jar546
CBO
The owner is an engineer who designed this. I think it is great. Rarely see stuff like this.
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Ridge Beam splice
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bgingras
REGISTERED
Wow! Yep, Just wow!
Kevin Turner
Bronze Member
Did he show calculations & lmao
jar546
CBO
Honestly, this was from a private inspection a few years ago on a small Dutch style home built in the mountains where they get a hefty snow load. I figured it was built by a German engineer who built it in the 70's and the ridge was straight as an arrow so why make a big deal of it. From a code standpoint, we would need paperwork from a RDP
bgingras
REGISTERED
I guess if the ceiling joists were fastened to the rafters properly, there may not be much load at all. It's more of a matter of the system as a whole functioning.
KZQuixote
Sawhorse
From the location of the shackle I'd have to say the two 2X4's were intended to be permanent. It's too bad they don't bear a little better but they're obviously doing the work.
Seen plenty of similar shackles on big glulams in commercial work.
Bill
Seen plenty of similar shackles on big glulams in commercial work.
Bill
Paul Sweet
SAWHORSE
It's probably lightly loaded because the deep notches could fail in shear if the beam were heavily loaded. An angled cut or an offset connector ( http://aitc-glulam.org/shopcart/Pdf/aitc_104_2003.pdf fig. 3) would have been better than the zig-zag cut.