Here are some photos of my 10 year old T hanger construction.  It has seen 100+ mph winds several times and we get 50 to 60mph every other month.  Has never need more than minor repairs.

Quicksilver MX liftoff T hanger with doors folded around end of wing tip ends.
My 1984 Quicksilver MX safe in it's home.


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Here the center of one side of the 4 fold door is open and latched on the outside section.

Note the wire that carries the weight of the door up to the upper hinge.

And my dog posing for the camera.


2nd photo shows the doors in the open position.

3red and 4th show the lower and upper hinge with door folded open and the need for the offset in the hinges.
Quicksilver MX over the top
What goes up must come down
Simple hinges in the center of the doors. 

These are extended door hinges to allow for the thickness of the siding when the door is folded open against tUpper hinge.

Note the hinge bolt must be moved forward (right in this photo) and out (toward the camera) to allow the folded sections to stack and lay against the end wall.
he other door.

Lower hinge.

Lower hinges were welded to the steel corner post before it was set in concrete.

Don't use lag screws, use carriage bolts through the 2x4 door frame.
Pilot and Quicksilver Top dead bolt latches for door sections.

Chuck Hoelzen,   Aug 3, 2007
(307) 857-4174

My T hanger is 10 years old now and it cost about $500. Mostly
scrounged material.

It uses 4 old power poles supporting two 2' trusses running front to
back supporting the center hip roof and cantilevered to support the
front center of the two shed roofs with 35' wide 4 fold doors. Steel
corner posts set in concrete at the T tips, 2x4 purlin walls between
posts. Wing(s) shed roof is 2x6 beams on 4' centers with 2x4 and steel
stud hangers between 2x6 front and back from the center truss to the
wing tips of the T. All covered with steel panel siding.

The folding doors hinge vertically with the center two 9' sections
folding back and latching onto the outer then both folding around the
end of each side of the wing tip ends of the T. The hinges between each
half are simple but the corner hinges must allow for the thickness of
both doors to swing around the end. Doors are simple 2x4 studs with
steel panel siding. Home made dead bolt like vertical latches at the
top in 4 places and simple pins through steel angles at the bottom at
the mid hinge points and the center.

View of the "Twin Lakes" from the East along runway 33

The mountians in the distance are 70 miles away. Sorry for all the smoke.  The forest fires have cut the view way down from the normal 150+ miles. Be careful of the mountian wave.  The dotted line of clouds is a warning of the wave. I  pulled over 5 Gs in a friend's Piper in these waves 20 years ago. We lost 2500' in 10 seconds.

The Wind River mountians are 25 miles South (left of this photo). You can just make out the west end  of the mountian range75 miles away in the far left.

The Wind River is the green line of trees at the left.

The Red T hanger can be seen just left of center.



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Sep. 15, 2007