Our Pole Barn Build in a 10 Minute Timelapse

We built a 40' x 80' x 16' pole barn with a 4" concrete pad on the property to use as a shop and RV cover. This video shows it from start to finish in 10 minutes.

The pole barn was built by a small building company in Central Texas and cost us about $45,000 total including the pad. That did not include the wiring and lights, but pretty much everything else in the video.

Our pole building is not planned to be a house or barndominium home. The foundation is more of just a concrete pad than a load bearing foundation. That's pretty common for pole barns.

A pole barn is one of the easier type of barn builds. I was going to do it myself, but after adding it all up for materials and concrete it came very close to what I could just pay someone to do it for me. It would have taken me a lot longer to build also by myself.

Pole barns are basically just post and beam buildings. You put posts in the ground and you use trusses to connect the roof. The wood purlins are there to hold on the sheet metal and that is about it.