04-04-2009, 11:46 AM
Bigsteel Wrote:thats such a cool structure steve,now for a stupid question,i've seen them everywhere before but wqhat is the point of the 2nd and 3rd floor doors? is it just to ease bringing stuff into the above floors? or they loadin monster panel trucks
?--josh
The second or even third level doors are usually loaded by fork lift. Before I retired one customer I used to help out was In & Out Burger at their maintenance facility in Baldwin Park, Ca. They had a brand new facility built in the late 1990s that was concrete tilt up construction with a second floor over the parts room & office. They had a large double door on the second floor at one end. They stored truck & trailer tires, pallets of freon, and any other large items that they had in stock for maintenance or repair. It is much faster and easier to load that stuff in on pallets with a fork lift and pallet jack than to find a way to move it up stairs! In the old days, before fork lifts, they would often have a large beam above the upper most floor extending out 3-4 feet with a block & tackle for heavy lifting. You might occasionally notice the beam on livery stable in old western movies. It was a common practice to load hay bails with a block and tackle into the hay loft above a livery stable in the old west.