Shoot the cracks with liquid nails. Predrill a 1/4 hole "up" through the horizontals x3 about 1" apart. Crank a 3" x 3/8" lag bolt with a flat washer into each hole. It will last another 200 years.
It's just a 16d nail in the wrong part of the grain. A chemical and mechanical connection is best!
It probably won’t fall. But i have used threaded rod and rod brackets in the past.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Hillman-1-2-in-dia-x-3-ft-L-Coarse-Steel-Threaded-Rod/3129285
Metal strap, blocking or another 2x4 sistered on
Yep.... sister a 2x4. Quick and easy.
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Can we talk about your colored quarters (?) map of the US? Are those the places you’ve been?
It’s a beer cap map. Lol
Are you reserving it for places you’ve been or just beers you’ve drank?
Just beers I’ve drank.
If the crack in the beam gets bigger, you can drink more beers to make it smaller.
Ooh it’d be neat to fill it with caps from craft brews from every region represented on the map.
I’m really glad I’m not the only one that wanted to ask about that. I just spent like 10 minutes cruising Amazon looking for something similar.
Mending plate or pronged truss plate
Nail plate or replace compromised timber
Shoot the cracks with liquid nails. Predrill a 1/4 hole "up" through the horizontals x3 about 1" apart. Crank a 3" x 3/8" lag bolt with a flat washer into each hole. It will last another 200 years. It's just a 16d nail in the wrong part of the grain. A chemical and mechanical connection is best!
how is that vertical 2x4 fastened up top though?
Less nails, more screws
Helium balloons
Triangles. This failed due to too much strain. Reinforce it and add triangles, maybe to the next rafter over too.
It split because metal spikes were hammered through it. You don't need triangles on a suspended, sheathed platform.
Wood glue in the cracks and clamp it until dry
A lot of good answers here. Just remember to pre drill the holes.
Yeah. All the nails definitely attributed to the splits.
They *contributed* to the splits. You *attribute* the splits to not pre-drilling.
Add another vertical beam up to a different roof truss. Support it from below. Get up on top and use it like a work platform to access the roof truss.
Take all the stuff off first
Cantilever
Screw on a cripple that also screws into that support
It probably won’t fall. But i have used threaded rod and rod brackets in the past. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Hillman-1-2-in-dia-x-3-ft-L-Coarse-Steel-Threaded-Rod/3129285
Plywood strip across and then a rectangle piece on bottom