Technical Anybody build a quonset type building for a shop??

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I have only driven by the show yard. Now that I have seen the website, I may have to actually go by and see them in person.

 

I was looking into one like they have in your first link. Side walls are high enough that you don't have that old half a culvert look that we equate with the old military quonset huts from WWII that you still sometimes see.
A guy put one up about 30 miles from me that I saw go up when I drove past there a few times. Looked stout as the panels have those big ribs in them. It took him a while because I think he was fitting a couple of hoops together and waiting for help to set them up and going again rather than bolt them all together an then put it all up at once. One of those cordless impact drivers they use on those diy shows would be great to have too.
Not a bad idea in that part of Kansas not only for the quick setup but bolted down right it should stand up to most any storm that blows though.

 

A bud of mine was moving to Arizona, sold his house with a metal building attached to his garage. Building was a quonset-type, 3" steel pipe arches, 25' X 25'. Open at the end that joined the garage.
He gifted it to me, (Lodi officials said it comes down, or no sale) lent me his car trailer to bring it home. (85 miles one way, 2 trips.)
Younger wife and I disassembled it and loaded it onto the lowboy trailer, pulled it behind my F100... This was in 2007.
Poured a 25' X 25' slab, laid out the perimeter 2" angle iron, and I used my cherry picker with an add-on boom and a '53 Merc long block on the back, for ballast.
Picked up the assembled arches (3 piece each) and lifted them and plugged them onto the angle iron welded-on stubs. (4" high)
I raised the first roof panel and attached it with the numbered panel where it came off; the arches were also numbered.
My bud had an extra arch from the doubled ones at the garage attachment.
This allowed me to extend the length another 5 feet, a local gent sells panels, new & used...I bought 4 used ones, had plenty to wall in the previously 'garage' open end.

My wife (125 lbs.) went up top and attached ALL the running panels over and down to 6 feet above ground. (2,000+ screws filled their previous holes, and Joey drove every one of 'em in with her small DeWalt 18 volt driver.
I finished most of the rest, she even helped there!

On the concrete:
Out of town contractor was building the LARGE school behind us, I talked with the Superintendent and he suggested taking down 20 feet of my new back fence. The concrete company could bring (my designated) concrete truck thru, pouring directly into my forms! The concrete dispatcher I talked to sounded exactly like actor Joe Montegno! Another 'plus'... Fact that my truck was in the 'caravan' to the school job, the Dispatcher came out around noon to say hello, and see this unusual delivery.
He asked me if the Super and I were friends or neighbors, I said "No, but I wish I had some more neighbors like him! ...And that goes for you, too!"
This truck was one of 20 trips each day...(mine was the 6th in line that day, backed in and extended the trough...my 3 hired concrete guys finished in 2 hours. (super smooth finish, 'office specs'!)
All in all, concrete truck (11 yds. delivered, 2 trucks) $950.00, plus $300 for my concrete guys.
Most negative thing: the day before the forms were completed, my lovely wife dipped her hand on my large table saw while cutting some 2 X 4s, 'ZANG!' -her right index finger was hanging by its tip...She screamed, (only once) I was there in a flash...
Wrapped it up in a clean handkerchief, laid rubber rushing to receiving hospital...they did a quick bandage, sent me to the regular hospital in Merced.
15 minutes later, Joey had an injection, was laughing with the doc and 2 nurses...She was joking about the 'ignorant saw'. "If it was paying attention, it woulda grabbed the other hand...it didn't notice I'm a leftie!" Saved the fingertip, but it's 'tingly'...
A week later, she drove 2,000 some screws in on the roof, and downside some...
Glad I met her, 42 years ago.
I could never be this lucky again.

 

Hello,

When we were teenagers, one of my friends was a great fiberglass finisher of shaped, foam surfboard blanks. His shop was located near the Clay Smith Cam Shop a few blocks from our house in the Westside of Long Beach. There was a small regular industrial building with an office and supplies. Then next door was a real metal Quonset hut for the actual fiberglass layers and the final gloss coating for the longboards.
similar look
The door was sealed, the windows were there, but from the inside, were boarded up for being air tight. The reason for being air tight was the minimal dust floating around when the resin coats were applied after the sanding phase. Even during the fiberglass cloth laying stage, the windows needed to be boarded up and no fan running at all. Dust motes did make extra work on the final layers of resin.

Plus, when the fiberglass layers were finished, they needed to be sanded outside in the lot between the buildings and Quonset hut. That dust sticks to everything, including the finish guy…my friend. He had a system going, after the sanding phase, he changed his clothes to a clean set for the final glossing stage. That way no fiberglass shards or dust motes would get on the gloss coats. Somehow, he was immune to the dreaded fiberglass sanding “ITCH!” (He also hosed himself off to get the fiberglass dust off of everything, before entering the glossing area)

But, that Quonset hut, once sealed and the mixture of catalyst/resin was mixed, became a hot house. In the winter time, there was no insulation and my friend had to wear a jacket while finishing the hundreds of surfboards in that hut. It was hot in the summer, and freezing in the winter. I glossed several boards, including my own. It was great, as it saved me some valuable money for professional finishing. But, the working conditions were awful inside of that Quonset hut. After the finished boards were dry, we turned on a portable fan to get the fumes out of the Quonset hut.

Jnaki

No one can work happily in a sweating environment while doing a build or just wrenching stuff on the hot rods. In that industrial complex, there were other fiberglass builders, like spraying boat hulls, making structures for industry, etc. The final fumigation of the dried products, came this wall of fumes that we smelled every day at our house, when the prevailing West Winds blew across the industrial tract and onto our homes. That was not good.

My friend is gone, now, but may have been influenced by cigarettes or these nasty fumes that he inhaled (even with a double filtered, industrial mask). It can never be proven as to the long lasting effects of inhaling the fumes or smoking cigarettes on his daily break. (We were wearing masks from 1961-64, even though there was no mandatory mask wearing in public to slow the pandemic...)

If you decide to get those modern metal Quonset huts, I hope they have some insulation to keep the temperature even and pleasant. Even the new ones don’t mention any kind of insulation or air filtering.

 

Here's a pic of my 25x40 building in Az. that came with the property I purchased when I retired. Thought it would be large enough but it filled up in a hurry. Ended up buying a shipping container to help with the overflow. Two post hoist just barely fits inside. Noisy inside when the wind howls and can get hot inside when the temps hit 100*. Still better than the 2 car garage I moved from