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Framing for a hip roof.
Especially when we set 4 by or 6 by lvl hips using a forklift it is easier to drop the hip into a nice pocket.
If the wall plates are all square of equal lengths then the hipped rafters would form a pyramid shape like the picture above normally a roof is rectangle and there are more yellow common rafters.
There are a couple of ways to lay out a hip roof at the ridge.
With single cheek cuts or double cheek cuts.
Tommy silva gives the apprentices a lesson in hip roof framing.
I prefer to run king commons off the end of the ridge and cut double cheek cuts on the hips as shown in the photo at left.