What's happening in the David Mary Custom shop?

Here’s me saying “this used to touch my head”

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am i looking at this right? y'all took apart the roof rafter ties(bottom piece of the assembly) and cut one shorter and raised it up/renailed it to make a new roof rafter assembly?

if i got that right^........how many did y'all modify just the one or multiple i cant see in the pic?
 
I took two out and put one back higher.

This was one of the two and I don’t know what they (previous home owners before Chris) thought they were supporting with that!

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rafter assemblies need a tie to keep walls from bowing or worst case roof from collapsing. just make sure ya got enough in there to be safe......

I can't tell from the pic but seems most of the rafter assemblies don't have the ties and that isn't a good thing as it doesnt look engineered to not have the ties...but couple pics isn't enough for me to tell.

just don't want the roof and structure to come down on your head is all.....
 
Think of this: before today there were PVC pipes, lumber, chicken wire and other miscellany right above my head, some of it wrapped in plastic, lots of nooks and crannies, and three years worth of dust. Any time I bumped the rafters too hard with my head or if I was sweeping up and tagged one of them with the end of the broom handle, or if a mouse scurried up there, or a medium to large fly buzzed around, I’d be instantly showered in dust.

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Remember the knives I showed that I made Dad before I did this for a living, and my brother inherited after he passed? Then gave back to me. Well I decided I’m going to start correcting another one of them. This is hideous.

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More learning from it. This is clearly from a time before I knew how to keep things flat and straight. Also was using gorilla glue CA still. Not a good combination. Once it’s ready for reassembly I’ll use gorilla glue white, the superior choice for a knife. It’s getting there.

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