Hinged Shed Door Breaks Away From Snow

Hinged Shed Door Breaks Away From Snow BUILDINGS Miscellaneous LeRoy Momper couldn’t get the 10-ft wide 12-ft high door on his pole shed open without first having to shovel away snow or chip ice He solved the problem by making a cut through the bottom 2 ft of the door and adding hinges “Now as soon as I start to push the door open the bottom 2-ft section immediately starts to lift up over the snow and ice ” says Momper “I came up with the idea one day last winter when I wanted to get my tractor out of the shed to blow snow I had to chip ice away from the door before I could get the door open ” He nailed a 2 by 4 horizontally across the back side of the door about 2 ft up from the bottom directly underneath another 2 by 4 that was already on the door for support Then he used a sawzall to cut the door all the way across between the two 2 by 4’s and bolted on some metal hinges “It works perfect As soon as I start pushing the door open the bottom section swings back and starts to lift up over the snow I don’t have to do any shoveling at all When I’m ready to close the door I use a rope to hold the bottom section up To attach the rope I installed an eye bolt at the bottom of the door and a nail farther up ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup LeRoy Momper 215 Lawrence St Fredonia Wis 53021 ph 262 692-2093; leemary66@gmail com

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