Did you know that 1.5" ISO can bust a windshield

A full job-site and everybody was impressed. I'm just glad it was our truck. $227, I was pretty happy with that. I'll leave the rest of the week out while I'm still in a good mood.

I know this thread is near useless without pictures, I forgot to take one. Picture an extremely busted windshield.

Today we were finishing up that job when my drone hit a telephone line and came crashing down into the same parking spot! Luckily unoccupied this time. Eff. We are doing an awesome job next week that I really wanted to use it on, but I think I might be able to fix it without ordering parts.

If you don't have a story like these you probably haven't been roofing long! Unfortunately we have a mile long list, as I'm sure most of you do.

I had the craziest thing happen about 30 years ago when I was still a teenager ( dam i'm old ) :laugh: I had saved up some money from nailing shingles on new construction using a borrowed hammer lol and bought a new Plumb roofing hatchet.

Man was I ever ready to put that big plumb to work. The next day after nailing down about 12 sq. with it, I had the same thing happen as old school and it flew out of my hand.

Except that big meat cleaver was heading for the roof deck with a lot of velocity. When it hit the deck (actually that's what I did was hit the deck) :laugh: Anyways it bounced straight up in the air and somehow managed to land in the dead center of a wind turbine hole with the turbine removed.

I never saw that ole Plumb again as it vanished into the insulation I assume ( or maybe it went through the sheet rock ceiling ) I don't know but I bought another one within a short time and used it until it looked like the handle grips on a bicycle. Custom made so to speak. One day it finally broke in half from the hand/finger wear on the handle. :huh:

you are good!

Was on a job years back where we used a pulley rig to bring up materials. At the end of the job a couple of the guys were lowering everything off the roof. They got to the end and were lowering some of the counterweight and the whole thing toppled over the edge onto the hood of the truck. That does a number on a windshield also.

I had something similar happen to me about 40 years ago. I was setting up a roof and knocking off the 2 x 4's they had nailed to the roof while they were putting on the plywood. Since I just had my AJC hatchet, I was swinging hard to knock them off. I did it one time too many and the hatchet flew out of my hand without hitting the board. It looked like a boomerang as it sailed through the air, and smashed into the windshield of MY truck parked in front of the building! Sheesh!