Remember doing this about 16yrs ago. Worked for a company building roof and floor trusses. Had massive jig tables with movable stops for different roofs. Wasn't a bad job at all.
I was fortunate to get to tour a truss plant in the 1980's that was building trusses for me. We were doing a lot of long span and different wood grades had to be used in different parts of the trusses. Behind the scenes, it was very interesting.
As a man that works floor truss line at a truss plant, It's amazing to see how much more together other companies have it! Tell you what the frustrations at my plant are ridiculous! Management so stupid they blame us for not making our bonus when the fact is he forgets to order the plates and the lumber.
Thank you Aric for sharing. Always nice to see how something is manufactured. And for any idiots that like to criticise another mans hard work, go out and get your hands dirty. Blue collar is the backbone of any civilisation. We can survive without white collar, but absolutely nothing gets done without the movers and shakers. You have my respect Aric, from an old man that grew up on a farm in central Texas.
OUR COMPANY USED TO MAKE THESE, I WAS DAN THE PLATE MAN. DID THIS KIND OF WORK FOR 19 YEARS. WE MADE OPEN WEB TRUSSES FOR BUILDINGS LIKE WALMART, PETCO, HOME DEPOT AND ETC. NO HOMES. WE FIRST USED ALPINE PLATES AND THEN WE SWITCHED TO MI-TEK PLATES. WE MOSTLY MADE OUR TRUSSES OUT OF FINGER-JOINTED GLU-LAMS. FROM 18 INCHES IN DEPTH TO FIVE FEET IN DEPTH AND THE LONGEST OPEN WEB TRUSS WAS 100 FEET LONG . THE WEBS THAT WERE MADE WERE UP TO EIGHT 2X4'S GLUED TOGETHER. THEY WERE HUGE AND HEAVY. IN FACT, ONE MEASURING FIVE FEET TALL X SIXTY-FIVE FEET LONG FELL OVER ON ME AND DARN NEAR KILLED ME. THAT WAS THE LONGEST JOB I EVER HAD. THE COMPANY WENT OUT OF BUSINESS IN 2011, IT WAS IN BUSINESS FOR 60 YEARS.
You all definitely build floors a little different. We put our tops and bottoms on with conveyor belts, put the webs in, hammer the plates on the top, pull up the truss place the other plates on the bottom run it through a press and stack it off outside. I build floors every now and then I am usually a stacker. I stack the roof truss's that come down the rollers.
I worked for a place called NorCal Lumber and this is exactly how we built floor trusses my absolute favorite job I've ever worked I started out building roof trusses then learned floor trusses and never returned to roof trusses
Thanks Ryan! Its been years since i posted this but people always need to criticize shit. I just verified my name with youtube to comment. a three man crew is better but the guys to the left are temps and didnt have anything better to do. It was obviously a new setup because the further guy on right (seth) was marking for blocks. this set up was as least 30bf (at least 20ft long (as theres a splice) 14 webs 4 blocks plus the rim blocks) and we built 3 in the 8 minute video. figure it up ...22.5 of the same truss at 30bf each thats 675 bf with 4 guys on the table 1 sawyer and 1 component guy thats still 112 bf per man hour. and i can guarantee every plate was as per engineer stamp and not sticking an inch past the truss to cut you hand wide open.
I seen one manufacturer with a more efficiently designed machine for floor trusses, this machine seems older than I know and no idea who designed or built it or when it was manufactured. But it still gets the job done, least it has a place in the center for plates. I had the experience for a month of assembling roof trusses but that is all the place designed and made, it was a between job for me and only 8 short hours for $9/hr back in FL in 2005-6.
You did see the plate presser when he went from one end ofbthe table to the other. That was the press. Like the above poster said warped boards arent much an issue as long as everything is jigged and your webs are placed right. Warped boards arent ideal but for sure can be worked with.
@@gerrylavallee4713 more like code minimum for deflection or the framer failed to install a strong back thru the floor trusses ............ that never happens , It's always the a truss problem.
