Craziest Shingle Tear-Off Method Ever?

[mjncad]

Craziest Shingle Tear-Off Method Ever? - Fine Homebuilding

Check out this video. Hearing the shingles crunch as they are being removed is icing on the cake.

 

[nhkabotab7800]

that is one good operator to keep the bucket from going through the roof

 

[jimmyj]

Well, your title says it right. That's just odd. They did a good job though.

 

[newbury]

Never thought of using my FEL to strip shingles. Now how do I get my 7610 up the ladder?

 

[Wombat125]

I approve. It looks like once the operator catches the first row of shingles, the bucket edge doesn't even touch the roof.

Nevertheless, you still probably wouldn't want me running the telehandler for this type of work. You'd probably get some new custom skylights.

 

[ScottAR]

That is SLICK...

I'd try it if I had wood shingles to tear off too... 'Course, 99.999% of roofs are
composition or metal here... In fact, I've never seen wood shingles on anything besides business fronts or historical buildings... Still, SLICK...

 

[Robert_in_NY]

That is SLICK...

I'd try it if I had wood shingles to tear off too... 'Course, 99.999% of roofs are
composition or metal here... In fact, I've never seen wood shingles on anything besides business fronts or historical buildings... Still, SLICK...

About 90% of the roofs we tear off to reroof have wood shingles under the other roof layers (generally 2-3 layers of asphalt or one layer of metal). Still, I have always thought about doing something like this but one mistake and you can have a huge problem

 

[EddieWalker]

Very impressive operator. I wouldn't try it myself, but whoever that was working the controls is worth his weight in gold. He didn't even tear the paper!!!!!!!!!

My first thought when I started to see what he was going to do was that he'd tear off the decking under the paper. With so many homes having random width 1x material for the sheeting, I would have thought it was impossible to run a bucket along the decking without catching the edges.

Great video, thanks for sharing.

Eddie

 

[funkydaddy59]

My roof is being reshingled this summer. I hope the company doing the work hasn't seen this video.

 

[charlz]

If you think about it, as long as the slope of the boom matches the slope of the roof there's little chance of it touching the roof. Once its set just work the boom extend and don't touch the bucket or boom angle.

This is one of those things that makes me wonder how they came up with the idea in the first place?

 

[Renze]

If you think about it, as long as the slope of the boom matches the slope of the roof there's little chance of it touching the roof. Once its set just work the boom extend and don't touch the bucket or boom angle.

You cant, just look at the boom hanging down a couple of inches when it extends.... And i did see him correcting the height at least once

 

[tlbuser]

This is one of those things that makes me wonder how they came up with the idea in the first place?

Adult beverages and testosterone

 

[kthompson]

I could hear a radio but only when the boom was not being extended or am I wrong? I know there are some radio control equipment such as lifts for drywall. Watched a person operator a truck with such from within a building and was amazed how precise he was. If this machine were so equipped the operator could be on the roof with a very clear view. It is possible an operator sitting in the cab could see fairly well looking under the bucket. Also each layer would help lift the one above it so once the bucket was under the very first row you could lift the bucket some. I really believe there was at least some communication to operator if he was not on the roof for he knew his stopping point and such was too precise, or he had very very good eye sight.

 

[DIRTROAD]

I would put money on remote control.

Still amazing though!!!

 

[PILOON]

Not to rob the trend but, (along same lines)
2 winters back we had enough snow that a fair number of roofs collapsed.
Insurance firms advised commercial clients that they were resposible for remouval of snow.

My buddy has a public storage facility, 10 buildings 100 ft long, the all metal type with low slope metal roofing.
Because of the panic situation shovelers were getting $40./hr and that would have cost him a bundle.(some were quoting $4-5000)

He hired a large excavator that simply drove up the lanes between the storage buildings and simply dragged the snow load down the roof without causing a single bit of damage!
The operator did not even remouve the teeth.

But then there are operators and real artisans.

Job got done in about 5 hrs

 

[J35]

This is one of those things that makes me wonder how they came up with the idea in the first place?

It could be that old saying " Necessity is the Mother of Invention" at work.

Or possibly the father of invention" Desperation"

But most likely just plain ole lazy ness was hard at work.

Have fun

 

[Willl]

I'd try it, get it started and you wouldn't even have to touch the sheeting.

I've done my share of flat shovel tear-offs.

 

[LeadPoison]

I would have installed a skylight.

 

[dodge man]

Remote control or not, its a good operator. I thought they were going to resheet the roof, but I guess not. Very slick. New use for a telehandler I guess.

 

[shownuff]

I hope they show what machine they use to install the new shingles