How to Build 36 Foot Steel Trusses 

thanks

@@CreativityUnleashed No problem

thanks!!!

I am not an engineer I just get asked to build trusses and I've been trying different methods out and often over building a little bit it's still cheaper than hiring an engineer but thanks

@@CreativityUnleashed There are a number of good videos that discuss truss types and stresses. Paul Kassabian has a good series and makes it understandable.

Since I'm not an engineer usually I design a truss and show it to an engineer and if they want some changes made I'll make them and then I build it usually there isn't a whole lot involved I often find the process cheaper to a little overbilled than to pay a bunch of people to try to optimize The design and it seems most engineers and people don't know how to optimize trusses there is always unknown factors

I am not an engineer so I can't say exactly are you going to have snow load ?

@@CreativityUnleashed yes adding snow load. It would be a flat sloped roof 38ft wide by 25ft deep. .with water running toward the 38ft side.

@@Super6ix06 Well I'm pretty sure you're going to have to either work with an engineer or find engineered design trusses and copy them

The arc-tan(pitch), or arctan(4/12) = arctan(.333) = 18.43 degrees

on small metal trusses like that I would consider using metal studs there quite a few methods that you can screw them together that works quite well

Are still on the DR island..?

@@everettcrescentreese7609 not just now but I should be back soon

in the past when I've tried to get engineered designed trusses I hadn't been able to sorry I can't help you with that if you find anything good I would be interested in it as well I mainly do calculated guess work quite a few of the engineers I've worked with don't exactly know how to do trust design as well so because it's quite complicated for a lot of people

@@CreativityUnleashed thanks for replying I found a few prints last night but they were more like sketches scanned and uploaded to the internet. A guy commented on here about a video an old engineer explains trusses in a fairly easily digestible way. I’m going to rewatch it. I’ve heard engineers have difficulty with trusses cause it’s so many cross members and it’s hard to figure out the load bearing abilities of the trusses with a lot of cross members.

@@dtezthompson5034 Yes I think I watched that video that someone mentioned. and there are also a lot of just unknown factors that are difficult to calculate in software or on paper

if you haven't looked at some of the other trust designs I've done more recently you may be interested in doing that also because I was testing out this concept for the first time I quite a bit over built them if it's 28 feet that doesn't require a whole lot to span

@@CreativityUnleashed amazing. can i email you?

im struggling with a roof design. how to contact you?

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-feUHaiL_FPw.html

it would be easier if I had a way to message them to you.

@@CreativityUnleashed thanks for responding so quickly

@@coloradowellness8534 you can message me on Instagram darren.johnson95

2"x2"x3/16" I think it was

I believe they were out about 12 or 14 feet can't remember exactly now

but I do remember the building was 55 feet long

Dominican Republic

yes

@@CreativityUnleashed that's my hometown, are you still there?

@@nrosario yes I do lots of projects in DR