Little bit like neighbours round house
Was going round and round turning hay one minute nothing then there it was on the horizon
Was going round and round turning hay one minute nothing then there it was on the horizon
Jacking up a livestock shed
- Thread starter aled1590
- Start date
- Location
- sw scotland
As a lad we built a shed with large wooden 9x3 trusses onto telegraph poles. To hoist them up we put the Lister elevator to full height with a board sticking another 10 feet out the top with a block and tackle attached. Ford Dexta was the anchor at the bottom end. What could go wrong?
Wish I had some photos.
Wish I had some photos.
Steve welder
Member
Great job. Hope I never get asked to do one
One of the welders did try, he placed his phone on top of the silage pit looking down, some reason didn’t work very well. We were all in agreement If something would have gone wrong it would have been a case of ‘what happened on the farm stayed on the farm’Pity you didn't do a timelapse video. Or maybe it was safer not to incase something went wrong
Amazing job but I think I would have wanted more of a failsafe than the bit of threaded rod. As mentioned maybe some sort of sliding guide with pins like an axle stand.
Thinking about it a length of channel welded to insides of the legs to stop sideways movement with pin holes every 6 inches to limit drop??
Then use channel to brace over joints in legs at the end?
Thinking about it a length of channel welded to insides of the legs to stop sideways movement with pin holes every 6 inches to limit drop??
Then use channel to brace over joints in legs at the end?
yes you’re probably right. We left it in the hands of the welders to work out the weights and forces involved in the job. 1 of them has just retired from a shed manufacturer he was one of the designers in office so used to calculations etc and another chap his name is emrys owen if anyone knows him he’s an absolute genius when it comes to anything engineering he travels all over UK sorting stuff out other people have failed to fix/weld. But yes I see what you mean @KennyO. We did chat about a channel up the stanchions but can’t remember why we went down the threaded bar option, probably came down to cost and time!
- Location
- North West Wales
yes you’re probably right. We left it in the hands of the welders to work out the weights and forces involved in the job. 1 of them has just retired from a shed manufacturer he was one of the designers in office so used to calculations etc and another chap his name is emrys owen if anyone knows him he’s an absolute genius when it comes to anything engineering he travels all over UK sorting stuff out other people have failed to fix/weld. But yes I see what you mean @KennyO. We did chat about a channel up the stanchions but can’t remember why we went down the threaded bar option, probably came down to cost and time!
I spotted Emrys and Myrddin in the photos!!!
Bolt jacks to every girder and get alot of friends in to jack up at the same time and then weld in girder spacers.
Netherfield
Member
- Location
- West Yorkshire
Bolt jacks to every girder and get alot of friends in to jack up at the same time and then weld in girder spacers.
That depends on having enough friends you can rely on to do as they're told
dannewhouse
Member
- Location
- huddersfield
What did you cut the stantions with, look nice clean cuts!!! Too clean for gas/plasma?
Some sort of bandsaw?
Some sort of bandsaw?
- Location
- Yorkshire
Hacksaw?
Disk cutter with those really thin disks. Didn’t take long at all
Thank you very much, it’s hard to imagine how it used to be now, not bad for a 1982 built shed. The steels and timbers are none the worse bearing in mind they’re 38 years oldSuper job, well done and hope it gives you many years of good service and a sense of satisfaction every time you look at it.
2wheels
Member
- Location
- aberdeenshire
did you need an engineer's report for insuring your "new" building. great job, what was was the size of the threaded rod?
Nearly
Member
- Location
- North of York
'We've replaced the bottom bit of the legs as they were looking a bit rusty....TFF, never heard of it'
Exactly, this shed has always been 12ft to eaves
Didn’t think about a report tbh! Rods were probably 30-35mm I’m guessing, the guys took them away after finishing
- Location
- Wormingford, Essex