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    Changing trusses to regular attic

    Yes you can cut the trusses and redesign them but only with an engineer guiding your movements. With that being said you must first see if the walls that you plan to set the floor on will carry the added weight of the floor that you plan on putting up there, remember a floor is designed to carry...
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    metal roof is attached directly to trusses. is this code?

    what you have got is a roof that has what is called "skip sheeting" this method uses 1x4 nailed down with two nails every rafter, but they remove one row and leave a void between the rows of 1x4s. Even if you had plywood sheeting the metal roofing would only be fastened as per the manufactures...
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    Removing rock from hole (<--help please)

    Why don't you give this a try. Take a tarp and place the edge of it by the rock, then take a hoe and pull the rock onto the tarp, then you can lift the rock out assuming it is loose.
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