Wood Pole Barn Trusses

For example you might use a 35 spreader bar on a 70 span truss.

Wood pole barn trusses. Steel trusses offer increased strength faster installation and a longer life compared to wood frame pole barn trusses. See some projects blog. Their programs will allow for trusses to be placed on 12 foot or even 16 foot centers and their engineers will place their engineer s seal on the drawings to verify. The manufacturers of the steel roof truss plates also referred to as gussets or gang nails provide the engineering design for pre fabricated wood trusses.

Should i go with wood or 12 or 14 gauge steel trusses. Attic trusses are great for living space or storage space. Trusses 2 o c trusses can also be set 4 o c for steeper roof pitch appeal but eliminating attic storage and flooring building 1 and building 2 building 3 for similar attic area pics. Trusses from 8 to 80 clear spans.

They are spaced every four feet. Clear spans up to 80 feet. Beware of kits that space their pole barn trusses more than 4 on center. Large span trusses require multiple pickup points using a spreader bar on the crane.

We provide angle iron steel trusses in gable lean to and header styles. Each do it yourself pole barn kit sold by diy pole barns includes wood pole barn trusses ranging anywhere from 12 feet to 40 feet wide depending on the structure. Everything you need to build the perfect space. I came from the prefabricated wood roof truss industry having spent nearly two decades either having built them myself been a designer managing or owning roof truss manufacturing plants.

We can help you design pole barns to meet so many needs we supply a wide. Pre welded purlin cups predrilled bolt holes and included mounting hardware for fast easy installation. Our pole barn trusses are engineered to be placed 4 on center. I am frequently asked questions regarding our wood trusses.

These pole barn trusses are much harder to set in place and the greater spacing can displace the load causing the trusses to fail.