Hurricane Harvey tries to mess with Schweiss doors
Schweiss bifold doors save hangars
while others get 'pancaked!'
Rockport, Texas was in the direct path of Hurricane Harvey that wreaked havoc on the Aransas County Airport. All the hangars still standing had Schweiss bifold liftstrap doors, those that were destroyed did not.
Occasionally people comment on the fact that Schweiss hydraulic and bifold doors may be built heavier duty than needed. You won't get that comment from pilots occupying hangars at the Aransas County Airport in Rockport, Texas.
The small seaside town of Rockport is located 30 miles north of Corpus Christi and the neighboring city of Fulton bore the brunt of Category 4 Hurricane Harvey that wreaked havoc through Texas coastal towns August 25. Harvey had sustained winds at Rockport in excess of 145 mph for a period of 5 hours with wind gusts over 160 mph. Rockport experienced hurricane-force winds for over 13 hours total.
“Those doors in large part are why we have buildings here that are still standing. We lost seven buildings all together for a total of about 90,000 sq. ft. of hangar space. I believe the Schweiss doors are why the buildings that are still standing are still up. On everything else we lost the doors and the buildings followed right after. When we rebuild, I guarantee you we will be putting Schweiss doors on these hangars.”
- Mike Geer, Mgr.
Aransas County Airport
Rockport, Texas
Airport Manager, Mike Geer, was so excited to see that in the aftermath of destruction the hangars at his airport with Schweiss bifold doors on them were still standing that he gave Mike Schweiss a call to pass on his praise.
"Those doors in large part are why we have buildings here that are still standing. We lost seven buildings all together for a total of about 90,000 sq. ft. of hangar space. I believe the Schweiss doors are why the buildings that are still standing are still up. On everything thing else we lost the doors and the buildings followed right after. When we rebuild, I guarantee you we will be putting Schweiss doors on these hangars," said Geer.
There are a number of Schweiss bifold doors at Aransas County Airport. Two of the largest bifold liftstrap doors on box hangars are 60' x 17' and eight 43' x 14.10' bifold doors went on the T-Hangars. All these liftstrap doors are windrated at 130 mph and include hurricane pins to further secure them to the hangars.
"We have eight bifold doors on T-hangars and that hangar is still standing and every door stayed intact. We have another identical hangar next to it that had one of your competitor's doors on it. That hangar was picked up and thrown to the ground because the doors failed. Our T-hangars that survived were the biggest deal to me. They took a full frontal and then a full force again after the eye crossed over; they got hammered. They have some cosmetic damage, but the amazing thing to me was that the doors held. The hurricane pin bolts (windpins) were bent 25 degrees; they are an inch thick; that tells you how strong that wind was, but the Schweiss doors took it," said Geer.
These three large box hangars with Schweiss 60' x 17' bifold liftstrap doors look like they were totally missed by Hurricane Harvey, but they weren't.
On the large box hangars, Geer said one wingnut came off on a plexiglass window. The exterior cladding stayed intact. All told 22 planes at the airport were damaged and 15 more destroyed.
Geer said they even had engineering students from different universities here studying the impact of the wind and all of them said: "The doors were the reason your T-hangars survived," noted Geer.
The 7,000 sq. ft. hangars with the 60 ft. doors are 35' high. All the hangars there are built to at least handle a Beechcraft King Air 350 and all are built for more than that.
Geer said one of the doors had a backup system and to open one of the others after the power outage they wired a generator into it to operated it that way. More than 2,300,000 customers across Texas were still without electricity as Harvey threatened to stall, setting up for several days of rainfall that tallied up to 50 inches in some spots, and about 15 inches in Rockport.
Hurricane Harvey, the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States in more than a decade, made landfall on the Texas coast late Friday as a Category 4 storm, destroying homes, overturning vehicles and sinking boats, severing power lines, and forcing tens of thousands of residents to flee. When Harvey was later downgraded to a tropical storm, it lingered over Texas as record amounts of rain were predicted, spawning even more destruction in the form of catastrophic flooding.
Catastrophe modeling companies have estimated the insured damage caused by Harvey and Hurricane Irma that ripped through Florida at $50 to $70 billion.
"I chose to ride out the hurricane in the airport terminal for several reasons. One of which was that I knew it would be very difficult to get back into Rockport after the storm passed. I believed that the airport would be a natural staging ground for the relief and recovery efforts so my thought process was to be ready to help with the first responders. Had I known Harvey was going to intensify into a major hurricane, I would have evacuated.
