The trusses in this barn were never properly braced as I recall. There were however a lot of perlins, and we did both, braced it per the details on the truss drawing, and installed perlins every 19" if I recall my spacer length. I made up spacers to set these to align with existing ones.
Surprisingly, the 2nd winter after this was completed, the intact section survived a close call. It had a sag in it and needed work. I did reinforce those trusses, made up plywood splice plates for the joints at the webs and the chords. The metal splice plates were failing. We had snowfall in the winter of '10-'11 that was heavy, that roof wanted to collapse and it was sounding like it would. We cleared it in time, and I did have to shore up a post that was failing.
4'centers on trusses are a real pain when trying to work with the gap and its a hole that you will easily fall through. Every perlin was a struggle to set, full thickness actual rough cut lumber, likely green and froze = heavy!
There is a lot of work in repairs like this, same with a new building, but we were able to build it back so it was whole again, that was late '09 and at some point this barn will need work again, as it does not have PT posts and they are in the ground. Its not my place, I just did the work for my father, he never listens to reason, went with some local species that the sawmill had, actual, and its built with nominal, so it did not fit in between the skirt beams the trusses set on. I had to haul that hemlock, green to a guys house 40 miles away to rip them down on 2 sides, was laid up in bed the day before with a back problem. Sometimes life really makes you wonder why a person even bothers with things such as this and it seems the contractors that walked from this posters job, trying to push a new building may be smarter than we think LOL !!!
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