Removing Roof Collar Ties

2x4 collars yes i use a piece of 2x4 placed immediately under the existing ridge like a collar tie but all the way to the top on each pair of rafters.
Removing roof collar ties. Collar ties are generally for the benefit of the rafters though and your rafters sound more than big enough. If i could just remove that i could get to probably 75 of the loft without any acrobatics. Well unless your roof is concrete tile and less than 3 12 in slope. Watch this video before.
There is 3 supports on the loft which i believe are either called rafter or collar ties which divide the loft into quarters. Collar ties are the appendix of roof framing an evolutionary dead end in home building hanging on by just a couple of nail points. Removal of collar ties steve re. It ties the entire roof together.
So the top of the roof is in compression and collar ties near the upper roof should also be in compression not in tension. An exception occurs however even near the ridge if the bottom of the roof triangle is not secured against stretching or flattening by a ceiling joist or a low placed rafter tie.