Half of another manufacturers bifold door went for a ride on a 160 mph wind gust.
"It was like having a 747 with parking brakes on at full throttle just outside the door. It was incredibly loud. We had hurricane force winds here for 13 hours. The Category 4 part sat on us for five hours - that's never happened before, most hurricanes move through in three to five hours - this hurricane sat on us for quite awhile, it didn't stall in speed, it stalled in forward momentum. The wind came directly out of the north for two hours and then directly out of the south for two hours, we were right in the middle of the hurricane, in fact it took the eye over an hour to pass over. I have learned since that there were multiple F-5 tornadoes inside the eyewall," explained Geer.
In the aftermath of the hurricane, bucket and equipment trucks at the airport were present for days and weeks. At one point they stretched over four miles and were parked bumper-to-bumper.
Hurricane Harvey was the first Category 4 storm in the U.S. since 2004 when Charley menaced Florida; Texas had not endured such a powerful hurricane since Carla in 1961. The Category 4 hurricane had a diameter of 280 miles. Two estimates put total losses at as much as $75 billion. An estimated 30,000 people needed temporary shelter.
“We have eight bifold doors on one of our T-hangars and that hangar is still standing because every door stayed intact. We have another identical hangar next to it that had one of your competitor's doors on it. That hangar was picked up and thrown to the ground because the doors failed. The T-hangars that survived were the biggest deal to me. They took a full frontal and then a full force again after the eye crossed over; they got hammered. They have some cosmetic damage, but the amazing thing to me was that the doors held. The hurricane pin bolts (windpins) were bent 25 degrees; they are an inch thick; that tells you how strong that wind was, but the Schweiss doors took it.”
- Mike Geer, Mgr.
Aransas County Airport
Rockport, Texas
Aransas County Airport
The Aransas County Airport is located on SH 35 North, 4.5 miles from downtown Rockport and bordering Fulton. There are two lighted runways, lighted taxiways and other facilities at the airport as well as future sites for development.
The longest runway at RKP (14-32) is 5,600 ft. long and 100 ft. wide and accommodates all aircraft up to 160,000 lbs. dual tandem axles. The airport is an all-weather airport with multiple published IFR approaches, including GPS/LPV published approaches to all Runways.
The Aransas County Airport (RKP) occupies over 600 acres, with access by paved roads on three sides and is ready for development with one of the highest elevations in the county.
It is located northeast of Corpus Christi, southwest of Galveston and directly straight west of San Jose Island.
The trucks visible in file along the taxiway are just a fraction of the actual number of trucks staged at the airport in the days and weeks after the storm. At one point they had over four miles worth of bucket and equipment trucks parked bumper-to-bumper.
The small seaside town of Rockport, Texas, located about 30 miles northeast of Corpus Christi also received considerable damage. Harvey was the first Category 4 hurricane in the U.S. in 13 years.
Geer was most amazed at how the eight Schweiss T-hangar doors came through the hurricane with just some minor cosmetic damage. They got hit hard for two hours before the eye of the hurricane came over and then for two hours more.
Totaled out planes are loaded up and headed to the boneyard. Notice the airport building with the large dent at the right.
Numerous"man camp" trailers containing sleeping bunks, and bathrooms were brought in for the workers who were living at the airport for weeks after the hurricane.
Two-by-fours from wooden hangars were scattered like toothpicks after being hit for 13 hours of high winds.
These photos tell the 'Rest of the Story' with no need for explanation
Rockport and Fulton, Texas were directly in the path of Hurricane Harvey as it reached land. The blue area is the eye of the hurricane. After the eye went over, the airport got blasted again by sustained 145 mph winds and 160 mph wind gusts.
Hurricane Harvey as seen from the NASA International Space Station at 9 p.m. The eye was about 7 miles across and was moving forward at approximately 1.5 to 2 mph. This all happened during a total period of 13 hours.
