Rafter

A rafter is one of a series of sloped structural members (beams) that extend from the ridge or hip to the wall plate, downslope perimeter or eave, and that are designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads. A pair of rafters is a couple.

Design

A type of beam that supports the roof of a building. In home construction rafters are typically made of wood. Exposed rafters can be a feature of traditional roof styles.

Applications

In recent buildings there is a preference for engineered trusses (trussed rafters) on the grounds of cost, economy of materials, off-site manufacture and ease of construction, as well as design considerations such as span limitation and roof load (weight from above).

Types of rafters in traditional timber framing

Rafter (band)

Rafter is the performing name of musician and producer Rafter Roberts. He also owns his own studio, Singing Serpent, in San Diego.

In 2005 he formed the project Bunky together with Emily Joyce. The name is a combination of the words "bunny" and "monkey" while they released one album, Born To Be A Motorcycle (Asthmatic Kitty, 2005).

Discography

CD/LP

  • Sweaty Magic (Asthmatic Kitty, 2008)
  • Sex Death Cassette (Asthmatic Kitty)
  • Music for Total Chickens (Asthmatic Kitty, 2007)
  • 10 Songs (Rafter) (Asthmatic Kitty, 2006)
  • Born to be a Motorcycle as a member of Bunky
  • Animal Feelings (Asthmatic Kitty, 2010)
  • Quiet Storm (Asthmatic Kitty, 2011)
  • It's Reggae (Asthmatic Kitty, 2014)
  • Producer

  • Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made by Fol Chen (2009)
  • Various Soul-Junk and Castanets albums
  • The Rapture Mirror debut EP
  • The Fiery Furnaces- Rehearsing My Choir
  • Shapes and Sizes
  • GoGoGo Airheart
  • The Album Leaf
  • Performer

  • Bunky
  • The Free*Stars
  • Various Soul-Junk and Castanets albums
  • External links

  • http://asthmatickitty.com/rafter
  • Rafter (name)

    Rafter may refer to:

  • Charles Rafter (1860–1935), British Chief Constable of Birmingham City Police and Knight of the British Empire
  • Jack Rafter (1875–1943), Major League Baseball catcher
  • John Rafter Lee, British actor, voice actor, professional narrator
  • Kevin Rafter, Irish journalist and academic
  • Mark T. Rafter, American entrepreneur, speaker, author and technology consultant
  • Patrick Rafter, Former World Number One tennis player
  • Mrs. S. Rafter, Head Teacher of Robert May's School in the village of Odiham, Hampshire, England
  • Kitty Clive (née Rafter) (1711–1785), British actress of considerable repute on the stages of London
  • Henry Rafter (Born 1830), British master artist and former Headmaster of School of Arts of Coventry
  • Mike Rafter, Rugby union coach and former Bristol and England flanker
  • Nicole Hahn Rafter, Feminist criminology professor at Northeastern University
  • Orlaith Rafter, Irish actor, novelist and playwright
  • Thomas Athol Rafter (1913–1996), nuclear chemist
  • Captain Seamus Rafter, (1873-1918) IRA commandant for Wexford, Ireland during the 1916 Rising
  • Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Sweaty Magic

    by: Rafter

    [VERSE 1:]
    Peaceful feelings from beyond the grave
    Curtains drawn to afford the shade
    Oh’ we’ve heard good things from the lovers
    Everyone’s got to go to sleep
    Everyone some day will die
    But the lovers have told us they live in forever Ohhhh
    [CHORUS:]
    But don’t you count all your blessings be-fore they happen
    Or they won’t happen at all
    You’ve got to live for your blessings
    Or they won’t happen no
    They won’t happen at all
    [VERSE 2:]
    Peaceful feelings from beyond the grave
    My faith is swooping but I have not changed
    It just wilted and fell off the moment that I died
    Peaceful feelings from beyond the grave
    All the lovers are lucky they’ve got is middle
    But our lives become short by accidents
    [CHORUS:]
    Whoa, don’t you count all your blessings be-fore they happen
    Or they won’t happen at all
    You’ve got to live for your blessings to make them happen
    Or they won’t happen at all
    Oh’ don’t you count all your blessings be-fore
    Or they won’t happen at all
    You’ve got to live for your blessings
    Or they won’t happen no
    They won’t happen at all




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