Hicks' builders' guide : comprising an easy, practical system of estimating material and labor for carpenters, contractors and builders .. (1910)
Hicks, Isaac Perry, 1856- · New York : David Williams Company · leaf 135
r of equal spacesas were the common rafters, and the curved linestraced through thepoints, we obtain theshape of hip whichwill correspond to theprofiles of the com-mon rafters fromeither side. In roofsof two pitches it isevident that theremust be two sets andtwo bevels of com-mon and jack rafters.… … 134 THE builders GUIDE. The lengths and bevels of the jacks for the dif-ferent pitches may be found as shown in Figs. 62, 63or 64. Again, it is evident that a jack rafter must bethe same shape as the common rafter on the sameside of roof from the bottom, or plate, up to thepoint where it joins the…
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