Purlins in the Castle

[sbebuilders]

Yesterday, we went up to Napa Valley California to see the new Castello Di Amorosa castle winery. The first thing that caught my attention was the circular tower. After climbing all the stairs to the circular tower I was supprised to see the roof framing purlins. They had used purlins to support the bays between the hip rafters. If I had been asked to cut and stack the circular tower I would have been kicked off the job, becuase I would have stacked it like my Circular Tower Structural Ring Rafter Calculator details. The Castello Di Amorosa castle winery is an authentic version of a Tuscan castle. So to be authentic it used purlins to support the bays instead of rafters.

I guess I need to go back to Joe Bartok's website and lean how to cut the correct angle on the stick just incase I ever get to cut and stack a castle.

http://www.sbebuilders.com/tools/cir...tower-ring.php Circular Tower Structural Ring Rafter Calculator

http://www.castellodiamorosa.com/ Castello Di Amorosa Castle


NOTE: If your planning a vacation to the Napa Valley for some wine tasting, bring your Visa card, because you can't carry enough cash in your wallet to pay for everything. A typical wine tasting tour cost about $15.00 per winery. The Castello Di Amorosa Castle wine tasting tour cost $30.00. It's worth every penny of it. However, after your done with the castle tour you get to taste the Castello Di Amorosa wines that are unbeliveable. After ten or twelve sips of wine, during your wine tasting, you'll end up saying yes to wife for the $400.00 - $800.00 cost for a case of their wine.

So what's the correct angle on the stick after a bottle of Castello Di Amorosa wine? Was it one bottle ÷ cork height? Or was it...

Sim

[Bob Dylan]

We just returned home after almost three weeks on the left coast, hitting spots from SLO up to Whidbey Island, WA.

Best wine tasting territory for us was Paso Robles, CA. We had done everything around Napa and Sonoma and Healdsburg in previous trips.

[Toolwhore]

Sim,

As coincidence has it, we are going to Napa at the end of this week. That looks like a great place to add to our list of places to go, on our trip. Thanks for the heads up.

[sbebuilders]

Sim,

As coincidence has it, we are going to Napa at the end of this week. That looks like a great place to add to our list of places to go, on our trip. Thanks for the heads up.

When your wine tasting at Castello Di Amorosa, ask for the reserve wine tasing tour. The reserve wine tasting is from their $65.00 - $100.00 bottles. A $10.00 to $30.00 bottle of wine always has a kick at the end of the sip. When you drink the better wines, like the Castello Di Amorosa reserve, it's really smooth to the last drop.

Sim

[sbebuilders]

We just returned home after almost three weeks on the left coast, hitting spots from SLO up to Whidbey Island, WA.

Best wine tasting territory for us was Paso Robles, CA. We had done everything around Napa and Sonoma and Healdsburg in previous trips.

I'll have to check out the wines in Paso Robles, CA next time I heading down
to Northern Mexico (San Diego) to see my relatives. Some times it's seems like every city here on the left coast is trying to be the new west coast wine capitol.

Sim

[Joe Bartok]

After climbing all the stairs to the circular tower I was supprised to see the roof framing purlins. They had used purlins to support the bays between the hip rafters. If I had been asked to cut and stack the circular tower I would have been kicked off the job, becuase I would have stacked it like my Circular Tower Structural Ring Rafter Calculator details. The Castello Di Amorosa castle winery is an authentic version of a Tuscan castle. So to be authentic it used purlins to support the bays instead of rafters.

I guess I need to go back to Joe Bartok's website and lean how to cut the correct angle on the stick just incase I ever get to cut and stack a castle. View Post

Sim, this is exactly what I was suggesting in the Bowed Bay Window Framing Thread ... Post #68. There would be a lot fewer headaches figuring a few compound cuts on the purlins than a bunch of different rafters. And the spacing along the Hip rafters would be a piece of cake.

[sbebuilders]

Sim, this is exactly what I was suggesting in the Bowed Bay Window Framing Thread ... Post #68. There would be a lot fewer headaches

Joe,

function fewer_headaches{

var wine glass = wine bottle radius * cos ( pour angle)
var fewer = wine glass ÷ amount left in bottle
var headaches = wine glass * sin ( fewer)

return headaches

}

Sim

[Joe Bartok]

LOL ... here's another way of thinking about the angles on the purlins.

We know the plan angles for the Hip roof. The "pitch angles" on the faces of the purlin set perpendicular to the roof are the reciprocals of the main and adjoining roof slopes.

The angle on this face of the purlin (complementary to the saw miter angle) ... geometrically, isn't it in a position similar to the sheathing angle on the face set in the surface of the roof? And the doesn't the blade bevel fulfill the same function as the backing angle?

Try using the sheathing angle and backing angle formulas, but substitute the reciprocal(s) of the roof slope angle(s).

Wireframe sketch of intersecting planes of Purlin and the Hip Rafter ... purlin means the same as the plane labelled "fascia".

[Tim Uhler]

We just returned home after almost three weeks on the left coast, hitting spots from SLO up to Whidbey Island, WA.

Best wine tasting territory for us was Paso Robles, CA. We had done everything around Napa and Sonoma and Healdsburg in previous trips.

And you didn't stop by and say hello? What parts of WA did you visit? How did you like it? You must have hit some of the rain we've had.