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muldoonman · October 06, 2013, 10:05:58 AM

Enclose one end at least. Tin screwed together makes them stronger in wind.

saddleup · October 06, 2013, 10:18:46 AM

Doyle just what part of the country you in?

Ed Hackenbruch · October 06, 2013, 10:27:46 AM

My last week in Viet Nam we had a typhoon come thru our base and do a lot of damage. When i got to the airfield to fly out i saw a hanger that was built with 1ft. steel i-beams and tin sheeting. On one end the tin on the roof was gone and the end i-beam that was canter-levered out for the roof had a 1/4 twist in the middle of it just like a giant had grabbed it in his hands and twisted it. There were 29 helicopters there that were destroyed,.....a rotor here, a tail rotor there, a chunk of fuselage in-between or whatever. Rained so hard that you could not see more than 30 ft at the most, and the rain was going parallel to the ground.

sledhead · October 06, 2013, 11:21:51 AM

nothin' wrong with jerry- riggen' it always works ! permits are for taxes its better to beg for forgiveness then ask for permission dave

wg4t50 · October 06, 2013, 04:42:32 PM

Sledhead,
SOO correct on your posting, we all have had issues of some sort, our biggie was a 150' Ham Radio tower, long story short, I built it, the inspecter later says boy you must get good TV reception ! TV antenna are exempt or were here. Code book is not clear, so I just did it.

TomC · October 07, 2013, 06:55:42 AM

Looks nice, but to me doesn't look stout enough to with stand a high wind. Need some angled cross members for reinforcement. Good Luck, TomC

luvrbus · October 07, 2013, 07:22:03 AM

Gee guys I am sure his structure is engineered for his location or they would not gave him a permit in that county just about every place requires a engineers stamp on a metal structural for wind

I know where he is located wind is not a big factor but nothing is engineered for a category 5 tornado

good luck

muldoonman · October 07, 2013, 08:45:26 AM

Cliff, out in country here in texas (100 acres) you build what you are big enough to build. No permits, inspections or folks telling you No!

luvrbus · October 07, 2013, 09:17:13 AM

I live in the country here also but they are strict on metal buildings and wind rating

We have a place in Anahuac Tx on the coast in Chambers county I been fighting for 2 years for permit on a 40x60 metal building there.

Like you say some counties in Texas are easy for a long time when we lived in Conroe the Montgomery county was anything goes not that way there now in Montgomery County it's all about revenue

muldoonman · October 07, 2013, 09:57:32 AM

The Texas Gulf Coast has always been tough and for good reason with hurricane winds blowing though. We tried to get a Bus cover built in Surfside Tx. and found out you can't even tie in your RV overnight to your house unless you have a permit and then just a few days and have to move it, Only 4 or 5 permits a year.