Calculating Rafter Length?

[conarb]

Re: Calculating Rafter Length?

I've always (and still do...) had a "Reichers Rafter Manual" in my bags.

Me too, except not on bags, but in the bib of my carpenters' overalls. When I learned the trade the old carpenters made me learn to "step off" with the framing square, but I noticed that thye all had Reicher's book in their bibs, when I asked to =use the book they said no, I had to learn to step off with the square first. Eventually I found out that to buy the book I had to drive all the way to San Francisco's Stacey's Bookstore, and I went over and bought the book. When they saw it they still made me keep it in my bib. I brought a tape to the job and they laughed at me telling me to put it away, a carpenter had to use a carpenter's wood folding rule.

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[TJacobs]

Re: Calculating Rafter Length?

I've always (and still do...) had a "Reichers Rafter Manual" in my bags.

Me too, except not on bags, but in the bib of my carpenters' overalls. When I learned the trade the old carpenters made me learn to "step off" with the framing square, but I noticed that thye all had Reicher's book in their bibs, when I asked to =use the book they said no, I had to learn to step off with the square first. Eventually I found out that to buy the book I had to drive all the way to San Francisco's Stacey's Bookstore, and I went over and bought the book. When they saw it they still made me keep it in my bib. I brought a tape to the job and they laughed at me telling me to put it away, a carpenter had to use a carpenter's wood folding rule.

That must have been a LONG time ago... :lol:

 

[beach]

Re: Calculating Rafter Length?

Most of the buildings Conarb learned on were lost in the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906!

Conarb, I'm glad to see somebody here knows what a Reichers book is! That was like going from an abacus to a calculator :mrgreen: