Posted by Truth seeker on October 15, 2009 at 12:41:18 from (170.215.133.77):
HalleluYah!
My brother and I worked out a deal for some old (but still solid) gas-well pipe. Our hopes were to use this pipe to put together a 30' x 40' 2-story shop (no machines upstairs, just living space.).
The person we're getting the pipe from said it wouldn't be a good idea, would be too heavy to erect, and take 5+ years to construct. I have toyed with computers some and had put together a rough 3d example of the shop. I didn't have anything to go on for spacing and what not, but figured that once I put it together it could be corrected. I had 3" pipe spaced 5'o.c (on center, no offense to those who already know this).
I was told that the corners should be 4" pipe. and the "stud" pipes should be 2" at 4'o.c. But then after that I was told 4" pipe at the corners and more 10'o.c. and between those 2" pipe 2'o.c.
I am thoroughly confused!
And to top it off, my neighbor Jim (who passed away before we even got into this) the shop he built (with a second story halfway across the building) uses 4" pipe 12' o.c WITH a I-beam hoist. There is no sign of weakness in his shop (Jim-built was our terminology for being at least 4 times overbuilt)
Anyway, The questions are does anybody out there have experience putting one of these things together? How hard is it? What difficulties did you run into? Any changes that you'd make if you did it over again?
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