Colorado - Page 670

Busy, busy!

 

Picked up the lumber for the roof trusses yesterday, figured out the angles and lengths, etc. Picked up two bags of flock raiser, 18% pellets at Big R. Price had gone up $2 to $17.99 per 50# bag.

 

A friend is coming over this afternoon with his DR power mower and will help get the tall skunk weeds under control.

 

Hopefully I will have time to put one or two trusses together as well.

Post some photos of the process there wsmith...I for one would enjoy seeing the progession from lumber to finished trusses.

Anybody here read this publication?

 

http://www.hobbyfarms.com/chickens-magazine/default.aspx

 

It is put out by Hobby Farms. You cannot subscribe, you have to get it at the news stand....

 

Anybody?

 LOL... OK.

 

I could send a photo of the lumber pile.......

 

I was asked yesterdayby a friend if I had ever built trusses before. My answer was ,"no". However, I did tell him that I am an Aircraft mechanic, and have built wood wing and control surfaces for wood and fabric aircraft. The concept is exactly the same. So I will apply that skill and knowledge to truss building. I will get some photos of the progress, hopefully this afternoon if all goes according to plan.

I have read it a few times. It has some interesting articles but it is one of those ones I only pick up if I see a specific article I want to read. It is actually the one that got me into owning chickens. Saw a copy with this beautiful white with black spots top hat chicken. Don't remember what the breed was now.

 I subscribe to Hobby Farms, but haven't read the "Chicken" publication. Didn't know it existed. At 5.99 per issue, that gets kind of expensive...

I got a copy from my staff in June for my birthday. Pretty pictures and articles good for beginners, but I would imagine anyone with much experience might not "benefit " much for the $6-7 price tag. It was a great gift, but I don't think I'd spend any of my money on it.

Mo

 

As a kid I spent my summers working construction for our family. My Grandpa owned a constrcution company in Billings Montana...I've built many trusses.

 

We had a wooden floor in the main shop, so if a project called for a new roof or remodel that required trusses, the job usually fell to me. I would calculate the angles and layout for the trusses. Then I would get some scrap lumber and nail it to the floor to lay out a to scale template for the trusses; then get to cutting and nailing. Once the template layout on the floor of the shop was completed it was cake to make trusses. The calculations took time and the template itself had to be  spot on...but after that was done the rest was quick and dirty.

 

I always thought it was a neat process.

On the topic of the Chickens Magazine:

 

Yes I would definitely agree that the primary target of the publication is the novice that is just getting into or is thinking about getting into poultry. 80% of the publication seems to be geared towards that individual and that level of knowledge of our hobby.

 

But in most of the issues, that I have read, I have  found at least one thing that I didn't know or was usable to me. So the steep price tag was worth the purchase of that issue. Not all issues have contained things that I found valuable, but the general reading and content is of interest to me.

 

They've gone from a seasonal publication (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter) to bimonthly (December/January, March/April...etc). I spoke with a representative on the phone yesterday and they had considered going to subscriptions, but then decided to make it a news stand only publication for the foreseeable future.....DANG!

 

 

...wondering if others experinced the same content findings; shared the same feeling of the publication???

Edited by Rock Home Isle - 7/24/12 at 10:19am

 Yup!

 

We would do the same for the wing ribs etc. Full scale template. I will review the angles, etc today before cutting....... Mine will be fairly simple. Plywood gussets, etc. Once I have all the trusses built, then we will install them and add the ridge, which will connect all of them together at the top.