Modest House Build Ep 6: Building Trusses in the Snow

[@mikenicholson2548]

Kyle, I am so glad that you have recognized Gregs talent and have allowed him to get proffit sharing and yearly profit bonuses. You are a great owner and boss.

[@Pkripper-67]

Nice try Greg

[@pdxwill8524]

As a former contractor myself, Looong since retired, I am impressed, amazed, astounded, at the prodigious amount of precision work you two accomplish. Been a fan of the channel for years. Look forward to every post. (happy it's you guys, not me, doin' it, though).😀

[@jerrys2346]

Always like it when Kyle talks about getting lucky with something. I don't think there is any luck involved with anything they do.

[@dlfendel2844]

Y'know, it is amazing to me how perceptions change as parts go on. I was feeling with just the walls and foundation that the house felt "small" next to the garage, but now with the trusses the VOLUME of the house becomes real and lovely! TRULY enjoying this guys!

[@dlg5485]

Watching this makes me never want to work outside in the winter, and I live in northern Ohio. When the time comes, I will definitely do my personal build summer into fall. Kudos to you both!

[@Mcfryguy5555]

Awesome! Greg needs a raise!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@gordonclark7632]

I am constantly amazed at what you and Greg accomplish working by yourselves. I watch in awe when you are lifting and placing the trusses in those little slots of the posts.

[@darylzero3139]

They should be wearing hard hats though, Greg is standing right next to it while lifting and a strap can break at any time!

[@PaulMikna]

Great work, guys! Shout out to your video person - great shots and angles (especially the overhead perspectives)!

[@_Gundy_]

I really enjoy the comradery between you too! You guys do great work and inspire my dream to build a post frame home some day!

[@PRACTICALBUSHCRAFTSURVIVAL]

ITS ALWAYS AMAZING THE WORK YOU TWO DO.

[@rotaxrider]

If your going to be using LP Smartsiding please let your viewers know that the warranty doesn't cover swelling of their product or what they call edge checking especially on your field cuts that you treat and caulk. Any painted or finished product that starts to accumulate water damage no matter where it is on the siding the first signs that damage has started is that the OSB will swell under the finish. Time will tell if the siding holds up to moisture issues when not being installed over a true furred out rain screen.

[@jamesfischer5389]

QUALITY SELLS ITSELF ALL DAY LONG!!! ☮️💜🇺🇸

[@nicholasholderman9517]

You guys are awesome!!! That's tough work and with the cold it's so much tougher. :-)

[@irishmike519]

Man, you post frame builders are just insane. We had a post frame 36x54 built for horses built about 25 years ago. Pekul builders out of Elkhorn Wisconsin built it in zero degrees weather. There was no concrete. Just the building. Took four guys about five days. The weather was just miserable. You two and the camera guy are some pretty hearty guys.

[@iancrossley6637]

I can see why you like Truss day, so satisfying to see them all up.

[@googooplex-z5z]

I live in Atlanta and sometimes we have a day or two in the teens but nothing as cold as you get there. Enjoyed this vid very much. I look forward to building something similar soon.

[@Overpar73]

Looking good guys, yikes the cold, I hated working in the cold while in the AF, especially when you get JP-4 Jet Fuel on your hands and running down your arm and you can't move your arm because the space is so small, just enough room for your hand without any glove or rag. We usually would tie a rag around our wrist and then added a long tail so the fuel would run. down the tail before going down your arm all the way into your arm pit with the temperature below 0!!

[@samhklm]

Its the 21st century - but there is nothing better than the sound of a framing hammer driving a nail to a piece of wood and hear the tone change as it syncs up to the rest of the framing.

[@Pkripper-67]

You’re cameraman is slaying 🔥

[@NelsonPhilip-f5y]

Wow! I've never did a trusses on the ground and lift it up. I'll try that coz it's faster than i thought👍👍💯

[@freddien7]

I was worried in last weeks video, seeing you close all the entrances where you would normaly have gone to put up the trusses,! but today has answered that, A Lot better idea if you have the space!! Good Job boys.

[@sandersballistics]

You should put foam shims in the sides of the door openings when you pour the concrete floor to prevent the pad from cracking when it shrinks there like it did on your headquarters!

[@Hopalong..75]

Working outside can be cold and miserable but quail hunting in freezing rain don't bother me at all.

[@sydneyssesanga1810]

Great work . Keep up the good work

[@steveneal2706]

great video guys. Thank you

[@londonschrock3005]

Instead of 2 straps. Use 4 straps going the middle of the top cord back to the center works really well and is stable. Also you can do 5 trusses the same as 3 trusses just be in 1 trusses from the end that way everything balances out.

[@jmar5787]

You guys do great work even in the cold. The Truewerks stuff is great in the cold weather recently got the bibs they are awesome!! Thanks for the tip! 👍

[@johnborton4522]

Getting smart Kyle. Kudos. I built 35 tract homes in SoCal and built the entire roofs on the ground (decking, facia and all) and crane lifted them. So much faster and safer.

