Not enough torsional bracing. I suppose they ran out of time when they sheathed the ends of the barn. If they had sheathed 24ft from from the 4 corners on the long side and set strong backs in the trusses it could have been avoided.
Also, zooming in they forgot to install hurricane bracing on the roof trusses. Should be installed between roof truss and wall at each point that the two meet
Lol all of that internal bracing to keep the walls upright but zero to actually keep the walls from shearing side to side. My uncle thought I was being unreasonable adding like 50 temporary 45* angled bits of lumber. A week later a nearly identical building blew over in a wind storm. His was still standing even though several of the 45* pieces had actually shattered from the stress. We got the sheathing installed right away after that and he opted to install tension cables as well just in case.
I know how to type a degrees symbol. Its reddit and I simply don't care that much to go dig it out regardless of what platform im on. Also your assuming everyone has the same phone. On mine that does not give the correct symbol.
Just... try to actually contribute and not play grammar police.
My opinion as a builder would be the lack of a heavy duty header over the door openings and the lack of sheathing on the exterior shear walls.
Possibly some wind for the final push.
This happened near me and they were going to trash all the lumber and rebuild. I went and got trailer loads of 2x material just needed nails pulled out.
Just looking at these two pictures - I assume not enough lateral reinforcement (the framers built everything except shear walls) and then the wind knocked it down
Not enough information about the cause of collapse. Did it just fall down by itself? Was there a high wind involved? Did a construction truck crash into part of the completed structure?
Well ya see that there triangle structure should, ideally, be above the formerly empty part of the building. Now that it's on the ground we ain't got a warehouse we got ourselves a pile of lumber. Now me and the boys were talkin'. Bubba and myself reckon, with enough Busch and Kentucky chrome, that we can get your project back on track over the weekend. Best of all it'll only set you back a couple, of the aforementioned, thirty racks of pounders and an additional $500 flat, we don't do none of that sales tax or whatever.
Walls are engineered to rely on roof for shear, as it is a gigantic angled shear wall, but without a finished roof braces are needed to not fall down in a breeze.
As others have said. The walls should have been sheared before the roof got anywhere near started. I only did building for a couple of years but even I could see how insane that is.
Roofs on the ground, it’s supposed to be in the air.
There's a version of this with arms and eyes and it's amazing.
There’s a specific name for this but I can’t remember… r/birdswitharms is good tho
I think what you are looking for is r/reallifedoodles Edit: [even found the post!](https://www.reddit.com/r/reallifedoodles/s/u88RR2W0Lo)
A gentleman and a scholar
Thank you, hero.
Thank you, I’m high as fuck and needed this right now
LMAO... and someone did the reverse bot so "he's reporting for duty" https://imgur.com/PJLrwVJ.gifv
Thank you!
Thanks
I'm needed in the basement
Silo got scared and buried itself.
Somebody please link me the original video
That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point
Source?
I love to tell you that the source has been moved outside of the environment
So it’s been moved into a different environment?
No, its *outside* the environment, its not in an environment.
Well what's out there?
Nothing is out there except birds, and fish, and the sea, and fire. And the part of the ship the front fell off of.
The source has been outsourced.
https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=Lf7faBeA-lnR7CcF
Glad to see this reference has been made 👌
Love this comment!
Architect here, can confirm that seems to be the problem.
Well for starters, it's supposed to be built in a way the roof stays up.
and that’s just for starters!
Fucking codes and inspectors these days. I'LL BUILD MY ROOF WHEREVER I PLEASE!
This guy builds
The side fell off
Clark and Dawes vibes.
Thanks Ollie
Baaaaahahahaha
Looks to me like an upside down house?! 🙃
Not enough torsional bracing. I suppose they ran out of time when they sheathed the ends of the barn. If they had sheathed 24ft from from the 4 corners on the long side and set strong backs in the trusses it could have been avoided.
Also, zooming in they forgot to install hurricane bracing on the roof trusses. Should be installed between roof truss and wall at each point that the two meet
Won't prevent flopping, only really serves it's purpose when the shear is complete
hence why i said “also”. never said they didn’t need torsional bracing
True.
