I am tired of roof cement all over my hands-truck-cloths and seats...

Got it now. I leave my tailgate down and they lay in place. Easier on the milage.

tinner666 Said:

Billy Luttrell Said: Honestly speaking guys, I carry a 5 gallon bucket of bull on my truck at all times. I have a 16 foot ladder I use to get on connected buildings and 1 story jobs. That 5 gallons of chit makes an excellent counter weight for it so I can be lazy and put the small ladder in the bed of the truck and not on the ladder racks :woohoo: :silly: :lol: B)

Lost me with this one. I keep my 20 and 16 in the rear and never needed to weigh them down. I just tie at the tailgate. Neither stciks past it.

I shove mine under the tool box and set the bucket. I however do not tie it down to tailgate. Toe-May-Toe, Toe-Mah-Toe. :laugh:

SoCalroofer Said: Hey Roofguy, I was living in Levelland from 1980 thru 1986 before moving out here to Southern California. I remember a hail storm hitting Lubbock in 84 or 85 with some large hail . The oil fields were slow and it seemed that everybody and his brother became roofers then.

Small world. I used to own Levelland Karate downtown on Austin St.

Yeah there was a big one in Lubbock around 85 or 86. Another one hit West of Leveland in the town of Morton that same year. We reroofed a lot of buildings in Morton after that. I got the $141,000 contract to reroof the Morton schools after that storm, a competitor challenged it due to unresponsive bid, rebid it and won it again, he challenged again and I walked from it after that.

Hey Roofguy, I was living in Levelland from 1980 thru 1986 before moving out here to Southern California. I remember a hail storm hitting Lubbock in 84 or 85 with some large hail . The oil fields were slow and it seemed that everybody and his brother became roofers then.

SoCalroofer Said: Baby oil is the best thing for cleaning mastic, no smell, easy to carry in your truck and works better than gas. My wife discovered this many years ago when my 2 young sons found a open bucket of mastic and finger painted her car.

Yep!

About 1985 we were still using cutback (mastic) and ceramic granules, sprayed through a Kold King rotor-stator pump at 1350 psi. I was running the crew and spraying the wand on about an 800 SQR Howard Johnsons Hotel in Austin Texas. We had less than 1 SQR to go, and I'd managed to stay pretty clean that day - just finish that 1 SQR, hop in my pickup and drive home the 385 miles to Lubbock.

It was to be a fun trip home, just finished a large job, time off, and money in my pocket. Alas, it was not to be so easy! Less than 30 minutes from being done, I laid the wand on the roof to do something and one of my guys accidently kicked the ball valve open, totally coating my face and hair with cutback. That stuff is miserably sticky!!!

Next door was a C-store where I bought the last 2 bottles of Baby Oil they had, which was about 1/2 enough to clean me up. It was a long and miserable trip home.

Billy Luttrell Said: Honestly speaking guys, I carry a 5 gallon bucket of bull on my truck at all times. I have a 16 foot ladder I use to get on connected buildings and 1 story jobs. That 5 gallons of chit makes an excellent counter weight for it so I can be lazy and put the small ladder in the bed of the truck and not on the ladder racks :woohoo: :silly: :lol: B)

Lost me with this one. I keep my 20 and 16 in the rear and never needed to weigh them down. I just tie at the tailgate. Neither stciks past it.

Billy....I do the same!

Baby oil is the best thing for cleaning mastic, no smell, easy to carry in your truck and works better than gas. My wife discovered this many years ago when my 2 young sons found a open bucket of mastic and finger painted her car.

Honestly speaking guys, I carry a 5 gallon bucket of bull on my truck at all times. I have a 16 foot ladder I use to get on connected buildings and 1 story jobs. That 5 gallons of chit makes an excellent counter weight for it so I can be lazy and put the small ladder in the bed of the truck and not on the ladder racks :woohoo: :silly: :lol: B)

I brought up my telescopic trowel. JOKE ALL YOU WANT" The tar gets all over you, all over your truck, at times.

For God's sake, woody... Get an old T-shirt, soak it with gasoline, and rub your face in it. Wipe with a clean, dry rag. Rinse with water. Wipe again. I heard Toluene works even better but I wouldn't know. With lacquer thinner you just don't have enough time before it evaporates. As for using the trowels as a telescope, I've never even considered it. I use them to read. You have to take two of them and hold them so close together there is only a tiny little slit showing and you look through that. If you've had too much coffee, it doesn't work too well because you can't maintain the proper distance for the slit.

wywoody Said: The telescope/trowel is just a myth. I tried looking through my trowel and not only did it not magnify, I couldnt see a thing. Anyone know how to get off black rings around my eyes?

Back in the day when time wasn't like it is today. Deep Down In Florida Where The Sun Shines Damn Near Every Day. The crew chief would weigh me before I left the shop and when I came back. The reason, to see how much roof cement I wasted getting it all over me and my clothes.

The Lovely Mrs Ciak wasn't to fond of it either. My roofing clothes were put in a separate washing machine to be cleaned.

Building officials here, as Scot is aware want lots of roof cement in strategic places in the roof construction assembly.

B) :) :) B) Deep Down In Florida Where The Sun Shines Damn Near Every Day

The telescope/trowel is just a myth. I tried looking through my trowel and not only did it not magnify, I couldn't see a thing. Anyone know how to get off black rings around my eyes?

Billy Luttrell Said:

tinner666 Said: I used to have that problem and it was messy!! Two mentors too me under their wings and taught me how to actually roof and not need cament. Since then, Ive been able to keep my hands clean by not using messy stuff. :)

Where did you get those empty buckets of karnack you use for holding tools and debris on the roof? :woohoo: :silly: :blush: :laugh: B) :lol:

TO be honest, I was looking at the 3-5 year pile of those in the shop the other day. (I never throw them away). I have accumalated 8-9 buckets over the past several years by re-pointing slate roof ridges.

I have a gallon of plastic cement, full and rusting away. Try paint cans Billy.....or those large plastic coffee cans :cheer: