Tractor Lean-To Project (and checking to see if you can link a Facebook Photo Album)

[Daver1963]

A little tractor lean-to project with a photo album from Facebook.
If you're not a Facebooker I'll post a few pictures if you want to see them.
I needed something to park my tractor under so I could get my truck in the carport come winter time.

 

[user.69169]

Don't do no bookface, already got more than enough foolishness in my life and got things need accomplishing.

That bookface just another way for people don't accomplish squat to waste time and spend money they ain't got. Foolishness is for children.

 

[Daver1963]

I guess some real pictures are in order. The pictures are titled day 1-4, but I didn't build this in four straight days. I had to take two days off after digging the post holes and setting the posts to let my hands recover. With the help of my sweet wife it took a week and without her I'd still be building.


Before


The Plan


Laying it out


Wife moving the tractor


Posts set and waiting for concrete to cure


Using string and a line level to establish a reference height


Line level from Lowes 2/$3


Putting wall studs together


Moving the stud wall


Getting it into position


Stud wall up


Getting the rafters up


Papa Gene supervising


Getting the roofing on. I used two translucent panels
in the middle to provide ambient light inside the lean-to


Almost done with the roof


Roof finished


Side panels on


After. The tractor at home

 

[rbstern]

Nice work, looks good.

 

[SPIKER]

Looks like the FB page is not linked correctly it takes you to pictues page but did not show up with the pics you posted, maybe a project specific page. I prefer Photobucket for this as I can lock folders and keep pics hidden and or they have better space/ projects with ability to move photos into a time line a bit better I think.

Mark

 

[KennyG]

How big are those rafters? Do you get any snow at all?

 

[Daver1963]

The rafters are 2 X 4's. Here in Northwest Tennessee we haven't been getting vast amounts of snow in the last few years. However, the Farmers Almanac says it is suppose to be colder and snowier than normal. I'll probably be scraping snow off all winter!

 

[Larro Darro]

It looks good Dave. But I think I would have run the tin the other way. Or is that the way it will drain? And with that tree so close, you will need to sweep the leaves off. We had some of those clear panels on a shed. They held up for 15 or 20 years. As long as a limb don't fall on them.

Larro

 

[deerseeker001]

good job.

 

[Daver1963]

That is not the way the tin will drain, but I did it that way after getting the rafters up and realizing that there was no way to support where the two tin pieces joined together. I couldn't think of an easy way to join the edges. I thought about caulk and about drilling and riveting.

 

[Midniteoyl]

Thinking you need a support half way across the wall. It'll sag after a few years..

Im in the process of getting mine up too, though more machine shed than lean too.. prolly 24'x18'.... Found 54 sheets of white pole barn siding on the road a couple years back :thumbsup:

 

[Midniteoyl]

That is not the way the tin will drain, but I did it that way after getting the rafters up and realizing that there was no way to support where the two tin pieces joined together. I couldn't think of an easy way to join the edges. I thought about caulk and about drilling and riveting.

Add one more rafter

I wouldnt worry about it though, the metal car ports are ran the same way and they drain..

 

[Daver1963]

Add one more rafter

I wouldnt worry about it though, the metal car ports are ran the same way and they drain..

Its hard to tell in the pictures, but there is close to a 10 inch difference between the shed side and the support side. But, how exactly to you mean to "add one more rafter." Can you do a simple illustration? In some things I'm like an Army man - I need pictures. (I was Air Force by the way). (Edit: should mention that there are actually 6 panels on the roof, 4 metal and 2 poly)

Thinking you need a support half way across the wall. It'll sag after a few years..

Im in the process of getting mine up too, though more machine shed than lean too.. prolly 24'x18'.... Found 54 sheets of white pole barn siding on the road a couple years back :thumbsup:

I have some paving stones that I removed from around our patio. One of the previous owners had a thing for paving stones and lava rocks. One of those might do as a base and I have a couple of 4X4 pieces that were trimmed off the top. That should help it blend in. Thanks for mentioning that.

 

[Midniteoyl]

Its hard to tell in the pictures, but there is close to a 10 inch difference between the shed side and the support side. But, how exactly to you mean to "add one more rafter." Can you do a simple illustration? In some things I'm like an Army man - I need pictures. (I was Air Force by the way). (Edit: should mention that there are actually 6 panels on the roof, 4 metal and 2 poly)

I meant to add a rafter where the seam would fall..

 

[user.69169]

One thing I tell you for sure about them pastic light panels, go buy the replacements now and tuck em up in the rafters.
I swear the people who make those things change em every 3 years just enough you can't get replacements.

You get some good industrial steel strapping, stuff that holds machines on pallets you can bowstring them rafters with steel strap and triple the load capacity. Fellow showed me that trick been doing it for years on light weight trusses he makes. Clever as all getout.

 

[efam3300]

That is not the way the tin will drain, but I did it that way after getting the rafters up and realizing that there was no way to support where the two tin pieces joined together. I couldn't think of an easy way to join the edges. I thought about caulk and about drilling and riveting.

You could have run 2x4 purlins across (side to side) the rafters on 3 or 4' centers to run the tin the other way

 

[KennyG]

Hate to be critical but the engineer in me is concerned about rafter sag and wall bracing. How about adding braces from about a foot down the wall to near the center of the rafters?

 

[Daver1963]

Thinking you need a support half way across the wall. It'll sag after a few years..

Im in the process of getting mine up too, though more machine shed than lean too.. prolly 24'x18'.... Found 54 sheets of white pole barn siding on the road a couple years back :thumbsup:

Did the paving stone and 4X4 to brace in the middle. I dug out a level spot for the paving stone and left it about 1/4inch lower than the 4X4. Then I used a 2X4 to lever it up while my wife wedged the 4X4 in a little. Final placement was accomplished with the flat end of a single bit axe.

 

[Midniteoyl]

Hate to be critical but the engineer in me is concerned about rafter sag and wall bracing. How about adding braces from about a foot down the wall to near the center of the rafters?

I did 2x4 rafters in Wisconsin at about the same run and slope. Worked fine..

 

[Daver1963]

Hate to be critical but the engineer in me is concerned about rafter sag and wall bracing. How about adding braces from about a foot down the wall to near the center of the rafters?

As I said, I need illustrations. A or B