Sliding Double Doors Kept Shut With Ammunition Box

Sliding Double Doors Kept Shut With Ammunition Box BUILDINGS Accessories 24-5-39 Leonard Seltzer, Manhattan, Ill.: "The sliding double doors on my Morton machine shed open from the middle and would rattle around in the wind. To hold the doors in place I tried using a truck tire filled with concrete, but it weighed about 850 lbs. and was a hassle to move. "To solve the problem I bought a used ammunition box at a gun show, filled it with concrete, and set it on a two-wheeled hand truck. To hold the doors shut I place the box against the inside of the doors. It weighs about 230 lbs. "The wooden box measures 1 ft. wide, 44 in. long and about 8 in. high. After filling the box with concrete I put a 3/4 in. dia. loop of rebar into the center of the concrete before it hardened. A nylon ratchet strap runs from the loop about 3 ft. up to the onside door handles. This strap will help keep the doors from flopping around in windy conditions. "I nailed a small chunk of 3/4-in. thick plywood under each end of the box so that the box sits off the ground far enough for me to get the hand truck under it.. I leave the hand truck with the weight most of the time. Whenever I want to open the doors, I simply unhook the strap from the door handles and hand truck to move the weight away. You can buy these old ammunition boxes at gun shows for only about $5 apiece."

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