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The timberframe company I work for is making a hip roof pavilion. These
sticks are the hips - sixteen foot long 6 x 10s, fresh sawn hemlock. Each stick weighs about 400 pounds - just rolling them over on the horses takes a lot of effort and care. The cuts on the ends, where the two hips meet at the ridge, is the most counterintuitive bit of geometry I've ever seen. The pictures show a matched pair (they are the same size, but one is further back in the end view picture). The two irregular pentagonal faces butt to each other at 90 degrees, and the two irregular tetragonal faces form a plane that lands on an angled cut on the end of the ridge beam. The layout of these bad boys is enough to give Euclid a headache. We mocked up a model before attacking the actual sticks - not a lot of room for error on a job like this! Scott Cramer |
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"Elrond Hubbard" wrote in message The layout of these bad boys is enough to give Euclid a headache. We mocked up a model before attacking the actual sticks - not a lot of room for error on a job like this! Good job! With those facets, if you ever lose that job you could be a diamond cutter in short order. -- www.e-woodshop.net Last update: 2/20/07 |
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Would like to add PointyStick3 to The Pointy Stick Compendium Project
-with your permission of course. http://web.hypersurf.com/~charlie2/P...OfContent.html charlie b |
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charlieb wrote in news:461B2B09.13D0
@accesscom.com: http://web.hypersurf.com/~charlie2/P...OfContent.html I couldn't be more flattered if the Nobel committee were to call. Please feel free, and thanks for asking. Scott |
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