Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by fisch

  1. fisch

    Truss bottom cords with large knots

    Thanks for all the input. I'll probably put a strap over the area or maybe a doubler. Thanks again.
  2. fisch

    Truss bottom cords with large knots

    Two trusses in my garage roof have a large knot equal to half of the cross sectional area in the bottom cord. Two years ago I built a garage. I used engineered wood trusses. It has 4/12 slope, 30' span, 4 ft spacing, with 2x4 bottom cord. Should I assume a 2x2 bottom cord would have done the...

Part and Inventory Search