I'm considering floor trusses for my next house. I wonder if you could reduce their height while maintaining the same level of deflection if you could assemble a cross/90 degree truss on site that works in conjunction with the parallel joists. Or perhaps the deflection quality could be improved by using a larger joining plate - while that would reduce the opening size for MEP, it might not be necessary on each join.
Oh man theres soooooo much more that goes into it. Framing and layouts and markings and materials management and electrical and plumbing and windows and caulking and painting and landscaping... and doing it all up to code! I'm a software guy and a homesteader and just built a barn this year and that's after years of practice projects
They probably have a slow day, they work good but I would finish all the job and clean up or help around somewhere else. The recommended footage for me is 5000 a day 8 hours
Depends on overall build quality, schedule inspections, and location to water, but yes I would say 30 unless its zinc coated and would go longer. Even less if a good disaster happened to come by and rip up that nice work.
There are straight iron nails out there in buildings well over a couple hundred years old. Those plates are an alloy and will last longer than your great-grandkids.
@@toddmiller5322 Well, I'm not having grandkids, so, NAN (not a number). lol. Funny thing about old trusses, the oldest ones's i've seen have square wooden pegs, and not even nails. Scarf joints, I believe they are called. the wooden pegs drive the two pieces together.
@@toddmiller5322 They "might" last longer, just like a piece of OSB placed in the pyramids would last 3000 years. That same piece of OSB or thin sheetmetal plate placed in a Florida salt water swamp would last day. One thing to think about with nailing plates is fire resistance. The metal plates concentrate heat and their short nail depth results in them failing long before the wooden members would fail on their own.
The are stronger as it adds far more points of anchoring of the boards. That's why they are required for hurricane zones. In Florida a house will fail inspection if they don't have these plates installed. They are far harder to come undone than a nail or screw. I'm using these to add onto my house, and if you mess up and put a board in wrong, or you change your mind on layout, it's a pota to remove them. Sometimes they will actually rip chunks out of the lumber. The plates have teeth that are 90degrees to the plate and quarter turned with more teeth on them. The primary teeth are about 1/4" long. Your local big box hardware store should carry them in the Lumber section.
really.... Its glue, if fasteners fail the glue wont keep it together. I believe the glue may help with the squeaking from deflection but nothing structural about it
@@danbiss87 My point is that a truss that also uses glue will always be stronger than a similar truss that doesn't. Of course it is used to supplement Screws and nails but Most pros who do Home framing will tell you that where glue is used, the structure is noticeably stronger. To gain that strength advantage from a relatively inexpensive product is a no-brainer.
If the trusses r made in a jig why would/could a floor not come out level/flat ? Mine came out bowl shaped 1 1/2 “ to wavy each being a different floor
It is wood and the longer the piece the more prone to bending. After mounting the floor planks u can use self leveling compound if the difference still bothers you.
silversoulja chillinunderpalmtrees I dont know about you ..but everything I need or do costs something. This was actually some guys from the wall line. The truss line stayed busy (mainly because they were a bit slow paced) we would jump from wall panels to floor trusses to ewp floorjoists/lam beams depending on delivery schedules. it was a little mindless but that let us have fun and talk smack all day
Cira Darnoc I'm not knocking fellas for working I'm just saying for me I couldn't stay focused. I'm a carpenter. I can't handle factory line work. I ran a plasma cutter to build webs for steel buildings once. I quit because they wouldn't let me listen to my audio books with my head phones. I hated it. shit money (12.50/hour) 12 hour days 7 days a week, loud as fuck, dirty as shit all the time.
silversoulja chillinunderpalmtrees I kinda miss it 4 10s 5am-3pm. fridays if we wanted OT. no rain days. it was still hot as hell or cold (its expensive to heat 400,000sf) but if you were competent...it was mostly thoughtless and decent paying
It’s not bad at all Im a table leader making good money great benefits holiday pay, paid time off short and long term disability and I work around some guys that we work on individual trusses 25ft and under and we mess around tell jokes through ought the day. I make what a good amount of college grades go to school to make.
lol what's with all the criticism on their speed? Maybe they're going slow on purpose for demo purposes, or it's just a slow day!? If these aren't due for delivery for, say, another month, but this is the last project they have until the designers get submittals/approvals back for fabrication, then why rush? I'm not saying waste your company's money on labor, but you don't need to be a speed demon. We've all been there.
