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He was just a little one, about 3' long. I have a picture of him up next to the house. I wish I had video. I went outside with a broom and chased him back in the water. You wouldn't believe how fast they are!

What makes you think that?

@@floridagunrat1625 Thin, flimsy, and way too flexible.

@John-jm9ss Yup, that's the way trusses are when you are handling them loose. There is actually a tremendous amount of engineering that goes into truss design and provided that the workmanship is good, the strength of the finished product is excellent. If they weren't, they would not be the most popular way to build roof systems here in hurricane country. It's much like the individual pieces of metal that are used to build a unibody automobile. They are amazingly flimsy until the unit is assembled, but then it becomes quite strong and rigid.

@@floridagunrat1625 Got it. Thank you. Never knew that. Figured they'd be solid and stiff. Like I said, I know nothing. Now I do.

@@John-jm9ss 👍

This was one building out of three production buildings on site.

The sawing is computer automated, but because every truss package is different and most of the trusses in that package are different from each other, it still comes down to the flexibility of human assemblers.

@@floridagunrat1625 That's exactly right. This particular truss plant builds mostly tract homes. The same model gets built repeatedly. But it still happens sometimes that the assemblers will flip a web. Also, the designers could update a design and get it wrong. But theoretically the trusses should always be tge same

Imagine trying to do all of this by hand!

@@papatutti59 I'm not exactly sure. The weight of the finish roller at the end of the process is about 15,000 lbs. The rollers are 1 1/2" inches apart, just wide enough for a 2x4 to fit through, while pressing the plates into the wood. Back in the day I was told that it was an 8-ton press. I know that the smaller hydraulic presses exert a total of 15 tons, so 8 tons for a finish roller press doesn't seem out of line. Not sure how that would translate to PSI, since the total area of the lumber changes depending on the truss design. We had someone once who wanted to buy the steel connector plates so he could build his own trusses. His plan was to drive his car tires over the plates to press them in. That definitely would not have worked. A car just isn't heavy enough. We did not sell him the plates.

@@CC_Fun_Adventures Wow! 8-15 tons! I didn’t expect that answer. But thanks for replying.

I believe that our hydraulic system is running at 3200 psi, and the actual press applies 10,000 psi to each plate. It will squeeze the water right out of the wood!

Try doing this work for 40 hours a week!

@@JRCox No, it's kind of a family joke. On Joe's 30th birthday we ordered a cake from Publix, and wanted it to say something about his 30th birthday. When Cindi picked it up, it said, "Joe is 30!" Now all of our birthday cakes have similar sentiments.

@@CC_Fun_Adventures classic

@@georgegarrett7903 Not sure about that one, but this isn't it. This particular plant has been here since the early '80's. Did you work at Skippy's shop?

Thanks for replying back. He was originally from Ky and has since passed away. Thought this might be family related to him. Good luck and stay safe 👍👍

@@alanwilliamson2259 Thanks! I'm the same way. I binge watch old episodes of "How it's Made".

That saw is entirely automated. The truss design from the computer drawings is fed into saw electronically. It retrieves the right size and grade of wood, cuts it to size with the proper angles, and then labels each piece. I work in a small shop and do all of this by hand. I'm good but could not march the speed of this machine.

@@wernerpanchenko6542 keep them trusses rolling!

@@KevinCoop1 yep, I did the same thing back in the day. Yeah, those were the days. Not the good old days, but they were the days. 🤣

Well it was 50 years ago one would hope things would advance.

I work with a small custom truss shop, and we still have to lift and hand carry them!

They just put in that big Mitek robot two or three years ago. Before that, there were about 30 people working out there. That's progress, right? 🙄

You got that right. I just recorded this on my phone with no intention of posting it online. I was thinking I may go back and record it again with better equipment. Maybe show the manufacturing process a little mire in-depth.

@@CC_Fun_Adventures No disrespect intended. I get what your doing after taking a closer look at your channel. I have a particular interest in truss mfg and your vid popped up on my recommended. Hope you continue to have great adventures.

@@skikang13 thanks! I didn't take it as disrespect. I'm just getting started and need all the help I can get. Right now I'm short on content, so I'm posting some low-quality videos just to get something posted. Better videos are coming!

