How to Hang a 450-Pound Barn Door By Yourself

   / How to Hang a 450-Pound Barn Door By Yourself #11  
Creative use of the tractor and great looking barn too. Always nice to see ingenuity at work. Good job!
 
   / How to Hang a 450-Pound Barn Door By Yourself #12  
Outstanding. I'm always looking for creative 1 man solutions and have come to love my tractor as helper.
 
   / How to Hang a 450-Pound Barn Door By Yourself #13  
Hi Carl,

The needle valves i have installed on the lift and tilt circuits allow me to "lock" them preventing any leak down.

Ken
 
   / How to Hang a 450-Pound Barn Door By Yourself #14  
Great job and good use of your head and tractor.
TSC never seems to have all of the parts needed to finish a job. At least the one near me doesn't.
Great looking barn!
 
   / How to Hang a 450-Pound Barn Door By Yourself #15  
What do you build over the gable end door to protect the door ledger board from rotting out over time ?
 
   / How to Hang a 450-Pound Barn Door By Yourself
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What do you build over the gable end door to protect the door ledger board from rotting out over time ?

Nothing yet, but my plan is to build a small pentroof above the ledger boards that extends down over the front of the track. Hopefully, that should also keep rain from getting in behind the door at the top and running down the inside.

I'm open to ideas if anyone has a better one.

Josh
 
   / How to Hang a 450-Pound Barn Door By Yourself #17  
I'll be interested in your solution. Up here in the Northeast the T-11 siding has fallen out of favor because it is just so difficult to seal up and most of the buildings I've seen constructed with it usually end up getting a secondary siding after a couple years.
 
   / How to Hang a 450-Pound Barn Door By Yourself #18  
Josh,

Nice looking barn! I read your building thread with much interest. I am planning to start mine as soon as I sale my fifth wheel camper.

David
 
   / How to Hang a 450-Pound Barn Door By Yourself #19  
Nice looking doors. My wife wacked a door on her horse barn. She bent a rail, so off came a door (two piece rail). In this case, the siding is metal (about all you see around here), so changing out a warped 2 x 6 was easy, as was rail removal/straighten/reinstall).

I have found that the metal flashing cover on the horse barn doesn't hang down far enough. Particularly tough on the prevailing wind side (snow in winter, thunder storms in summer). The flashing on my shop (similar construction, better outfit: Lester buildings) is much better, hangs lower. Adjustment of the trolleys is then done on the inside.

I have used a couple of things to make the horse barn better (I should probably call the local Lester people and see if the flashing is the secret, or something else detail wise). But nothing has made it perfect. I added a piece of flashing to the door face to stick under the rail flashing. Better, but snow still gets in. Then I installed a side strip for a roll up door on the bottom of the header (conventional house/garage door side strip). Better, not perfect, but rain is not an issue any longer (at least not enough that I remember any issues from last summer).

I like the look of the wood siding, but it is a lot more work to maintain. Nice job!
 
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NICE JOB
 

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