Moveable Support Turns Two Shop Doors Into One

Moveable Support Turns Two Shop Doors Into One FARM SHOP Miscellaneous 31-4-3 Thanks to a unique door design, Dale and Tracey Richter can vary the size of the opening in their 54 by 80-ft. shop from 16 ft. wide up to 40 ft. wide. Key to the design is a moveable support post between the two overhead doors at one end of the building. The Richters can use either the 16-ft. door or the 24-ft. door, or they can open them both and move the support post out of the way. The post slides to the side on a 16-ft. length of track over the smaller door. The post is normally held in place by pins at the top and bottom. The bottom pin slides into a hole in the concrete floor, while the top pin locks the post to the shop ceiling. It can be disengaged from ground level because the pin is on a spring and attached to a dangling chain. "When you move the post back into its normal position, the spring pin lines the tracks up," he says. "I like this system because we can bring both combines into the shop at once, even with the straight-cut headers on them. Or we can bring in our big air seeder - we pull it in transport mode and then open up one wing. "Another benefit is that in the winter, we can just open the 16-ft. door to bring in tractors or trucks so we don't lose as much heat," Dale says. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, R&R Farms, Dale and Tracey Richter, P.O. Box 894, Broadview, Sask., Canada S0G 0K0 (ph 306 696-2887; dale.richter@sasktel.net).

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