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Oklahoma | Finishing up a shed on my place out of 3" ID oil pipe poles and used commercially built trusses with 3" perlin. Mine is 10 ft centers, set 3 ft in concrete but once concrete floor is poured it will be 10 ft walls and ~3.5' in concrete. We put extra cross bracings in both in the roof and in the walls.
My Dad has a 100 x 36 lean too built out of same pipe but each bay is ~20 ft wide and the short end of the lean to is 14 ft, high end is ~20 ft. We did the same thing, lots of angles in the walls, he used smaller perlin than I did but ran them closer together. Since the bays are so wide he went back in prior to putting metal on and made running W trusses in for the roof line as the pipe was sagging more than what he thought it would. He made the W trusses from two sticks of the pipe and heating sucker rod to the pattern and welding it in place. We finished that barn in 04 and it has withstood 1" inch of ice with 6 inches of snow on top of that and also had a tornado pass overhead, its still standing. | |
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pole building using 2 7/8" oil pipe?