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Hurricane Harvey tries to mess with Schweiss doors
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Italian senior designer visits Schweiss Doors seeking insight on bifold door designs for renowned Prado Museum of Art
Fabio De Ciechi and Schweiss Doors draftsman, Brent Krzmarzick, discuss AutoCAD paper engineering door drafts for the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. |
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House of Air gives flight to the flightless; bifold door gives open air to the hangar
House of Air is an indoor trampoline park located in a historic airplane hangar at West Crissy Field in the Presidio of San Francisco, California, not far from the Golden Gate Bridge. What used to house high-flying aircraft, now houses hundreds of energetic youth-minded people, some of whom can now exercise a different style of high flight. |
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All Inside Storage hangs 130 Schweiss Bifold Doors
There's nothing much more frustrating than when you discover someone scratched or rubbed against your vehicle or aircraft because it was parked too close to another while in storage. This is what John Obradovich, owner of All Inside Storage of Indio, California, describes as "Hangar Rash." |
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Environmental design of Ontario Operations Centre has 20 Schweiss 'green' doors
Newmarket, Ontario, Canada is a 80,000 population town projected to grow to approximately 98,000 by 2026. Located north of the city of Toronto, it is part of the York Region and Golden Horseshoe of Southern Ontario. Due to these growing pains Newmarket was overdue for a new municipal operations building. For many years, the town of Newmarket's Public Works Services, including operations (water, roads, snow removal) and parks and property maintenance, had been operating out of three buildings at two existing facilities for years. |
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SilverWing at Sandpoint offers the very best in airpark living
Such is the case at SilverWing at Sandpoint. This unique fly-in airpark community, set between Schweitzer Ski Mountain and Lake Pend Oreille, one of the West's largest lakes in northern Idaho, spans over 18 acres adjacent to the Sandpoint, Idaho public airport. This airpark has been in development since land was purchased in 2007. Now, several years later, the airpark is ready for people to move in. |
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Maine EAA Chapter gathers forces to build a new hangar
Active organizations have a way of getting things done - done on time, done on budget and done with the help of individuals and the community they live in. The worldwide Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) has EAA Chapter 1210 of Biddeford, Maine in its ranks. Although relatively small they are non-the-less definitely an active "get it done" organization. |
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Canadian waters-edge floatplane and boat hangar door opens up to the great outdoors
Dryden, Ontario, Canada, is where the rugged beauty of Ontario meets the bright lights of city life. It is a vibrant urban community surrounded by the unsurpassed beauty of the boreal forest, freshwater lakes and spectacular vistas. The settlement was founded as an agricultural community by John Dryden, Ontario's Minister of Agriculture in 1895. |
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Aviation Experts in France rely on Schweiss Doors
Aviation Experts SARL is an established 15-year-old French aviation maintenance business and aerial photo survey and mapping business that services not only France and Europe but is called out to far reaching overseas locations. Its hangar and base of operations is located in Nangis, a 7,500 population commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France north-central region of France, approximately an hours drive south of Paris. |
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Schweiss hydraulic doors inducted into Louisiana Hall of Fame
The headline is a bit ambiguous, but it sure sounds good. In all actuality, there really are Schweiss Hydraulic one piece doors on the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame - they were installed there, not formally inducted, and are for functional applications, not for sporting accolades. Just the same it's still an honor for them to be in this new and long awaited sports complex where visitors from all over the world come to pay homage to their Louisiana... |
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Schweiss glass bifold door goes on exclusive New York Lexington Avenue hotel
Schweiss designer doors have gone on numerous exclusive hotels stretching from China to Europe. The latest to join this elite group is the Club Quarters Grand Central Hotel on Lexington Avenue, downtown New York City. |
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Las Vegas Irish Pub features Schweiss designer doors on its outdoor patio bar
Words on the Nine Fine Irishmen pub website point out: "We Didn't Just Import Irish - We Imported The Whole Damn Country." Inspired by a group of nine famous men who fought for Irish independence, to some, they were patriotic heroes. To others, traitorous rebels. But, on to the story... |
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Monster Schweiss doors open up for Ohio National Super Stock Champion
A 60 ft. bifold door isn't the biggest door by far ever built by Schweiss Doors, but just the same it's one heck of a big door. Shane Kellogg of Forest, Ohio needed a big door like this on his farm plus three other 40 ft. doors to store his farm equipment and his award winning pulling truck and semi that he uses to haul it to shows. |
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Most everything starts from something.... The Evolution of the One-Piece Door
