Field shelters with 'skids'

[meemzul]

I need a field shelter but it needs to move with as my field is now fenced in 2 sections for summer grazing and then for the winter grazing.

So i would need skids on a shelter.

I have some welders (at work) happy to make them up for me, but to be honest i have no idea what shape, style etc skids are supposed to be!

I really dont want to leave them to what they think is correct and it be the total opposite to what i really need!

So could someone please explain in simpleton terms what they are (a diagram would be amazing

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[Eaglestone]

Diagram ... not up to that

Mine is 20' x 10' and the skids are about 5" to 6" square and they are hollow ..

The front and back are longer than the sides ....

Tell you what do you want me to try and takes some pics tomorrow ???

 

[Saddlerboy]

Send a PM to 'Three'. She got one recently and will prob send you a pic if you ask her.

 

[meemzul]

Thank you, both!

 

[hussar]

A short point unrelated to the shape of skids ... I bought a shelter on skids a few years ago, precisely because I wanted to be able to move it around (with the permission of my then YO). The shelter was 24' x 12', and within 3 or 4 weeks had sunk so far into the ground that it would have need a crane to free it before it could have been towed anywhere! It wasn't on particularly soft ground either. So it never moved in the three years I was at that yard and I had to leave it behind when I left.

I was also a bit dubious that it could have moved without damage as the whole strucure seemed a bit flexible.

Just a thought. You might want to consider wider skids...

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

To be honest I don't really think that skids work very well if at all. It's a way to get round planning permission as with skids the shelter is not classed as a permanent structure so doesn't need any planning permission. When you come to try & move them, unless they have been incredibly well designed & built they will more than likely be pulled apart by the towing vehicle.

 

[catherinep]

I agree - I bought 2 x 12 x 24' last year on box steel skids, mostly to meet planning requirements (of more later!). We will move them to final position out in the fields as shelters as and when we get planning for a barn on the site where they stand now. There is no way that they will move complete - other half has a 14tonne tracked digger, so we did think about "lifting" them on webs but they would shatter/fall apart.

Realistically, if you want to move them, you are going to need to take them apart or at very least remove roof completely.

Anyone who tells you that they are really portable must be on bowling green lawns - they would not withstand a rut or bump in the grass!!!

By the way everyone, our local council (Kennet) has trotted off to think about how often they would expect "mobile" to move - the jumior officer who visited me last week suggested that they must move every 6 months.....there is no national policy on this at all and the rules currently state must be "capable" of moving.....if they are serious about every 6 months (our fields in the winter 6 months are not passable) that would cause major probs and make pretty much every mobile shelter in the country illegal!!!! I think it unlikely that junior officer will be able to put this 6 months thing in writing - I think that he was talking off the top of his head, but will let you all know - and would certainly mobilise the main H+H magazine if Kennet kicked up.....

 

[kerilli]

i've got 3 that move easily, the base frames do slightly deform but spring back when i lift a corner with the tractor's PTO.
my 3 at my last place were built by Clydesdale stabling, they had very big strong skids, never deformed, will last forever. the skids on those were roundish, galvanised, about 5" diameter.
one of my ones here got picked up by the wind and flipped upside down into the ditch, lifted it out with a crane and put it back upright, absolutely fine and perfect shape.
just depends how cheap you go for i guess...

 

[BigBird146]

I've just seen one advertised recently (can't think where sorry, prob equi-ads or BHS mag) that has wheels instead of skids and looked like a much safer option.

 

[Eaglestone]

As Promised ..... sorry loads and loads of them, that may or may not help ....
If you need any clarification please ask ..
Mine is 10 x 20 Feet and very very sturdy with double chain connectors either end and has not sunk.

But would need a tractor to move them

PS Sorry about the poo ... but I was so excited when I found that my old boy had ventured in there, when I first got it over 2 years ago, that I had to prove it to myself. Happily he loves it now

 

[nuffield]

nice pics!
I've pm'd you meemzul.

 

[meemzul]

thank you!