Knob Creek
NES Member
Hi, I need plans for a simple freestanding wooden lean to structure to be used at a pistol range for shelter. You've all seen them, been in them, shot from them. Something 8x12 or so.
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Need Plans for shelter at shooting range
- Thread starter Knob Creek
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Find a utility getting rid of old poles. Make a basic frame and go with the opaque or white corrugated roofing. Have it either slope down towards the ground in back to keep the wind down, or have a back wall for Winter. This is not anything professional, but what I would do if it were me.
Contact EddieCoyle here. He built one at Shirley Rod & Gun a couple of years ago.
A great place to start for a base (if you want to be off the ground) is a machine rigging company. They typically have very large pallets built from 4x4's and 2x8" that large manufacturing equipment is drop shipped to them on, which they frequently get rid of after they load equipment directly onto their flatbed trailers. I got an 8'x20' pallet that I built my woodshed from. A few cinder blocks or paving stones under the base keeps it dry and away from carpenter ants/termites. If you can get 3 of them you can use one for the back wall (attach with joist hangers) and cut the 3rd into the two side walls (joist hangers) and then only have to fabricate the roof.
If you want a ground up build this is a decent plan, but you'd haft replace the front top joist with a 4x4 or 2x8 to build it without the front wall and support the roof without bowing:
http://just-sheds.com/1201f.pdf
A very basic poor mans horse lean to:
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/pubs/91062.pdf
I haven't looked through all these, but there's bound to be a good one in here:
http://bioengr.ag.utk.edu/extension/ExtPubs/PlanList97.htm#Horse%20Plans
If you want a ground up build this is a decent plan, but you'd haft replace the front top joist with a 4x4 or 2x8 to build it without the front wall and support the roof without bowing:
http://just-sheds.com/1201f.pdf
A very basic poor mans horse lean to:
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/pubs/91062.pdf
I haven't looked through all these, but there's bound to be a good one in here:
http://bioengr.ag.utk.edu/extension/ExtPubs/PlanList97.htm#Horse%20Plans
