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A Sad Tale and What You Can Do to Help- Truss Failure

A Sad Tale and What You Can Do to Help- Truss Failure

Looks pretty good, doesn’t it?


Disclaimer – this is NOT a Hansen Pole Building.

This version (same barndominium) does not look quite as nice:

What happened?

A failure of welded up steel trusses to be able to support what I would call a minimal (roughly 12 or so inches) amount of snowfall. Luckily, there were no occupants when failure occurred.