The carpenter's and joiner's hand-book: containing a complete treatise on framing hip and valley roofs. Together with much valuable instruction for all mechanics and amateurs, useful rules, tables, etc. ... Illustrated by thirty-seven engravings (1863)
Holly, H. W. (Henry Wells) · Norwich, Conn., Published by H. W. Holly · leaf 20
nd to the line/, for the top bevelon the valley; the whole lengths of the jacks HAND-BOOK. 15 is from the line/* to the line e. If the hipand valley rafters lie parallel, the bevel willbe the same on each end of the jack. 8. In framing a hip-roof without a deck-ing or observatory, a ridge-pole is… … This is illustrated by the figure. Supposethe building to be 16 by 20, the ridge wouldrequire to be four feet long; but if the stickis four inches thick, for instance, then it 16 THE CARPENTERS should be cut four feet four inches long, sothat the centre line on the hip, a, will pointto the centre…
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