Cool crane work at work today.

[BigBlockMopar]

So, if you let a good one rip in that building, will you still hear it's echo 2 days later?

[Schtauffer]

Hey Stiney, what brand of doors are they?

Its too long for my camera! Right half.....




And inside of the left side. That door is 40'x16', check out how many springs it takes to balance it.



And the door to the left of the big door. Looks puny in comparison. I didn't snap any pictures of the wash bay in the center part of the building, its ginormous as well.

[milner351]

Gene - if you can't ID them by site - they must not be very common. Great Googley Moogleys this place is HUGE.

How many yards of concrete?

[STINEY]

So, if you let a good one rip in that building, will you still hear it's echo 2 days later?

Uh Houston, recent experimentation has proven that to be a negative. The highest delta we can achieve is 1 minute. Will continue attempts and advise, over.

Hey Stiney, what brand of doors are they?

Wayne Daltons, installed through Lucius Door in Republic Ohio. Apparently they have won some national garage door installation competitions? I didn't even realize there were such competitions.

Gene - if you can't ID them by site - they must not be very common. Great Googley Moogleys this place is HUGE.

How many yards of concrete?

Oh wow......we don't have a complete tally, and one section is yet to be poured...... at least 500 yards to date. What is real impressive is the amount of fill, both compacted and other. There used to be 3 manure pits at this location (where the old 200 head heard of dairy cows resided) and it took 2000 tons compacted every 1' to satisfy the builders site prep requirements. Those pits were 15' deep by 12' wide and 150' long.

We also kept a concrete recyling grinder busy for 2 weeks with grinding up old silo foundations and foundations for several buildings, and all the old concrete we could scrounge. The whole neighborhood brought in their old concrete chunks (easy way for them to be rid of it!) and the grinder billed us for 2000 tons. We had huge piles EVERYWHERE! Didn't take long for those to disappear though, and we had an additional 2000 tons hauled in. The land really drops off to the rear of the building, I should snap a picture of that too.

Here's another shot of the big door. Check out the bracing on that bad boy.

[Schtauffer]

Garage door competitions? Yes. Can't find video right now, but I've seen doors installed in less than 10 minutes. That is no weatherseal, lock, or backhangers, and everything is laid out in preparation, but still that is some hustling. I would like to give it a try but I don't go to the door show.

A Wayne Dalton TS-200 is a decent door, you shouldn't expect too much trouble with it. It should be fairly sturdy considering there is two built-in struts to every section, plus the added 3" struts with the bridgework added. I have a feeling the struts weigh as much as the sections. The skin on those is only 27 gauge so the sections themselves are generally pretty light. FYI, 40' is the widest section WD will make. I'm curious how much the door weighs-- any way to get a pic of the spring tag?

Couple interesting things going on there-- the cables lift the door from attachment points on the outside of the door rather than the standard location at the inside corners of the bottom section. You know you got a big door when they hook it up that way. Also, the dual trolley operators are cool. LiftMaster requires them at 24' wide. They are pretty effective, they definitely help keep the door a little more stable and operate quite a bit smoother as a result. That one has a motorhead mounted on the one trolley with a shaft running over to the other trolley. The other way they do it is mount the motor on the wall and run a jackshaft across the header to run the trolleys. The nice thing about the one on the wall is that it is easier to get to when servicing the door.

Thanks for sharing, I'm totally going off the dork end here. We have some big stuff going right now, namely some 20x31's at a trash transfer joint. Those darn truckers have a habit of trying to pull out of the building with the dump up. The biggest we have done in the past is a row of 48x20's at a helicopter place, that was a heck of a project. We did a couple of overhead sectionals at an airport-- they went for three doors side by side with the two center posts made to swing up. The overall width was 96'; the center door was 20' high and the two outer doors were more like 16' or so, IIRC. The cool thing about that one was that we engineered it ourselves and built the swing up posts in-house. We don't do the actual airport hangar doors, but I kind of wish we did.