We’ve got you covered with these fast, solid and cost-effective pole barn construction tips. If you need to add shelter to your homestead easily and economically, pole barns are right for you.

In La Luz, New Mexico, in the early 1950s, such skills as pole barn building were passed from elders ... to act as both foundation and roof-and-wall supports and then nailing up rough board ...

We mean a pole barn home (aka barndominium, shop-house, or “shouse”). This is an alternative type of house that uses post-frame construction methods rather than stud-wall, or stick-frame ...

(Most houses are built with stud-wall, or stick-frame, construction.) If you’re intrigued, just be aware that a pole barn home won’t necessarily cost you a lot less than a conventional stud ...

“They had hinted during that (ruling) … that if I cut the trees down and put (the pole barn 150 feet away from the home), that they didn’t have a problem with the building,” McNabb sai ...