I thought I saw a tool awhile back that was motor driven that would shear roofing nails and remove shingles but can't find anything on it. It had like an oscillating blade on the front of it. We have a volunteer project here at work where we are replacing the shingles on a ladies roof and are trying to do it in the time we have. There is like 29 square of shingles that need stripped and we need to to it as efficiently as possible.
Anyone know if there is such a tool and who may have one?

 

If you have a local ABC supply store, go in and talk to them and see what they say. But all my guys use Roof rippers, when prying up the shingles some of the nails come right out. Check out http://www.abccatalog.com/store/list...?idCategory=46 Thats all we ever use, and Im sure if something was faster my guys would let me know. Acctually if their is such a thing dont let me know, cause if I bought one it would just give them something else to break . Good luck.

 

I used to work for a roofing company back in the 70's as a mechanic but also helped on the equipment.

I used to go to a place called Roofmaster
http://www.roofmaster.com/Roofmaster_Online_Catalog.pdf
in Monterey Park and spend a lot of time in the mechanical shops where they built conveyers and modified the kettles, I was in mechanical heaven.

When we had a large roof we had a Gravely tractor they would lift onto the roof that had an oscillating claw on the front that would tear anything off. But for most of the residential roofs we would just use labors with bear claws and spud bars to tear it off.

Jim

 

I just used one of the special hand tools on the website linked above.

It had a couple bends in it which was great so you didn't have to bend over much and it gave good leverage. As far as tearing off the old stuff, there is no easy way to do it, unless of course you don't mind burning your house down first.

I did my house and garage last year in about a week and a halfs time and mostly by myself and some occasional help from the wifey.

Enjoy the gruntwork!

 

Cool, you wanna come help on this one? It's for United Way. It's for a good cause.

 

i have used the tool on the bottom of page 1 of the link above. seems to work well. dont care to ever touch another one of those in my life

 

I found one but it's $6700 to but it.

 

So wouldn't that be something you could rent?

Chris

 

THe company said they would buy one and rent it if we used it often enough.

 

I was just thinking you might be able to call some rental places and rent an existing one. I can't imagine you using it often enough to justify the company buying one unless you're going into roofing on the side now.

Chris

 

That's what I meant. The rental company would not buy one unless we committed to renting it often enough. My boss is a United Way supporter in a big way so he might buy one.

 

This is a little far out, but call any comercial roofers in your area and ask to borrow one for a charity event. Heck if I had one I would let you use it and supply an operator. I talked to some of my guys today and they said most commercial roofers have them, one big job and it pays for itself. Good luck.

 

I was thinking that you could maybe find it at another rental company who alreayd has one. Did you call Tim's company?

Chris