Tin shack

[Alan]

Word got out that I used to supervise erection of pre-engineered steel buildings. One of the local farmers had a building coming in, all he did was buy the package, and he mentioned to a local digger that he needed to find somebody who knew how to put it together. "I think Al Nadeau used to work on those".

So I'm now working on a 50 x 60 free span building. Typical tin shack construction, everything limber to a fault, but it's going together pretty well. How I miss my old crew though, we could have had it up and covered in about three days.

I'd kill for one of these too, 14' clear under the mainframes at the peak. Plenty of room for a four post lift, salt and sand bins, a paint booth and room for everything out of the weather.

[cat320]

Alan first is that your crane truck in the background second is that a slab on grade? No foundations to frost depth required there? That does sound like a great building but as big as it is it still would not be big enough LOL 100'x 60 would be better

[Alan]

No, the truck is not mine. Not a bad rig as truck cranes go but it is a bit underpowered. 427 gasser backed up by a 13 spd. Problem is the rig weighs 33K empty so it's just not power enough over the road.

Yes, slab on grade. Not my personal preference but the owner had that part done by another contractor. Slab is 6" with 6x6 #6 wire and 4 #4s around the perimeter. I was a bit upset that they never wrapped the bars at the corners but merely crossed them. The perimeter is a 24" wide section totaling 12" in depth.

The building people don't supply foundation design, they only supply reaction numbers for the foundation engineer to work with. The concrete contractor was a large ready mix supplier as well as form contractor. I would have thought they had a staff engineer who would have finalized the design but I was wrong.

Slab on grade should be fine here but they should have run either a 24"w x 12"d section across the mainframe bases with continuous tie bars across the anchor bolts or deepened the slab enough that they could have embedded 2 #5 hairpin bars around the anchor bolts. The reaction at the mainframe bases wants to spread the frames any time there is a load placed on the roof.

[digger242j]

Slab on grade should be fine here...

They're not worried about frost heave? :confused:

[Lawngodfather]

It's more fun to move em...

I helped move a 45 x 90 in 2000

Turned it into a big trailer.

We sat this sucker on 2x2 4'deep peirs/footings.

Did pretty good to, all the bolts lined up we sat it on.....

We cheated LOL, made plates to fit, then welded the main beems to the new footings.

[Alan]

Here's the red iron (using the term "iron" loosely) all in the air.

[Alan]

It looks a lot more impressive from this angle.

[snowplowjay]

Nice work Alan!!!


Always amazes me how quickly those buildings fly up. One day its a slab the next the buildings fully erected :D


Jay

[Alan]

The first sidewall was a rather slow process. I was the only person on the job who had ever done this. But it's a lot easier to train people who are ambitious than it is to motivate a crew of experienced drones.

[Alan]

We put the farm flatbed to work as a staging cart. Company I used to work for had several wagon running gears with staging built right on the frame. We could go two panels long and five high with those and everything we needed stored right on the wagon. Would love to have one of those here.

[Alan]

Yesterday and today I was able to let the crew work on the siding and I went to work on trimming the framed openings for overhead doors. Today they finished the second sidewall and started siding an endwall and doing a very nice job of it! These guys are an absolute joy to work with. If something looks funny they ask instead of putting it up wrong.