Bifold doors keep getting better thanks to Schweiss Doors. With proven Lift Straps and Auto Latches the door travels up faster and smoother. Say no to cables! Schweiss Patented Lifts Straps are the latest and greatest improvements to bifold doors that have been around for years... Bifold Doors just keep getting Better! |
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Lake Tahoe beachfront watercraft rental buisness calls for Schweiss Door
Schweiss boathouse doors have a reputation of showing up at some of the most beautiful lakes in America, but perhaps the most beautiful of them all is the 989 ft. deep Lake Tahoe which borders Nevada and California. |
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Born to Fly - The Rest is History
What you see at the David Burroughs fourth generation farm north of El Paso, Illinois, located halfway between Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Chicago, isn't your run of the mill ordinary hangar - it has class, inside and out. |
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Continental Design Build puts five Schweiss bifold doors on California Executive hangars
They're long and sleek - over 60 foot long and stand 21.6 feet tall - big enough to open up for most any corporate prop or jet aircraft. Five Schweiss straplift bifold doors completed a summer order from Continental Design Build (CDBI) in Anaheim, California for new executive steel hangars they were building in Fullerton, California. |
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Skydive Midwest operations begin and end at the hangar
The fun part of Skydive Midwest's operation mostly takes place the minute you go airborne to the time you step out of the jump plane and then safely land on terra firma. That's mainly what the jumpers look forward to, however there are many behind the scenes tasks that begin and end at the all-important hangar. The hangar, a place to pack parachutes, check weather and park planes; most airports can't get along without one, and wouldn't want to. |
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The Door's Wide Open at Fagen Fighters WWII Museum
If your heart is into aviation, and you have money, there is no end as to what you can accomplish, including building a first-class aviation museum, and filling it with some of the finest examples of World War II aircraft. That's what ethanol entrepreneur, Ron Fagen, did in his hometown of Granite Falls, Minnesota. The museum is located at Granite Falls Municipal Airport/Lenzen-Roe Memorial Field (KGDB). |
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Schweiss Bifold Doors go on newest Mills Fleet Farm store in Ankeny, Iowa
Mills Fleet Farm, founded in 1955 by the Mills family, is a growing company with a retail chain of 34 stores in Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin and Iowa. It's newest store recently celebrated its grand opening July 29, at Ankeny, Iowa - a midstate location of approximately 45,000 residents located along Interstate 35 and U.S. Route 69 approximately 10 miles north of downtown Des Moines bordering on an agricultural and suburban-based economy. |
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Jamboree In The Hills stage rocks with a 80 ft. Schweiss Bifold door
For over 36 years, over 100,000 fans each year have flocked to the rolling hills of eastern Ohio to take part in the longest running and most popular country music festival in America. This "Country Music Capital" has hosted most of the big names coming out of Nashville and other parts of the USA. Close to 25 Country legends each year such as Merle Haggard, Reba McEntire, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Boxcar Willie, and even The Beach Boys and ZZ Top, you name it, have taken to the stage there. |
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California's Edison Language Academy goes to school with a Schweiss Bifold glass door.
The school doors are open at Edison Language Academy in Santa Monica, California. What's different at this school is not all the doors are the same, and that goes for its unique curriculum as well. Edison Language Academy is a bilingual magnet school that is one of only 10 dual-immersion K-12 programs in the United States. |
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Greystone Construction is national award winner
Since Greystone Construction Company of Shakopee, Minnesota was formed in 1987, earning and receiving awards has been nothing new for them - their list of national and state awards for excellence, performance and merit are enough to decorate a large office or trophy room. |
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'Your doors stood the test of time,' says Iowa rancher hit by tornado
When daylight hit after the evening of Oct. 4, people living and working at the Triple U Ranch in Washta, Iowa, got an eyeful of destruction. It was on that Friday that Mother Nature decided to reorganize the countryside. Brad Utesch, who farms 2,500 acres and produces 6,000 head of cattle a year, with his brothers Craig and Kirk were faced with a massive cleanup after what more than likely was a tornado set down... |
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Glass adds a reflective touch of class to Denver contractors residential garage door
At certain times of the day the glass on Bruce Hamon's garage door reflects the beautiful Denver surroundings he lives in. While it allows others to see within, the big advantage is it allows him to see out as if looking through a picture window inside his home. And it adds a real touch of class to his residential property. |
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California bike transit station utilizes three Schweiss glass designer doors
Who you gonna call when you need three top of the line glass bifold straplift doors for a bike transit station in California? You have two choices. You can go directly to Schweiss Doors in Minnesota or call a company that sells and installs Schweiss Doors. That would be McKendry Door Sales & Service of Santa Fe Springs. |
