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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> Cheapest and easiest for one man, or "How I built my barn," Pole
> building, no doubt about it. Rough-cut 2x lumber spiked to treated posts
> with board and batt siding, cut rafters, steel roofing over 1x boards.

I am not sold on treated posts. I recently moved a bell post, a 
four-by-four CCA post embedded about thirty inches into the ground. 
It had been in the ground for about twelve years. It was rotten. As I 
recall, CCA was sold on the promise of 30-year life. CCA has of 
course been outlawed. The treated posts now being sold in my area are 
not guaranteed.

My current project is a pole barn sheathed and roofed with metal. To 
avoid treated posts, I will pour a reinforced grade beam with anchor 
bolts, bolt a plate to that and secure untreated posts to the plate.