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Old 08-02-2018, 01:36 PM
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You know.. The gap is something to consider. However. You could attach a piece of angle iron to the door that could cover the gap when the door is shut to keep snow and ice out. Chances are your door is shut more than its open in cold weather I would think.
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I don't think of piece of angle iron will keep snow, water or ice out.
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I don't think of piece of angle iron will keep snow, water or ice out.
If the gap is covered and pitched towards the down slope of the ramp how would it get in? If the gap is 2" and a "cover attached to door is 3" and close tolerance to the ramp " tight but not touching" and end was capped? You might get some in there but I doubt its enough to freeze it up any worse than it does now. Granted the door is not flat but those gaps can be sealed also.
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Couldn't you just screw some 2x6s to some triangles as a movable ramp?

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If the gap is covered and pitched towards the down slope of the ramp how would it get in? If the gap is 2" and a "cover attached to door is 3" and close tolerance to the ramp " tight but not touching" and end was capped? You might get some in there but I doubt its enough to freeze it up any worse than it does now. Granted the door is not flat but those gaps can be sealed also.
It will still get in.
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It will still get in.
Your right Jon... As usual.... Your way is the best. No way to make anyone elses way work. I think I would rather deal with cleaning 10' X 2" every once in awhile than use some movable temporary ramp. Leave the temporary ramp out in weather now you still have to move that to clean the frozen build up anyway. For all we know the sun hits this thing first thing every morning and melts what there anyway but no one thought to ask what direction it faces.

We get bitter cold and snow here. One of my sheds has a ramp that could pose a problem like this. Don't think it ever took me more than a few minutes to get it open in the worst weather.



Do it Jons way. The first time the ramp slips from wheels spinning or from bad weather just ask him how to fix it. He knows all.
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Had lots of shed doors on the farm that would freeze up in the winter due to design. Sorry you disagree, but I've seen it all too many times. It will freeze shut if the door is in a groove. Hell, the sliding doors on the shed I worked in all winter froze shut twice, and they aren't even in a groove. Snow blew under them, melted just a bit, and the froze. Spent a half an hour chipping the ice to get them open.

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Had lots of shed doors on the farm that would freeze up in the winter due to design. Sorry you disagree, but I've seen it all too many times. It will freeze shut if the door is in a groove. Hell, the sliding doors on the shed I worked in all winter froze shut twice, and they aren't even in a groove. Snow blew under them, melted just a bit, and the froze. Spent a half an hour chipping the ice to get them open.

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That groove is not deep enough or wide enough and there is nothing attached to the door to keep snow from going in groove. Horrible design you have there.
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I’ve not seen a sliding door design that was impervious to winters. Some we had only had guides by the two ends. They still stuck even though the guides were only 6 in long. Anything that guides that door will get crap in it and freeze.
Need an overhead door.
Removable ramp is what I would do.
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The OP said he wants to get his lawn mower out of that door,, without moving the car,,

I doubt he needs to mow the grass when the door is frozen shut,,,

My SIL's door has not froze shut,, at all. EVER,, and, that concrete bumper has been there since 1985,,

I guess it is nice that the weather cooperates in Virginia,,,
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