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The Canada Plan Service prepares detailed plans showing how to construct modern farm buildings, livestock
housing systems, storages and equipment for Canadian Agriculture.
This leaflet gives the details for a farm building component or piece of farmstead equipment. To obtain another copy of this
leaflet, contact your local provincial agricultural engineer or extension advisor.
Figure 2
lower chords, preferrably where webs join, but not over 2.4
m (8 ft) on center (Figure 6). The crossbracing shown
provides support for both the web and lower chord
longitudinal stiffeners. Special bracing of the long
compression web of a single-slope truss is shown in Figure
7.
1 trusses at
1200 mm (4 ft) oc
2 truss lower chord
stiffener or walk plank
(up to 2400 mm oc, if no
ceiling)
3 38x140 mm (2x6)
blocking between
end trusses (see 6)
4 longitudinal stiffeners for
compression web
members, see truss plan
5 cross-bracing, 38 x 140 mm
(2 x 6) typical not over 3600 mm
(12 ft) oc across endwall)
6 cross-bracing should be at corners and
center of wide endwall doorways to
stiffen door track and header (see
M-9341, Sliding Doors)
Figure 6
Figure 7
1 38 x 140 mm (2 x 6) blocking between end
pair of trusses
2 38 x 64 mm (2 x 3) longitudinal stiffener f or
compression web members (see truss plan)
3 38 x 140 mm (2 x 6) cross-bracing above and below 2
4 38 x 140 mm (2 x 6) block between 3
Figure 8