Adams is one company in Arkansas #mce_temp_url# that makes a lot of poultry barn trusses. Our barns trusses were not made by Adams but another competing company but very similar. When we got out of the turkey growing business we dismantled most of the turkey barns, lengthened the legs on the trusses, moved them to the home farm and built machinery storage buildings. The trusses were originially on 10' centers and we put them either on 8 foot on some of the buildings and 9' on the last one. To make them a little stronger building "just in case" but we never had any problem with them on the turkey barns. We also added an extra angle iron reinforcement in the peak area that they did not have "just in case" to make them stronger. They don't have anything in that area because that is the area the feed lines would be raised into so would have been in the way in the turkey growing buildings.

The trusses spent 15 years growing turkeys and they have probably been up another ten years as machinery storage (made them 16 or 18' eves with longer channel iron legs). Three of the buildings we built are 40x120 and I think the last one that we used 20' lean too's on each side would be 80x I think 140 but not sure on the length. Been a while since we built them.

I have some pictures somewhere but from a while back.