Volume #BFS, Issue #20, Page #41
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Conversion Makes Shelter Easy To Move
“I made my 10 by 20-ft. plastic storage shelter portable by mounting it on a home-built steel frame that rides on a pair of caster wheels. I can easily move it anywhere with my loader tractor. I just lift one end of the shelter about 12 in. off the ground and drive forward,” says Arnold Bergesen, Rimbey, Alberta.
  The shelter has 4 hoops that support a plastic roof and sides. Bergesen used 3-in. dia. pipe and caster wheels from an old pull-type sprayer to build a frame with pockets on the sides and corners that the hoops pin onto.
  He used the 2-section, 3-in. dia. pipe boom from an old 35-ft. sprayer to form both sides of the frame, then welded 2 1/2 ft. of pipe onto each section to lengthen the frame’s sides to 20 ft. He used 10-ft. lengths of 1 1/2-in. dia. pipe to form the frame ends.
  The frame is held together at the corners by welded-on 2 by 6-in. pipes. He welded more of the pipes onto the frame at intervals to form pockets for the hoops, and drilled 5/16-in. dia. holes into the pockets to pin the hoops on. The spray boom’s caster wheels fit into brackets that he welded onto 2 of the pockets.
  “It works great. I use it to store lumber that I cut with my sawmill and also to store my car and lawn mower,” says Bergesen. “It’s light enough that I can even move it by hand. I remove the wheels and set the frame flat on the ground after moving it to a new location.”
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Arnold Bergesen, P.O. Box 827, Rimbey, Alberta Canada T0C 2J0 (ph 403 843-6096).



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