Classic- saving money by having the crane on site for one day and detail out later. Need to install the lateral bracing as you go and not the just the perlins
I never understand that logic. Some guys its like it eats them alive to rent a piece of equipment one more day. Makes no sense. Rush and work like hell to get the equipment off site, and then thats when it bites everyone in the ass
We had this happen to us on our shop. The building was up, the trusses secure, the walls and roof had all the 2x4 ready to attach tin on the next day, even chained the building down overnight, the next morning I was the first guy on site, and the wind had caught it through the night and actually threw the building about 4'
They should've put a cross brace on both ends and tie them from the top on the otherside as well. Lack of experience on the builder. As an old timer in construction you always prepare for bad weather if you can't get the trusses properly secured and brace the roof and exterior than you wait till the storm passes.
Damn, hate it for the owner. Lots of extra $$$$$ to replace all those busted trusses. The bright side is he's got a headstart on his firewood pile for the the winter!
The planet I’m from the builder would blame Trump. Then the earth or Mother Nature. Any contract I have ever seen absolves companies from acts of god; however, the camera shows it was poor workmanship during the process.
That was the first thing I saw- no diagonals. We always put them on while we were flying the trusses. Also, although it's hard to see, the rat runs ( interior engineered bracing) are part of crane day.
The same exact thing happened on the farm across the road for the same reason. But this entire structure hit the ground. Then they had to salvage lumber, completely clear the site, and start from scratch. I just shook my head.
One of the reasons we now almost always set trusses in sections on the ground. Can have them all fully braced in every direction you can think of. Its also very much faster and safer bracing at ground level. Then when the weather is right hire a crane for a couple hours and swing all the sections up. Only have to tie the sections together up there but that doesn't take real long. And if a wind comes along they're quite okay.
Lets now wait another month for Trusses...Go go go, don't worry about bracing them, we gonna let the storm pass and fix it after. I mean the crane is expensive lol
Yeah, those beautiful lattice walls with no bracing. They will plop down like a bunch of dominoes. If the trusses were braced, they’d have acted like a sail and folded the walls down along the length of the building. This was a clusterfuck as soon as it was above-ground.
At the beginning of the video, it appears the rafters were already flexed beyond their elastic limit laterally, on their deep web areas from the continual wind force; a precursor to imminent failure moments later, as the wind speed didn't abate. Live and learn; fortunately, no human lives were lost.
The walls with no bracing were a disaster waiting to happen as well. With the nice heavy roof structure on top of it and some good wind, that whole roof would have ended on the ground with walls intact, just dominoed along the wind. A building that large with no interior load-bearing walls needs a box structure for walls. Like VAB at KSC.
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The horizontal beams do nothing, the side walls act as an infinite truss because they are in every direction radially. You can save a lot of money and eliminate the horizontal beams, and just use plywood sides. Old barns were designed in box form, as they used vertical boards as siding vs plywood. Over time, each vertical board would act as a hinge, and they would rotate either CW or CCW depending upon which way the wind came from most of the time. These boards eventually formed parallelograms until finally the barn would fall.
I dont have the spec sheet in front of me. maybe cross bracing was not required. but that sure did not look like 60 mph wind. Maybe it was short nailed? did not block as they go and had decided to block after all the rafters were put up? blocks might have prevented the bottom cord failure? that is what I think. FAILURE TO BLOCK. properly blocked truss system is hard to budge.
Where are you seeing so many of them? Just curious because I have built them for over 20 years now on the East coast and they ALL have bracing in the trusses.
@@bradleysimpson9819I am up in the northeast. My girls have been riding horses for 15 years and I have seen a lot of these arena barns and I never saw one with proper truss bracing. There was some lateral bracing but never proper cross bracing. You should start a channel showing how to do it properly.
So who's responsible for the damages... was the homeowner building this or did they hire someone? Was this a matter of not properly securing the lumber otherwise the wind wouldn't have collapsed it?
The next video is titled: "HOW TO BUILD A POLE BARN." I suppose that the people who built this one should have watched that video before they got started.
In the early 80s in Rosedale Alberta we lost a riding arena we had framed up due to our boss being an idiot. We rebuilt it but didn't get paid for nearly a month. When the boss said sorry I'm broke we took every piece of equipment on site then we dropped into the one and only bar at the time round there and let the lunatic owner know our boss had been dating his wife for 2 months then we called his wife and told her. We insisted on sheathing the walls before laying trusses but he said we were pussies and stupid. We are licensed carpenters and we are stupid? He got his lesson but not sure if he learned from it. Cheers 🇨🇦
No diagonal bracing on the trusses. They violated the basic rules for setting trusses. I hope the contractor had good insurance. What a waste of time, materials, and labor!
Negative. That is not even close to Morton truss design or the walls. That's your typical lumber store discounted building that relies heavily upon the steel sheeting for overall strength.
Trusses are 4' oc and some engineers dont require a "cross bracing" with this style. Only purlins and ratruns and possibly a few web bracings. if this storm blew through this is what can happen. Not the builders fault...just mother nature doing its thing.
Bracing bracing bracing. The hurryer you go the behinder you get not much gain just throwing it up in a day w a crane if you aren’t going to do it right in the first place pay me now or pay me later you gonna pay lmmfao
If you design buildings like sails…don’t be surprised when the winds do what winds do llllol also this ain’t a 60mph wind. You can neither walk nor record audio at those speeds lol get real. Pine framing sucks and everyone knows it
