Tight-Fitting Fabric Door For Low-Cost Canvas Barns
 ✖  |
"It rolls up or down on a track like a garage door and seals tight against the building so it won't flap around in the wind," says Conrad Klassen, Altona, Manitoba, about his winch-operated canvas end doors for low-cost fabric-type shelters.
The 16-ft. wide canvas door rides up or down on a pair of vertical steel tracks. The fabric sections have pockets for a series of 2-in. dia. horizontal steel pipes spaced 2 ft. apart. Both ends of the pipes are fitted with bushings and rollers that travel up or down the tracks. Steel cable threaded through a hand-cranked winch raises and lowers the door.
One person can operate it no matter how strong the wind. "It works much better than other doors for low-cost shelters because the tracks keep it sealed tight against the building. There's no need to strap the door down or nail it shut," says Klassen. "If installed correctly, it'll last many years longer than conventional doors. I've used this system for two years on my own shelters and I wouldn't use anything else. The canvas should overlap 6 in. on each side of the door opening in order to get the tightest seal possible.
"On a livestock building, you can set the door up to lower from the top down so that in winter you can open it part way and pro-vide fresh air without having cold air blow directly onto the animals. Another advantage is that by keeping the top of the building cold any condensation that forms will freeze instead of dripping down onto the animals."
The door material and track are avail-able in 4 or 5-ft. lengths allowing you to enclose any size opening. It comes in semi-transparent, silver black, or silver white col-ors. A kit for a 12-ft. high door sells for $400 (Canadian); a kit for a 15-ft. high door sells for $500 (Canadian). Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Conrad Klassen, Box 389, Altona, Manitoba, Canada R0G 0B0 (ph 204 324-1283).
Click here to download page story appeared in.
Click here to read entire issue
Tight-Fitting Fabric Door For Low-Cost Canvas Barns LIVESTOCK Buildings 20-5-37 "It rolls up or down on a track like a garage door and seals tight against the building so it won't flap around in the wind," says Conrad Klassen, Altona, Manitoba, about his winch-operated canvas end doors for low-cost fabric-type shelters.
The 16-ft. wide canvas door rides up or down on a pair of vertical steel tracks. The fabric sections have pockets for a series of 2-in. dia. horizontal steel pipes spaced 2 ft. apart. Both ends of the pipes are fitted with bushings and rollers that travel up or down the tracks. Steel cable threaded through a hand-cranked winch raises and lowers the door.
One person can operate it no matter how strong the wind. "It works much better than other doors for low-cost shelters because the tracks keep it sealed tight against the building. There's no need to strap the door down or nail it shut," says Klassen. "If installed correctly, it'll last many years longer than conventional doors. I've used this system for two years on my own shelters and I wouldn't use anything else. The canvas should overlap 6 in. on each side of the door opening in order to get the tightest seal possible.
"On a livestock building, you can set the door up to lower from the top down so that in winter you can open it part way and pro-vide fresh air without having cold air blow directly onto the animals. Another advantage is that by keeping the top of the building cold any condensation that forms will freeze instead of dripping down onto the animals."
The door material and track are avail-able in 4 or 5-ft. lengths allowing you to enclose any size opening. It comes in semi-transparent, silver black, or silver white col-ors. A kit for a 12-ft. high door sells for $400 (Canadian); a kit for a 15-ft. high door sells for $500 (Canadian). Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Conrad Klassen, Box 389, Altona, Manitoba, Canada R0G 0B0 (ph 204 324-1283).
To read the rest of this story, download this issue below or click
here to register with your account number.
