Lifting truss with FEL

[Everhard]

Do it. I did it with my little CK20 back in the day. Trusses for my 20x34 carport were all put in place using it. And I was working by myself... CK20 is rated at 1100lbs at the pins so really no different. only thing is make sure you've got a counter-weight on the back depending how heavy your machine is.

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[oosik]

I've seen trusses delivered both ways around here. Set on the ground - set on the building. I have seldom used the Kubota M6040 to lift/set anything - up high. Anytime I start a project that requires lifting something up high - I worry about things. Like adequate counter weight on the 3-point - how level is the ground where I will be lifting - how soft is the ground where I will be lifting.

However you do it - be very careful.

 

[ovrszd]

I’ve never seen it done that way either. I’m not sure how you would go about setting a whole bundle of trusses on the roof either. Dumping the trusses on the ground by a roller trailer and then setting them on the building usually with a telhandler or crane is the only way I’ve seen it done.

Same here.

I'm wondering if there's more going on than meets the eye. For example, the builder coordinating with the truss company and a crane/telehandler for a specific time/date delivery?

Most builders here have their own telehandler with various work platforms, forks, jibs, etc. to use during construction.

But I've never saw the truss builder set there all day while they unload trusses one at a time and set them in place.

There's a local guy here that has a truck mounted crane with various attachments such as grapple/chainsaw. He trims trees primarily. But also has a jib to put on the crane for truss setting. He's called on the larger structures that the telehandlers can't reach.

 

[ovrszd]

We built a truss boom with an electric winch on it to set our barn trusses on 12' walls. Worked great.

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Very nice!!!! Excellent pictures. Good work!!!!

 

[ovrszd]

Here's a pic of Cully's truck at work. You can see where the truss company unloaded the trusses. Locations determined by the builder.

 

[gstrom99]

Silly question, but where i live, when they deliver trusses they set them on top of the structure with the same crane they unload the trusses with. No charge over delivery charge. Then we walk the trusses into place.

When they delivered MY trusses, they just slid them off the back of the semi-trailer to the ground. A good tall jib pole might work (I made one to mount on loader - only needed to put them on top of a 10' wall), but at 17' up it will be hard (especially if you don't have a way to unhook them).

 

[ovrszd]

When they delivered MY trusses, they just slid them off the back of the semi-trailer to the ground. A good tall jib pole might work (I made one to mount on loader - only needed to put them on top of a 10' wall), but at 17' up it will be hard (especially if you don't have a way to unhook them).

I dug thru all of my construction videos hoping I had one of a truss trailer unloading but I do not. First time I saw it I freaked out. Simple process of unchaining the banded truss stack, get in the truck, put it in gear, dump the clutch and abruptly drive away. Pretty amazing how far a stack of trusses will flex without damage.

 

[JCoastie]

I dug thru all of my construction videos hoping I had one of a truss trailer unloading but I do not. First time I saw it I freaked out. Simple process of unchaining the banded truss stack, get in the truck, put it in gear, dump the clutch and abruptly drive away. Pretty amazing how far a stack of trusses will flex without damage.

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[ovrszd]

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Great video. That trailer is kinder than the ones used here. They don't have the "roll back" feature. They are simply slope decked trailers with roller.

Thanks for posting!!!

 

[4570Man]

Here's a pic of Cully's truck at work. You can see where the truss company unloaded the trusses. Locations determined by the builder.

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There’s a local drywall delivery service with a truck like that. They charge a big premium for their work though. I’ve found it to be cheaper to take the free forklift delivery and pay the hanging crew extra to move it inside.

 

[ovrszd]

There’s a local drywall delivery service with a truck like that. They charge a big premium for their work though. I’ve found it to be cheaper to take the free forklift delivery and pay the hanging crew extra to move it inside.

Don't quote me on this, but I think Cully charges $100 p/hr. Cheapest worker on the job when setting trusses.

 

[check]

How long are the trusses? When I built my 24‘ x 24‘ garage, we just handed up the trusses upside down, and then flipped them up one at a time to attach them to the previous truss. No machinery necessary.

 

[camshawn]

I have a stump puller that has a 2” receiver that I added a piece of 2x2 tube to for lifting. I made a longer tube (5’) to lift the frames in the picture.
Here, roof trusses are usually delivered by boom truck with a short trailer. Some truss companies here have their own setup complete with pilot car, others hire it out. When we had trusses delivered, a contractor truck with a crane and a 30 foot trailer swung them onto the top of the wall for us. I just braced the stack and then moved them into place a few days later.

My friend who is in a small town had trusses delivered on a trailer with rollers to his front yard and he arranged lifting them to the walls. Cam

 

[sd455dan]

That was my other thought. I have a winch on the tractor and could easily put a pulley on top of the vertical pole. Right down the road they sell old telephone poles that could possibly work well.

I was also recalculating - I only need it 10' long instead of 14 since the FEL can lift to almost 8'. Perhaps 2 boards screwed together at 10' long would get me there. I think I have a 50#bag of feed - maybe I'll put that on the end just to test.

That is how we did it on my shop, mounted a HF winch at the top of a couple 14' ? 2x6's screwed and bolted together.
Stabilized it (triangulated) with tie downs to the sides of the bucket. Walls are 14', trusses were 30 feet long.
4/12 pitch (Similar to Farmer 495) I did make top and bottom brackets to attach the 2 by's to the Ford's bucket. It actually worked pretty well.

 

[4570Man]

Don't quote me on this, but I think Cully charges $100 p/hr. Cheapest worker on the job when setting trusses.

I think the last crane I hired was $175 an hour. The drywall delivery boom truck was like $8 a sheet more than having lowes drop it in the driveway. I can have the hanging crew carry it in for $2-3 a sheet.

 

[KennyG]

Should be a piece of cake. I set my ShelterLogic trusses this way with the vertical posts attached so they were heavier than yours and I have about a 1000 lb lift capacity. I have a 3 point attachment on my loader so I can use my boom pole.

 

[JCoastie]

Pretty neat process you all have come up with.
For these smaller operations, without a bunch of people walking the roof, how do you unhook the truss from the boom you have up in the air with the tractor in use? Like in the picture directly above?

 

[gstrom99]

Pretty neat process you all have come up with.
For these smaller operations, without a bunch of people walking the roof, how do you unhook the truss from the boom you have up in the air with the tractor in use? Like in the picture directly above?

I used a tow truck "J Hook", kinda like this:

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You need to spread the lifting points as wide as possible, so maybe with longer chains if it's a real wide truss. Didn't have to climb up to un-hook anything.

 

[ovrszd]

My friend Cully, who's truck I pictured above, is very good with controlling his boom. If he has a single lift point on a truss he uses a chain with a slip hook. He holds the truss until the workers have it stabilized. Then he slackens the chain and jiggles the boom to get it unhooked. Swings back to the pile and hooks the next one. Is then waiting for the workers to signal him that they are ready. Goes amazingly fast. Cully carries a joystick box on a sling around his neck. He can hook them and hang them by himself.

If it's larger trusses he uses a boom with chains on each end. His truck boom is then chained to the middle of that boom.

 

[Sonny580]

This is how I put my 60' x 120' shed up.

Moose Building Shed by sonny reese, on Flickr