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Schweiss Doors adds style to spicy new Sway Thai restaurant in Austin, Texas
Traditional Thai food has a reputation of being very spicy and hot enough to satisfy anyones taste for heat. A newly opened restaurant in Austin, Texas does that and more. Austin is a city of big flavors, but interestingly enough there are few that specialize in Thai food. That's where the long-awaited Thai Restaurant called "Sway," (meaning elevated, delicious) tops the bill. |
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Billy Bishop Airport gets its first Schweiss Doors
Fame is where you find it and in many cases others try to feed off it. Such is the case with The Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada Regional Airport, named after revered World War I flying ace William Avery "Billy" Bishop. Their hometown hero was the most highly decorated Canadian pilot of that war with 72 air victories to his credit. |
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Door adds sparkle to unique Scripps Ranch High School in San Diego
The administration at Scripps Ranch High School in San Diego, California, with the assistance of Casco Equipment Corporation and its assigned architects, knew exactly what they wanted in the four designer doors they ordered for their school. They wanted something that conformed to "green" standards and that would serve a useful classroom function as well. |
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Schweiss hangar door shines like a big light on corporate hangar in Mexico
Ciudad Obregon is the second largest city in the northern Mexican state of Sonora. It is a historic and beautiful city of 405,000 population located near the Gulf of California about 395 miles north of Mazatlan and 400 miles straight south of Tucson, Arizona |
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Rural pilot has nothing but praise for his three Schweiss Bifold doors
Gene Fuchs, 81, has been taking to the air since the age of 15 and bought his first airplane four years later. He has two Schweiss Bifold hangars doors and one large 45 ft. bifold machine shed door at his farmsite east of Morgan, Minnesota. He bought his first bifold door in the 1980s and hasn't had a lick of trouble with any of them. |
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Now you see it, Now you don't. Crazy Cool garage door appears only half as big as it really is
Washington resident Herb Korthuis needed a tall garage door to fit his large motorhome into. A city zoning ordinance said he couldn't do it at first, but thanks to Schweiss Doors he now has a 16x12 ft. bifold door that blends into the rest of his house and neighborhood and which was OK'd by the building inspector despite its size. |
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COMPOSITE FOAM PANELS TAKE KIEHM CONSTRUCTION NATIONWIDE
Back in 1980, Marty Kiehm, age 23 at the time, built his first structure, a 70' x 100' hangar with a 48' bifold hangar door at the Delavan, MN airport. Though not yet a licensed pilot, aviation blood was already trickling through his veins. His dad was an aerial applicator so 'flight talk' was a fairly routine part of family conversations. However following in his Dad's footprint wasn't his ambition. |
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Top of the Line Schweiss Hydraulic Designer Door graces Under Armour building
Schweiss Designer Doors don't get much better than this. Under Armour Corporation in Baltimore, Maryland ordered this very attractive and unique metal perforated hydraulic one-piece canopy door as a showpiece for their store and office building in Baltimore, Maryland . The 28' 10" wide x 12' - 140 mph windrated door features two distinctly lighted Under Armour billboard-style logos which can be seen for miles around. |
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One of a kind Texas hangar has its own control tower
"I come here every morning at 6 a.m. I spend all day here and I enjoy every minute of it." Those words from Patrick Aucoin, Aucoin and Associates, Inc., Spring, TX. And where he comes each day is to an 84' x 84' steel hangar at the Spring, TX airfield. But what a hangar! For 14 years this spot was only a concrete slab, the only remnant from a Texas tornado that wiped out the hangar which used to set on this hunk of concrete. But not so today. |
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Pilots are appreciating the 80 schweiss liftstrap bifold hangar doors at Oshawa, Ontario airport
There aren't many airports in the U.S. or abroad that have as many Schweiss Bifold Liftstrap/Autolatch hangar doors as the Oshawa, Ontario, Canada airport. In a three-phase project a total of 80 Schweiss liftstrap and autolatch bifold doors have been put onto hangars there. In just the last order alone, 34 Schweiss bifold doors ranging in size from 41.5 ft wide to 47 ft. wide gives some solid proof of their popularity among hangar owners there. |
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Innovative Schweiss lift gate gives versatility to 'The Paw'
Contemplate this description of a popular Mankato, Minnesota facility: Daycare, rehabilitation, grooming spa, spacious suites with in-floor heat, raised beds, exercise program, pool, reservations required, therapeutic laser class treatments, post operative care, hydrotherapy, kindergarten, parties and social activities. |
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Big bifold glass door connects spaces at new Red Bull headquarters
Extreme sports enthusiasts are a key demographic for energy drink makers, and Red Bull's new North American headquarters in Santa Monica, CA was created with that audience in mind. Among the 105,000 sq. ft. buildings many impressive design features are 40' wide by 250' long, non-functioning skateboard platform and 28' tall by 40' wide, Schweiss glass-paneled bifold door. |
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Arizona Stucco hydraulic door gives shade on hot days.
