How to build a bay roof

This is a long video and if it seems complicated, it’s because it really is. If it seems like no thought when into the organization or filming, that’s because there wasn’t. I’m just recording on the fly and if it was my job to make videos I’m sure I could make this much more digestible. But if you have done any rafter cutting at all, you should be able to pick up a few helpful ideas. Even though bay roofs are fairly common, they’re rarely built correctly and usually just some framer winging it. And that’s fine, but here’s an in depth look. I tried to show different options at several points in the video. Lots of the geometry is drawn on osb which I know is hard to see on video. Apologies there. Maybe I’ll do a short video just on the drawling aspect. But anyhow, lots of concepts here and once you understand how to find these numbers much of the tedious drawing can be skipped and worked out in your head on a construction calculator. Good luck, and comment if you have questions.

Here’s a link to the book that taught me projective geometry used in this video

http://www.raftertools.com/book.html