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Try this:

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Sure will be nice to keep the equipment out of the weather.

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Where's the OSHA inspector?

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What are you using to secure the 2x4s to the pipe framing? Through-bolting (lots of drilling!), or is there an easier way?

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looks like a safe job site to me. Heck, I even see some ear protection on the lumber pile!

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> What are you using to secure the 2x4s to the pipe framing? Through-bolting (lots of drilling!), or is there an easier way?

Yeah. The easier way would have been to have used light-gauge steel members and just welded them to the "beams" made of 2-inch pipe. Then self-drilling, self-tapping screws to attach the corrugated metal sheathing to the light-gauge purlins and rafters.

You've got to love the folk artsy way that those "rafters" are laid flat on the pipes for minimum strength. I know I do. It has "Texas A&M" written all over it. With the corrugations in the roofing running level, rather than with the slope of the roof and the weak submembers supporting the roofing, that is a perfect condition for water ponding on a sloping metal roof, a singular accomplishment.

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Look again. The corrugation in the roof runs with the slope.

It don't matter if you like it so long as I like it. Also,I didn't say pix for kent now did I?

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We blew holes with a torch and bolted it.

You're not screwing to the pipe. Tried it. 3" drillstem doesn't take the screws well.

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> What are you using to secure the 2x4s to the pipe framing? Through-bolting (lots of drilling!), or is there an easier way?

Jim,

What we typically do with an application such as the one Kris is using is to weld angle iron brackets directly to the pipe. We then either drill holes or use a torch to burn holes through the angle iron and bolt whatever size lumber we use for rafters to the angle iron. This way the lumber can be bolted down on edge rather than flat. The strength of the lumber is across the grain, not with the grain.

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> Look again. The corrugation in the roof runs with the slope.

Yes, I see that they do. I just think it's funny that a simple structure like a shed turns out to be too difficult to build well.

Oh, come on, now, Guys

Let's be nice. It's easy to criticize others and much tougher to take criticism.....something Kent epitomizes.

There are dozens or hundreds of ways to construct a similar shelter to perform the same function. All have their faults and all have their benefits. It largely depends on which tradeoffs the owner is willing to make.

As for me, I would have hired a buddy of mine to do the whole thing. Then I would have spent the time he was doing the work making $1000 per day gross to allow the excess to cover his bills.

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If that was tongue in cheek I'd smile.....Somehow it did not come across that way.

JRL

Flat roofs are "the" fashion in Rusk, Texas !

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YOS

TNAI

(Student-at-Roof Surveying)

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Looks good to me. I would like to have something like that at my hunting camp.