Aircraft enthusiasts from more than 70 nations go to the world famous Oshkosh Air Show with their eyes to the sky. It brings in more than 10,000 aircraft and displays nearly 2,500 aircraft of all makes and sizes. Dave Sirota, President of Bassuk Brothers Property Management firm in Oro Valley, Arizona, a bedroom community adjacent to Tucson, didn't go there to look at aircraft, he had another mission in mind. |
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Schweiss Doors makes boathouse owner envy of beautiful Lake Vermilion
Schweiss Doors can't take all the credit for the envy. Ryan also goes first class with the 1955 Chris Craft Continental boat that cruises in and out of his boathouse. And for those not living on this lake, known worldwide as Lake Vermilion, that's also envious. |
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Aero Country East is a Dallas, Texas area first-class aviation lifestyle community
"New North Dallas, Teaxs Aero Country East airpark goes exclusively with Schweiss "Red Power" hydraulic one-piece hangar doors. Many Country Club amenities and 39 custom townhomes and pool on privately-owned airport add first class appeal for pilots and families |
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Washington Wallaby Ranch chooses Schweiss doors for its hangars
When you think of wallabies and kangaroos the first thing that comes to mind is Australia, "The Land Down Under." You don't have to travel that far, however, to see these marsupials, The Fall City Wallaby Ranch has 19. |
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Kansas farmers Mancave has room for dragstrip racing cars and more
The term "mancave" has in recent times entered the American vernacular. It refers to a place where the guys can get together, lay back and talk about whatever is on their minds and solve the world problems and such over a cold one or two. Mancaves seem to be quite popular amongst football fans. |
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Schweiss Doors installs 132 liftstrap Bifold T-Hangar doors for Bult Airfield
Only about 30 miles due south of downtown Chicago and surrounded by fields of corn, soybeans, wildlife habitat and even a few tree farms sits one of the newer and more intriguing airfields in America. Called Bult Field Airport and identified as C56, this country airport however dates back to 1942 when Paul Sanger, a Monee, Illinois aviation enthusiast started his 'grass strip' air field three nautical miles southeast of town. |
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Napa Valley Winery puts Schweiss doors to special use
That's how Opus One building's architect, Scott Johnson, described this California Napa Valley winery located between St. Helena and Napa, almost straight north of San Francisco, California. Johnson was part of the design team behind the whole footprint of the Opus One building expansion. The suggestion and actual design of the unique Schweiss bifold and hydraulic doors was recommended by Wayne Leong, of Leong Architectural firm in St Helena, CA. |
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Prestige Contractors of Canada is newest Schweiss Doors distributer
Most every contractor at heart wants to do the best job for their customer. Sometimes that means going above and beyond the call and at other times being able to offer the best product for them. |
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Large Schweiss Bifold Liftstrap door perfectly fits farmshop needs
There's nothing cheap about building anymore but this project turned out wonderfully. The Schweiss door fits perfectly. We dressed up the shop and office area with some window shutter trim. Structural Building out of Becker, MN was the contractor and they did a great job |
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Inadequate experience with another company leads farmer to Schweiss Doors
It was a 70 ft. hydraulic door, very lightly built, it came in two sections that didn't meet together when they put it together. It showed up bent, and when raised it would bend, very poor weld quality, with welds missing in places. It was a piece of crap, I've never seen something so poor, there was no engineering done on it. There was no quality control. |
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Schweiss Red Power Pumps are a jump above the rest
Jumping over the best |
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RiverEdge Park & Music Garden orders Schweiss Doors for new Illinois project
RiverEdge Park and Music Garden is a venue that not many people in the United States have heard of yet, but they will. It is becoming the centerpiece in a 10-year master plan for the city of Aurora, Illinois, that state's second largest city with a population of close to 200,000 people, making it the 112th largest city in the United States. Aurora is located about 45 miles west of Chicago and is accessible by commuter train from there. |
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Schweiss has truckloads of top quality doors leaving the factory each week
Since Introducing "Red Power" Hydraulic Doors to the market this Spring, sales of Schweiss Hydraulic Doors have escalated, and as a result truckload-after-truckload of ready to assemble doors have been moving out to destinations within all corners of the United States and other locations around the globe. |
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Sharp looking farm shop features office space and large hydraulic door
This eye catching farm shop is indeed a beautiful facility. All four exterior steel walls are white, however red is the accent color around the edges of this big hydraulic door, all windows in the door, plus other access doors into this incredible building. |
