You know, for all spring, and early summer, we've been extra cool and more rain than normal,
and we're right into that transition time to where we're heading back to normal. We're headed
for upper 90s and it's been sunny and warming up,
so I'm going to head out and work on these trusses before it gets really too hot on me.
So this will be the basic layout of my truss frame
2x6 top and bottom. Now these two are going to be for the center two, on both the east and west side,
so I'll have my the base layer of the two by sixes. I'll put in an OSB for the center and then another
layer on top. And then down the roof line, on two foot centers, I'm going to put two by six joist
hangers on It that'll actually carry the rafters in the roof. So I need four of these, so I need four
per truss, four trusses, I need 16 two by sixes cut to this pattern. So I'm just going to make
all these patterns and then I'll cut my OSB so I can kind of do this a little more production-wise maybe.
Now the end ones are going to be a little bit different,
but I'll do this first while I kind of have this in my mind.
So this is how my end joint is going to be that comes out over the wall
I've got that kind of figured out. For the top, I've got all those cut out. And then this
bottom framework to my truss, I've got all my extra pieces cut out here. And my two OSB pieces
are going to break here at eight feet, so this tapered end here I've got cut out here.
Since these trusses are 18 feet long, my second OSB is going to stop right here at 16 feet.
And then I have my last piece of OSB cut out here.
I've got all those pieces cut, and my first piece of OSB
is going to be four foot. Well I'm four foot, seven, but that's going to come down to the first eight
foot, and have all of those cut out here, ready to go. And where my OSB stops at four foot and
I'm gonna have a little filler stuck in for this corner, and I've got all those cut out here as well.
So I think I'm ready just to start assembling. Now some of these are nice straight boards. some
Now some of these are nice straight boards. Some of them have slight bends.
So I'm going to lay on my first OSB. In this case, this top board
is the straight one, so I'm going to line up my OSB for that one. My bottom one has about a half inch
little belly to it, and I'll pull that up into place, using my OSB for a straight edge,
and bring this all together. First of all, staple my OSB here full length
and I'll set my second tier of
two by sixes and then I'll go through and nail all that.
flip this over and nail from the other side.
In order to keep my joints tight, I did bring a pipe clamp out.
I'll use that to keep all my joints snug before I start to staple OSB down.
So,I'm going to span my joint.
Sandwich my end. One thing about these being on a wedge, they go in snug.
Try to hold this in place so I can turn it over.
That should do it for a center truss.
So I've got my four center trusses done, and starting to do my end trusses.
And they're basically the same except I'm putting in nailers for the tin as it comes up on the outside.
And then I only have to put my joist hangers on one side, instead of both sides.
Well, this little gin pole setup is something I built back before I had this tractor.
It's actually designed to fit on the back of a pickup,
and then where I have this chained up to my grapple, actually went back
to the bed of my pickup. Kind of worked like a wrecker truck a little bit,
but it allowed me to pick up objects that were too heavy for me to pick up.
I have this winch on it that's rated at 3,200 pounds,
so it's pretty handy in it's day, but I haven't used it for a long time.
So I decided to put it on the bucket
of this tractor to help me pick up these trusses to put them on the building.
Well, there just happened to be two holes in the back corner of my bucket
for a half inch bolt, so I just went and
bolted the back end of these poles right into that bucket
and so I can tilt it with the bucket itself
and I can raise this pole with the grapple as well.
I have this type of a grab hook on the end
that I can hook onto my strap that I picked up my trusses with,
so that's just going to allow me,
I'm thinking, to put these trusses up on the walls of my pole barn.
Now I am in kind of the bad habit
of doing things by myself I just kind of pick away at it as I can,
out here as well as in the shop.
I just have got used to it, but I need a second pair of hands, and a second pair of eyeballs,
so I think I've got somebody that will come out and help me set these trusses.
Well, all in all, it went pretty well. Kind of surprised how well it went, with my makeshift hoist
on my tractor, but had plenty enough height. And my friend Steve came out, and that extra set of
eyes and hands was just the right combination to get these set up there.
So now I get to put in the
rafters, or some call them purlins, or whatever they are.
All the two by sixes on my joist hangers.
So, I'll continue on and kind of fun to see it come together.
Appreciate you following along.