Putting Up Roof Trusses By Hand

For example the width of the building may be 72 75 inches 184 8 cm.

Putting up roof trusses by hand.

I made it to the end of turkey hollow. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. On saturday august 6 to help install the roof trusses. It s used to safely handle and flip trusses by hand.

Dad came up on friday night august 5 and mike s sister and brother in law kathy and mike weissner were due to arrive at 8 00 a m. For this you can use metal gusset plates and attach these with the help of nails and glue. Dad mike and i got up around 7 00 a m. If you are installing the trusses with hand then it is very much important use effective tools to join all members perfectly.

Workers manually move the first truss to the end of the roof and stand it up positioning it on the corresponding number on the wall plate. I decided to head into town at about 7 10 to get some ice. Write on a spare sheet of paper or a section of exposed wood. Measure as precisely as possible down to the 1 4 inch 0 64 cm 1 8 inch 0 32 cm or 1 16 inch 0 16 cm.

Having enough helpers and having the 2x6 truss blocks already installed really helped mak. Now when you are done with construction of roof trusses the only thing that you have to do is to take them to the roof safely. To make it easier you should carefully lift the truss upside down so that it can be turned right into place once they are above the roof. Use a pencil to jot the width down somewhere.

These 1 3 wooden strips are used to hold the trusses temporarily in place on a 24 layout. We set these 32 foot trusses by hand without help of any equipment. If you do not have a crane for lifting then all your work must be perfect prior to lifting the trusses to the top floor. I like to cut these at 30 so the ends don t split once you nail them in place.