Yup....
when we started with truss assembly all three of us, Myself as the main culprit, Grizz and Mark managed to nail together the first truss and skipped one crucial step... we forgot to measure the long chord from bird's mouth to bird's mouth, which needs to ideally be 12' 1".
several are 12' 3", one is 12' 1" one is 12' 11/2" and then there were the really bad ones: 12' 6", 12' 7" and 12' 9" !
mutter mutter (TOS violation imminent, aooogah, edit edit edit ) *sigh*...
Mark was a huge help in keeping me from going off the deep end today when we noticed one of the trusses just didn't Look right. Mind you, we're assembling the 9th of 11 trusses, with the goal in mind of my getting them up in the air tomorrow. get the tape measure, and confirm that indeed it was as 'wide' as it looked.
I managed to keep my temper under control, and Mark and I finished building that truss (cutting things a bit at the peak joint) and double checking the chord measurement etc...
We built the other two remaining trusses then broke for lunch at the field days. When we got back, we re-measured all of the trusses, and I'm hoping that we can pull those 12' 3" ones in a bit when installing them. Steve, Todd, Steve C, think that will work or will I need to rip into the remaining 3 or 4 which are 12' 3" and rework them too?
Mark, again, thanks for understanding my frustrations. I would definitely have been slinging something around with great force had you not been there to calm me down.
We removed screws which were securing a cross brace from the peak gusset, and then cut the trusses in half and trimmed off the now scrap from the old gusset. I cut more plywood to replace the gussets, and tomorrow I'll get someone to help measure the chord and then rework those three trusses for good measure. I'll add some plywood to the new cross bracing to fill in the gap left by the trimmed back old gusset. I wasn't going to get into pulling off the nailed and adhesive bonded plywood from the truss.
Then I'll be working on the platform I want to build to facilitate working 12' up from the ground.