Nucor's Vulcraft plant requires everyone to work at full speed even if only for one hour. They get paid by quantity/weight produced and working at full speed keeps workers up to par. When the economy crashed slow work would make employees accustomed to working slow when production went up. Besides the employees could get paid more for working fast and getting the job done faster and still getting paid and then go home early so, same pay less hours.
As a small business employer I know the need and benefits of speed. Lean manufacturing requires more efficiency and productivity. This slow attitude is a problem in today's society.
What’s funny is if you go get these at a box store it says in big letters...NOT FOR TRUSSES. But if it’s blessed by an engineer then I guess they suddenly become good. Not that I don’t think there good for it, just pointing out the hypocrisy of it from a general consumer point of view
No. When you hit one plate with your hammer, it shakes the whole truss. Any plates you laid on the truss would be immediately knocked out of the correct position.
What type of wood and grade do you guys use? And the metal brackets, what size are they? Be helpful to know as I am going to try make some myself for a renovation project I am doing.
You might think so... but somehow some guys could still mess them up....their drawn for certain loads as well as ductwork opening locations.at least 1 of them needs to read the print to make sure plates and webs are right.
як таким тормозом можна бути .. не щоб зняти камеру і показати що і як там забиває пластіни .. не хватило розуму .. а щоб камера їздила і від отдачі полотка аж очі насілує то норм ....
I think you asked what presses the plates. .. this machine is a pacific automation floor gantry. It is basically a heavy steel drum that is guided by the rails of the table to press the plates
+Alex Cintron 5000 pcs that's good I work in truss plant and we do 4500 pcs and it depends on the sizes and what type of floor trusses im building and I heard about your truss plant, I know people from there too
+mex1cancholo what company do you work for? Our crew is a 3 man crew,notice the guys on the left have way too much time on their hands, only 1 person needed there to stack the trusses
+ESGAR MONTALVO I'm the production manager at a truss company in Branford Ct, I can give you good ideas on how to improve more in production. My guys used to work like in this video. I tried it with three employees but it didn't work out like i wanted to. So I started seeing the steps they did, and how many times they touch the lumber. I reduced all of it and my production went up.
Very rarely. We run a full plant 5 days a week. ( Usually 6) two shifts at 10 hours a day. We do floor and roof. But a machine could never produce what we can
+G. Ramiro Sosa not really, it can done faster with four guys but every needs to be pre-stage, I run truss factory and we built a truss like this big in 2 mins or less
three man crew if you want to hurt someone. I have done this job in the past, four-man job, especially on longer trusses. And we were a lot faster as well.
Ya I would go a bit krazy after a few days. When I was a young apprentice my boss made me grind the weld seem inside a tank for like over a month. What a fuking asshole. I almost quit. I had lots of shity jobs when I was young. Now I'm 51 and have my own woodworking business. Now I'm getting wrinkles but would not want to be young again. Shitty boss, financial insecurity, girls that dump you, etc
Damnn you guys are slow i work with ufp one of the top truss companies in u.s and let me tell you we do 9000 to 11000 board feet a day in floor trusses
I see the comments about the monotony, or lack of any thought that goes into manufacturing these trusses. Sad. THERE IS NO SHAME IN HARD WORK.
When I was a kid, people that built things were praised. Now they are looked down upon. Absolutely absurd.
Remember doing this about 16yrs ago. Worked for a company building roof and floor trusses. Had massive jig tables with movable stops for different roofs. Wasn't a bad job at all.
