And here are all of the rafters cut into their final positions.

It may be a while before I do another ridge/rafter configuration like this as it is really fussy to get right. Since each rafter cuts into the ridge and half laps the rafter coming from the other side, any deviation from perfect causes gaps all over the place. And the two half lap shoulders have to be absolutely in the right place or the everything goes to heck.

Of course, this just means that double checking becomes even more important, especially since the whole structure is sitting on temporary post bases and is still moving around as the ground finally dries out from winter and stops heaving from the frost. We were, in the middle of winter, seeing various bearing points change by over 1/2" a DAY!!! Talk about chasing and angry cat.

As may not be obvious from the video, this system ended up unbelievably tight and we had no deviations from theo, anywhere, of more than 1/4". Booyah!


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