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Harold in CR:
Possible.snow.load.that.bad.where.you.are?--Thought.you.lived.in.Texas??
Frank S:
--- Quote from: Harold in CR on December 08, 2018, 09:17:25 AM ---Possible.snow.load.that.bad.where.you.are?--Thought.you.lived.in.Texas??
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A miss conception of Texas weather in this part of Texas at least. On yearly average Texas does not see that much snow we are more prone to having ICE storms. However just this morning not far from me they have 6 to 8 inches of snow it will probably be melted off by this evening though.
We got nearly an inch of rain yesterday then during the night it turned to sleet it is snowing right now.
I grew up not far from here and I remember our once in a blue moon freakish ICE or snow storms, 1 year we had a storm that dumped nearly 2 feet of snow on top of 3 inches of ICE.It is not the snow load that does the damage but the weight of the ICE. 1 inch of ICE is like having half a foot of snow. It doesn't happen often and you might go for years and only see a few dustings of snow, then one morning you wake up and find a drift that has buried your pickup even though the actual amount of snow fall may ot have been more than a few inches.
But more importantly I want to make my roof and trusses strong enough so if I decide to I can suspend crane rails from them for a 1 or 2 ton bridge crane
Frank S:
Sometimes I feel that it would be easier though certainly not cheaper to build from scratch using new materials.
I finished #2 truss this morning then started #3 if I were using new materials each truss would cost me between $700.00 to 900.00 each plus the time to cut and weld everything. At least this way most welds are done I just have to add a few girts and join the pieces together with some additional repairs.
the truss on the ground was an end truss and had no diagonal bracing or girts so there was a lot more fabrication to it.
John Bouchard:
Good you salvaged that scrap when you did now that metal prices so high its hard to find so you use what you got. As far as roof sheathing old galvanized works great for shedding snow off roof. It also has that art-deco distressed look to it folks like.
Frank S:
I've now finished most of the trusses think I want to rebuild 1 more to have 5 that wy I will put them on 15 ft centers instead of 20 ft.
So I need to make 1 more like this one.
I made it double but also added spacer between the 2 halves and extra stiffeners this is in case later I decide to hang a pair of beams below them for the rails of an overhead bridge crane. It is so stiff I can carry it flat from the center and it does not have any bow to it.
Since I had another project to do that required me to change my welder over to the duel shield flux core wire I decided it ws a good time to build the Southwest corner column while I had the heavier wire in my machine.
I had an old 36 ft step deck trailer that I built back in 89 that I have been wanting to convert back to a 24 ft gooseneck so I cut the heavy upper deck off to use the main beams as part of the column in the shop to mount a brick crane on top of
This is how the corner post turned out.
To plant the post I dug a 8 ft deep hole 8ft by 8 ft
Here I am packing the wheels with slightly moist clay and portland cement
Now back filling the hole in 6" layers then running my plate compactor on each layer which packed them down to about 4 inches.
Many layers later I have only a few feet left to go
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