Thanks for the reply Joe. In issue 74 there's detailed a raised collar truss which seems to hold up to analysis. Is there much difference in making a bottom chord discontinuous, especially if you add some metal? My intuition says that a straight bottom chord even if discontinuous would be stronger than the joinery in the issue '74 truss, although the fact that the raised collar is continuous between rafters shakes that intuition a bit. Does the engineering shed any light on this?
Thanks,
Matt Champagne
