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 21
7 i 16 THE carpenters should be cut four feet four inches long, so | that the centre line on the hip, will point to the centre of the end of the ridge-pole, \ J, at four feet long. This simple fact is often \ overlooked. • 9. To frame a concave hip-roof,—(This ] is much used for verandas,… … Fig. T. J To find the curve of the hip. \ \ Let a (Fig. 7) be the common rafter in its \true position, the line h being level. Draw the | i i HAiSTD-BOOK. 17 line c on the angle the hip-rafter is to lie,generally a mitre line; draw the small lines0 0 0^ parallel to the plate The more of theselines,…
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