In all sincerity men, I appreciate your work...thumbs up from me !!
I was fortunate to get to tour a truss plant in the 1980's that was building trusses for me. We were doing a lot of long span and different wood grades had to be used in different parts of the trusses. Behind the scenes, it was very interesting.
As a man that works floor truss line at a truss plant, It's amazing to see how much more together other companies have it! Tell you what the frustrations at my plant are ridiculous! Management so stupid they blame us for not making our bonus when the fact is he forgets to order the plates and the lumber.
Thank you Aric for sharing. Always nice to see how something is manufactured. And for any idiots that like to criticise another mans hard work, go out and get your hands dirty. Blue collar is the backbone of any civilisation. We can survive without white collar, but absolutely nothing gets done without the movers and shakers. You have my respect Aric, from an old man that grew up on a farm in central Texas.
OUR COMPANY USED TO MAKE THESE, I WAS DAN THE PLATE MAN. DID THIS KIND OF WORK FOR 19 YEARS. WE MADE OPEN WEB TRUSSES FOR BUILDINGS LIKE WALMART, PETCO, HOME DEPOT AND ETC. NO HOMES. WE FIRST USED ALPINE PLATES AND THEN WE SWITCHED TO MI-TEK PLATES. WE MOSTLY MADE OUR TRUSSES OUT OF FINGER-JOINTED GLU-LAMS. FROM 18 INCHES IN DEPTH TO FIVE FEET IN DEPTH AND THE LONGEST OPEN WEB TRUSS WAS 100 FEET LONG . THE WEBS THAT WERE MADE WERE UP TO EIGHT 2X4'S GLUED TOGETHER. THEY WERE HUGE AND HEAVY. IN FACT, ONE MEASURING FIVE FEET TALL X SIXTY-FIVE FEET LONG FELL OVER ON ME AND DARN NEAR KILLED ME. THAT WAS THE LONGEST JOB I EVER HAD. THE COMPANY WENT OUT OF BUSINESS IN 2011, IT WAS IN BUSINESS FOR 60 YEARS.
Looks like a job that can be automated.
One or two guys will operate the machine to make the same.
Roof trusses are fun as hell to build, this would get old very quickly.
You all definitely build floors a little different. We put our tops and bottoms on with conveyor belts, put the webs in, hammer the plates on the top, pull up the truss place the other plates on the bottom run it through a press and stack it off outside. I build floors every now and then I am usually a stacker. I stack the roof truss's that come down the rollers.
Gordon's?
That is a job that is very overlooked. Its all weather and even with rollers a heavy job.
I like the job for the most part I love working outside. But after doing it for 4 years its def beat my body up.
I worked for a place called NorCal Lumber and this is exactly how we built floor trusses my absolute favorite job I've ever worked I started out building roof trusses then learned floor trusses and never returned to roof trusses
I thing those guy's perform very well, they are consistant and no need to rush , it's not a race,
Thanks Ryan! Its been years since i posted this but people always need to criticize shit. I just verified my name with youtube to comment. a three man crew is better but the guys to the left are temps and didnt have anything better to do. It was obviously a new setup because the further guy on right (seth) was marking for blocks. this set up was as least 30bf (at least 20ft long (as theres a splice) 14 webs 4 blocks plus the rim blocks) and we built 3 in the 8 minute video. figure it up ...22.5 of the same truss at 30bf each thats 675 bf with 4 guys on the table 1 sawyer and 1 component guy thats still 112 bf per man hour. and i can guarantee every plate was as per engineer stamp and not sticking an inch past the truss to cut you hand wide open.
112 bf an hour is ass try 350 per guy Heart truss babe
@@jamesstacy2353 ???i dont follow.
@@jamesstacy2353 yeah how?
