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   Piffin | Apr 22, 2003 05:01am | #1

   answer

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   CAGIV | Apr 22, 2003 05:21am | #2

   Didnt wait long for the answer did ya?View ImageGo Jayhawks..............Next Year and daaa. Blues View Image

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   srvfan | Apr 22, 2003 05:24am | #3

   What did you use to cut the 2x6 at such a angle on the rafters?  A table saw or something?

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   RalphWicklund | Apr 22, 2003 05:47am | #4

   What did you use to cut the 2x6 at such a angle on the rafters? A table saw or something?

   Probably used one of those archaic museum pieces that seem to be rapidly disappearing from the "carpenters" tool box.

   The Handsaw.

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   bobl | Apr 22, 2003 03:55pm | #6

   do you mean this?bobl          Volo Non Voleo      Joe's BT Forum cheat sheet

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   DaveRicheson | Apr 22, 2003 06:35pm | #7

   I always wondered if those thins really work. Have you or anyone else ever used one? Maybe a timber framer?

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   bobl | Apr 22, 2003 06:57pm | #8

   never used one

   just giving Ralph a hard time.bobl          Volo Non Voleo      Joe's BT Forum cheat sheet

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   Piffin | Apr 23, 2003 12:09am | #12

   Handsaw is right but I didn't build it. Sorry if I misled anyone. I just saw this on a Sunday walk and it caught my eye.

   youse guys dat tink I posted de ansahr too soon didn't halfta look now did you?.

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   Qtrmeg | Apr 22, 2003 08:34pm | #9

   Looks like an engineer got let loose.

   I wouldn't frame it like that, would you?

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   Piffin | Apr 23, 2003 12:17am | #13

   wood eye?

   I honestly don't know. I saw the thing and had to ask myself, "I wonder how they framed that swag curve into it so consistently."

   Then I walked over and looked.

   They cut the swag in the fascia and led to it with the twin rafters which must have been nothced deeper than the hips - oops maybe not. Joe Fusco has all those formulae and drawing for calculating hip lift cuts - maybe they forgot to figure and when they tried to sheathit the swag happened accidentally and they had to fit the fascia to the natural curve.

   Hmmmmmmmm....

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   calvin | Apr 23, 2003 04:32am | #14

   8 rafters and thin sheeting?

   can I look now?__________________________________________

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   Piffin | Apr 23, 2003 05:25am | #15

   Loike arrange the sheet so it drapes just so and spray it with epoxy?

   go head an look.

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   calvin | Apr 23, 2003 05:36am | #16

   I'd not thought of loike-ing that sheet first.

   thanks.__________________________________________

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   Piffin | Apr 23, 2003 06:18am | #17

   loike go ahead and laugh!

   ;).

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   calvin | Apr 23, 2003 06:28am | #18

   Listen pal, when I'm loike'n, I'm sure as hell not laugh'in!__________________________________________

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   GoldenWreckedAngle | Apr 22, 2003 08:53pm | #10

   Uh, hello... can somebody say overkill?!!! Let me guess- is this a shot of Frenchy's well cover?

   I can't see any detail on how the roof timbers are attached to the collar beams. Any insight into how they addressed up lift there Piffin? They certainly took care of it where the collar beams attach to the posts.

   I'm not sure this is actually a well cover as you suggest. Judging from the construction I think it may be the tip off an antique battering ram or something.

   All criticism aside- I'm actually pretty impressed - Looks sharp. (literally)

   Kevin Halliburton

   "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." -Elbert Hubbard-

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   andybuildz | Apr 22, 2003 01:04pm | #5

   Piff

      Ya coulda waited and given us a chance man....lol

   I was gonna say skip sheathing steamed and bent.

   That photo gave me a good idea though. I happen to find buried on my property an old artisian well buried in weeds with a decaying old wood shake roof bout four feet off the ground.

   Been thinking of how to restore it. Now I know...one day when I have nuttin' ta do....lol

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   JohnSprung | Apr 22, 2003 09:46pm | #11

   I'd certainly consider using Simpson's gazebo top fitting.  Here's the GT6, they also make a GT8 for an eight sided structure like the one you posted.

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   	View Image    Connects six 2x rafters at top of six-sided gazebo.  MATERIAL: 16 gauge  FINISH: Galvanized  INSTALLATION:   Use two GT6 connectors with one above and one below rafters.  Use 18 each 10X1 1/2" nails or 18 each #8x1 1/4 screws (galvanized). View Image