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 01-07-2007, 21:09 Post: 138528
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Frank that's 50 lb. per sq. ft. load rating---you can't load up one side with 80,000 lb. and nothing on the other---it's gotta be distrubuted to no moe than 50 lb. per sq.ft.

I guessitmated that the large Gator or whatever it's called takes up about 32 sq. ft. of floor space and weighs about 2000 lb.

If so you're already over the design weight by 400 lb. And I didn't take into consideration the actual footprint of the vehicle tires which exterts weight in 4 concentrated areas.






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 01-08-2007, 15:31 Post: 138567
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Frank hopefully you're in good hands. I can't count how many times I've seen homes here in 'sippi that have had some or most of the floor blown out including the subfloor and joists due to the floor being over stressed with flood water that couldn't escape fast enough. Same is true where the flood water rose too fast and it pushed the floors up a foot or so. I'd be looking for a beefed up joist system resting on well-connected ledger boards and joist hangers and cross bracing to prevent joist flipping.






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 01-08-2007, 18:36 Post: 138589
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Frank what I referring to was the excessive weight bearing down, in the cases I saw which was water (yours being lumber, backhoe buckets, etc.) on the floor system and how it could not withstand it, that's all. Now that you've spoken to your agent that should should give some rest.

I hadn't seen commercial-type buildings like yours with horizontally laid metal siding. Having put up 25 foot long sheets up vertically by myself and bending the top half (DOH!) it does make sense though.






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