PortaKabins

[Stroppymonkey]

Last year I reluctantly became the owner of a couple of 23x9 anti vandal jack leg cabins. Long story but I was trying to help someone out AND they were very sensibly priced.
Plan is to give them a spruce over and a nice coat of Dark Brunswick Green, then stack them up in corner of yard. Rent em out for storage and then they are sat ready in case I need them for the day job ( I have no written lease for my works yard, and landlord is an accident prone 76 year old)
Always good to have a plan B.
Anyway I digress. Looking at the cabins today , and checking underneath. One has 2 perfect skids, but looks like it once had 6.
One has 4 bent skids but also should have had 6.
Not sure WHY they have skids as assumed they were supposed to be supported on jack legs?
Google suggests the skids were to make them able to be shoved around on site a little better?
I’m thinking I will just remove them as I can’t see the need.
The cabin roofs have c section steels on top, so if they ever need to be stacked then there will still be a suitable support system that won’t trap water.

 

[Gecko]

Won't those skids sit on the C-channel of the hut below?

 

[TiltyShaun]

It has been a long time since a come across that style. From memory, we stacked them with legs on legs bolted through the plates.

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Won't those skids sit on the C-channel of the hut below?

They would do.. guess it stops direct contact . Think I will just pull them all off so they match. I don’t plan on pushing them about .. probably an old design . Spect they are 25 years old. Hard to tell. Konstructa won’t reply to my emails.

 

[craig]

Normally when stacked, they are as @TiltyShaun says above, jack leg to jack leg, some had a spigot on the top to locate the foot.
The last one with runners I moved, one OK ish on the legs, but when it was sitting on the truck bed on the rails, by the time it got to where it was going, the front and back wall where now sitting on the bed and the was 4" less headroom inside

@kabin man may know the reason for them.

 

[V8Druid]

Normally when stacked, they are as @TiltyShaun says above, jack leg to jack leg, some had a spigot on the top to locate the foot.
The last one with runners I moved, one OK ish on the legs, but when it was sitting on the truck bed on the rails, by the time it got to where it was going, the front and back wall where now sitting on the bed and the was 4" less headroom inside

@kabin man may know the reason for them.

I would guess positive location, rather than just relying on the 4 legs/jacks --- they take the weight, the channels do the locating

 

[Stroppymonkey]

I would guess positive location, rather than just relying on the 4 legs/jacks --- they take the weight, the channels do the locating

The top of the cabins have vertical spines about 100mm high running the width of the units. I totally get that it makes the floors less bouncy If evenly supported. We use a 40x12 unit for the office and that’s on legs, but we added extra supports to reduce floor bounce .

 

[DaveDCB]

I wouldn’t want to push them around on site, not really ‘moving’ skids , they just look like they are for when placing on the ground without the legs to stop you damaging the panels etc?

 

[V8Druid]

I wouldn’t want to push them around on site, not really ‘moving’ skids , they just look like they are for when placing on the ground without the legs to stop you damaging the panels etc?

don't fink so

Normally when stacked, they are as @TiltyShaun says above, jack leg to jack leg, some had a spigot on the top to locate the foot.
The last one with runners I moved, one OK ish on the legs, but when it was sitting on the truck bed on the rails, by the time it got to where it was going, the front and back wall where now sitting on the bed and the was 4" less headroom inside

@kabin man may know the reason for them.