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| | | Re: portable "instant" garages.... any decent? | Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 3,565 pooh-bah | OP pooh-bah Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 3,565 | Remember, you get what you pay for.... Don't want a weak canopy over your van exactly my concern of the 3/4" pole one.... but on the plus side, there seems to be a lot of choices out there....
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| | | Re: portable "instant" garages.... any decent? | Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 1,286 | Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 1,286 | Shelter Logic makes a good product. Pricey but very solid (but stay away from the 2 car wide ones in heavy snow country) heres one heres another and another | | | Re: portable "instant" garages.... any decent? | Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 3,001 pooh-bah | pooh-bah Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 3,001 | It would depend on the kind of Snow, Wet, Dry whether or not rain or freezing rain preceded the snow. I've seen a few collaspe. I would have to see one in person first, thats alot of money for temporary shelter.
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| | | Re: portable "instant" garages.... any decent? | Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 6,502 Li'l Blue Wagon | Li'l Blue Wagon Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 6,502 | | | | Re: portable "instant" garages.... any decent? | Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 3,565 pooh-bah | OP pooh-bah Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 3,565 | Thanks Dodges3.... I was hoping you'd say what kind yours was... I know you hung your roof from it during the chop, so I figured it was pretty strong. I actually found out I have a 9'x16' garage-sized shed on the property. I thought it was smaller from the pics... but man is it shaky. Still a bit small for the big van, so I think I'll still go for a portable till I get that puppy fixed!
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| | | Re: portable "instant" garages.... any decent? | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 7,003 carpal tunnel | carpal tunnel Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 7,003 | from the looks of it Josh, I would just demolish that lean too... and build a real garage or use one of those portable shelters... If that thing gets much of a ice or snow build-up on it, its goin do w n n n n ! LOL | | | Re: portable "instant" garages.... any decent? | Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 2,825 veteran | veteran Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 2,825 | [IMG] http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g156/heavy389/PortableShelter008.jpg[/IMG All depends on what ya want, Got this for $2K it 26'wide,30'deep,and 14' center height,has 2 roll up doors,made of 2 1/2" sch40 pipe,very heavy 3ply tarp w/15 yr war,had for 2 winters now,gets covered with snow,but when I fire up turbo heater it slides right off,only complaint I have is with zippers! going to convert to reg roll up doors next summer!
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| | | Re: portable "instant" garages.... any decent? | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,463 Likes: 12 pooh-bah | pooh-bah Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,463 Likes: 12 | Wow Heavy389, that's pretty sweet! Even has skylights.
I'd never have guessed that was 2" pipe in the picture - that's one huge shelter! That big pipe can really hold up... my Grandfather's 2" oil well pipe is still intact after being outdoors for more than 40 years - and it wasn't galvanized.
How tall does the roll-up door you mentioned open?
The thing with these shelters that I haven't been able to get all squared away is the size ratios.
Since I have a Maxi van, I think I'd need about 24-26 feet long.
I'd like enough room to freely move around the sides, like for bodywork and painting, so I'm thinking 12-14 feet wide. The 12 feet in Dodges3's looks sort of tight though, especially with the sloped sides. Square sides with a high ceiling would be best for me.
The door opening needs to be really tall, like if the end on Dodges3's came clear off... My van needs a little over 7 feet of door clearance due to the wing & vent. I haven't found high entrances in the 12-14 foot widths.
I've played with the sizing tables at several of the shelter websites, and there seems to be a hole between pickup truck size and RV/motorhome size... and the prices skyrocket unreasonably and they get enormously long in the RV/motorhome sizes.
In the end, as sweet as they are, I really don't *need* a massive permanent type unit like what Heavy's got, or even what Dodges3's got - the portable ones would be sufficient for me, since I'd only use the shelter occasionally, like for painting or big mechanical jobs.
I've actually considered just getting one of the large erectable shelters like folks are using at eVants and draping plastic or tarps down the sides... they'd at least have flat, open entrances and vertical sides rather than barn type curves.
Has anyone here found or tried something like that? I've seen pictures of some Vanners who had their vans under such shelters at eVants, but I don't know who they were to ask for their sources and any pros/cons experiences.
I guess like so much else about my van, it may be necessary to go custom! LOL...
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-It's been such a LONG TIME... BlueShift>> 1981 Dodge Ram B250 Custom Sportsman Maxi Van It's what you learn after you know it all, that counts... Are you living to work, or working to live? Learning from my own mistakes is good, learning from yours would be much better! | | | Re: portable "instant" garages.... any decent? | Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 1,286 | Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 1,286 | I had a double wide(24 x24x 12H) ShelterLogic at my parent's place, it was great for doing work in. I could park 2 vans in it, or pull one out, park in the center and walk around the van. But it had such a large span without center posts that a heavy snow brought it down, and it was built with 3" pipe, augers in the ground, everything. In hind sight I should have put in temporary center posts for the winters. Insurance paid for some of the loss, but I bought a house and can't afford a big one anymore, they do get exponentially more expensive as the size grows.
The 12 x 20 x 12H I've got now is just to park the van for the winter, you can barely open the doors in the 12 foot width. But it was much cheaper and seems very sturdy. I think I paid 500 through BJ's Wholesale but they don't have that size anymore. They do have some others though. The membership fee will pay for itself in the savings. | | |
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