How To Safely Take Down Barn Doors

Then take off the clamps or the locking pliers and slowly close the door.

How to safely take down barn doors.

See figure 1 you can now release the cables and take off the springs without any trouble or danger. All we are looking to do is keep the doors locked there are 3 in total on the front and they are side sliding. Compilation time lapse and video taken while tearing down an old barn on my property. Open the door completely and block it in this position with clamps or locking pliers firmly tightened to the track to prevent the door from closing.

They where built out of salvage oil field sucker rod but cold rolled rod from the iron supply should work as well. Sliding doors on a pole barn add functionality and maneuverability to the entrance. Step 2 work backwards. One big challenge was to figure out how to safely deconstruct the barn.

Rather than just knocking your barn down it is best to approach the job in the reverse order of how the barn was constructed. If the wood is free of rot and damage it could either be sold as reclaimed wood or used to build a new barn or structure. Amazingly almost everything was a hardwood. The 2 end doors slide to the center and the center one slides over the end door on the right.

Probably 98 of it was oak poplar walnut or cypress. Use your screwdriver to remove all the hinges and other fittings. Cousins of mine tore down a wooden grain elevator man was i glad it was too far away for my dad to volunteer me. Solid dependable doors are necessary to allow you to enter and exit the building and when they re closed they provide a secure environment for the structure s interior and contents.

So its getting worse and we are now looking to secure out pole barn. Rest the bottom pivot into the jamb and insert the snugger guide also known as the roller into the top track. There is a crescent brand of nail puller that pull nails driven flush to the wood you can get behind to pry loose. We roughly worked from the top down keeping just enough stability so it stayed upright but causing just enough weakness to pull down whole walls at once.

Gently hammer the pivots into the pre existing holes then align the pivots into the top track bracket. Start by removing the windows and barn doors.