Installation

Building Pole Barns with Smart Set Brackets

  • ✺ STEP ONE

    Set up perimeter strings and mark location of columns.

  • ✺ STEP TWO

    Dig holes to required depth and fill with concrete.

  • ✺ STEP THREE

    Determine height of future concrete floor.

  • ✺ STEP FOUR

    Install brackets 1/2” higher than future floor height, making sure brackets are level.

  • ✺ STEP FIVE

    Allow one week for concrete columns to cure; then install wood columns in brackets.

  • ✺ STEP SIX

    After building is erected, pour concrete floor in building and around brackets. Your wood columns are now completely above floor, ensuring that your building is not in danger of post rot.

Smart set bracket systems are designed to provide structural connections for wood columns to concrete foundations as a custom-built post base.

Bracket Purpose

A construction demonstration showing the step-by-step process of building a concrete column with wooden and metal supports. There are informational posters in the background explaining the procedure.

They are intended to be used in wood framed pole building type structures with horizontal girts and lateral bracing. All posts shall be laterally braced at their top for SmartSet brackets to be applicable. Post bases are not designed to provide moment capacity.

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Smart Set post bases are fabricated with 1/4” steel plates and are wet set into concrete foundations.

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Pole Building Foundation Systems

AVAILABLE IN POWDER COAT (25 YEAR WARRANTY) OR GALVANIZED (100 YEAR WARRANTY)

AVAILABLE IN 3 PLY or 4 PLY FOR 2X6 & 2X8 POSTS

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