Building Roof Trusses

Fantastic job ! Love your assembly line technique. Your work pace (smooth and steady) and I can tell you both take great pride in your work. Enjoying life and building your home. I was very impressed and enjoyed watching !

I'm in the truss business...and I admire and congratulate these people for doing this with their own talent and skill...wish the world had more people like this

Absolutely brilliant. Thank you for taping and sharing.

Amazing video. I need trusses for my barn. I am going to copy you as much as possible! I read through many comments. I don't know what year or what country some of these people live in but in 2023 this will save me thousands of US dollars. And being able put them up myself is another game changer. Thank you so much for spending the time to do this video!

Excellent team work. Thank you for sharing. Lots of “Laid Off /Unemployed“ truss builders commenting here.

Hats off to both of you! Very impressive team work and ingenuity. Can't thank you enough for sharing the knowledge!

*Thanks for the video!* Was nice how you kept the music at a lower level so we actually got to hear the sounds of the tools, processes, etc

I remember a person doing this same method 35 years ago. When I was a lot younger. It impressed me then . I still think it make a very good job. Keep doing what you's, are doing. Its spot on work .

I been working on construction for a little be over 20 year. The most greatest thing about my work is not how I do it, but who does it with me. You guy are a great crew Y

Some folks don't appreciate all the work and labor you put into making one of these, not to mention the calculations, layout, and set-up for each. I personally enjoyed each step in your make. It was nice watching a perfectionist do the work knowing it will last a lifetime. Good job. - Thanks for sharing.

Obviously these are some people that enjoy the peaceful process of building their own home. Awesome stuff!

Excellent job guys! I hope the project turns out to be everything and more that you have envisioned.

B-Spot has made the right choice when building a assembly line, the simplisest and fastest way to get all the same truss, and to help him flatening the wood piece Thumbs up for your work mister !

Beautiful work. Love the way you do things.

Thank you for sharing, the music matched wood working perfectly.

What a nice, informative video. Thank y’all!😍

Love to see your finished house.

Thanks for the video .... Fantastic Job!

I love the quality and time taken to make these. Looks like somebody enjoys doing work too.

Love old school woodworking. I build sheds time to time and I build all my trusses like this.

What a great job, Its so nice to see people that take pride in their work. !!!

Excellent job, clean, simple and accurate while making things easy and smooth on your self, no need to sweat to get a quality job done, that's good crafmanship !

This was a great video you two! I absolutely loved the work space and the jigs you created for these trusses. When I do the rafters for my carport this fall, I am going to follow your example(s) and do them the same way. When I did my roof trusses for my home, I did not have this elaborate system. But this time I will. Thank you for the video and I'll keep looking for back for references.

That is a ton of trusses to build!!! Fantastic job!!!

Well as a diy'er in a no permit required area this opens up a whole new realm for me on my upcoming 2 story build! Great work!

Really nice job! Great informative video.....I'm doing a self build now and really enjoy watching others doing self building.....always learn something new!

I Ben working on a truss yard for 12 years this is the best floor truss there I ever see great job

Good job! Having the table and set up jig pre-staged sure makes the process so much easier.

Beautifully done! Excellent Craftsmanship!

Great Video and Awesome they Staggered the joints! Lady using a flat trowel really should use a gapped one for better / more coverage

excelente Trabajo los felicito!!!!! soy de Argentina!!!!!......me gustaría ver otros videos de como terminaron su casa!!!!

Thank you for posting your videoJust what I was looking forI want to build a couple of trusses to hold up my green house glassNow I see how it's done.

Well done. Nice team work too!

this is so beautiful. building house own hand

To be honest, I was about to comment on how long it is taking to build this.. but the more I watched.. the more I appreciated the fine work this team is doing.. and so, ... great job man! I appreciate your work.

Fantastic. I enjoyed that you took your time to show us every step.

Great job you two.👍👍👍

best sailors are standing a shore, dont mind the negative comments ,yourre doing a good job.

Excellent craftsmanship.

Great job, gave me ideas.

That was really awesome. A little at a time and the job gets done.

Wow nice job! bet those beams are better than ones you could buy! Thanks for the video!

This is great! I'm watching all the steps in intricate detail without having to listen to wind noise or some hillbilly humming and hawing or rambling on about his kids and pets for twenty minutes. Pay attention to every move this guy makes. He isn't wasting motion.

Really enjoyed the video, the table and the assembly was very professional great to see a good Craftsman at work

Quiet, methodical competence. It's certainly helped me.

