Anyone want to share pictures of how their barn is framed to allow for an open aisle/ no ceiling design
We are starting to frame out our barn (using a builder). Trying to communicate to the builder how w hope to have things look in the end. When I internet search I find lots of over the top beautiful barns so I’m trying to visualize what others with real budget have done
What you are describing is a pole barn. Ours is what you describe is 36 x 36. So imagine on the outside a series of 6x6 (or overlapped 2x6) beams in the ground set every 12’. Then 12’ into the barn from either side is another set of 6x6 beams in the ground. In our barn their are bracing cross beams that span the aisle (also 12’ wide) at a height of about 12’.
Morton Buildings built ours. I then ran false beams at a height of about 10’ to use as electrical races.
We are starting to frame out our barn
If you are not sure what you want built it is better to stop construction now as change orders are expensive.
I worked on one project where the owner’s wife could not or would attempt to visualize what the plans showed. It was very expensive to frame up a section only to have her say, oh that’s not what I want, enter sage right the bulldozer to remove the $100,000 of framing … house ended up costing around $15,000,000 mainly because it was built torn down, built .rinse repeat until two years later it was done (they defaulted on the loan)
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Honestly, if a builder doesn’t know how to support an open roof design, he’s not someone I’d want building.
But - are you going for a particular aesthetic? That’s a very different story.
I’ll take a pic of our barn in a bit.
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Hope this helps.
36X36 center aisle with attached indoor.
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Ours was just rafters, rather than trusses. Stalls on both sides of the aisle. Hay storage took up some floor space on one side, next to stalls on that side. This was very simple and easy to build like this. When we got a large load of hay in, the bales were stacked both in the regular hay storage area, and out into the 12 foot wide aisle as well, which narrowed the aisle for a while, which was OK. But hay was able to be stacked VERY high, since the roof over the aisle especially was very high, so we were able to store an entire year’s worth of hay with a single delivery (at the cheaper time of year, when more choice in hay and quality of hay was more plentiful- I did not like buying hay in late spring or early summer- the dregs).
Here is one that is nice. “Rafter style barn”. Eliminates some of the wood needed for regular trusses. Keeping the roof open and less places for dust to collect! 
https://waltersbuildings.com/project/rafter-style-stall-barn/
The type of roof you build will depend on where you are located. Snowfall and all that.