Maaaaan, I wanted to see how the truss with the twisted plate ended up looking. 😢
I seen one manufacturer with a more efficiently designed machine for floor trusses, this machine seems older than I know and no idea who designed or built it or when it was manufactured. But it still gets the job done, least it has a place in the center for plates. I had the experience for a month of assembling roof trusses but that is all the place designed and made, it was a between job for me and only 8 short hours for $9/hr back in FL in 2005-6.
Very honourable work. Too bad their hearts aren't into it too.
Looks like fun, I would love to do this for a few days.
Dang, I wanted to see the plate presser too.
On that last truss that 2x4 on the right was hella warped and twisted.
not anymore
You did see the plate presser when he went from one end ofbthe table to the other. That was the press.
Like the above poster said warped boards arent much an issue as long as everything is jigged and your webs are placed right. Warped boards arent ideal but for sure can be worked with.
wow we got to see hammers swinging........... that's great training
No shame in paying your bills. Also they learn alot and can answer questions. Maybe build their own homes some day.
I owned a house with these floor trusses and some rooms were like a giant trampoline. The bounce in the floors was unbareable.
that's because the designer used the code minimum for loading
@@gerrylavallee4713 more like code minimum for deflection or the framer failed to install a strong back thru the floor trusses ............ that never happens ,
It's always the a truss problem.
I'm considering floor trusses for my next house. I wonder if you could reduce their height while maintaining the same level of deflection if you could assemble a cross/90 degree truss on site that works in conjunction with the parallel joists. Or perhaps the deflection quality could be improved by using a larger joining plate - while that would reduce the opening size for MEP, it might not be necessary on each join.
wonder why they dont install the plates on both sides? .... nm i see the second part
I dig the pearl jam
What's going on when the bar comes down the line?
That bar is the roller press pressing the plates fully into position.
Informative video.. . I'm a truss designer it's a pleasure if I can help in any case of trusses designing
This is great. Where do we get to buy these things?
I would appreciate it if you could tell me what the minimum thickness of the nail plate used for floor joists is.
Look up Alpine ITW
Nice background music
Interesting process. Is this by chance Piercefield in Erlanger Kentucky?
In russia, they say that you can endlessly look at three things: fire, water and how another person works when you are resting
It's repetitive, but once you learn it I believe you can start building your own little house, why not. Keep learning.
Oh man theres soooooo much more that goes into it. Framing and layouts and markings and materials management and electrical and plumbing and windows and caulking and painting and landscaping... and doing it all up to code! I'm a software guy and a homesteader and just built a barn this year and that's after years of practice projects
The loud buzzer that you here is warning everyone to be clear of a roller that is pressing the steel truss plates into place.
They probably have a slow day, they work good but I would finish all the job and clean up or help around somewhere else. The recommended footage for me is 5000 a day 8 hours
@Damnit Bobby lmfao
WHAT IS THE MACHINE ON THE MOVE DO TO THIS GOOD PRODUCTION LINE
It presses the plates into place
Can do 20 metre truss span floor and roof with wood
What did the machine do?
I could build trusses just like these but the building inspector would not approve them.
The weak point might be the lifespan of the plates. How long do the plates last? 30 years?
Depends on overall build quality, schedule inspections, and location to water, but yes I would say 30 unless its zinc coated and would go longer. Even less if a good disaster happened to come by and rip up that nice work.
Floor trusses in my house are 35 years old and still look new
There are straight iron nails out there in buildings well over a couple hundred years old.
Those plates are an alloy and will last longer than your great-grandkids.
@@toddmiller5322 Well, I'm not having grandkids, so, NAN (not a number). lol. Funny thing about old trusses, the oldest ones's i've seen have square wooden pegs, and not even nails. Scarf joints, I believe they are called. the wooden pegs drive the two pieces together.
@@toddmiller5322 They "might" last longer, just like a piece of OSB placed in the pyramids would last 3000 years. That same piece of OSB or thin sheetmetal plate placed in a Florida salt water swamp would last day.
One thing to think about with nailing plates is fire resistance. The metal plates concentrate heat and their short nail depth results in them failing long before the wooden members would fail on their own.
those two on the left need to slow down!
