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Originally Posted by unclebilly (Post 11585876)

I am not a believer in these temporary storage buildings…

In the first winter on my farm, I didn’t have a shop (or a house for that matter). It was a BRUTAL winter. Lots of -40 and lots of snow. We had 2 monthly power bills over $1000 for heating our trailer.

I thought I was a smart guy and parked my beloved 911s in those temporary garages.

One morning, while out clearing snow with my backhoe, I made an odd observation… I could see my car. How is this possible? It’s parked in the shelter. Where the F is the shelter?

In a windstorm the night before, those base plates the hold the verticals to the boards that were attached to 2x12s that the car was parked on broke one by one. As each broke, the steel vertical support flapped back and forth in the wind and beat the 5hit out of my 911. It looked like a scorned exlover took a baseball bat to it.

Ouch!

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I now park some of my cars in sea cans. You can get 3 cars into a 53’ seacan. You can fit 3 air cooled cars in a 45’ sea can.

The sea cans are rodent proof.

Learn from my expensive mistake - Get a sea can.

I'd never heard 'em called that. I like it, "sea can."

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Originally Posted by unclebilly (Post 11586028)

Oh and a few days later, we did find the remains of the building about a mile away in my neighbour’s field. It looked like an experimental plane crash.

Costco took it back…

Wow!

Similar to Uncle Billy's story, in 2013 I put up two fabric buildings, one for hay we were selling, the other for equipment. I remember thinking the ends were weak and I should build solid ends and doors to improve the structures. Coulda shoulda woulda.
In March '14 we got hammered by a Nor' Easter. When I looked out in the morning, the structure for hay was flat(we'd sold it all) and the other sort of took the profile of the baler, mower and rake. The anchors held, the force of the wind just bent the 2" tubing. I salvaged enough to make a 12' × 12' woodshed, but it has solid ends.
Live and learn.

Best
Les