This is cool! The only thing I would do differently is using self tapping torx drive screws, only pre drilling on the ends to prevent splitting out.

best built I've ever seen. great job!

Just amazing how some strings and music chords explain so clearly this process.

Holy crap, those are awesome... I had a jig I built on the floor of my garage that I built, but I was younger then, worked good, the table is neat idea.

What a gorgeous view! I assume that is your wife with you. Great how you guys work together!

Nice job. The space from roof to ceiling is huge. Would have great insulation properties. Nice video.

I like the build a lot. Good steady work pace and a job well done. Great satisfaction at the end of the day and years to come. There is a lot to be said for doing it you self and the pride you get. Not to mention the bonding you have with your partner. I yip my hat to you two. You should be very proud.

Love the tissue around the PU glue nozzel. Must try that, anything to keep it off the fingers!

Best work!👍

Good job well done , very strong assembly wish you the best in your home !

Nice job, super good looking. Thanks for the education.

love the video, that is really informative!

Hello guys very good excellent spectacular many congratulations for such work. I send a great greeting to all from Buenos Aires Argentina 😎👍👍

Why all the Hate? This guy is a craftsman and does it out of love. I bet those walls are straight as an arrow. It reminds me of my early years trying to stretch every dollar to get a job done. Sometimes you have only have enough money for materials. Hell, I used to make windows out of 2X lumber and duct connections out of flashing stock. At least he's working!

I like watching construction work during my guitar lessons 😉

Great attention to detail and care.I don't know if these would pass inspection but I do know I'd rather have these on my home then a pos so called engineered truss.when I was young I worked at a large truss company. Nobody could read a tape measure and half the employees were high or drunk the other half were fresh out of prison. Absolutely no care everything thrown together plates banged on and ran through the roller. Everything made to precise minimum standards for what they were being used for. Great job on this thanks for the share

As a builder for 35 years and designed and built over 200 homes I just need to say to all the engineer experts who wrote the negative comments, this design will handle anything mother nature will throw at it. Sure I would have done it differently but for what he is doing it is just fine.

It was nice to watch what I assume is family teamwork (Pa and Ma) assembling the trusses for the family home. A brief primer on the building's dimensions and how the trusses dimensions were arrived at would have been a solid plus, but nevertheless it was nice to watch the careful assembly process. It also it would have been nice to see the price difference between placing an order with a truss company and the actual do it yourself cost savings. Truss companies typically deliver on-site either onto the ground or hoist the pieces it the air to assist the builder; how did these hom owners get their pieces into the air, did they rent a crane? Since these weren't huge triangles, the homeowners were by necessity setting these against a either a ridge board or ridge beam; it would have been nice to see how the pieces all fit together and the logic behind their quality craftsmanship and assembly. This was a well thought out process. The work table's surface had all the essential anchoring points to hold the truss assembly securely in place throughout the assembly process using precut materials for assembly. And as for the Gorilla Glue, I really love that stuff as it bonds strong; just don't forget to spritz the work surfaces with water as the water is the catalyst for the glue's ingredients which then turn to a foam ensuring even coverage. All their wood materials appeared to be kiln dried so crowning is likely not that big of a deal. Has anyone else ever noticed that none of these do it yourself videos ever mentioning crowning either the exterior wall studs (crown out), the joists (crown up) or the rafters (crown up); why is that, are more folks than we know building crooked, wavey, and bowed structures?

Very well done video. Easy to follow what you were doing. Having jigs is the key to making consistent multiple trusses. I'm getting ready to make some for a large carport. Will not need to be quite as stocky built as what you did here, because it will only be holding metal roofing. Love your background music BTW. Hate to hear the crazy stuff some people put on their videos. Thanks for sharing!

Great video,thanks!

Excellent work. I can tell you are not a contractor because your work place is clean and tidy and you work with care and understanding, you are a craftsman.

looks like a lot of work, but nothing better than the satisfaction of do your own stuff all the time.

Excellent Job !!!! Loved the way you put those together.......very nice.

I bet these trusses are incredibly strong!!!

Lots of undeserved mean comments in here. What's wrong with taking your time when building your home? i dream of doing that. Thanks for posting.

Awesomeness!!! Keep up the video's

Nice even pace makes perfect work. Good job!

This is great if you don't live in a municipality where strict binding codes require certified Engineered trusses. Where I live, you have to have a building permit and a contractor's license to install a towel bar in the bathroom (almost).

