Roofing Trick

How did you get Sasquatch to roof your house?

> How did you get Sasquatch to roof your house?

with a ball peen hammer??

looks like a claw to me... a roofing hammer works better if you can still find one (I know where mine is)

one foot above a toe board feels good, but then I don't really trust toe boards too much anyway and I have been known to stumble.

both you guys missed the main issue... If he had started laying the shingles on the left he would be able to hold the hammer in his right hand and be much more efficient. 😉

Nice Trick Perry!
and it looks like a real nice place too...

Unless Perry's Left Handed

> both you guys missed the main issue... If he had started laying the shingles on the left he would be able to hold the hammer in his right hand and be much more efficient.

Unless Perry's left handed, that is. :>

Unless Perry's Left Handed

> Unless Perry's left handed, that is. :>

Lefties think with the "right" side of their brain!! 😉

(I am a lefty.)

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my staging. I'm mighty proud of it. It might not be quite square, but it is functional.

And yes, I am left-handed; but have been known to pound with either hand.

Also, yes; it's a Craftsman framing hammer.

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Costs more but we like the metal roof on our buildings.

I'd be thinking ROPE around me too !

Cheers

Derek

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This is another example where I will gladly pay someone $15 per hour to shingle for me while I go make $100+ per hour.

That being said, I did much shingling and related roof work when I was a teenager. I know how to do it rather well. I simply have no desire to risk injury that could greatly impact my ability to make the $100+ rate mentioned above. A fellow I used to know quite well who was part owner of a concrete truck business and a member of the State legislature was doing some siding work from a scaffold and fell backwards about six feet onto a concrete sidewalk. He hit first with the back of his skull. He never spoke again and appeared to have very little awareness of what was happening around him. He died from related complications several months later after accruing incredible medical expenses.

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I know two people who fell and landed on their feet and shattered their feet into tens of bone fragments. One, had to have his feet amputated and will be making payments to the hospital and surgeons for the rest of his life.

If I were Perry I would be "tied off".

Ditto Merlin

Last time I was high up like that, I did tie off. Sure makes you feel a lot more confident. It did me. I have had two high falls and was super lucky both times. Both times I landed completely flat on my back and didn't even knock the wind out of me. I don't care to test that luck again thank you very much.
E.

200 K + per year

Ain't nobody making $100 per hour in surveying anywhere around here. Plis, I like roofing.

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> my staging. I'm mighty proud of it. It might not be quite square, but it is functional.

Perry
It looks like it would scare the bejeezus out of me.

Why didn't you just apply some maple syrup on the soles of your sneakers periodically?

200 K + per year

A microburst hit our house earlier this year and I had to go up there and patch a roughly 10x10 hole.

I tarped it in the late afternoon right after it happened (which it turned out I didn't really need to do because it didn't rain anymore and even if it had the roofing felt would've been sufficient for a short time).

Like a big dummy I stepped on the plastic (tarp wraslin' you know) and damn near shot right off the roof. It was all I could do to stay up there but I managed. The next day I put up the new shingles (had spares in the garage left by the previous owner) and that was no big deal.

The hardest part is getting rid of the extra bits where the old ones tore off and trying to pull the nails without damaging the felt.