Log Truss, build it upside down?

Your complete guide to beautiful, structural, log trusses, built upside down in an adjustable steel fixture, be my guest and copy it! Presented by Tenonizer's A Piece of The Woods.
Camera Girl & I met in the early 70's when we were staff members at a children's Bible camp, and soon after graduating High School I went to work residential home builder/general contractor who put me through my apprenticeship to become a Journeyman Carpenter.
By the time 1978 rolled around we had married, produced 1 tiny infant, completed my 4 year carpenter apprenticeship program, become a Journeyman Carpenter, purchased 40 acres of farm/forest land and moved "up north" to pursue a dream of building Scandinavian Full Scribe Log Homes.
Over the course of the next 14 years we built 10 full scribe log homes, did the the carpenter work and giant log trusses for a convention center and produced 2 more offspring. Also during that time we developed the initial tenon cutting design that would eventually birth Tenonizer Technology LLC. and built our first high-bred Log Accented, Conventional Built Home. Incorporating what we considered the best of both worlds, we put log posts & beams, log floor joists, a log circle stairway and log handrail on the inside of the house, and low maintenance, highly weather resistant ruggedly handsome product on the outside of the home.
Then came our second year of high-transition; 1992. We sold the 2 homes we owned, purchased a remote chunk of woods/water property a bit further north and began the business called Tenonizer Technology LLC. Over the next few years Tenonizer developed an assortment of log furniture/log handrail building machinery which was sold and shipped across the US, Canada, and Newfoundland. There was radius shoulder tenon cutters, from the simple TC 22, the giant and totally automated TC 338, and the compact but fully fast and automated TC 300. There was also sanding machines, log corner notcher's, tilting column drill press, and laser guided drills. We pressed to put the best, log furniture, log handrail, log accent, processing/building ability within reach of the average homeowner, builder, contractor and shop owner. We built and sold a lot of stuff.
Next came the beginning of instructional video portion of our endeavor, Log Furniture 101 was the first video we produced in the late 90's, with 2 more Log Handrail and Stairway Log Handrail videos close on its heals.
Shortly after 9/11 struck we teamed up with a producer who assisted us with the Outdoors Channel TV series A Piece of the Woods, a 13 episode series which aired on the Outdoors Channel in 2004, we then fitted portions of that series which was broadcast on PBS. In 2013 and 2014 the bulk of that series was placed on our KZbin channel, Tenonizer, log furniture, timber frame, and Life.
It is our pleasure to have you join us on this journey

[@alec4672]

Wow I've been here just a small shot across the river from where I live.

[@Choski34]

Holy shit! Advertising for everything and the kitchen sink!

[@1932cheytruck]

I really like the jig but I bet the winch is your favorite thing

[@Tenonizer]

Thanks for the comment Robert S. The winch is salvage from a OSB manufacturing plant that I had rebuilt, 3 ton with power travel, very nice, can you tell it is a favorite?

[@danishamericanwarrior5202]

Rite on. Not to many like to take the time and build a jig to scribe the right way in my opinion. This is the way I build my log trusses.

[@Tenonizer]

Sometimes the longest way around is the shortest way home; well done Finius!

[@vimeel4420]

I love this art

[@tommavrakos]

Great video

[@Tenonizer]

The upside-down build is a concept I received from log builders in Colorado, and we applied it to log trusses, built 40 to 50 trusses in that fixture... it is the easy button, thank you for your perk!

[@bugnfront]

Great vid!

[@gary24752]

Have you heard of using lasers to do what the string is doing?

[@Tenonizer]

Did you know the industry saw what I was doing and copied it by making a laser line and rotational lasers? And they never paid me any royalties! How rude!

[@draketwolf9008]

I seen the video and like what I see in how to make log trusses. I am building a home out of stone myself and would like for my trusses to be out of logs but not quite sure how to go about it. Would you make a small video in how to place them in? I am also trying to build it with less modern inventions and more like the way they have done 100 + years ago. Been mostly looking at old renasance homes but have not seen many with log trusses. Could you do a video about this to show me how it could be done or point me in the right direction?

[@auntievintage]

I’ve watched your video several times as we get ready to build our cabin. Thank you for posting it. It’s encouraging. We are thinking we will build our own jig but I am curious about the cost of buying one. You call it a “Cert” jig (I think). Is this something that can be purchased?

[@Tenonizer]

Never seen one built for resale. We made ours, but the expense of it is making it adjustable. If you make a wooden "CERT"(for one roof slope only) it can be very cost effective, and make your truss building much easier.

[@samwaldorf351]

star bursts? let me know when the suing ends

[@manfrummt]

Why build a log house if you need a factory to make it? More complicated than stick built.

[@Tenonizer]

The depth of your understanding and wisdom astounds me ZACH.

[@muleskinner485]

no skill involved here