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@phamENG 10% seems low to cover all of the overhead/non-labor expenses that you have listed plus probably others. Maybe you are able to...

Insurance = can be up to 10% of gross receipts for a small outfit just starting out Payment processing = up to 3% of gross receipts...

Wow! Quite the screw-up... I mean miscommunication by both of you on this one. I would say best case scenario to resolve this one would...

Feisty indeed! Perhaps more than feisty, but let's move on. I have already posted a quote from Salmon's and Wang's "Introductory...

@KootK, I agree with most everything you continue to present regarding stability and bracing. I just don't agree with your insistence...

I was curious, so I just watched a video on the manufacturer's website. I'm still not sure exactly what size hole is required, but...

Yes, of course. I acknowledged as much when I said, By describing the end vertical as a free standing column (needing to be...

@KootK, you have just posted an exact replica of my previously proposed column example, which you dismissed as trivial. In your...

A lot of good that does if it's not executed in the field or if it doesn't reflect reality.

@KootK You've been reading too much Muir and Thornton on stability bracing in steel structures ;) Your definition of stability doesn't...

Depending on who/where/what will be using this structure, pole barn plus attic/loft trusses screams "stacked full of square bales" (of...

It would be more precise to say that non-vertical loads will be resisted by the diaphragm, and I don't think it's a moot point at all...

In my imaginary example I was not concerned with out-of-plumbness. That's why I said imagine the columns are all perfectly straight and...

OP, for your own edification, I suggest you recheck your analysis and design for the beams using only marginal dead load and a...

@KootK, imagine a 1" diameter wooden dowel that is 1" long oriented as a vertical, freestanding, column with a 10 lb load placed at the...