[@SODAK2276]

My toes were cold watching you guys

[@firemanj35]

Looking great, guys. Looking cold but great

[@BWIL2515]

Just so y'all know TJ PKAYS IN PITTSBURGH JJ PLAYED MOST OF HIS CAREER IN ARIZONA BOTH ARE BEASTS BUT ID TAKE JJ ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO THANKS MY BROTHERS😊😊😊

[@jimmckillip7975]

Great job guys ❤

[@comingtofull-ageinchrist6736]

Greg makes a good argument about the hole may not have been crooked and the screw Kyle put in the hole could have easily went in to the side of the hole! I'm with Greg on that one. It could happen very easily!

[@wolflg]

Man i love watching these vids.. Great job

[@360XI11]

PASLODE 360XI has series I gas that works in -15 up to 49C (all weather) it tells you how much Gas and power is in the gun. I think this gun is exclusive to UK only, but you being a partner of Paslode I’m surprised they haven’t told you. And I’m surprised you don’t have it.

[@adamtodd-b4h]

Kyle and Silent Greg strike back

[@degmoss]

I know I’m not the first to say this, especially after the golf cart shed, but Kyle really to have a set of lifting chains if he wants to continue pre-building truss sets on the ground.

[@comingtofull-ageinchrist6736]

I always hit the thumbs up! Thanks for sharing the knowledge, Kyle!

[@leehwhiz]

I'm not a true carpenter even though I've put up two homes in may past. But one thing I think I'd like to see is that my truss manufacture can give me a design that is open in the center some so that I can possibly put a floor down in the center of the garage. Of course where I'm from it's common for our trusses to be 2 foot on center so we have the extra strength to try something like that. Nice job!

[@daveklein2826]

Then order them that way....pretty simple

[@elijahdynys4125]

I built a pole barn years ago that was 30 by 40 and we got trusses with 2x12 floor joists for the bottom cord and built a finished room inside the truss. It was pretty cool, we left the ceiling open and did tongue and groove up the rafter part of the truss, it turned out great

[@zekezeke3484]

I have heard that kind of truss called an "attic truss".

[@geoffdoebler1546]

You could build some "truss horses" to aid assembly on the ground. I joists with legs to stand them up and a way to level them. You could even have layout blocks to drop the trusses into.

[@pitt42075]

Flying truss/ grid in as a unit is definitely the way to go.

[@andyhunter8342]

That sky though 😍

[@littleglasshouse5797]

Great camera work

[@darylzero3139]

best videographer on YT

[@comingtofull-ageinchrist6736]

the good thing about using screws is if you find you need to move something later, you can back it out and not have to cut it out!

[@larrysmith8406]

If it was as cold there as it was here when you did this video and I am a few hours south of you it was super cold here that means you guys are tough to get anything done in them frigid temps

[@koreykilburn5303]

Years ago I was framing. It was so cold outside that my air hose shattered when my older brother made a cut and the cut off rolled off the chop saw and fell on the air hose. I know it takes a bit longer working in the cold.

[@stevenslater2669]

My first co-op job as a college student was surveying in the winter in Philadelphia - not bad as we were dressed for the weather, except when the wind picked up. That was no fun. But my dad had a commercial refrigeration service business + some manufacturing of walk-in beer coolers and meat lockers. Once, he took on a big blast cooler build and installation for a spaghetti sauce manufacturer. Servicing that thing was a real test of your metabolism. 90 degrees F in the machinery shed, and -40 F. In the Blast freezer. But at least we could turn the wind off!

[@grand04gt]

"Canadians will eat that up" I am Canadian and i approve this message 😂😂

[@giovannifiorentino8947]

This channel makes you think out of the box 😅. Maybe cutting a bevel at the top of the pole will make the truss funnel in its notch easer 😅. Needs a Law And Order tone when the day counts appears😅.

[@billhayes8526]

Kyle I have been watching you guys for about a year. Your question about building trusses on the ground vs. putting up each one individually. I think on the ground is faster and not as an excuse to buy a Magni but if you could be on one end of the truss and Greg on the other I think it would go even quicker.

[@FFGOMER17]

The Paslode fuel needs to be warmed because butane, like any compressed liquid fuel, has to be above its boiling point in order to efficiently become a gas. In this case, that boiling point I s around 30F so you are already going to have issues. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that as that liquid becomes a gas and exits the cartridge it has a cooling effect so the cartridge will be even colder than the ambient temperature.

[@pascalchavanon1930]

Great job 👍😎🇫🇷

[@One_Crazy_Dog_Mum]

Kyle, it’s just temporary. Greg, probably forever 😂, he knows you too well Kyle 😂

[@stevebear1610]

Looking Good , I bet your happy the ground is frozen ! You guys are Geared Right !

[@BuckMasterNorm]

Thanks look great

[@Ural6736]

Сначала лайк! Потом просмотр! Супер видео! 🎉

[@johnhunter273]

You bet!

[@tjjm1907]

Looks pretty cold. Yikes!

