The carpenter's and joiner's hand-book : containing a complete treatise on framing hip and valley roofs ... (1888)
Holly, H. W. (Henry Wells) · New York : John Wiley & Sons · leaf 19
resent the valley-rafter ;j j are corresponding jack-rafters. Set therise of the roof from a to c / connect h andc: from 5 to ^ is the length of the valley-rafter, and the angle at g the bevel of thesame; set the length h c on the line fromextend the jack^ to meet the line b d at e ;then from etof… … Fig. 5. a h (Fig. 5) is the hip, and c d the valley-rafters. Find the length of each accordingto the previous directions; find the lines eand f as before. Extend the jacks j j to the line e^ for thetop bevel on the hip: extend the same onthe other end to the line/*, for the top bevelon the valley;…
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