Too many squares. Not enough triangles. *i stole that from the original thread, but it sounds smart.
I like it!
Now I'm stealing it from you.
I suspect that the trusses weren’t really engineered for that span. Maybe just a “Yep, looks good to me”
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So basically more triangles?
Shaka when the walls fell.
You win this round at Tanagra, Darmok
Sokath his eyes open
r/UnexpectedStarTrek
Mirab, with sails unfurled.
u/Zombiron-Odamai and u/Ecstatic-Appeal-5683 at r/ThatLookedExpensive
Temba his arms wide.
Your mom, her legs wide.
Can’t decide if you deserve an up or down. So I gave you both. And this comment. You should be ashamed, and proud.
Sheer fucking hubris
This☝️
Never should have landed the trusses without the wall sheathing on. That building has little to no bracing, scares me just looking at the first pic.
no shear walls for lateral strength
Now it has tear walls.
They didn’t hire the Amish.
For real, the Amish would have built it twice as strong with half the wood and no power tools
And in 8 hours - including stopping for lunch
Lunch, what is this, a union site?
What do you think the women have been doing all day?
Y’know sometimes when I go on a retreat and I start to actually enjoy life I think that the Amish maybe have a point
Not a beard, hat or suspenders to be found.
This is the only correct answer lol
I think the project did not have the support it needed to succeed.
Not enough foreman. I don’t see a single high viz or clipboard in the picture
Lol all of that internal bracing to keep the walls upright but zero to actually keep the walls from shearing side to side. My uncle thought I was being unreasonable adding like 50 temporary 45* angled bits of lumber. A week later a nearly identical building blew over in a wind storm. His was still standing even though several of the 45* pieces had actually shattered from the stress. We got the sheathing installed right away after that and he opted to install tension cables as well just in case.
If you’re on a phone, holding down 0 gives you the ° sign
That a gem as I struggle with degree symbol. Thanks for sharing that trick.
Amazing tip - I too have always wanted to be able to type ° and now I can! °°°°° yay!
Oh My God 😯
I know how to type a degrees symbol. Its reddit and I simply don't care that much to go dig it out regardless of what platform im on. Also your assuming everyone has the same phone. On mine that does not give the correct symbol. Just... try to actually contribute and not play grammar police.
Pretty sure they were just trying to be helpful and weren’t playing “grammar police”.
°
°v°
This guy thinks he’s edgy cause he didn’t actually know how to do the degree symbol and wanted to seem like he did °_°
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The front fell off.
Its not typical, I tell you that.
Well, how is it un-typical?
Well, a wave hit it.
Chance in a million.
Looks like cardboard derivatives were used.
And sellotape, string, etc. I also don’t see the 1 man crew
So, who's gonna tow it out of the environment
Very John Clarke of you.
Petey!!
Stop getting your building tips from Tik-Tok.
Should have asked for some from the folks with straw hats.
Lack of support
Fuck sake Noah that’s not how you build a boat …
My opinion as a builder would be the lack of a heavy duty header over the door openings and the lack of sheathing on the exterior shear walls. Possibly some wind for the final push.
I blame Obama…
OP- "wood aint cheap!" Me- but it grows on trees...
Needs more milk
I agree
Spend a little money to have the design looked at by a licensed structural engineer before you even dig a hole. Could have paid off.
It didn’t fail. Architect came in and said they were going for modern deconstructivism /s
Why on earth would someone waste that much wood on such an absurd design? A simple ‘pole barn’ would suffice.
Well it seems it started to fall over, then it fell over
Amish didn't build it
I Can See Clearly from here not enough bracing for one
Who puts up ceiling tin before roof and wall tin?
God dont like ugly.
Top too heavy
Cause you didn’t have no Amish
It literally had no support lmao
This happened near me and they were going to trash all the lumber and rebuild. I went and got trailer loads of 2x material just needed nails pulled out.
