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Cutting the span to 25' is an excellent solution, but not one which ET members were at liberty to suggest. But good for you; let's hope...

You could make the truss symmetrical. You could drop the bottom chord and reduce headroom. You could reduce roof slope. You could...

Why not simply change the truss configuration to something sensible?

You certainly would not want to specify that particular bonding agent. You have an issue with open working times where the repair has to...

Both of the selected designs appear much too shallow, but they should be checked by calculation, taking into account the actual dead and...

If it doesn't work as two simple spans, use one simple span. That appears to be the original intent of the fabricator. BCLL is noted...

There's no way with the software currently in use, but the resulting forces and reactions are clearly wrong as shown. When supports are...

There is one potential problem with this detail which has not been mentioned. Wood joists will shrink with time; if the top of steel...

If the pole barn is a farm building and if your location has a farm code, use that because its structural requirements are usually less...

It would be better to brace the third or fourth bay from each end in order to minimize temperature effects.

Wouldn't like to be the window cleaner on that building.

Correction, that would not work as the holes would not be similarly spaced when rotated 45 degrees.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. No, we have not, but it is sure as hell not intuitive.

Not really; every second truss is pinned at one end only, but the roof deck prevents adjacent trusses moving in opposite directions.

A combined footing could be used as shown in black outline. A concrete pedestal (red shading) could be used to reduce footing depth and...