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A Quick Photo Tour of Our Longview Plant

Or, if you're going to be in the area, contact TCT for a tour, 360-501-8400.
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.

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

Jiggers builds your truss on steel tables. TCT Longview uses the advanced Wizard tables with computer controlled truss profiling. You can see the automated stops that hold the truss to the right shape while it's being assembled. These pins are computer controlled which means fast and accurate setup every time. That means we save you money.

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. Here it can be seen at the exit to the shed where your truss moves onto the output rollers for stacking.

Our automated stackers ensure that your truss has kid-glove handling through every stage of our plant. They're built, pressed, then stacked and banded in the right order to land on your roof.

''Jack Rabbit'' makes sure that the jacks for your hip ends are built exactly to pitch.

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. These trusses are stacked and ready to go.

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. Everything has its bin.

DELIVERY

Dispatch delivers your trusses throughout Southern Washington and West and Central Oregon with our fleet of ''boomer'' and shuttle trucks. 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.

TIMBER TRUSSES

Yes we do! We craft your timber trusses from glu-lams, kiln dried or green timbers, rough sawn or planed. We can even design to your specifications.

A RARE QUIET MOMENT IN THE YARD



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