6 each King posts pulled out of the gussets, I’ve only seen one other situation like this in my 20 years of inspecting, but not to this extent.
This was over the garage, and although the garage ceiling looked fine, if I had to guess I’d say at some point in time someone connected the trusses together along the bottom chords and was using them to pull engines out of cars. The only other thing I can think of is overloading by storing heavy items, there were board laid over the webs indicating it was used as storage at some point.
Of course it was called out and an SE was recommened for further evaluation.
Just for curiosity sake, any other ideas what might cause this?
Improper attachment when trusses placed with crane. Contractor “hammered” back in place to pass inspection. Wind uplift event caused to be pulled out again.
It looks like it only had one row of teeth catching the king post, because the king post was not mitered to fit the peak joint and the plate was positioned too high, or not big enough:
Looks like 4 teeth per hole Brian, but still IMHO not enough, but then again that’s why the engineers get paid the big bucks, to figure this stuff out.