On Feb 28, 7:52*pm, wrote:
I doubt you will find very much with less than an 18ft span.
Cut the poles and put them on hinges so they can swing away to let the
aircraft in and out.
We have used this method on our pole barn hangars for over 20 years.

Any chance you could elaborate on that some? I'm not trying to be
snide - I'm absolutely dead serious. I could knock out that sort of
project in a weekend if I knew how it was supposed to be done. If you
have instructions, pictures, a willingness to discuss it - anything -
I would much appreciate it.

I thought that I would need to put corner posts and a steel beam to
reinforce the cross member that would lose the poles. That's a big
and complicated project. Cutting two poles and putting in hinges so
they swing up and down is easy - if that's all there is to it. And I
guess most of the reason for those poles is because in high winds the
barn would come down without them - but you're not going to get that
sort of plane out on a day like that anyway.

Am I on the right track? What happens if there is snow on top of the
roof?

Michael