smilingreen
Silver Member
Hey all you tractor dudes,
I purchased a 26' x 40' ARCH building this fall and am in the process of putting it together (adult erector set!!) Do any of you guys own one or have erected one? /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif (a ARCH building, that is /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif ) /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif Just wondering if you have had the same problems I am having putting this thing together. The whole building came in on three skids, all banded together and dropped off on my concrete slab. After disasembling the skids, I found: No instructions, some materials that I don't even know what they are for, and damaged parts. Well, I straightened out the damaged sheet metal, called the factory about assembly instructions, and they faxed me a poor...very poor set of assembly prints. These things were hand drawn in 1959..I kid you not. No exact deminsions for the concrete slab, just generic X2 numbers. Called the factory again, and they told me the deminsions for the concrete pad. Well, anyway, as I am starting to assemble the arch pieces, I find that some pieces fit together well, and other pieces you have to wrestle with and use long spud wrenches to make the holes line up. This usually makes one of the sheet metal mating holes tear. The company sent me two boxes with about 3500 fasteners apiece in them, and about 7000 nuts. (are you beginning to get the picture of a adult sized erector set??) The rep that I bought the building from said that I could put the building up in one day with a crew of 4 people. Well, I have been at it for about 5 full days and have only put up 2/5's of the building so far. What kind of weed was this guy smoking to lose track of that much time??!! I hope to have the main arches finished by next weekend, and then I have to put up both end walls. I hope these go faster than the arches do. It came with a 10' x 10' garage door, but I think I am going to hire someone to put that in. The top of the building is 15' high and altogether 26' wide, which gives the building a lot of room inside without any support beams inside to bump into with the FEL. I like that part about it. Plan on storing all my implements inside, along with both my tractors and my 26' long sailboat. Better half mentioned something about furniture storage.......I don't know about that one... But on the brighter note, the building only cost about $6000.00 as a kit. I guess I can't complain too much.
I purchased a 26' x 40' ARCH building this fall and am in the process of putting it together (adult erector set!!) Do any of you guys own one or have erected one? /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif (a ARCH building, that is /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif ) /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif Just wondering if you have had the same problems I am having putting this thing together. The whole building came in on three skids, all banded together and dropped off on my concrete slab. After disasembling the skids, I found: No instructions, some materials that I don't even know what they are for, and damaged parts. Well, I straightened out the damaged sheet metal, called the factory about assembly instructions, and they faxed me a poor...very poor set of assembly prints. These things were hand drawn in 1959..I kid you not. No exact deminsions for the concrete slab, just generic X2 numbers. Called the factory again, and they told me the deminsions for the concrete pad. Well, anyway, as I am starting to assemble the arch pieces, I find that some pieces fit together well, and other pieces you have to wrestle with and use long spud wrenches to make the holes line up. This usually makes one of the sheet metal mating holes tear. The company sent me two boxes with about 3500 fasteners apiece in them, and about 7000 nuts. (are you beginning to get the picture of a adult sized erector set??) The rep that I bought the building from said that I could put the building up in one day with a crew of 4 people. Well, I have been at it for about 5 full days and have only put up 2/5's of the building so far. What kind of weed was this guy smoking to lose track of that much time??!! I hope to have the main arches finished by next weekend, and then I have to put up both end walls. I hope these go faster than the arches do. It came with a 10' x 10' garage door, but I think I am going to hire someone to put that in. The top of the building is 15' high and altogether 26' wide, which gives the building a lot of room inside without any support beams inside to bump into with the FEL. I like that part about it. Plan on storing all my implements inside, along with both my tractors and my 26' long sailboat. Better half mentioned something about furniture storage.......I don't know about that one... But on the brighter note, the building only cost about $6000.00 as a kit. I guess I can't complain too much.
