A how-to on homemade wood truss construction
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25 bucks to build a each truss?! In 2021 you can even look at a 2×4 for less than 20 bucks. Smfh.
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Nice trusses! I hadn't thought about using glue to have the gussets hold better. I'm going to build an 18 x 24 off grid simple cabin probably just one big room and maybe a closet and little to no plumbing, and little to no electrical since it's literally in the middle of the woods with no power, well, or septic, and No driveway up to it, and no permit haha. It'll be a deck based platform on beams resting on concrete blocks so it'll be at least 20 inches off the ground so I can batt an R 30 under the floor. I need to build trusses with an 18 foot bottom chord, the pitch can be whatever I want. There's no way I'm going to buy 13 trusses and carry them all the way through the woods lol. Maybe 4/12 would be good so it will be easier to blow and won't use as much roof sheathing as houses that could almost fit 2 more stories in the attic. How about using OSB for the gussets? I'm not planning on using any plywood for this project but OSB for sheathing, thin crap for the walls and thicker stuff for the subfloor and roof deck. Or I guess I could possibly do rafters too but then would have to batt the ceiling but it would be vaulted.
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The bottom piece of wood that runs 26' how did you connect the piece of wood. With gussets?
we used to build our own trusses in this state in the 60s 70s till they require engineered trusses now
Thanks for sharing your ideas and process, what span were the trusses? Tks.
Is it ok to use two 2*4 for the bottom of a roof truss for a large shed? Or must the bottom of Trusses always be one long piece of lumber?
Over the years I have seen quite a few trusses broken at the metal gussets. Never, broken at a wooden gusset. Structurally, the larger the wooden gusset, the stronger, but again, I've yet to see even small and somewhat undersized gussets be the site of a break. When a patch is needed for a broken metal gusset plate, guess what, it's an oversized plywood gusset.