Rafter support, pole barn

[tinknal]

I'm going to be putting a pole barn up soon. I would like to be able to support a beef carcass from 1 of the rafters. Could I scab a few rafters together and get enough support?

[sellis]

yes but make shure they are shorn up in several different places, we used to take a long pole and run it in the rafters lay it down and use the very center of the pole to hang your meat .

[artificer]

What kind of pole barn? Are you using pre-fab trusses, or just 2 x something as a rafter? What is the spacing? What size? Whats you design snow load?

My shed is 40' wide, with pre-fab trusses. They have a load rating of 40psf for the top and 5psf for the bottom cord at 8 foot spacing. If you used an additional truss, you could hang a 12,800 steer. If you don't have any snow on the roof, you could get by with whats already there.

If you are using 2 x something rafters, it would depend on what you designed them for. If the rafters are on something like 24" spacing, then it would take a 30 foot wide barn to support the carcass. (assuming a design snow load of 35psf)

The short answer is... maybe. Its probably ok with a properly designed barn, but I would have to know more about what the design is like.

Michael