Oil Well Pipe Used To Build Solid, Inexpensive Shed

Oil Well Pipe Used To Build Solid Inexpensive Shed BUILDINGS Miscellaneous Sonny Barcus is proud of the 24 by 24-ft workshop he built for less than $3 000 On the outside it looks like a typical metal shed with an overhead door The inside framing reveals how he saved money “I used 1 1/2-in oil well pipe that I bought for 20 cents/ft ” Barcus says “And I split an I-beam from an old house trailer to weld pieces to screw boards to ” He built the walls flat on the ground welding pipe studs 4 ft apart He did the same for the rafters Then using a tractor ropes and bracing to lift and hold the walls in place he welded the sections together The 1/2-in plywood on the wall was recycled from pallets Barcus “decorated” with calendar pictures of cars and tractors The windows came from an old school bus - appropriate because he was a tour bus driver “I’m happy as heck with it ” Barcus says noting he spends a lot of time in the building working on a variety of woodwork and fixit projects With 13-ft walls he can bring in tall equipment to work on Since he built it the price of steel has come up he notes so his timing was good as was his talent for finding materials to recycle Also key to keeping costs down were his friends Jeff Watson “Buckwheat” Fortney Mark Frick and Brian Babcock who poured the concrete in exchange for a good meal Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Sonny Barcus 18810 C R 18 Warsaw Ohio 43844 ph 740 202-5375

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