After adding up all the gutter parts and pieces, I figured out you can just price the gutter itself, multiply by four and be pretty close.
$56 - 7 pcs gutter - 70’ plus 10.5” end caps with drop, for each end(4) plus seams will be close enough for 36’ tunnel
$72 - 48 gutter hanger - (50 pk) Hanger every 24” or 18” for snow load areas and we have snow and ice.
$50 - 6 gutter connectors
$50 - ends with downspout drops
After tax, $250 (so much for $50 worth of gutter)
They say a downspout drop every 40 foot and going by that’ I’d need two, one for each 36’ side but since I want the middle to be the high point, I need four. I’ll be able to catch a heavier rain without overflowing.
I don’t need any downspouts because the gutter won’t be much higher than a tank is tall.
“I don’t need any downspouts because the gutter won’t be much higher than a tank is tall.”
I had ‘short gutters’ on a Pole Shed at my other farm. I possissioned 55-gallon blue plastic drums that once held pickles for the UW Commissary on either end to collect rainwater. Worked like a charm.
We were in Menard’s a few weeks ago - I had finally talked Beau into getting me those ‘Gutter Guards’ to keep all the debris (read: CR@P!) from clogging up the filter on my rain barrel. We have a metal roof and exactly TWO gutters/down spouts on the whole house. It’s not like it was going to break the bank.
They’re not installed yet, of course. EVERYTHING is a ‘project for another day’ when it’s hunting season. ;)