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Oil Well Pipe Used To Build Solid, Inexpensive Shed
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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2013 - Volume #37, Issue #4