Finalized (yeah, right!!!!) the barn design and
submitted it to Tim Comes, one of the owners of Goodro Lumber, my favorite
place to spend an inheritance. Tim, in
turn, submitted the plan to a structural engineer to answer the weighty
question of the day: Given the barn roof design snow load of 57,330 pounds (yes,
those white fluffy things do get kinda heavy hereabouts) can the barn be built
with 2x4 studded walls or will 2x6 studded walls be required?