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Drill trenches in sheet metal and sweaty T-shirts hang on fence posts in the northwest of Arkansas.

“Do you go a hair higher?” says James.

“The?” says Mark.

“Bingo!” Tyler says.

Tyler switches the screw into the mouth for a cigarette and drills through a metal plate into a 2×6.

Mark, Tyler and James, a tree team with three men, build an open -air shed in the northwest of Arkansas near Gravette. It is a 15-foot supplement in a 30-foot garage-toed shop that was built a few years ago. The ranch that has the pasture plans to park his tractor in the shed when it is finished.

“This job is not too difficult, we could do it with your eyes closed,” says project manager Mark. “But if we do the longer projects and stay in motels, we have dreams of building the barn at night. We will wake up and realize that we have to repair something and go out the next day and make it perfect.”

This project is just so tight that the crew sleeps in its own bed, but needs the early morning start. Mark left his house at 4 a.m.

The three men work in harmony and place the panels to the board along the north side of the shed. Select the metal sheet against the wooden scaffold, James, on a ladder on the other side of the wall, bores into Tyler in the upper screws, which keeps the end result steadily, and drills the lower screws. Then go to the next panel without a word.

Fast pace, sound structure: history

When designing Pole -Scheunen, a quick work pace and a sound structure design is just as part of the work culture as the history.

Poland bars – simple “mail frame” building with a wooden frame and a sheet metal excursion – are relatively inexpensive, quickly built structures that are widespread in agriculture. In the last century, pole barns have replaced many traditional wooden stalls, which were built with framework conditions of large, heavy wood-manches of entire tree trunks, covered with wooden boards. The development of the Pole -called design was driven by the need to build cheaper and slightly built buildings during the global economic crisis, the dust shell and the decree of the First World War when building materials became scarce.

The entrepreneurs had built “telephone bar bars” since the 1920s and have been implemented with creosot-in -ids-hooked-on-masts-hoods-in simple wooden framework structures that are covered with sheet metal. The weather -treated forests survived natural tribes by a decade and the material cost and assembly time reduced with sheet metal.

In order to save materials during the Second World War, the United States government determined a price limit of 1,500 US dollars for the new barn building, which operates the popularity of Pole Barn Design as a reduced building materials, the improvement of durability and quick assembly for practical structures on farms across the country.

Dt building history

In 2025, Mark, Tyler and James cannot remember how many barns they built. They have awarded DT construction between two months and fifteen years. They planned to make this a four -day project – but they could end it in three.

This crew is one of several subcontractors from DT Construction, a company that is based 100 miles south with two head quarters in Fort Smith, Arkansas and Gore, Oklahoma.

The “DT” in the DT building is Doug Tincher, who started building in 1977 and raised his sons to vibrate and build barns. Since then, Doug has been retired to “hunt beef and deer” and to hand over the business to the sons Jacob and Levi Tincher.

“The first Stab barns I worked with my father were on the ranch. I was only a little boy,” says Levi. “[Dad] I had nails and things. He let me put on a few boards. All barns we had grown up were the same with my brothers Zach and Jacob, the barns we built ourselves. “

Levi and Jacob now share the work on site or “quarterbacking” crews in four states of the states of the state, Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas, although they were set to Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. You build around 100 barns a year that are most suitable for agriculture-Open-Air-hau barn, equipment shed, garage-toed shops for parking machines.

“Same bones, different design,” says Levi. “So they will be built so quickly.”

Back at the building site

Tyler pulls a chalk snour along the outer scale wall. When he presses the cord, leaves a green powder line with which the rest of the screws are drilling.

Mark, Tyler and James are proud of their work. There was nothing here three days ago. Today the dandruff only misses roof panels and trims. The profession is also a way to pay the invoices as an identity – and construction work offers progress that you can see visually.

“We hang together. We have no life. Work is everything we have time for.” Mark marks a stack of metal boards over his head and says: “We don't take a break until we go home.”