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Taxi-through hangar speeds crop work for big time spraying operation
Twenty-seven years as an aerial applicator provides an historical perspective each spring for Rich Sigurdson, Olivia, MN. For cantankerous 2011 he simply responded,"This spring brought in a little more work than normal. This is the latest for putting crops in the ground since I've been in the business. |
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Huge Army tanks and track vehicles pass through Ft. Carson liftstrap bifold doors
Getting 146 doors installed at one location speaks rather strongly about the quality and reliability of your door provider. But that's the current scorecard of Schweiss BiFold doors at Fort Carson, Colorado (Colorado Springs) where Mortenson Construction (Denver branch) has an ongoing contract with the U.S. Army for the construction of special heated maintenance shops called TEMFs (Tactical Equipment Maintenance Facilities). This means structures big enough for Army tanks and other special military tactical vehicles. |
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Electrical engineer researches and chooses 40 ft. Hydraulic Hangar Door
I researched over a year what I wanted to do. I met Dave Schweiss at the Florida 'Fun in the Sun' air show and both Dave and Mike at the big Oshgosh, WS show. After meeting the guys and looking more closely at their product the choice was obvious. It simply was the best fit, the best design, the best door and in terms of value, the best deal. |
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Fagen WWII museum purchases multiple large Schweiss Liftstrap Bifold Hangar Doors
Here are some shots of Fagen's warbirds. All mighty nice, mint condition airplanes! Just one of many unique planes that will be on display in the New Fagen Museum. It'll be the hot spot in Granite Falls, Minnesota to see some of the most beautiful Flying machines imaginable. |
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Fast opening Schweiss hydraulic heated shop doors were just what this farmer needed
Obviously a guy doesn't spend several thousand dollars for a big hydraulic door because it opens and closes in 37 seconds. But surprisingly 'door speed' is a bit of a factor, at least for Terry Albright, Renville County farmer who also runs a fleet of 'over the road' semi rigs. |
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New 75 ft. Ohio farm shop has Schweiss hydraulic door with special lighting
A slick, new 75' x 80' farm shop with special lighting, in-floor heating, a huge 40' door and a burgundy and beige color scheme is getting all sorts of attention on the farm of John Dulin, Kenton, Ohio. "The contractor that sold me the building has people coming here every week it seems to check out the building and especially that big hydraulic door. So it's a real treat for me and my farming partner son Dana, to show them the works," explained Dulin, who is also maintenance manager for six school buses in their local special education district. |
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Wayzata resident loves his worry free liftstrap garage door conversion
Two bifold doors were on his Wayzata, Minn. home when he and his wife, Nancy, purchased it from a previous owner several years ago. He referred to the doors as "a bonus and attractive feature" and believed the architect chose the bifold style of doors for aesthetic reasons. |
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Carriage House helicopter hangar is very likely the most unique in America!
The Carriage House on the lakeshore property of Sid Morris, Cornelius, NC is very likely the most unique in America! It doesn't house horses and horse buggies. It doesn't house antique autos. Instead it houses his R44 helicopter. And that chopper gets to the Carriage House by first landing on a helio pad on the end of his 200' dock. A small electrically driven dolly then gently lifts the chopper with operator then guiding the chopper to its proper stall inside this remarkable 4-star carriage house. |
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Artists architectural glass door was perfect for Martha's Vineyard studio and guest house
At 27 years of age, film maker/artist/author Travis Wood appears to be adding architectural design to his intriguing resume. Evidence of this new dimension is a most unique structure, a combination studio/guest house that he and his father are constructing on their vacation property on Martha's Vineyard, hugging the south shore of Massachusetts. |
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Funky Brooklyn Store Front Perforated Steel Bifold Doors add touch of class and security
Hugging the southwest corner of Long Island, New York, Brooklyn's earlier identity was mostly hitched to Coney Island beach and the Brooklyn Dodgers of baseball immortality. Today the city is enjoying a renaissance of rediscovery by artists, retailers, ambitious contractors and creative landscapers including the Andre Kikoski Architect firm which just wrapped up the complete renovation of two empty, abandoned warehouse buildings on 22-28 Wyckoff Ave. |
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Multiple stores and doors are key to Arnold Company farm implement business expansion
Consolidation is that aggressive word which has been enveloping agricultural business for several years now. In simple terms, it results in fewer but bigger. And that certainly is the recent history of the farm implement business, which used to pride itself on having eight, 10, even 12 or more dealerships per county. Today three or four farm equipment dealers per county is more the usual. But ownership of farm implement stores today often includes multiple locations throughout an entire state. |
