HOW TO Calculate and cut rafters w/bird's mouth! 

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Your ridge is where the peaks of your rafters are meeting. So in the example the 30” would be from the top of the ridge, to the top of the beam your rafters are sitting on. The ridge height won’t get you the measurement for where your bird mouth lands, that measurement would come from multiplying the horizontal span times the number on your framing square, and that is the start of the birds mouth. Don’t apologize my man, that’s what this channel is for! I hope this helps, and let me know if I need to try to explain it another way

@@mkole3262 I only had a small piece of material so I wanted to keep it pretty short so the mock building I did was only 3’ wide total. We take half of that and multiply it by the pitch of your roof (this is the part you use a framing square for) in this example I did a 6 pitch which is 13.42”. So I multiply half of the linear ft (1.5’), and the number on my framing square (in my case 13.42) and then I subtract half of the width of your ridge material (if using a 2x10, you are subtracting 3/4 inch from the product of the last calculation). I hope this helps!

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I thought it was a lot cooler when I first got it. I've found that the hinge point actually makes the line not straight so I wouldn't recommend this one!

It can be hard to determine what's essential and what's not but thank you! I'm glad it could help

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I’ll add it to the list! Thank you

Yes I’m sorry I forgot to mention that! The smallest mark we have on a standard tape measure is 1/16th inch increments (in the US). With that being said when we are converting from a decimal to a fraction (or vise versa) we want the closest representation that we can get based off our tools. Multiplying the decimal by 16, will give you the numerator for the fraction

Thank you! A good rule of thumb is no more than 25% of the depth of the lumber, if you are spanning more than 12’ from post to ridge, I would suggest bumping up to a 2x8! If you’re worried about landing on your post, just notch the top 4” of your post to 3.5” wide and act as if it’s sitting on top of a regular 2x4 wall

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I’m glad I could help! Let me know what other areas you struggle with and I can try to make some content around that!

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I’m sorry sometimes I have a tough time articulating things.. Is there a specific question I could help you with?

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