Animal Shelter needs advice: How would you install a steel garage door as a roof over an outdoor kennel?
We have nine steel pipe kennels to do, each 10' X 10', so we need to do this the easiest/quickest/cheapest way. The garage doors (donated to us) have a minimal metal framework and we want to mount them about 2 feet higher on one side to act as a shed roof. Our question is how to get them secured on that side to the kennels, which are made of steel tube 1.5" ID open-ended verticals. If you can come up with a way to do this quick/easy with recycled materials, so much the better. Thanks in advance for your advice.
wrote: Animal Shelter needs advice: How would you install a steel garage door as a roof over an outdoor kennel? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This sounds like a worthy cause. Where are you located? If you are within a reasonable distance, I will volunteer to help. I have portable welding and metal cutting equipment, some power woodworking tools. If you are out of my range, I hope someone with similar tools and interests will jump in.
Getting some volunteer labor from this group would be the easiest solution.
Beyond that I would say use muffler clamps to grab the pipe and to hold some angle iron. Without seeing the project and doors it is hard to say how to connect to the garage doors. I would try muffler shops. You might get some friendly person to not cut off clamps and give them to you.
have you seen the doors ? They are Heavy. I have 4 such doors on my metal building - and they are running in C channel IIRC. As a roof, they should be tilted in the two directions for water runoff. e.g. down towards the back/front and also to one side a little. Look at it for certain before planning. Maybe a talk with a local metal building company/contractor might open up something in ideas or else.
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Gunner, raises his hand to volunteer as he lives in Taft, and works in LA, and has all sorts of Stuff and all sorts of networks to get Stuff from, and runs his own impromptu cattery in Taft..unfortunately..sigh
Call me at 805-732-5308 anytime and Ill be glad to swing by and see what I can do for yall.
"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.
Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner
We uns here in the Valley are big on BBQs on wheels...so why not a portable cat bbq?
Cat..the other white meat.
Gunner, scheduled to go there Saturday.
"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.
Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner
(I was about to add "Or I'll hunt YOU down and put YOUR ass on a spit, and see how YOU like it..." but about two seconds later the terms "NRA Life Member" and Ex-LEO popped into my head, and suddenly that didn't sound like such a good idea anymore. But you understand the sentiment, I hope.)
I'm at a fenced Condo complex in Northridge today hunting down and resetting light timers, and it's drizzling nicely. And I run across an Apricot Tom who says Prrrrrrt!! ( 'Hello!' ) and I get the initial introductions and pleasantries out of the way /real/ quick, and right to the Leg Rub - this is an Indoor Cat who happens to be running around Outdoors.
The collar has a tag, with name phone number and an address - but no unit number on a 4-unit building. And I forgot my Cell. So I asked him "Okay, which one is your house?" a few times, and he headed off towards the correct building. I followed him up the walk to an intersection. He stopped, and I and asked again, he made a left. Asked again at the top of the steps, and he picked the door on the left. Right back to his front door.
Ring... Ring... (And he starts stretching on the door, almost to the doorknob... Right place!) The door opens, and a nice lady looks down as he pops inside.
"How did you know which house was his?"
"I asked him." (Like, Duh!) ;-P "He led me right here. Oh, you might want to put the unit number on the tag for next time, most people don't know to ask."
"But I called him and he wouldn't come back in!"
"Well, he didn't want to, especially since it was /your/ idea. Now it starts drizzling again, and suddenly going back inside his nice warm house starts sounding like a good idea. And Boy, he's sure glad he thought of it."
Moral: People have dogs. Cats have Staff.
The sooner the People involved figure that out, the better. And then you can save a lot of money on Psychiatrists...
Cats were once worshipped as gods. They have never forgotten this and make great effort to reinstitute that status. But most will settle for mere instant obedience from humans.
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:08:47 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner quickly quoth:
After your remark? Got a death wish?
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On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:08:48 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Bruce L. Bergman quickly quoth:
--snip of great story--
More truth: Dogs come when you call. Cats have answering machines. Get used to it.
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You of course, are aware that I rescue cats, are you not? Need any? Ive about 20 floating around the property, some ferals, most handleable. And of course down here in Ontario..I feed about 8 here in the RV park..most of which are ferals, but they come to my RV twice a day. There is a big black, white footed male thats currently stretched out in my lap. He is the local Welcome Wagon..as he brings strays, abandoned cats/kits to my place and introduces them to me. He will circle my legs, making come hither sounds to the newcomer and sit beside me, or nudge the newbie in my direction for a formal introduction. Its fascinating to watch him bring in a 3/4 starved kitten and show his new bud, the feeders and automatic waterers, and make sure the others dont screw with him/her.
The sound of my truck is distinctive, as when I come home at night at the park..I can see cats jumping fences, and dashing down the alleyways, the moment I clear the front gates, and all be lined up waiting for me as I back the truck in to its parking spot.
Besides..I know that if the Big One hits...Ive got a handy food supply that brings itself to me.
Gunner
"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.
Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner
The only concern about my safety that I have..is if I bring yet again..another cat home, and the wife cuts off my dick.
Walst she had me cornered one day..Big Bobbit Butcher knife in hand...stareing wildly between me and the newest stray....I did mention I could be bringing girl friends home instead of homeless cats. Oddly enough...this didnt mollify her much........
Gunner
Gunner
"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.
Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner
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