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Former Alaskan has Bifold hangar doors for fishing and flying from private airstrip
Flying since he got the bug when working the fishing canaries in Alaska, Eric Hutchins, Grand Rapids, MN, has a rather diversified agenda these days. For example he runs a year-round Dairy Queen in this bustling tourist center town. He also does some part-time law enforcement work and occasionally flies fire detection with the MN DNR. When time permits, high on his agenda is getting together with his snowmobile buddies for a few miles through the beautiful lake and woodland country of Itasca County. |
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Large 108 ft. Schweiss Bifold Strap Door is finishing touch for hangar renovation
In September of 2009, we started the rehabilitation of Hanger 155 at Chippewa County International Airport in Kincheloe, MI. Our first step was to remove 60 years worth of lead paint from the existing steel substructure and miles of asbestos-containing material. When the building was safe to work in, our demolition subcontractor started on the roof system. |
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Midwest John Deere dealership and store installs a Schweiss One-Piece Door
It's big, 43,500 square feet. It has a special floral display unit out front courtesy of the employees and the general contractor. You walk into an 'eye catching' 100' x 160' 'Consumer Display' section complete with a 10' high shelf showcasing various John Deere 'consumer goods'. And greeting you at the retail counter is a colorful prairie scene with an old country barn, woodlots, fields of corn and wheat plus a depiction of the original 1-bottom plow that launched the John Deere machinery company. A show place of sorts? Yes, indeed. |
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Classic Florida hangar home Schweiss wall/porch door is drawing national attention
Well, it's all of the above for 62-year-old Daniel Shaw, a plumbing contractor at Geneva, Fla. Who has given new meaning to the term "hangar home." The structure is 50' wide x 60' deep x 30' tall, all metal/ However, a 45' x 15' Schweiss hydraulic door sporting a wrap-around porch with decorator railing, table and chairs, a "walk through" door with stylish window, and veranda "roof" gets your attention. |
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Schweiss doors open things up at the Renville County Fair
Schweiss Hydraulic and Bifold Doors recently installed four new hydraulic doors at the Renville County Fairgrounds located in Bird Island, MN. The Renville County Board approached Schweiss looking for a way to open up the event building located at the county's fairgrounds. The event building is used to host live bands, beer gardens and public auctions by Henslin Auction Services. Hydraulic doors seemed like the perfect solution to open up the building and allow easy access to the building for large groups of people. |
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Minnesota Implement dealership spike in business calls for new facility liftstrap bifold doors
We're no longer just selling iron. Today we're selling precision farming products and that requires special training of both our personnel and our farm customers," says Paal Haug, general manager of Haug Implement with stores at Willmar and Litchfield |
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Radiation-shielded Bifold Door designed specially for industrial x-ray system firm
The creativity of customers continues to be a driving force for many manufacturers. Take for example North Star Imaging, Inc., a Rogers, Minnesota manufacturer of industrial x-ray systems which are enclosed by a radiation shielding cabinet and access door and used by manufacturing firms in the aerospace, military, automotive, medical device, electronics, even the genetic seed industry and many more. |
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Stylish North Carolina Target store Bifold gates serve dual purposes
How do you make the loading dock area for your store secure, yet still easily accessible and stylish? This Target store in North Carolina found the answer with two 39' x 17' bifold gates for their loading area. Give us your idea and we will get you the door. |
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Unique Schweiss Bifold roof-door designed for East Coast sandblasting chamber
What looked like a near impossible situation without some totally new engineering design instead turned out to be a remarkable solution to an extreme challenge. The challenge? How to fit a "roof door" over a 20' by 30' sandblasting chamber used by SMS Millcraft, Oil City, PA. This firm specializes in refurbishing component parts for various Pennsylvania steel mills. |
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Farm Air spraying operation relocates and builds new hangar with 76 ft. hydraulic door
It is rare that an Air Tractor dealership changes hands. It cant be done without an approval from Air Tractor, Inc. This requirement became all too apparent to Bill Taylor of Farm Air in Fairfield Illinois. Bill was starting to think about retiring from the business he formed in 1976. Shortly after forming Farm Air, Bill saw a need for Air Tractors in the Midwest, and approached Air Tractor about becoming a dealer. Over thirty successful years later, Bill decided it was time to sell Farm Air with its Air Tractor dealership intact. |
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TGIF puts custom-made Schweiss Bifold glass doors on patio bar
This custom set of Schweiss Bifold Doors was the perfect solution to provide a unique dining experience for this restaurant's patio bar customers. |
