Center Pivot Pipe Used To Build Two Farm Building IRRIGATION Miscellaneous 27-4-34 When Harry Haythorn, Maxwell, Nebraska, decided to discontinue use of a center pivot irrigation system on some pasture ground, he found nobody wanted the old pivot if it meant they had to dismantle it. When he later decided to put up a couple of new farm buildings, Haythorn was glad he had kept the old pivot. "I'd seen articles in past issues of FARM SHOW about buildings made of old irrigation pipe. I decided I could use the pivot pipe to frame up my buildings and construct them for less than I could have them put up for me," he says. He put up a 40 by 60-ft. horse barn and a 50 by 100-ft. storage shed. He built them like pole barns, setting the 6 5/8-in. dia. pipe uprights in concrete. "I squared up the end posts, and then chalk-lined them at the top. Then I cut saddles in the tops and welded a pipe the full length of the building," he says. Finally, he welded more pipe into triangles to make rafters. "Setting the rafters was the most difficult part of making the frame," he says. "I have a small loader and lifting them into place and holding them there while getting them squared up and then welding took some doing." Haythorn says if the pipe had been galvanized, grinding off the zinc coating before welding would have added a lot of time and effort to the project. The stud barn is still under construction. "I have 8-in. steel purlins, just like those used in commercially built steel buildings, that I'll weld to the posts and the roof. The posts are spaced 20 ft. apart, so each purlin span is 20 ft. I'll finish it off by screwing on steel siding and roofing," he says. "On the inside, I'll add some wood partitions and siding to keep the horses away from the exterior siding." He says the storage building, with it's open sides, is just right for storing his stock trailers, motor home, and other trailers, equipment and vehicles. "It has four 25 ft. wide bays on each side and is 14 ft. high at the eave. I may put siding on the ends of it, and I've thought about using roll-down tarp for the sides, but it's really handy for getting in an out as it is," he says. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Harry Haythorn, 25497 E. Haythorn Rd., Maxwell, Neb. 69151 (ph 308 582-4429; email: ranch4@msn.com).

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