[@sergeyborchenko6041]

Super efficiency 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@billhe372]

I recently found this channel and I am definitely enjoying the content, but I do wonder why nail guns are not used very often. It seems they would make the time spent more efficient, not to mention less wear on the body from swinging a hammer all day.

[@BraxxJuventa]

Love for you. 😁👍🏼😁👍🏼

[@stuartstephens]

Must not be a lot of traffic on that street. 🙂

[@matthewshull8376]

Awesome building them on the ground, well done. Love watching it all come together. My apologies if this has been asked before, but who does all your filming? ALways great shots from the drone and close ups so we can really see all the detail ou put into these builds. Keep up the great work! On another note, I blame you both for me having to have a Martinez hammer, don't know why I didn't do it years ago, haha!

[@butter262]

Good evening

[@zephyr1408]

I know how you feel it was 45 degrees here the other day outside while I was building a cabinet in the shop ! Feel U ! Nor Cal ; not So Cal , I am a farm boy.

[@machickman4041]

Kyle, can you talk about or draw us how you would install exterior insulation like Rockwool Comfort board? Also can you talk about unvented attic/condition attic space? I am trying to figure out if this is possible with post frame.

[@jspeedadventures]

It made me anxious that you were blocking the whole road. I kept waiting for one of you to yell car and then having to move the roof structure like a big hockey net. lol

[@heathmix3204]

One thing I always said is that working, hell even living, in the cold is living in hard mode.

[@Room1sixtyfive]

Greg looks like Paul Liberstein from the Office

[@briskettaco]

28:42 yo! We see the camera guy in this one!!

[@BigMikeeeBam]

Try a heated jacket maybe??? Good work.

[@woodmum]

You put a lot of efford in getting things square and plum now. But what happens when all the wood warms up and gets dry? Does that effect the building a lot?

[@rickreese-z1b]

Looks safe. What do you guys think.

[@jaybrown7177]

The fuel needs to be warm to increase volume. Gas laws. V1/T1 = V2/T2. Temp goes up, volume goes up. I would have thought the Valedictorian of his class would have remembered that from Chemistry class. Just kidding. Great video.

[@keithwalker7151]

Maybe I missed it but do you pre-drill the purlins at the trusses? And what dictates whether you screw or nail them into place? Love this series btw!

[@ryburnsjr]

Its a heat wave out there.

[@MukYJ]

It’s amazing that with all our modern tools and technology, as long as we are building with wood, it always comes down to swinging hammers.

[@neoman7479]

If you could have used the megadeck and the manlift, could you have finished trusses in one day?

[@logisticaproteccioncivilsa2630]

About -13 degrees Celsius

[@martinchacon9966]

So question how do you feel about regular framing split with this for the shop? 🤔

[@rolandcoulombe8207]

4 stakes 2 pieces of string mesure run rise et voilà

[@markjohnson5619]

What camera and software do you use for recording?

[@brianbostock1698]

Perfect planning prevents poor performance, with one expletive missing!!

[@Ty1on3twelve]

What, Kyle not using exact math. Man, that doesn't sound like Kyle.

[@philwalters1848]

chilly.

[@jamespaddon6091]

Guys at 2.17 I hear a man shouting desperate for Help… any thoughts?

[@raybieze]

Why do some perlins get 60’s and some get big RSS’s?

[@malcolmsokol4294]

Why did you use screws on some perlons and 60 penny nails on others.

[@danliles-w5y]

with your trusses 8' OC, how long are your 2x4 purlins?

[@bpdp379]

I’m pretty sure they go 18’ in order to have overlap. And 20’ depending on the overhangs

[@xoxo2008oxox]

Bet you wish you had that Magni crane...

[@theapplefooler4656]

Hi I needed Pole barn 50X80X16 I am from Maryland Do you do work on the outside state Thanks

[@funkywagnalls]

What happens if a car comes along?

[@officerzanzibar701]

A like and a comment entry for the KZbin AI - Algorithm.

[@beatarcheologzt]

10:00 min mark Greg is caught lackin 😅 definitely didn't line that up to the line

[@josemalave-d2w]

greetings; where you guys located?

[@Dragon.Slayer.]

Which states do you guys work in?

[@HHBuildersMN]

They’re in Illinois

[@Noorikon]

👍👌👏

[@ZylonFPV]

Why are they called 20 penny nails?

[@Grizzb28]

A "20 penny nail" is called that because, historically, the "penny" referred to the price of 100 nails in England, so a 20 penny nail meant that a hundred of those nails would have cost 20 pennies; essentially, the number indicates the nail's length based on its historical price per hundred nails.

[@ZylonFPV]

@ thanks 🙂

[@Highlander-ys2ei]

Can you explain how you are able to build without inspections and without any engineering in your plans? Also are you as a GC liable for an accidents that happen regarding lack of working unsafe?

[@jjtrades7186]

Hand driving nails into frozen lumber is so unbelievably not fun lol

[@RayCattell]

Kyle how come Greg never misses but you miss a least once evert nail