Fram A Roof On The Ground

Don t shy away from lifting up packages of 8 trusses at a time 16 material to brace them together.
Fram a roof on the ground. And they are really easy to set at least in the situations i ve experienced. Another way to stage it on the ground if your not going to frame anything in just preassemble packages is to take some joists and build a rim board floor to set them on. This assembly can be used as an anchorage point for installing conventional fall protection. Measure your seat cuts.
Then it occurred to me that my crew and i could eliminate the danger and discomfort of framing and shingling a roof by doing everything on the ground. Line up the square with the plumb line then rotate it 180 degrees realigning the square on the other side of the. Once the ground assembled roof component system is installed install ground bracing to the first truss in the system as outlined in b1. While you re at it some carpenters.
I was more than a little excited by the idea. This kind of multi tasking shortens the entire build cycle as the mostly completed roof is set in place as soon as the walls are ready to receive it. Building on the ground allows us to have a team working on the roof right from the beginning of the project rather than only starting the roof once the foundation and walls are completed. You should be able.
Each subsequent truss can then be hoisted into place installed and braced. Simple cottage hip or gable roof would be faster to just frame in place.