I’ve built many buildings for stables etc and to get through engineering here in the U.K. we almost always have to put the timber the other way on in trusses. Even if I design something it has to go to an engineer to be approved then building control will be happy. I cannot get it passed off as a rule with screws, only these long large gauge builders mate type. We almost always have to use nails and on the gussets either PVA or cascamite. Don’t listen to the negatives that say your slow, I’d take a neat slow guy that’s right first time every time over a race through and fuck up kind of guy every day of the week. Nice to see people doing a neat job

Thats how you do it ! Great job....

love it! thank you for sharing

look at that view at 15:14. Wow!

I did something similar however I used PL 400 on all the points where one piece joined another.

I am stealing that fixture table!! Thanks a ton

thanks. great job and very educational

well built, just concerned about the use of screws in some crucial areas (assuming they are just typical wood screws as to say they are not structural screws). Also would wonder if it would pass inspection. I would have built these on edge instead of on face though, you would have the same material use and more strength. You would also have more area for your plate connectors to glue and fasten to making the plates hold everything together even better. Hope all works well.

Switching tools is tiring & inefficient. Pre--drill, then screw (whoever's around).

Just beautiful.. Safe and smooth work.

Good looking country. Good work.

I know this is an older video. I read through some of the comments and some of them prompted me to comment. First of all this guy does excellent work. I am a DIY'er myself. I don't permit a lot of things I build myself. I usually tend to over engineer what I am building anyway. In my opinion the whole permit thing is a racket. I have seen prefabricated roof trusses. They don't look much different than the ones this guy built. I bought a brand new house around 10 year ago. It was a spec home in a subdivision but I watched it being built nearly every day. I watched the the roof trusses and walls being dumped off the back of a flat bed truck. I listened and watch the south of the boarder carpenters slap together my house like a jigsaw puzzle. I bet none of them could cut a roofing angle. I fail to understand that if you are building something on your property, that you own, why does the city or county need to be involved? I am not dense... I understand that nobody wants to have a cattle barn down town but other wise leave us DIY'ers alone. If it falls down around our ears, it's nobody's fault but our own. There, my 2 cents.

Most city and county building departments require pre-engineered sealed and stamped truss drawings but I would wager these home built ones are much stronger.

This was both relaxing and amazing to watch.

I really enjoyed watching your video. Good work!!

é inspirador! ;-)

С чувством толком, с расстановкой 👍

NICE JOB ! BEAUTIFUL WORK !

Thank you for this nice and clear video! )))

Also, should be nailed; nails have greater shear strength.

Just so you know, I an am engineer, and I cannot say these are good or bad, I have no idea of the load or pitch, so I hope you had them engineered by a professional. Trusses are not something to just fudge. A few points of interest; that was whitewood being used, the truss companies generally use #1 SYP, which is much, much stronger. But they also do not turn it on it's side like that. 2x4s on flat are much better for the sheathing, a sheet of plywood sharing 1-1/2" truss is actually worthless from a material science perspective, often they get much less than 3/4". If you read the specs on all plywood, it says that no fastener should be used within 1-1/2" of the edge. The same could be true for all lumber, the end cellulose fibers are sliced open, they need to be sealed, but even if they are, they are first to rot from mold and fungus. Wafer board is the worst of all products since it cuts all the cellulose fibers, all the ends are exposed, it acts like a sponge, that is why is swells so much when wet. Last point, a nail, even ring shank nail not very strong. Any screw is 15X stronger than a comparable nail. Easy to test, try a claw hammer on a nail head, try the same on a screw. That is true for all construction, so if you are in doubt of the strength of something, always use a screw. Screws damage the wood much less, since they wind the threads around the cellulose fibers, not cut through like a nail.

Just when I think I've seen it all, Someone comes and brilliantly shows another way. Solid construction. Would love to see the outcome of the roof/ceiling. Where how the light fixtures, electrical, venting, ducting so for the and so on. Oh, insulation.

I agree with the craftman ship coments, but the trusses should have been built with the long side of the 2x6 in the vertical plane. the construction that you made will most likely be strong but it will flex up and down much more. It would not have taken more material either.

I'm going to build my own trusses now after watching your video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Very organized quality workmanship. Why is on side square on one end and a 45 degree angle on the opposite end of the roof truss?

This is actually quite watchable if you run it at 2x speed. At the end of thought to my self, Yay! 5 down and 25 more to go -- then I looked up. Very impressive.

Great! very detailed job. It's inspiring to me to do my own house and cut some expenses of maneuver because I have an adjusted budget to do it. Thanks for show us you work.

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