I pulled my back out carring bundles of shingles up a ladder when putting my roof on. That is a good idy you have there.

I told the wife last winter "I'll shingle the roof, but I AM getting air for the garage and a roof nailer, and I am NOT carrying shingles up the ladder".  I still saved about 2K off getting it done, and I get a compressor out of the deal  (I'll probably ebay the roof nailer when I'm done, which I bought "factory-reconditioned" so it's already depreciated...) 

I'da paid 20 bucks to see that.

Cool idea.

Have fun up there.

Why do folks do roofing in the summer?

Have you ever been up north in the winter?

So, it's true y'all really don't have a spring or a fall? 

We have SNOW potential from October until at least April, and FROST from September until Memorial Day or later.  Ever try to cut ridge caps when it's below freezing out?  I have, using a propane torch to warm shingles enough to cut em.  it ain't FUN.

So what we do is roof in the "Summer".  I put the word in quotes because this year the trick is gonna be to get a long enough dry period to peel the old roof to the bare plywood and get new ice and water barrier and roofing felt (let alone shingles) in place without getting the house wet.  We haven't had three days in a row dry in two months.

Yeah, Summer's our wet season here, too.  So, why not the Spring?

BTW, that question was in general, not directed at you.

Wev'e been cooped up for months...takes a while to readjust. First 50 degree day we are all going to the beach and riding our motorcycles..and watching the snow melt.

We had ice and snow hanging on into april this year.

Oh, I'm glad I don't live where snow and cold are normal.  Not because I don't like it, it's nice for short durations, but getting cooped up for long term would be pretty rough.

My question was more in general:  always seems most roofing is done during the hottest part of the year.  And in our case, the wettest.

Traditionally, once we get the spring clean-up done and the garden in, it's after Memorial Day, and by then we have exactly 3 mos until the END of Summer (Labor Day is about it here, frost right afterward.)  If ya need a roof, (or house painted), best do it in June, July, or August.  Though July is our wettest month, the month to month variations are minimal, and our best chance for a week of dry weather is July or August (or february, if ya don't mind "dry" at 10deg.F.)

Gotcha. 

Your "tower" is just screaming "deer stand" at me, shingle quickly, hope it goes smoothe.

To make the shingles stick to each other it's gotta be Real hot. If they don't, then the first wind will peel them up and can break them.

I went around this last time after having about 4 roofs put on my other house (partly due to a hail storm and one near miss hurricane). When I moved in here, the roof was in very bad shape. I had a metal roof put on. It cost me about $1,000 more, but it is WELL worth it.

The metal roof is silver colored and reflects a lot of heat (Makes a good bit of difference in a Texas summer) and it will last about 50+years.

Now all you need is a rope & pulley system with two-way radio communication to a designated gofer

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I'd have the roofing supplier use the conveyor truck and stack them on the ridge.  Like either one of these.

http://www.beaconroofingsupply.com/services/rooftop-delivery/default.html

Nice tower though.

I wouldn't put a ton of shingles on the ridge of a "factory-built" (aka doublewide) and trust it to stay up.  Chipboard, roof on 24" centers?  Nope.

Good plan. Being a do-it-yourself kind of guy myself, I have built all manner of contraptions to allow me to do jobs, alone.

I did a 1200 sq. ft. addition to my 1400 sq. ft. house, a few years ago (when I was in a little better shape). The only part that I asked my two sons-in-law to help me on was decking the roof. I hired a Mexican crew to do the shingling, and they were the only pros who had any hand in the project. My dad, who was 79 at the time, helped me set all of the 36' trusses, with the help of a rented jack that we built a jig for. But I wouldn't let him up on a ladder, so I enlisted the SILs to deck the roof.

I built a rack that I could lean up against the fascia board at the eaves, so that I could load two sheets of 7/16" wafer board, from the ground, that one good man (or two SILs) could lift off while standing on the roof. I nailed a few sheets down to get them started right, then climbed down and quietly removed the ladder. They didn't even notice till they started getting tired and thirsty.

The boys figured out quickly that they weren't getting down till the job was done, so they worked prodigiously until it was done. I did toss a gatorade up to them, after a couple of hours. I actually worked about twice as hard as them, just to keep the rack loaded, but it was worth it to be able to do it while standing on solid ground.

Ladders are tough for old farts.

Sounds about like me.  Once upon a time I had a 21 square roof to do and my helper got sick.  I built a wooden ladder and trolley, and used the motor and gearbox from an old roto-tiller to winch shingles up. rather than carry em, and that was 20+ years ago.

My 15 yr old and I got the front peeled today, ice and water barrier and felt down, snow sliders on 42' of front edge, and the front half shingled.

My knees are about gone right now.  The last trip up the ladder (as it was getting dark, after 11 hours work) felt like it was 50 feet.  Tomorrow we tackle the back half.....

We did our roof the easy way. I called Jermanator and said, "I need a new roof. The wind stole my shingles." We picked out colors, got a price and his crew came out and installed it. It pays having friends (we consider him family) in the construction business. :cool:  He even helped deal with the insurance company when they balked at the price and were dragging their feet. :thumbup:  Of course it was done to his usual perfectionist standards so I am pretty sure that even if the house gets knocked down that the roof will still be in one piece when it lands.