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* 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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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.
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Having built a couple of pole barns in the mid 1980's and having a project in mind, I was looking for a book that would contain some newer ideas and techniques. This is not the book, if you want to read about a bunch of 1970's ex hippies (printing date is 1980)building a small pole cottage out of old telephone poles its perfect. For any useful construction information pass on this one and look else where
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This is a very practical and detailed book for those that are serious about pole or post and beam construction. It was written in the late 70's so some of the costing information is out of date, but that is not really important. What is important is that this is a really useful book. It is not a coffee table book, you won't find lots of pretty full colour pictures (there are none, just black and white illustrations and photos), but if you're looking for a "how to" book on pole construction, this is the best I've found.
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Purchased this for my husband, this is his review of the Pole Building Construction book:
This book is great. I am new to pole barn construction and I found this book very helpful. Great diagrams and pictures. Strongly recommend that you also buy "Practical Pole Building Construction: With Plans for Barns, Cabins, & Outbuildings". These books really helped my brother and I (both non-carpenters) figure out how to construct our first pole barn style building.
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This book gives us a concise snap shot of the state of pole building construction, circa 1968 through 1974. These pre code building plans and methods are well documented,and give a good insight into the engineering pre zoning and building code compliance. It was a much simpler time. I love the parts about dealing with building inspectors.the directions are fairly complete.
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Although it appears that the book was well written, it wasn't what we were looking for. We desire to build a pole barn. What this publication offers is houses on poles! We will keep looking for the right books, I'm sure they are out there.
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Material is quite dated (looks like 60's and 70's). Deals with utilization of "phone poles" as opposed to deminsional building which was my goal. (8x8 or 6x6..
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