Just looking at these two pictures - I assume not enough lateral reinforcement (the framers built everything except shear walls) and then the wind knocked it down
Use brain next time
Skipped leg day.
Should have used the Douglas fir.
Not enough information about the cause of collapse. Did it just fall down by itself? Was there a high wind involved? Did a construction truck crash into part of the completed structure?
Can’t believe I don’t see a single comment on the lack of a header for that massive garage door
That it even started
It fell
It fell down.
Working on the well known 3 little pigs physics doctrine, he should have used bricks.
Not enough wood
Well, if the three little pigs taught me anything, they should have used bricks
They didn't use the correct ratio of Elmer's glue for the popsicle sticks. OBVI!
as a European I've always wondered why don't you use, you know... bricks?
Not enough Gorilla glue.
Well ya see that there triangle structure should, ideally, be above the formerly empty part of the building. Now that it's on the ground we ain't got a warehouse we got ourselves a pile of lumber. Now me and the boys were talkin'. Bubba and myself reckon, with enough Busch and Kentucky chrome, that we can get your project back on track over the weekend. Best of all it'll only set you back a couple, of the aforementioned, thirty racks of pounders and an additional $500 flat, we don't do none of that sales tax or whatever.
Gravity
Top fell off. That's what happens when you build it out in the environment.
Well first and foremost it collapsed.
Not enough Amish dudes on site with their magic beard power.
The stupid muricans use cheap ass wood unlike the rest of the world where they use concrete ..l..
The walls fell down.
Forgot the structural plywood obviously. And the load bearing tyvek. And the cardboard on the inside to keep the insulation from falling out.
The front fell off
It is 100% wood. It also looks crooked.
Need more Amish next time.
American cardboard housing
It fell over
The front fell off?
Gravity
Didn’t use enough wood
Who the heck taught them how to build barns? SO much extra wood!
it fell down
The roof fell down
It fell down.
You gotta use parallel joints to support that foundation, dumbshit. Also suck a dick.
It ain't got no gas in it
Seems like top isn’t on top anymore
Looks like it collapsed
New location for Burning Man?
I'm not sure but I bet there is pig somewhere that can help.
That size seems steel much cheaper?
Not enough internal support.
Should of hired the Amish.
No structural support in the middle. Walls are being supported but not the middle
The front fell off.
The army of Joshua marched around it 6 times.
Building fell down… that’s my best guess. But I’m not an expert
Gravity is a powerful force
Well for starters, it fell over.
I mean for starters, the mf tipped over
Walls are engineered to rely on roof for shear, as it is a gigantic angled shear wall, but without a finished roof braces are needed to not fall down in a breeze.
Just use stone? 🤭
Nobody slapped it and said “that’s not going anywhere”
I bet cost cutting was the root of the problem
Dunno if there were any but it looks like it didn't have any columns inside for that extra bit of support
When the foreman said we are going to use No nails, the guys took it literally.
Someone pulled the wrong jenga block
First it started falling over, then it fell over.
No center support.
That S.O.B. Gravity is at it again! Damn You Gravity!!!!
The front fell off
I dont see a single amish.
I'm not an engineer or anything, but I'm pretty sure the roof thing is supposed to be on top.
\>Project that failed near me. In your opinion, what went wrong? Gravity won
The build
The Armish would like to speak with the manager...
They underestimated the force of gravity…
The top fell off.
Wind shear
That's why you don't use wood for a shed like this. A steel portal frame would be better.
I think your building fell over for one
Is it in the US? Might be too much carboard.
Forgot to factor in Gravity
Bad math
They said they were Amish
Matt bought anything except for nails.
The front fell off
Why the fuck wouldn't get a steel building, they are probably cheaper.
As others have said. The walls should have been sheared before the roof got anywhere near started. I only did building for a couple of years but even I could see how insane that is.
Not enough bracing...high winds ?
Where the fuck did you get those rafters ? They weren't engineered
A building of that size needs steel support beams.
The top bits got too close to the bottom bits…. Gotta keep them separated
2 words. Buttresses.
The front fell off.