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Practical Pole Building Construction: With Plans for Barns, Cabins, & Outbuildings Paperback – April, 1985

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 183 pages
  • Publisher: Williamson Pub (April 1985)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0913589160
  • ISBN-13: 978-0913589168
  • Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.5 x 11 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #413,906 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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143 of 147 people found the following review helpful
The best pole building book I have found.
By GENE GERUE on November 2, 1999
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Of all the pole building books I have seen, this is the best. Seddon covers the logic of pole building and then gives straightforward instruction on how to do it, with lots of clear drawings and photographs. Included are design, materials, calculating loads, foundations, framing and jointry, roofing and siding, windows and doors, building plans, and an appendix that shows how to calculate sun angles, snow loads, compares insulations, gives recommended nailing schedules, and several other useful items. Plans include a lake house, hillside house, cabin, garage, horse stable, and lean-to animal shelter. If you have never built anything before, it is likely that you will be able to build any or all of these with no more instruction than this book, plus plumbing and electrical help.
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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful
This book has clear and complete info on pole buildings.
By A Customer on July 27, 1999
Format: Paperback
This pole construction book has become our favorite of all other pole books. It answered those important questions such as weight per pole, soil content, span distances, and extra bracing. It also helped us to figure weight loads (live and dead). This book gave us all the information needed to build a pole house.
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Great "How To" Book
By A Customer on November 1, 1999
Format: Paperback
I finally found a well organized book that shows the information and process required to Build a Pole Building. This book does an excellent job of walking the "Do It Yourselfer" through all the steps required to build a pole or Post and Beam building. After reading this book all you need is a blue print, building permit and materials and you are good to go.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Great practical book.
By The Old Philosopher on June 13, 2005
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This is a very complete book that doesn't leave the reader asking for details like so many others. It's written so beginners can understand it and it contains all the design criteria, load tables, joint details, and so forth that an experienced builder needs to get a building permit and construct a building. Seddon inlcudes practical "how to" answers beginning with construction of a temporary frame to lift tall poles into holes in the ground without killing yourself trying. Framing and jointing details, connections, siding, windows and finish are all here. I built many stick frame homes over several years and was looking for information on construction of a pole frame home. I found it very useful and practical.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Covers the basics, needs updating
By Kenneth C. Reed on June 29, 2006
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This book is fine, as far as it goes, but does not address the trend towards using cast concrete pole bases and untreated poles rather than using direct-burial treated poles.
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23 of 28 people found the following review helpful
pole barns
By Jeff Wieber on March 6, 2003
Format: Paperback
Although the book had some helpful hints I was looking for more practical instructions on how to build a pole barn. The book did not go in deepth enough and had little information on pole barns. I was looking for ideas to help setting the floor grade and where to get started after lay-out is finished
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
The garage is almost done
By A Customer on June 11, 2002
Format: Paperback
I'm 2/3 done with a garage that's based on a plan in this book. I'm using this book for pole barn-specific info, and "Building a Multi-Use Barn : For Garage, Animals, W..." for the rest. Together, these two books give me enough information, without going overboard. Good luck to you; I'm having a blast!
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48 of 64 people found the following review helpful
No Modern Pole Barns Here
By "fishery" on June 28, 2000
Format: Paperback
I bought this book and I thought it would show me how to build a "pole barn", it does not show what I know to be, modern techniquies, on how to build a pole barn. If you want a book to tell you how to build a modern day pole barn, this one is not it.
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