😂
Does anybody know where I can purchase the wheel that runs on the top rail of that the metal shimon it that connects to roller
Are the steel plates stronger than framing nails or is it just a faster way of doing things?
The are stronger as it adds far more points of anchoring of the boards. That's why they are required for hurricane zones. In Florida a house will fail inspection if they don't have these plates installed. They are far harder to come undone than a nail or screw. I'm using these to add onto my house, and if you mess up and put a board in wrong, or you change your mind on layout, it's a pota to remove them. Sometimes they will actually rip chunks out of the lumber. The plates have teeth that are 90degrees to the plate and quarter turned with more teeth on them. The primary teeth are about 1/4" long.
Your local big box hardware store should carry them in the Lumber section.
No glue anywhere? These trusses will be inferior in strength to others that use glue in the process.
really.... Its glue, if fasteners fail the glue wont keep it together. I believe the glue may help with the squeaking from deflection but nothing structural about it
@@danbiss87 My point is that a truss that also uses glue will always be stronger than a similar truss that doesn't. Of course it is used to supplement Screws and nails but Most pros who do Home framing will tell you that where glue is used, the structure is noticeably stronger. To gain that strength advantage from a relatively inexpensive product is a no-brainer.
Какую нагрузку может нести такая балка?
2000 kg
Wondering why the upper chord member at 6:00 was not rejected.
With all the bracing inside that truss you won't see any of that twisting. You'd be amazed at the how much culled lumber gets used in floor trusses.
If the trusses r made in a jig why would/could a floor not come out level/flat ? Mine came out bowl shaped 1 1/2 “ to wavy each being a different floor
If the concrete slab is wavy the walls will follow as will the floor trusses.
It is wood and the longer the piece the more prone to bending. After mounting the floor planks u can use self leveling compound if the difference still bothers you.
You can also use shims although the work is a bit tedious.
@@anonymousbyproxy8250 I think adequate strong backs is the problem and of course the attachment of them. They don’t use enough of them !!
@@scottwebber652 . Indeed, that can be the reason too.
is the roller manually pushed? or electrically driven
Electrical on pretty much all roller no matter the manufacturer.
has any one tried these on a boat dock thinking about making some out of pressure treated
The gusset plates are all that hold this together?
Yep !
how could someone do this day in and day out. it's got to be mind numbing.
silversoulja chillinunderpalmtrees I dont know about you ..but everything I need or do costs something. This was actually some guys from the wall line. The truss line stayed busy (mainly because they were a bit slow paced) we would jump from wall panels to floor trusses to ewp floorjoists/lam beams depending on delivery schedules. it was a little mindless but that let us have fun and talk smack all day
Cira Darnoc I'm not knocking fellas for working I'm just saying for me I couldn't stay focused. I'm a carpenter. I can't handle factory line work. I ran a plasma cutter to build webs for steel buildings once. I quit because they wouldn't let me listen to my audio books with my head phones. I hated it. shit money (12.50/hour) 12 hour days 7 days a week, loud as fuck, dirty as shit all the time.
silversoulja chillinunderpalmtrees I kinda miss it 4 10s 5am-3pm. fridays if we wanted OT. no rain days. it was still hot as hell or cold (its expensive to heat 400,000sf) but if you were competent...it was mostly thoughtless and decent paying
It's honestly not that bad.
It’s not bad at all Im a table leader making good money great benefits holiday pay, paid time off short and long term disability and I work around some guys that we work on individual trusses 25ft and under and we mess around tell jokes through ought the day. I make what a good amount of college grades go to school to make.
una tranquilidad los viejos
I do this everyday Easy money I tell you that
А латинос работают медленнее.
How much ?
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Tried to remove a metal plate off a truss almost impossible
Joe Feraco . Your right about that... best is to get the claw of the hammer perpendicular to plate and roll the hammer end over end.
