You got me terrified now of any kind of pier. i did calculations of weight per pier and Ottawa Canada Ontario snow load of 48# per sq foot. piers 8' apart. roof being 5.5/12 pitch building 40' wide w/ 2' overhang makes each column snow being 9300 lbs!!!! and weight of truss, steel, perlins etc. only 1264# each column. soil is 3000 psi so column needs to hold safety factor multiply x 1.25 makes like 15,000 lbs. so footing needs to be 32" diameter. INSANE!!!! and yet I only see Kyle or mr post frame pouring maybe 18" round column piers. and why have i never seen rebar put into the concrete piers ever on any videos from mrpostframe or Kyle's RR buildings? not once. so why not just dig a hole 12" below frost then at the bottom auger it wide enough for 3 sq feet, put crushed rock, tamp it down real good, then pour a 3 sq foot footing 21"x21"x12deep or 24" diameter pad 12" deep and wet set 4 pieces of #4 rebar into it coming up 5' (missing the wet set backet's rebar going down 18"). I'd personally even weld a web onto the bracket.
were you able to determine a size for the pier that would work for canada's snow load? I see these perma columns advertised for use here but I have no idea how they would be acceptable bearing in any soil conditions.
![FNAF Into the Pit has A LOT of Unused Graphics | LOST BITS [TetraBitGaming]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/6YhZCRdipl4/mqdefault.jpg)
Difficult to use this system for an existing pole building repair that has concrete floor around post on 3 sides.
And how much is that auger
You got me terrified now of any kind of pier. i did calculations of weight per pier and Ottawa Canada Ontario snow load of 48# per sq foot. piers 8' apart. roof being 5.5/12 pitch building 40' wide w/ 2' overhang makes each column snow being 9300 lbs!!!! and weight of truss, steel, perlins etc. only 1264# each column. soil is 3000 psi so column needs to hold safety factor multiply x 1.25 makes like 15,000 lbs. so footing needs to be 32" diameter. INSANE!!!! and yet I only see Kyle or mr post frame pouring maybe 18" round column piers. and why have i never seen rebar put into the concrete piers ever on any videos from mrpostframe or Kyle's RR buildings? not once. so why not just dig a hole 12" below frost then at the bottom auger it wide enough for 3 sq feet, put crushed rock, tamp it down real good, then pour a 3 sq foot footing 21"x21"x12deep or 24" diameter pad 12" deep and wet set 4 pieces of #4 rebar into it coming up 5' (missing the wet set backet's rebar going down 18"). I'd personally even weld a web onto the bracket.
were you able to determine a size for the pier that would work for canada's snow load? I see these perma columns advertised for use here but I have no idea how they would be acceptable bearing in any soil conditions.