Truss cost
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Stuart in MN
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$5364 for 26 trusses = $206 per truss, plus the delivery costs. I looked at the Menards website and the closest they had was a 26' span attic truss for $220 each. Yours are 30' span, so the prices sound reasonable.
Kaizen
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Is that crane adder for them to place on top plate? I just got same length non attic trusses for 36 foot building for 2500. 8/12 pitch 70 pound snow load
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ssdave
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I have a recent bid, being delivered this week for $5857 for a 36 x 50 garage, with half scissor trusses and half attic trusses. So, yes, yours is pretty much in the same range.
Kaizen
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I'm getting the room in attic to turn it into a apartment for me
wasn't trying to talk you out of it just telling you what I had. yours look in line with what i'd expect. wouldn't like that crane charge if they are just dropping in your yard.
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Mine were a little more typical. 4/12, 40' span. $110 a pop delivered.
rburke65
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Sounds like a deal to me!
bowhuntr311
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I had 24 trusses 2 years ago. Mine 40' with a 6x12. I had 6 scissor truss and 2 standard gable end truss. But i remember mine being in that 6-7K range.
I dont think your price is bad at all.
I dont think your price is bad at all.
Radix2
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And if they are going to have that crane there and you can have the men on site to set in place, that is a steal.
I would see what that line item allows-if you can negotiate now or at the time to have them stay a bit longer, you can make a difficult and dangerous job quick and safe... money well spent.
I would see what that line item allows-if you can negotiate now or at the time to have them stay a bit longer, you can make a difficult and dangerous job quick and safe... money well spent.
pstnbly
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I believe "delivery with crane" is just the delivery charge. They boom them off with a truck mounted crane instead of rolling them off. That's the way the last trusses I received came.
Radix2
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Not around here. Normal delivery is a roll-off truck. Back in, release the roller brakes, take off and down they go !
My stack weighed 22,000 lbs
and then you read in the packet about all the careful handling your are supposed to do....
schmelpboy
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I'd have to dig out my paperwork, but I just set a 30x40 and my trusses weren't half that amount.
n20junkie
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My 30x50 w/attic was 6k for the trusses as well. That was just dropped st the site too, no crane service.
forAK
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No, actually setting each one in place as he takes them off the truck. I had a guy on each wall and one on a rolling scaffold and we set 21 trusses in a hour and a half. This makes a dangerous job so much easier if you pay to have the crane stay the extra time. This will be money well spent. In one day you can have it trussed and sheeted.
And that is a good price.
Milzo
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I just paid the lumber bill for my 36x48 barn an hour ago. My trusses were $5500 and change for 25 of them 38ft wide 6/12 pitch And we're also attic trusses. Like others have mentioned my trusses were dropped on a roll off trailer and my carpenters hired a crane to set them.
Radix2
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AK answered for me, but he is exactly right - if it is actually a crane that can get them to your top plate, do whatever you have to do to get them set right then...get the men, the crane time, etc... these aren't some little garage trusses.
Your trusses weigh over 4 tons and will be about 300 lbs a piece and 13 feet tall....if they put them in a pile anywhere that is a big job. If they deliver them to the top plate in a bundle, it is very difficult to move them, so they will have to be inverted and flipped up in place.
If the crane is just a little truck unloader, then you will have to come up with another plan to set them, or hire a proper crane.
Orionrising
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that bundle is probably to heavy to just set on a plate...
schmelpboy
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Sorry, I just looked at his pic. Mine were regular trusses.
forAK
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You will be glad that you did! Another thing you can do is sheet the gable ends while they are on the ground and then have it craned up also. Makes life a lot easier all the way around.
Definitely money well spent
jacric2005
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I'm putting up a horse trailer pole structure. About 12X36 so I can park the truck and trailer under it while hitched up. I can't find anything in Oregon as cool as Menards in-stock truss website. That's what I'll be using to compare any quotes I get here in my area.
CraigStu
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Even if that crane is just for getting them off the truck it is still a good idea. MY SIL had his trusses delivered 2 months ago. They did the slide them off a rollback deal. He said it about made him sick how much they bent and then flattened out during that process. Yeah, he knows it's done all the time, but that doesn't mean he has to like it.
ddurrett896
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That's a good price.
Last year I paid $200/truss for 28' span, attic storage, 6/12 pitch. Honestly surprised it's not more given the current climate for lumber.
Is that crane charge to just unload to the ground? If so, let them just tilt the truck and pull off letting them drop, then hire it out yourself.
I paid a guy $400 and had 26 trusses up and braced in an hour and a half. Had 5 guys total - 1 hooking up the truss/guiding and 2 on each side to set and nail.
Highly recommend using these as spacers. Did 4 per truss, 2 on BC and 2 on TC. They wern't cheap when I did it but given the cost of lumber, (4) 22.5 spacers come from a $10 2x4x10. These now aren't much more.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Simpson...s-Spacer-Restraint-TSBR2-24/202832693#overlay
Also recommend one of these - actually had one on each side of the truss. Makes nailing off simpson straps 100x easier and 100x times quicker.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TUXFRK6/?tag=atomicindus08-20
Last year I paid $200/truss for 28' span, attic storage, 6/12 pitch. Honestly surprised it's not more given the current climate for lumber.
Is that crane charge to just unload to the ground? If so, let them just tilt the truck and pull off letting them drop, then hire it out yourself.
I paid a guy $400 and had 26 trusses up and braced in an hour and a half. Had 5 guys total - 1 hooking up the truss/guiding and 2 on each side to set and nail.
Highly recommend using these as spacers. Did 4 per truss, 2 on BC and 2 on TC. They wern't cheap when I did it but given the cost of lumber, (4) 22.5 spacers come from a $10 2x4x10. These now aren't much more.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Simpson...s-Spacer-Restraint-TSBR2-24/202832693#overlay
Also recommend one of these - actually had one on each side of the truss. Makes nailing off simpson straps 100x easier and 100x times quicker.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TUXFRK6/?tag=atomicindus08-20
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Zen
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With todays lumber prices that is a fair deal.
jacric2005
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Here's a Youtube video I found on setting trusses. He had some helpers but no lift or crane.
I just got a quote for 13 24' trusses with a foot overhang, here in Oregon for $2053. This assumed 2' on center and 4/12 pitch. Made of 2X4. So roughly $158 per truss. I probably would go back and get another for 4' on center. They don't do any engineering for snow loads or wind and neither did I yet, but it's an idea on cost. They did not include a PDF with the design, as Menards does on their site. So I would probably go visit the factory and check it out.
I just got a quote for 13 24' trusses with a foot overhang, here in Oregon for $2053. This assumed 2' on center and 4/12 pitch. Made of 2X4. So roughly $158 per truss. I probably would go back and get another for 4' on center. They don't do any engineering for snow loads or wind and neither did I yet, but it's an idea on cost. They did not include a PDF with the design, as Menards does on their site. So I would probably go visit the factory and check it out.