Roof Truss Anchor

Bare wood truss anchors these fall protection anchors are designed to attached directly to a wood truss.

Roof truss anchor.

Skew nailing through the connector plate at the heel invariably results in splitting of the timber in the bottom chord. In such situation framing anchors or truss clips should be used. They can be reused according to the manufacturer s instructions. The products are designed with staggered nail patterns for greater uplift resistance.

Into a poured concrete bond beam or grouted block wall staggered nail pattern for enhanced uplift resistance. Roof truss anchor figure 4 shows a typical roof truss anchor cast into the bond beam of a concrete masonry bearing wall. The fixed truss anchor fall protection kit is a fast installing fall arrest solution that uses the structural truss design of your building to create an osha compliant tie off point for personnel working at heights. Roof truss anchors a spreader braces the trusses and distributes arrest forces across several trusses.

These anchors do not penetrate the roof sheathing they do not pass go and they do not collect 100. Spreaders can act as anchors for personal fall arrest systems and fall restraint. The snappy roof anchor meets all applicable standards for fall arrest. When making a selection below to narrow your results down each selection made will reload the page to display the desired results.

The required anchor load capacity depends on the design wind speed as well as the roof truss span. There are permanent and reusable options available. Fasteners are provided with this product. It is strongly recommended that for trussed after roofs the truss clip is used whether or not it is specified on the drawing.

The embedded truss anchor series provides an engineered method to properly attach roof trusses to concrete and masonry walls. Embedded truss anchor 12 girder tiedown 6 hurricane gusset angle 2 masonry uplift connector 2 moisture barrier plate 3 rafter tie 29 uplift girder ties 24 series. Permanent roof anchors are designed to provide one d ring anchorage point when installed securely on a wood roof sub surface or vertical wall. If all you have to anchor to is a naked truss these anchors will do the job.

To install consult the owner s manual and visually determine a location along the bottom truss cord. Embedded truss anchors and truss seat snap in an engineered method to attach roof trusses to concrete and masonry walls to resist uplift and lateral loads.