Leaderboard

No insulation. We added the vents to help with the heat and installed electric so we can put a fan up there if needed. We did build with an eye to possible insulation later though. For example the interior walls are covered with plywood siding (like the outside) and installed with screws so we can easily remove if necessary. Although that would reveal the surprise I left for future generations who might open the wall for some reason. 😀 I didn't know that about the standard trusses, thanks for the info. As it turned out the trusses were built "to code" but since as you say the roof is relatively light, they are no more robust than I would have built myself. It was a really fun project with lots of family members who joined in to help periodically, including little kids who got to drive screws for the first time. And the day always ended with beer and BBQ.

Nice! Is there insulation in the trusses? I see a gable wall vent (looks identical to the ones I put in our attic this spring), so guessing yes. Though any venting is a help in the loft, in a MO summer. Future reference, you could buy standard king post trusses, off the shelf, for those dimensions and load (assume S. Missouri has fairly light snow loads, and tin roofs are relatively light) - on 24 inch centers.

Lovely, Zap.

Awesome Cabin!

Thanks, I'll get the pic back out there as soon as I figure out what the issue is. We have a simple, rustic cabin on a river in southern Missouri and this building is just to give us more options. So far it's mostly been used for sleeping and for kids to play in. We did the same thing as you with the footings. I've learned all about the options that Simpson supplies. I had someone make the trusses as I didn't know how to calculate strength requirements then design accordingly. I think I spent more time figuring out what I needed and buying supplies than I did actually building. Here it is...

You see? This is the result of elites who for decades claimed that “Oh no! There's no difference between blacks and whites”. When it comes to facts, even idiots can observe the counterpart. As for the reason, as you mentioned, not everyone comes to the right conclusion, so why not say the right thing from the start instead using the wrong arguments? “Poor people are more likely to do tricky things, let's end poverty!” Of course, it's political. Getting the poor to fight against themselves using reasons such as gender, ethnicity or religion is a cheap way for the elites to carry on.

The Universe, as I see it, is when nothing automatically get exposed, because thre is no real stuff (matter, anti-pole) in the Univere. And the exopsure opens autoatically up for nothing to become everything else of itself - because it´s an open conception that has no own identiti to rest in or to defend itself with. First of all to become (!) nothing, which means selfconsious, awake, pure existence, 'stuff'! And further on to become the source of evolutionary development in still higher biological systems, and of cause to current free creative thinking activity etc.! So we still don´t need theoretical physics - and it´s defined start.

While I don't consider this a serious proposal, these are my thoughts on how totalitarianism could have beneficial social effects in the right situations. It's purely a devil's advocate argument. Everyone is treated as equal and human under the law, but obviously people aren't equal in terms of other qualities. As an example, the type of people who identify as "incels" are obviously defective in most if not all redeeming human traits. Whether this is a product of bad genetics, bad environment, bad character, or a combination of multiple factors, I'm not sure, and it is probably multifaceted. But, regardless, I don't see any redeeming value in allowing such individuals to exist in society even if they haven't actually committed a crime, and I feel like the merciful thing to do would be to simply disallow them to exist as they currently do. If I had the authority, I would be tempted to simply have them executed, or at least have all of their human rights removed and them reduced to the status of second-class citizens, possibly allowing for them to perform forced labor. This would all be done legally and on the books, no one would be committing any vigilante violence against incels, white supremacists, and the like. They would simply de-classified as human altogether, and legally it wouldn't be any different than putting rabid animals to sleep. So while totalitarianism ultimately would do social harm than good, I can see it having social utility in a scenario like this. The subhuman state of existence that some individuals reside in simply isn't something a better human would consider worth living, so if society was slightly less liberal in their application of the definition of "human rights", it might make the world a cleaner place, provided that it was able to only be applied in scenarios like this (e.x. exterminating incels, white supremacists, and other undesirables), rather than in the whole context of society.