Carport Weight

[dieselscout80]

Thanks Jeff I’d like to see pi of how you did the moves.

 

[nisaacs]

Those carports aren’t that hard to disassemble. I might consider putting a piece of lumber at both ends for a spreader to keep the legs spaced apart and drag it but much beyond that you’d be faster to take it apart.

I disagree. Wife and I built the frame then hired a contractor to do the roof. 6 hours for 2 guys, ladders, million screws, seals at all the joints, edge trim. To disassemble, you will need to mark all the sheets.

This is a 20'x24x8. After the roof, then we did both sides and one end. It took our old bones several days to do what we did. I would build another one at the new location before I would try to move it.

 

[YanmarFever]

I moved ours with a forklift and some very wide lumber, they weigh hardly anything so watch the wind!

 

[chim]

Here's how someone on OTT did it:

Moving metal Carports

Hubby and I work VERY well together with hand signals. This video shows us moving a shed in complete coordination like a dance. Our hyper teenager video'd it so jumps a lot but you can see we move as one.

www.orangetractortalks.com

 

[2manyrocks]

Interesting....but personally I'd have used a heck of a lot more material to cross brace the carport before trying to move it.

 

[dieselscout80]

Here's how someone on OTT did it:

Moving metal Carports

Hubby and I work VERY well together with hand signals. This video shows us moving a shed in complete coordination like a dance. Our hyper teenager video'd it so jumps a lot but you can see we move as one.

www.orangetractortalks.com

Kinda how I was thinking, but with one tract in the middle of the carport lifting from both opposite ends from how they did it.

 

[2manyrocks]

Diagonal cross bracing in the form of an X would be more resistant to flexing that could cause tearing in the roof panels.

 

[sd455dan]

We’re only moving it about 100 yards.

We bought an 18 x 30 kit. had it rated for 55lb snow load and 150 MPH winds. It came in two pacs. The sheetmetal roofing was around 1200lb and the framing pac was just over 1700 lb IIRC

 

[jjeff]

#7 picture of carport I've moved 1/2 doz times at least a few hundred feet in total. #1 and up are pics of green house I moved off the gable end of barn no pics of actually moving it out of learned mistakes I put phone and camera down when operating equipment lol anyways I know it's a lot heavier than any carport, had to cut lower uprights cause they were embedded in concrete, fortunately I had a lot of heavy gauge rusted repurposed angle iron lying around so I welded it around base and to cut uprights I also welded a piece of angle from the uprights below girder and welded srap angle diagonals in pic I removed center base piece I attached. To bottom of uprights left diagonals in place. One thing I can tell you is when moving it and it starts digging in ground stop immediately. Also when I moved green house I felt it may not make it but was ok if move failed and it came down cause other option was to tear I to down anyway I replaced green house on polebarn with another more usable structure. Any specific questions feel free to ask as my pics I took are snow covered and my explanation is probably lacking for some.

 

[dieselscout80]

Thanks