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southern MN | A pole building ends up using about the same amount of wood as a stick built.
The savings in a pole building is in less labor, they bunch the wood onto poles instead of sticks, the footer becomes a series of small points, and so forth.
If you build it yourself you might be more comfortable handling a 4 foot truss spacing that would cost a bit more but might be easier, but if it’s built for you go with the less labor option, which would likely be 8 foot spacing of both the poles and the trusses. Depending on your wind and snow load, 9 foot might work out better.
Are you flexible on your dimensions, maybe a 32 costs the same as a 30 and you end up with a little more building, etc.
I pu up a little bigger building a few years ago, what ended up saving some money was using 15 foot height, and a scissors truss so the interior opening is 15 foot 10inch. The one foot shorter meant less wind load than a full 16 foot high building, and so the posts could be a little smaller and made the whole package better bang for the buck, even tho the scissors trusses cost a little more than normal.
You will need to play with the parameters, it’s not a given that you want 8 foot pole spacing and 4 foot truss spacing, as now you need a real strong header system to hold every other truss......
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Farm building.
