Hi all…
Anyone have any tips or tricks to lift 3/4 inch sheet goods up to the roof?
Some sections are 9′ to the eve of a 12/12.
Another section is about 18′ to the eve of a 3/12.
I was thinking about safely rigging something on a couple of 40′ ladders?
Thanks guys. Suggestions appreciated.
PLEASE DO NOT give me the obvious “rent a lull” response… we’ve got a 2 week wait in our area right now and nobody seems to rent ladder lifts anymore.
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I lift it up, lay it over my right shouldeer, and walk up the ladder.
John Carrol, in his bnook about working alone shows using a large "C" vise grip to grab it and drag behind him up the ladder.
i one had a roof about thirty feet up and didn't relish the idea of carrying all of it up alone, so I was ready for the delivery with a rope and C clamp. Gave the driver an extra $20 to clamp eah sheet and wait for me to drag it up the ladder.
The guys who do my framing now have on eguy stand on ground, and lift each sheet vertically to edge of roof for one story jobs where another guy grabs it and swings in an arc to fly it up to the next guy behind him. This method scares me, but the way I balance a sheet and run up the ladder scares them...
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No answers here, just hopeing to get some more ideas.
This is 'waiting' for me tomorrow; 14ft high to the eave, 5/8th plywood.http://domania.us/FramerT/club%20house/11239764830002.image.jpgI can't see dragging plywood with a C-clamp....maybe if I slip Piffin a 20$ :-)If it were easy....a caveman could do it.
whoa! holy blocking batman!
Fill me in... whats all the blocking for in that image you posted?
Can you set up some scaffloding inside the house, hand several pieces up to the top of the scaffolding, and then from there hand it up to the topside?
For new construction it's normally brought up through the house unless there is a crane on site, and even then it is often just set on the 2nd floor deck. I still want to know why 3/4" sheathing... Is it cement tile roofing or something...
Hey - here is an idea - how about a shingle lift -
When they delivered my roof sheathing it came on a truck with a long conveyor belt/boom thing - one guy feeding and one guy pulling on the roof. Slick!
The blocking was called on the plans...4 rows??
In that pic, you can see some scaffolding and stone piers.
Well thats going to be the wrap-around porch.Been waiting a couple weeks for these columns;http://domania.us/FramerT/club%20house/11239764070000.image.jpgCould'nt use temps as columns have to slip over a rod in the pier.Anyway, did'nt mean to jack your thread .
Good luck.
If it were easy....a caveman could do it.
I'm thinking the same thing. Around here the big drywall guy has a boom truck with a nifty forklift attachment on the end. He can pick up units of rock that are laying flat on the warehouse floor, load them on the truck, then turn them to vertical and position the whole unit outside a 2nd floor window so the guys can pull them in. He loads roofs for the roofers here, I think for $100.
Call around to the roofers and rockers, see whose got some gear. 150 sheets will really piss off your crew if they have to hump them. Maybe you can find a mobile crane to lift units up to the ridge and stage them there.
He who makes the most phone calls eventually wins in situations like this.
So the picture in your profile really isn't you, is it? LOL.
That's what thirty years of carrying it up over the shoulder can do to ya!;)
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I don't know if I've ever seen so much intermediate blocking in a wall. Waht for is dat?
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2 strong guys or 4 average guys. 2 guys inside the structure hand it up to 2 guys up top. Forget about doing it yourself unless you just missed the draft for a major league football team. Can it be placed in the attic first? How many sheets? Can it be stanged on the 3:12 area first?
Why 3/4" sheathing on the roof?
The 3/12 pitch is 2 stories up. We could carry it to the 3/12 from the lower roof, but the lower roof is a 12/12. No way am I going to hump 3/4 T&G up a 12/12!<p>I was hoping for some sort of pulley contraption or something along those lines. We have about 150 sheets to lay.
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when we tore off the existing nailbase panels (7/16 OSB laminated to PolyIso) we just slid them down two 40' ladders set a few feet apart.
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For the lower roof we will probably just hand the first course up from the ground, and then lay 40' ladders flat on the roof, extending to the ground and walk them or slide them up the ladders.
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Still not sure how we are going to get them to the upper roof.
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No attic - cathedrals throughout.
Edited 8/14/2005 4:13 pm ET by petmonkey
Edited 8/14/2005 4:13 pm ET by petmonkey
scrambling around up there oughta be easy for a pet monkey!;)
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"scrambling around up there oughta be easy for a pet monkey!"That's how I got my nick name - first construction job, 'bout 20 yrs ago. I was the one who scrambled the ridges and trusses.The boss said "well hell - yer better'n having a pet monkey!"now, the "monkey" is close to 40, and while i can still (almost) hang with the young guys, i don't relish a day of humping 3/4 by hand!If only I'd reserved the pettibone (lull) a few weeks ago!I'm tempted to buy shingle lift, but by time it got here, we'd be just about done!
Edited 8/14/2005 5:05 pm ET by petmonkey
I used a variation on the John Carrol C-clamp technique. I'd put clamps on four sheets (had that many clamps handy), then climb to the roof with a rope with a hook on the end. Fish and hook the outermost sheet, then haul it up. I used 3/4" rope, and rigged an extra fall protection rope grab to hold it between pulls. That would get the C-clamp up to the eaves, where I could grab it by hand and pull the sheet up.
I was only doing three squares. If it were a big roof, it would have been worth going to a more elaborate rig.
-- J.S.
Make a ladder type frame from 2x6's about 30" wide. Add 2" castors to a 29" x 9'-0" frame from 2x4's.Fasten cleats on each side of this frame so the sled does not walk off to one side.Attach a rope or cable to the bottom of the sled, the rope goes over a pulley at the top. Use a winch or a comealong which is fastened to the bottom of the ladder frame.The sled needs a well fastened cleat at the bottom to keep the sheets from sliding back. You can load and winch the sheets from the ground.
I've used this contraption for sheathing and shingles in the past. The amount of sheets you can send up at one time depends on the angle of the frame, more angle less sheets. I usually sent up 6 at a time, or with shingles two squares.An electric winch makes it very easy.
mike
"I've used this contraption for sheathing and shingles in the past."Yeah, yeah - now we're getting somewhere.I'm drawing plans for it in my head right now!
Around here they rent shingle lifts for around $70 a day.
You don't stay up all night, do ya?
I'm kidding. There's nothing more impressive to me than someone slapping a 2x4 on a wall, a 6' ladder 12' away, and whatever is handy to span the two.
Power ladder :)
add me to the "why 3/4" list too.
so why?
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
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"why 3/4?"'cause the engineer says so!structure is heavy timber roof with 3/4" t&g pine over 30" o.c. rafters.2 layers of polyiso with 3/4 t&g sheathing.and that boom truck suggestion is a fine idea. I've got shingles coming tuesday or wednesday with a rooftop delivery - i slip the driver a few bucks to hoist the osb to the roof.
Boom truck!! Call the lumber yard, the truss yard, the concrete plant. Some one will send out their truck for a small charge. Sling the ply up and onto jacks built on top of the extreior wall and resting on the rafters.