Screwit, I'm building trusses

[franz]

Back in April we had a large pine land on top of one of the work trailers, and rearrange the roof. It was just one of the million trailers like it, aluminum sheets, plywood floor overhead door and steel roof that is on every construction site. Since the ceiling was in pieces it was real easy to see how the trailer was originally built.

When I got to looking it became real difficult to understand how trailers like it have a 20 year life. The big thing about them is every piece transfers load to another piece, with the exception of the 1/4" drywall.

Since one of my buds is a professional tin knocker who hadn't worked in months I had him swing by and help me fix the trailer enough to keep it in use another 10+ years.

The roof/ceiling is supported every 24" with a "truss". There is 5" of bow in the factory truss giving the roof just enough slope to cause water to run off. That proved it doesn't take near as much as architects and engineers claim to hold a roof up.

I ripped some 2x 6s into strips slightly heavier than the originals and some 1/4 plywood and set a jig up on an I beam. A few hours later I had 6 replacement trusses ready to slip into place.
Once I had them mounted I decided to bowstring them with 3/4" steel strapping to increase the weight handling capacity.[/img]

Once they were in a couple new sheets of steel went over the roof and a layer of rubber got glued on. I'm told the rubber will outlast the roof.

Now I'm about to fabricate a shed type container for some lawn tractors. Officially according to law it will be a NotA building. NY has very strict rules, laws and definitions what a building is. I figured out a way to create NotA buildings.

This one will be made from a free 12 x 12 overhead door that got replaced. That will give me sidewalls. The end will be a collection of pannels from Hauserman steel office partition.
The NotA foundation will be 2 pieces of 6 x 6 galvanized guardrails and uprights will be span beams from pallet racking or pipe. Headers will be pallet rack uprights.

I'll be damned if I pay 14 bucks for a compressed straw roof rafter so I'm going to make some more bowed trusses.

If I could figure out how to insert pictures on this board there would be a picture of my beautiful homemade trusses.

[markkw]

The pictures must be hosted by a service like www.photobucket.com where you'll click the "upload" button and follow the instructions from there. Once you have the pic's saved to your album, when you point the mouse at the pic, a drop-down menu will appear in which you'll "copy" the bottom most link and "paste" it into the text area where you want the pic to appear ... unless you're on the slow flowing turds forum where pictures within the text seem to be overly confusing to a certain individual ...

The bottom link from the photobucket menu has the code included with it, if you're trying to post a picture using only a link that starts with "http://..." it's best to use the "reply" button rather than the "quick reply" block - paste the link in the text area, highlight only that link then click the "insert image" button which will insert the IMG code in for you.

[franz]

I tried that bucket of crap thing once. They wanted money.
I don't have no damn money and Hopey McChange says I can't even have a raise in mySocial Insecurity cause the cost of living ain't going up.

Figure out how to get a set of crayons in this damn toolbox.

BTW, it's Slow Flushing Turds.

The head hairdresser there don't like pictures they don't host cause people can substitute porn. He's skert somebody might have a pic of him and his girlfriend who happens to be married to a retired Army officer. She can't leave her hubby because she won't take the pay cut.

[markkw]

PB is free, always has been, it was photohost that wanted money - you only have to pay for PB if you want to upgrade to one of the premium packages. Got TinyPic.com too.

[franz]

Well Mark, since you're grabbin one of them floridian toods, I went and did it my own way!

I printed the picture thumbtacked it to the wall and ran a hunk of beaded chain to a hole in the computer cabinet to link it to the net.

Now you should be able to see it.

I guess it was bound to happen transplanting a Pensyltucky raised boy to Floridummy. Something in the water down there gets a boy's brain all furhoodled.