I've never heard of this. Trusses are unloaded here by rolling them off a truss trailer onto the ground. I'm guessing your trusses are very, very expensive if the builder of them is required to set them on your structure?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.
I wouldn't hesitate to give it a shot, I believe it will work, we set much heavier trusses down here with a 10' joint of 2" galvanized pipe slid onto a bale spear.I'm building a small shelter for my RV. The scissor trusses weigh about 50lbs. I need to to lift them 17' at the top of the truss or 14' at the underside center.
My plan:
Use 3 14' 2x4 screwed together (poll) and ubolted to 1 pallet fork with a hook on the 14' end.
I use the front end loader with the pallet forks to lift into place.
Weight of the trusses and "Pole" is about 92lbs.
Can a tractor/front end loader that can lift 1000 with the forks on have the ability to lift the 50lb truss at the end of a 14' pole?
I have other ways to do this, but this sounded fun and a challenge.
Common practice in the Pacific Northwest. I've also seen it on some track home builds in Arizona and California.I've never heard of this. Trusses are unloaded here by rolling them off a truss trailer onto the ground. I'm guessing your trusses are very, very expensive if the builder of them is required to set them on your structure?
I've never heard of this. Trusses are unloaded here by rolling them off a truss trailer onto the ground. I'm guessing your trusses are very, very expensive if the builder of them is required to set them on your structure?
Common in my area as well.Common practice in the Pacific Northwest. I've also seen it on some track home builds in Arizona and California.