I had done a video like that. I did it on the same night, while waiting for Cindi's delayed flight. I showed the sculpture and talked a little bit about it. I wasn't happy with it, so about half an hour later I did the second one. Talking about a passenger who passed away waiting for his flight struck me as funny. It's my warped sense of humor, I suppose. I do similar things in other videos. For example, in my "Eternal Douche" video I mention that I drove 85 miles out of the way just to see a shower, but it was worth it. In the comments I note that I wish I would have known that "douche" is French for "shower", which would have saved me and a bus load of tourists a lot of embarrassment. Obviously neither of those things are true. It was just my attempt at humor, as was this video. Not everyone appreciates it, but most get it. The views on the first version got about 150. The second one is about 8800 so far. So I took the first one down.

You need to learn to trust yourself. If alarm bell goes off for you then research deeper, but to just not believe anything on the internet is a waste.

Busted. Sorry!

Haha! Yeah, good point. Always be skeptical. 🤣

@@CC_Fun_Adventures Why'd ya do it, man?

So Cindi and I will go out somewhere, and we'll see something weird, and we'll just come up with a funny story about it, just as a joke. She was in Boston one time and saw the site of Benjamin Franklin's outhouse (true story). Of course, many funny stories about the other Founding Fathers' historical sites were told after that. Years ago I was a Scoutmaster, and I would tell the boys a lot of "tall tales" while sitting around the campfire. "...and on cold, dark nights like this, you can still catch a glimpse of the ghost of the lost Scout, searching for his patrol." To me, little stories like that add a little mystery and fun to life. As I mentioned in other replies, it was all in fun and not intended to deceive anyone.

@@CC_Fun_Adventures I agree, it's fun to joke, I'm all for it.....but posting false crap on the internet for the world to see is not ok. Duane Hanson would agree. 😆

@@LawrenceAdele1919 If they keep it up, other people might start posting false information on the internet. What will we do then?

Actually, quite a few. Once I got called out, I felt guilty for my deception. I'm a bad person. 😏

Looks real to me

@@CC_Fun_Adventures you are a bad bad person 😂 no I’m just avin a bubble mate. It’s all good 👍🏻

@@patcola7335 🙄

@@Louloubee That doesn't look real to you

Thanks for the facts

The real Duane Hanson was a genius artist.

Thanks for the truth, that makes more sense.

@@justjosie8963 Thanks. So Cindi and I will go out somewhere, and we'll see something weird, and we'll just come up with a funny story about it, just as a joke. She was in Boston one time and saw the site of Benjamin Franklin's outhouse (true story). Of course, many funny stories about the other Founding Fathers' historical sites were told after that. Years ago I was a Scoutmaster, and I would tell the boys a lot of "tall tales" while sitting around the campfire. "...and on cold, dark nights like this, you can still catch a glimpse of the ghost of the lost Scout, searching for his patrol." To me, little stories like that add a little mystery and fun to life. As I mentioned in other replies, it was all in fun and not intended to deceive anyone.

Ok that makes more sense. I thought it was a real human that had been embalmed and preserved at the airport! Which was a very strange thing for his wife to have requested, and super weird that the airport allowed it! I was also confused by the dates on it. He was born 1925 and died in 1996? That means this man was 71. He dont look 71! And what does 1985 represent?... Now I get it. Duane is the name of the artist that created this realistic statue of a man, called "The traveller", in 1985. Duane (the artist) died in 1996

Haha! Busted! Sorry. 🤣

Well... I used to tell some tall tales around the campfire, and sometimes old habits are hard to break.

Busted! 🤣 Thanks for the clarification.

Good thing it ain't u then huh

It's not even a real corpse, what are you talking about

I know right?

I wonder too

Just googled it its an art pice​@@elizagray9259

All I can say is that Duane Hanson has been sitting in that exact spot since 1996. I can personally vouch for that... but, umm, that's all I can vouch for.

@@CC_Fun_Adventuresyou telling lies like biden did last night on his first debate without help from a tell a prompt or his goons. You got your stories all wrong🤣🤣🤣