Your Home by John Connell in Back Matter
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