Women Build Trusses Sat.May 15th

Yeah for good weather! We were sure ready for it.  To begin the work day there were only 4 volunteers - not nearly enough to lift and set trusses.  After the initial concern, more volunteers began showing up and the work began.

Nailing into the hard yellow pine of the truss chord proved quite difficult as well as pounding through the metal truss gusset. This crew of women were troopers and really had to use those muscles.

By the end of the day, all of the trusses except the gable truss were up- half were nailed in place and the others were stacked and ready for Tuesday's crew. 

I was interested in seeing how we would like the metal bracing that we used. I discovered MiTek stablilizers in an online article. Mi Tek was great to work with and they shipped enough product to do the home for free so we could trial their product. As their video claimed- the stabilizers saved time. They created exactly 24" spacing and were easy to install. A win for us!!

    

Vic talked Jennifer the homeowner into climbing up onto the trusses to see the awesome view of the area. It really is quite lovely with open farmland directly across the street and trees all around the subdivision.

A much deserved kudos to Victor for working patiently with everyone who volunteers. Actually- sometimes more teaching than building happens at times on this work site.

Tuesday- the rest of the trusses...