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Let the door fun begin--this is the nerve racking part of it all for me. I spent a good hour reading the "what to do" info and once I took some measurements and clamped the rails into place it started to make sense. As soon as I know the rails are right I need to make some upper support brackets and then the door will be ready to hang...
 

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My understanding is
4"x4" is good for a 4'-6' span
4"x6" is good for a 6'-8' span
4"x8" = 8'-10'
and so on..........

I am by no means even close to a carpenter, I don't even play one on tv.:redneck:
 
What a good productive day..

Started by making these friday night. As silly as it sounds it feels damn good to finally make something--even if its for the doors,lol.
 

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Here is where one of those lazer levels would have come in handy. Trying to level 2 points a lil over 9ft is not that simple. I luckily had one piece of tube left just long enough that was pretty damn close to straight.
 

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And now the time to hang the doors. Using the tractor helped a ton--we were able to get it within 2ft.
 

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So thanks to help from nowires and a couple other buddies we got them in place. It took me a few hours to get them adjusted but they are finally up.

It amazing how much different the building looks now after 6 years of just a open front of the shop..

So up early again and work on getting them wired and make them 100% function able...

really getting excited as its starting to get close to being ready to use...
 

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I got the manual door stuff all mounted. Each door has a manual release lever that disengages the motor from the door and a chain hoist.
 

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Door controls. I will recommend these doors to anybody they run smooth and very quiet...
 

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Time for some creature comforts. My phone wasn't cutting it for music anymore. I dug out some stuff I had stored away for the shop and got it setup. 6 speakers up in the ceiling and man I can really fill the place with sound--nice not having anybody remotely close...
 

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Time to start the bench.......
 

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So tonight I got the frame all done. All 3 legs are mounted to the floor with the center leg mount doing double duty. Since I do allot of solo work I often drag rigs in/out of the shop so I made the center leg mount double as a winch mount.
 

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