Tri-County Truss Website

A Quick Photo Tour of Our Burlington Plant

Or, if you're going to be in the area, contact TCT for a tour, 360-757-8500.
We love to show our clients what we do.

DESIGN & ENGINEERING

First your plans travel through our design department. There, your plans are turned into 3-dimensional drawings accurate to a sixteenth of an inch. The trusses are individually designed. They then pass through our unique 4-tiered review, where they are sealed by our on-staff engineer. Most truss plants have their trusses sealed at a nationally-centralized clearinghouse run by the truss plate manufacturer. Having our own engineering staff allows us to respond faster and more creatively to rush jobs and complex design issues.

PICKING & CUTTING

TCT stocks over 65 sizes and grades of lumber and LSL to meet every building need. Each board is hand-selected for your truss. (You can see why this one didn't pass.)

We also stock over sixty sizes of nail plates. These are the essential building element of engineered wood trusses. Why so many? So that you aren't paying for metal you don't need.

Our computer-controlled, high-speed Koskovich Omnisaws can make 5 simultaneous cuts at a rate of about a board per second. Each of the 5 cuts is accurate within a sixteenth of an inch.

ROOFS

A team of jiggers builds your truss on steel tables. You can see the stops that hold the truss to the right shape while it's being assembled.

All boards and plates are aligned using our Virtek laser system. In this closeup it shows the truss builder (jigger) where to place the steel plate for this joint.

Your truss is then pressed by a RoofGlider to set the plates. After they are done, they are pressed again by our SuperTorque roller that ensures the plates are completely embedded to attain their full 200psi holding strength. The yellow stand is a plate detector that automatically checks for misaligned plates (the ones on either side of the truss should align closely for maximum truss strength).

Our main jig shed has two-120' tables at which we can build up to six houses simultaneously. In this view, the jig tables are to either side. Down the center are the rollers that carry your truss to the SuperTorque press at the far end. Then they're stacked and banded in the right order to land on your roof.

Multi-ply girder may be drilled and bolted for extra strength when required by the engineering department.A pair of ''Jack Rabbits'' make sure that the jacks for your hip ends are built exactly to pitch. (The ''Jack Rabbit'' is the machine, not the guy.)

Once complete, your order is banded and stacked in our yard. Here are tomorrow's trusses waiting to be loaded. Note that several of the orders have optional sheathing, top chord notching for outlookers, and superanchors.

FLOORS

Floors go through a similar process, though the jig and press are simpler.

Floor trusses stacked and ready to go.

YARD

The yard may look full now, by mid-morning tomorrow we'll have delivered 30-50 garages, small houses, huge houses, hotels . . . and we'll be filling it up all over again.

We do everything we can think of to ensure that your delivery is accurate and complete the first time round.

TCT strives to be a zero-waste facility. Even lumber wraps are fully recycled. We salvage the cut-off lumber ends to make truss blocks. The cut-offs from that process are sent to a clean-energy producer who burns our scrap to power their lumber mill.

DELIVERY

Dispatch delivers your trusses throughout Washington with our fleet of ''boomer'' and shuttle trucks. Note the blocks and hangers stacked ready for the morning's deliveries.

Morning rush hour at TCT, headed out the gate. Oversize loads, up to 14' wide, leave on their own with pilot cars to escort them to your site.

And our drivers are the best in the business.

A RARE QUIET MOMENT AT THE MAIN OFFICE



1-360-757-8500		1-800-523-3847