Marcel,
Thanks for the explanation. But it brings another thought to mind. If it has no structural value, then what is the purpose of the ridge board being the same size as the cut end of the rafters?
Thanks again.
Clearly a rafter system covered under the IRC refer to chapters 6 & 8.
For truss systems there are two sources for information; The Truss Institute and the Wood Truss Council of America BCSI 1-03 is pretty much the Bible of truss installation. Anyone who is contemplating performing New Construction inspections should be very familiar with this material.
Welcome back Joe I see you renewed.
NACHI really does help all
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Roy Cooke sr.
Joe looking at your web site you say a lot about ASHI .
I think you post more here at NACHI and get more information here at NACHI
do you not think it would be nice if you gave NACHI equal billing ?
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Roy,
I would hate to shatter any of your illusions (so I won’t) but I will share this… Association membership is strictly a business decision, nothing more, nothing less. Associations are here to serve their members and if they fail to do that they will cease to be associations, that in mind I find very limited benefits in any national organization NACHI, ASHI, et al. Think globally all you want, but acting locally is all that really matters to me and if an association ain’t delivering at the local level then they are not worth the membership fee to belong.
ASHI dominates the Tampa Bay area and markets under one brochure that gets printed & distributed (50K copies) to every Real Estate office in the tri-county area twice a year. I would have been a fool not to join and give my business the very best possibility for survival, being an ASHI member has generated over $10,000 of new business for me for an investment of just under $1,200, if that ever changes so will my membership status.
BTW, since you have no access to ASHI’s website how could you even speculate about my activity there?
Andrew;
Having a ridge board the same size as the plumb cut of the rafters on a stick built roof helps keep the rafter members where you want them aligned to and also helps prevent rotation under load somewhat like bridging and also helps in premature checking of the unsupported ends. The roof loads are also distributed equally to both sides.
Hope this helps.
Marcel 
what MIcheal B. said.
Marcel,
Once again thank you. It was the rotational effect at the butt joint, I was thinking about. I guess I didn’t really say that clearly. Granted we only have the oblique view in the picture and it is 2-d, but it kind of looked like the rafter on the left was not over the joint but next to it. While the rafter on the right was on or maybe even slighly towards the camera side of the joint.
Thanks again.
Roy
You have got to stop this nonsense. How did a thread about truss construction get to a discussion about ASHI.
Larry
Start at the beginning.