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A few pics of my shop.

I put up that EXACT same tent with a former co-worker/friend of mine last year RIGHT before Sandy hit. He was on a lagoon, high wind constantly, and you could imagine the storm. He came home to a wrecked house but said the tent was perfect still!

His former one had lasted 10yrs and was still not in bad shape. Theyre a great thing for people that dont want or cant put up a permanent structure.
 
Pretty awesome! Are you worried about anybody cutting a hole in the tent and stealing things? It seems like theft could be a problem with that.
 
I keep my tools in the little room, but yes its always a concern. I have multiple stay at home neighbors keeping watch during the day and a .32 caliber and a 12 guage keeping watch at night :D
 
With all the poles you could probably put of some kind of plywood paneling and mount it to the poles to protect from just cutting into it. May be kind of scabbed together but you could do a clean job of it I'd think. I would be very parinoid. I'd HAVE to put up some more solid wall protection. Even if it's just bolted up. Will keep the grab and run scum out at least.
 
That soft sided building would be laughing stock of the criminals out here, no offense OP. We have stick built structures with stucco on the outside and steel doors with good windows and still worry about break ins. That looks like a nice building but it wouldn't fly for me.
 
The key for me is insurance, documentation, insurance, good neighbors, insurance, guns and did I mention insurance.

While my neighbors across the street from me are terribly getto and I cant stand it, they always have 5 people at home all the time. I stay in all my neighbors graces buy airing up theyre tires if they need it, loaning them my lawn mower, shoot even giving one of them dryer sheets at 10pm at night. For these reasons I feel more sequre in the this shop than I have in others where theft wouldn't be a issue.

bottom line if someone wants something bad enough, they are going to get it.
 
twoslo4five0 said:
bottom line if someone wants something bad enough, they are going to get it.
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That's why I don't lock my vehicles anymore after some a hole busted my ex gf's window one night here. If somebody wants something, take it. I don't like replacing windows and vacuuming out the shards for hours.
 
Deuling said:
That's why I don't lock my vehicles anymore after some a hole busted my ex gf's window one night here. If somebody wants something, take it. I don't like replacing windows and vacuuming out the shards for hours.
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I'm with you there. I used to have my 79 in a smaller version of those tents at my grandfathers old shop. Found it one day with the lock cylinder all smashed up and wires pulled apart. Should have left the keys in it so they could have found out the easy way the battery was dead. :haha:
 
Richcz28 said:
Should have left the keys in it so they could have found out the easy way the battery was dead. :haha:
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HAHAHA! I love it! We went out to Texas to pick up my fathers old Caprice wagon and tow it back to Alabama. I was worried about the bad gas sitting in it since it hadn't been driven in 5 years. When we got it home we found the gas tank was empty. I hope those thieves sucked out all that bad gas and clogged their injectors.

One of the coolest looking shops I've ever seen was made out of a big salvage plane hull cut in half. It had about the same dimensions as your shop. They just poured a pad and bolted it to the ground. Then close in the ends. You might be able to throw that on your pad pretty cheap?
 
When the tarp goes, I will side it in with steel. I think (don't have all my receipts) im in the ball park of 10k for everything involved right now. That's damn good. I got a lot of good deals along the way though.
 
Figured id update, In a few days I will be at the 2 year mark and the shop is still standing strong. We usually don't get snow but got about 6 inches at a time here once this year and some ice and had no issues (other than it was damn cold in there).
 
A guy I know had one of those similar to this given to him,after the tarp cover shredded badly after 10 years...owner decided it was time for a "real" permanent taxable garage....

The guy used the steel metal from a old swimming pool to cover the arches,he saw some pools on craigslist for free so he went and dissassembled them carefully so as not to muckle up the metal,he rolled it up like carpet ,and duct taped it so it couldn't unroll,to get it in his pickup and home...there is at least one "free pool" ad here daily on craigslist,a lot of new home buyers simply want them gone!..or ones that no longer have kids or can use & maintain them want to be rid of it..

His arches were round like pipes,he used 2" conduit "U" clamps to attach 2x4's across the outside of the arches for purlins,and put the metal from the pool on them, with those self drilling screws with the rubber washer heads on them...it survived last winters 8+ feet of snow and several 60 mph storms !..he made wooden endwalls out of 2x4's and OSB boards from pallets he also found for free on craigslist..

I just score about 60 feet of old swimming pool steel myself about a month ago,and wish I could get more of it..--all epoxy coated.it'll never rust,its 11 years old and still looks new--I hope to be able to put it over the plywood end walls on my quonset garage,that are starting to rot a bit at the bottoms and always have paint peeling off them --it'll be permanent metal siding that will outlive me probably..

I got lucky and found a person who had the pool taken down and was fairly careful about rolling it up,then the person he hired decided only the non ferrous metal was work scrapping--he never came back for the steel..I do not think I'd want the job of taking one apart,especially in summer heat,I doubt I could do it...
 
We are hopeful by the time this one is ready to shred we will be out of here. We are hoping to move in the next few years and the shop will stay. We are going to buy 5-10 acres, build a 3-4000 sq foot home and I'm building a 60x100x14 or 16 shop. I already have it picked out
 
twoslo4five0 said:
We are hopeful by the time this one is ready to shred we will be out of here. We are hoping to move in the next few years and the shop will stay. We are going to buy 5-10 acres, build a 3-4000 sq foot home and I'm building a 60x100x14 or 16 shop. I already have it picked out
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I told you, move up here and buy my inlaws property.....30 acres of woods, 30' x 40' shop, low taxes, and best of all......Me as a neighbor. :doah:
 
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