Update on the doors, we got them off the trailer this morning and did a quick measurement. They are apparently custom, one is 11' 8" the other is 12' 6" in width. Height is currently unknown until I get a chance to sort the track pieces.

 

Will you have two openings? If so, where? And the larger door will be the main one?

 

Both on the North (front) wall, it was always planned to have two garage doors and one walk-in. It will be nearer the center so it will provide good access to the lift once it is installed.

 

Good idea. I like having the lift lined up with the door so I can back a trailer in and pick things off it with the lift.

 

Due to the door dimensions, and the fact that the lift pads were poured with the floor, it will not be exactly in line. My lift will not be the drive-on type that you have, mine will be a frame lift so I can do brake and suspension work on it.

 

Mine isn't drive-on. I originally thought I wanted one of those, but am 125% sure that would have been a big mistake given the amount of suspension and brake work I've done. Not to mention trying to get a tranny under the ramp.

 

Ok, I thought looking at the pictures that yours had the tracks the wheels rolled onto.

 

After talking to Kyle's (first today's) friend and doing some further digging I found the operators are Overhead Door Model L units, the numbers stamped on them would have been the order number. After some measurements, I found they are even bigger than Donnie thought, one is 11' 8" wide and the other 12' 6" wide, height appears to be around 14' 6". Openings were probably 11' 6" X 14' 6" and 12' 4" X 14' 6". I will be shortening the height of one or both.

Now I need to find some structural requirements for the wall, the angles that attach them are 3 1/2 X 3 X 1/4, currently 16' 7" long or high depending on whether they are on the ground or attached to a wall.

 

Those big doors. And that's heavy angle. Any guess on what they weigh?

 

Are you still going for 10x10 and 10x8 doors?
If that is an 8' step ladder the building is probably 16' at the peak???

 

Jim, 16' 11 7/8" at the bottom of the troughs and 17' 9 5/8" at the peak.

 

I would bet everything we had on the trailer was probably between 2000-2500 lbs. I will definitely be shortening the height of them Gary.

 

But the operators will still be heavy duty. They should easily be able to handle shorter doors. You scored big time.

 

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Signed, Project Engineer

 

Glad to know I have a project engineer, now if he'll just do something...