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Originally Posted by intermediate_noob
Are 4x4s overkill for the horizontal braces for this or would bigger be better?
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For a ten foot span with a total of 225 gallons of water on them? A pair of 4x4's is way, way underkill.
You're moving into the territory where just slapping things together with framing lumber, without doing the engineering calculations, is asking for trouble. 'would re-think this, and support the beams every couple of feet or so, or do the engineering work so you know exactly what's going to happen.