Portable 20 By 40 ft Building Made Out Of Irrigation Pipe

Portable 20 by 40 ft building made out of irrigation pipe IRRIGATION Miscellaneous 17-2-6 Nebraska farmer Doug Allemang took a look at all the old irrigation pipe avail-able in his area and figured there had to be a way to make use of it. He decided to put up a 20 by 40-ft. metal building using the pipe as framework. He even fitted the building with wheels so he can tow it to a new location, if needed. "Except for the corrugated tin, which we bought new, everything comes from one old irrigation system, including the wheel assembly to transport the building. We used pipe from an old center pivot system and angle iron cross bars came from the support truss on the same system. I used angle iron at all the pipe splices to increase support and boxed all the angle iron splices with steel tubing. All pipe joints are `butt joints' that I made using a metal pattern that I would clamp to the pipe and then cut around. Resulted in excellent fits. "Rafters are spaced 8 ft. apart and sidewall uprights are 10 ft. apart. I made the building portable because I live on a rented farm. To transport it, I run a pipe across the bottom of the door and put a set of wheels on a base beam and hook up behind a 4-wheel drive. "There's a flat metal plate at the bottom of each corner. A buried 4-ft. truss rod comes up through the center of this plate to anchor the building down. I'm in the process of building a bi-fold door." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Doug Allemang, HC60, Box 12, Bartlett, Neb. 68622 (ph 308 654-3440).

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