Hockey's Garage

[hockey930]

Hey Everyone,
I have a "2 car" garage with low ceilings that I am doing some small modifications to in order to install a Maxjax lift in.
The garage is a total of 25 feet wide (20ft of sliding doors) and about a 5ft area to put lawn equipment on the right side.

There are currently 4 collar ties running across the garage at a height of about 82 inches.
The lift has a max pad height of 45 inches and my volvo v70r is about 55 inches from the jacking points to the top of the roof racks. I need 100 inches of room and to be safe have decided that the new collar ties should be about 106 inches up.
This is the only picture I can find that shows about how much height I am dealing with.

I know I will be making the structure weaker when I move the collar ties up so I have decided to put in 8 instead of the 4 that were there.

The way the garage is built, the A frame sits on top of the original collar ties so I am going to have to keep part of them in place. Next up will be installing vertical braces from the old collar ties to the new ones.
Just for reference the new collar ties are 2x6x16 with just the angle cut into each side, which leaves about 14 ft of wood that you can see.

Wifemobile

 

[Kevin54]

Hockey.....I hate to say, but your pics didn't show up.

 

[Greg85mcss]

I can see the one before I click on the topic but can't see them when I opened it. I'm trying to figure out what to build & was really interested in seeing the sliding doors.


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[hockey930]

sorry guys, I will work on this.
*I think they should works now, I used to be able to link images straight from google photos, I guess now you have to share the pics first and then copy the url, I guess it makes sense.

 

[hockey930]

As far as the sliders, here are some pictures of the original sliders. There are two tracks that run all of the way across and two 10ft doors. I currently have a post in the middle of the doors which is going to have to move and become 2 posts, leaving me about a 10 foot opening in the middle of the garage. My goal is to be able to put the lift in the middleish of the garage.
My plan is to buy more trolley rollers and cut both of these doors in half vertically which would leave me with 4 5ft doors. The back door would get pushed to each side and then the front door would be in the middle and I would side each 5 ft section to the side. Here is a crappy sketch of what I am trying to describe.

Here is a picture of the new stanley trolleys I bought from amazon for about $30 a set.

http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-National-Hardware-N112-102-Trolley/dp/B0002YSIX0?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00

 

[hockey930]

I was able to get the rest of the bracing up and cut out the collar ties.
Garage appears to still be standing ;-)

 

[sneakyfast]

Hey bro not much for me to add of value but just wanted to let you know that I am in Charlotte also...southeast almost in Matthews. Love this city.

 

[Pig In A Poke]

Nice move!

 

[Styx]

Nice place there... Keep the pictures coming...
I was just down in Charlotte a few weeks ago for training (pineville??? I think it was) very nice place. Such friendly people... Longhorn steak house rocked...lol...