Age?? I Dunno, but something is different.

When I was a helper/roofer trainee, I could carry 20 sq. of shingles in 40 minutes in cold weather, an hour of so in hot weather.

It was in the 60's today and I tell you that carrying 3-1/2 sq. of Tamko Heritage 50-AR's took me a couple of hours! The flight of steps only had 9 treads, the walk up the sideway was only 15' and the first level of roof was only 14' up, then the 10' walk to the shed dormer where I flipped them onto that roof. It'd take me 5 minutes to catch my breath!

Maybe it was carrying 17-18 14/12Buckinghams down to put in the truck before grabbing another bundle that wore me out? I was ready to drop dead by 2:30. My butt is dragging!

The really funny part is that we are salvaging the slates, and they are awesome! The guy we are doing the work for talks as if he may want to buy them back and have us install them on his cottage. It would be a great deal for him as they really are beautiful rock. Something like this may sit in the yard for 6 months or 6 years. It is like fresh bread though, it doesn't lose it's value. It has been a bitch to take off though. It was nailed onto a concrete deck and in places the deck is so hard it breaks the slates taking them off. The heads pull right off the nails too. I have never seen anything quite like it.

It wouldn't have taken so long, but 6 slates were on the eave behind a huge aluminum awning. I had to use my climbing gear hooked to the snap hook on top of my 18' hook ladder. I was able to sit on the eave, hands free, to do the repairs. Thing was 9' wide, 6' out.

I spent today, about 7 hours replacing 41 12/7's and pointing 50' of ridges.

It's funny, (not funny), isn't it John. Others are complaining about costs and we get paid to get the material for our next job.

I talked to the owner of the company that we are doing the slate tear off for today. He has no idea why they are tearing off the slate to install shingles either. Tear off an 80 year old slate roof that could go another 100 years to install 25 year Certain teed shingles. go figure.

I;ve been starting to feel my age on roofs now...thinkin of becoming a haul truck driver on the mines..good pay and no headaches..easier on the bod...

The worst part is that there was nothing wrong with the roof.

You know OS, it sure hurts to remove perfectly good roof material because the roof went bad due to faulty install. At least we get to put them on somebody else's roof!

Tinner, we are both too old for that kind of fun. I tore off a bunch of Buckingham slate yesterday and my legs weren't worth a hoot today either. Hey, I have about 30 squares of 14 x random Buckinghams now. About 1/2 thick and very nice.

You need a helper!!!

GIRL!

What a wimp! ;) :laugh:

Well DANG IT! Both legs just charlie-horsed! What agony! Sheeeeeesh! :ohmy: