[DaxtonBrown]

As an engineer we were taught to use a 2.5 safety factor. This looks like they used .9

[SoFloFreeper]

What does that mean, 2.5 factor?

[Paradox]

As an engineer we were taught to use a 2.5 safety factor. This looks like they used 0.9

That was my first thought. Although I never worked as an engineer, I have two degrees. And as someone who is always building something, this just doesnt look right, not strong enough, even with those trusses, but what do I know..

How it was supposed to be...:

[matthew fuller]

"As an engineer we were taught to use a 2.5 safety factor."

As an engineer in training I was taught that in civil engineering (bridges and such), the factor was 5. Early sixties.