Show bracing buildings on farm important Impo at the U S forest products laboratory Ma madison dizon wi engineers state that the chief cause of sway backed roofs and bulging sides in farm buildings is lack of bracing in an ordinary barn with w frame walls diagonal braces should be placed at each corner from the top to the bottom of the balls walls if window or door openings in the walls irit interfere e with long braces at the corners then the braces should be put somewhere else in the walls or shorter braces used short braces are not so efficient as long braces but they are all rohit if they are of good depth bandwidth and width and fastened securely to heavy frame members to stiffen the roof diagonal braces should be nailed to the underside of the rafters and sufficient cross ties installed at the upper plate to prevent the walls from A building that has a sagging roof or bulging walls may be put spreading back into its original shape by the use of timbers jacks rods and turnbuckles turn buckles poles or timbers set on jacks can be used t to raise the ridge and at the same time the upper u P per plates may be drawn together with rods and turnbuckles turn buckles after the building is brought back into shape the use of proper bracing and cross ties will hold it in position and it will again become a prosperous and substantial looking building |