Just get a plate puller
And yet I've gone into atics to check the AC unit and seen them falling off the roof trusses
It presses the plates
Could I also ask the span and depth of these trusses in the video?
Probably 14" tall truss maybe 26' long. Cutting the webs will be time consuming. Itw makes metal webs
Thx... I guess if I template and precut the webbing it will speed me up considerably. Also make myself a jig. I need 67 of them ;-)
Damnit Bobby no, I bought I beams as have a little more flexibility with them.
Floor trusses can expand a 60' long stretch with no support. Although they are rare
Now we no how they do that Thanks
lol what's with all the criticism on their speed? Maybe they're going slow on purpose for demo purposes, or it's just a slow day!? If these aren't due for delivery for, say, another month, but this is the last project they have until the designers get submittals/approvals back for fabrication, then why rush? I'm not saying waste your company's money on labor, but you don't need to be a speed demon. We've all been there.
Nucor's Vulcraft plant requires everyone to work at full speed even if only for one hour. They get paid by quantity/weight produced and working at full speed keeps workers up to par. When the economy crashed slow work would make employees accustomed to working slow when production went up.
Besides the employees could get paid more for working fast and getting the job done faster and still getting paid and then go home early so, same pay less hours.
As a small business employer I know the need and benefits of speed. Lean manufacturing requires more efficiency and productivity. This slow attitude is a problem in today's society.
My dream job..
Dave Smith tf
Are those 14 inch floor trusses and how far can you span with a 14 inch floor truss?
What’s funny is if you go get these at a box store it says in big letters...NOT FOR TRUSSES. But if it’s blessed by an engineer then I guess they suddenly become good.
Not that I don’t think there good for it, just pointing out the hypocrisy of it from a general consumer point of view
one guy on the left needs to pre lay the metal pieces and another guy needs to follow him and tack them in place would be faster.
You still need to hold the plate when you hammer it...so twice the work.
Set it and hammer it. Done.
Not exactly
No. When you hit one plate with your hammer, it shakes the whole truss. Any plates you laid on the truss would be immediately knocked out of the correct position.
Bro i do this in my job and omg this dudes work so slow the team i work with are fast as fuck
I would go friggen nuts doing that all day every day....
You can see that same expression on dudes faces.....least they working tho
Bro I did tht shit for month and I was goin crazy I had to get the fuck out of there tht is a dead end boring ass job I tell ya
3 min x 1 floor blaaa slow guys
Juan Guzman making 20 an hr
Can I use those in a second floor?
Yes, they’re much stronger than joists and u can run wires, plumbing, and duct work through the space.
You can use them on the 60th floor if you want.
5:50 really low quality wood there!
I would have rejected it. Problems with that there in overall quality.
Just bent from stacking wrong it looks like. Nothing wrong with it.
What type of wood and grade do you guys use? And the metal brackets, what size are they? Be helpful to know as I am going to try make some myself for a renovation project I am doing.
Syp #2 mostly.. some call for #1 chords. The plates vary
Absolutely no thinking required.
You might think so... but somehow some guys could still mess them up....their drawn for certain loads as well as ductwork opening locations.at least 1 of them needs to read the print to make sure plates and webs are right.
Maybe. Just be glad that people build them for you.
Tell that to the 160 temps that came and went in 2019
I'd disagree there. Worked in manufacturing, plenty of thinking involved. Even on what these guys are doing.
What is the longest length truss i can get
40 foot max single continuous and be 24" (2 foot) depth.
@@Joshua79C what?
really only 40 feet? ive built 90 foot trusses
60' is what my plant goes to. Thats without any support walls just at the ends
Search Cascade Manufacturing Co. in iowa and look up their truss span tables.
cest looooooong !!!!!!!!!!!
як таким тормозом можна бути .. не щоб зняти камеру і показати що і як там забиває пластіни .. не хватило розуму .. а щоб камера їздила і від отдачі полотка аж очі насілує то норм ....
I think you asked what presses the plates. .. this machine is a pacific automation floor gantry. It is basically a heavy steel drum that is guided by the rails of the table to press the plates
@@aric7785962 It is very nice that u took the time to look on his comment.
I hate nailer plates!
Agreed, gone into multiple houses to check the AC unit in the attic and see nailer plates on roof trusses loose all the time that backed out.
Great video! NO talking or cheesy narration, NO LIKE and Please Subscribe cry babies. Just men making America great!!
What happens when the plywood gives out? Oh wait these are real trusses.
I might record my crew building floor trusses and we might exchange some ideas to more efficient...
ESGAR MONTALVOhi my name is alex i work on reliable truss plant in new bedford my crew building 5000 pcs at day my poroces to buil is 100% more better
Very nice. Could you upload a video of them building?
+Alex Cintron 5000 pcs that's good I work in truss plant and we do 4500 pcs and it depends on the sizes and what type of floor trusses im building and I heard about your truss plant, I know people from there too
+mex1cancholo what company do you work for? Our crew is a 3 man crew,notice the guys on the left have way too much time on their hands, only 1 person needed there to stack the trusses
+ESGAR MONTALVO I'm the production manager at a truss company in Branford Ct, I can give you good ideas on how to improve more in production. My guys used to work like in this video. I tried it with three employees but it didn't work out like i wanted to. So I started seeing the steps they did, and how many times they touch the lumber. I reduced all of it and my production went up.
c'est long !!! let's go production mauvais lay out = mauvais rendement
+62 mantap rek
I need 80, 20 foot long
Look pretty easy to me hahaha. I work in harder job then this.
No blood, no fast
Какая длинна?
Depending on design they can be up to 20 meters long.
Don't you know what a voice over is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They move too slowww
Yawn... these fella got me sleepy.
Interesting, but doing that all day everyday would get extremely monotonous.
Same with any general labor job lol it's work though
OMFG Kids stay in school!
That’s nothing we have to do trusses in 20 seconds
What kindve trusses?
@@chrisbuckley1785 it’s “kindov” not “kindve”
@@anonymousbyproxy8250 actually meant to say "kinda". In the terms we're speaking it should say "kind OF"
@@chrisbuckley1785 Greetings from NJ ! :)
@@anonymousbyproxy8250 PA here. 👍 greetings.
Whose this channel belong to, the dark skinned Mexicans on the left or the lite skinned young Mexican on the right?🤔 😐🇲🇽
Machines do this now
Very rarely. We run a full plant 5 days a week. ( Usually 6) two shifts at 10 hours a day. We do floor and roof. But a machine could never produce what we can
BOOOOOOOOORRRRRIIIINNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.
LMAO tht is a boring job bro
Painfully slow!
It can be faster and three men crew
+G. Ramiro Sosa not really, it can done faster with four guys but every needs to be pre-stage, I run truss factory and we built a truss like this big in 2 mins or less
mex1cancholo zee
three man crew if you want to hurt someone. I have done this job in the past, four-man job, especially on longer trusses. And we were a lot faster as well.
turn the sound off!
I bet the suicide rate is high there🤔
It's not bad
Ya I would go a bit krazy after a few days. When I was a young apprentice my boss made me grind the weld seem inside a tank for like over a month. What a fuking asshole. I almost quit. I had lots of shity jobs when I was young. Now I'm 51 and have my own woodworking business. Now I'm getting wrinkles but would not want to be young again. Shitty boss, financial insecurity, girls that dump you, etc
This is a joke compared to how fast we work at trussway
Damnn you guys are slow i work with ufp one of the top truss companies in u.s and let me tell you we do 9000 to 11000 board feet a day in floor trusses
what a joke no glue no screws weak!
Those metal plates are stronger than glue or nails
The glue and screws are installed at the job site willms99 ..... come on now, do you not know how your home/apt is built?
@@LegenddjtExactly. And plus screws lack sheer strength compared to nails.
You guys are so slow you're pissing me off.