Just how fast is "fast"

64 sqs....Thats loading mtrls by hand off the truck, underlayment, drip & shingling....at two separate jobsites....It's more of an example of the long-lost work ethic/"can-do" attitudes of yester-years......

Yeah, we had a lift/dump truck years ago as well. Used it primarilly for BUR though...Suppliers have typically loaded roofs for us, so to hand-load ourselves was once in a blue moon.

As late as the early 90's, the typical shinger put on 16 sqs/day...In fact, on prev wage jobs, (union), 16 sqs was expected...Today, it's hard to find a shingler that can put on 8!

Tom, 64 squares or 128? 64 squares with 4 guys is 16 squares per man or averaging 2 squares an hour per man. 128 would be really cranking!!! I know that in the morning you can really go, but the last 5 or 10 squares really take a long time at the end of the day.

Back in the day we used to have a lift truck to get he shingles to roof height anyway. In the early 70's we went to a conveyor truck that would put them right on the peak. Now they mostly use forklifts. No matter how you shingle, you still have to drive to the job and set it up and deliver everything. That takes a surprizing amount of the total time.

Myself and co-workers/employees typically shingled minn. 12-16 sqs/day each...every day. However,I can recall two occaisions that stand out;

1) 33 sqs. 3-TAB, 4-nails/shingles(staples, actually), from bare wood, (includes felt & drip), in 8 hrs. Myself with a helper. 4/12 pitch, no valleys, one dutch hip.

2) 64 sqs 3-tab, (including felt & drip & hand-loading).Had an old dump truck, we hand loaded 64 dqs. in the back of it; Backed up to a house; Hand-loaded the materials; Roofed it; Then drove across town and did it again on a duplex.

Two shinglers & two helpers...It was a long day...10-12 hrs, I imagine.

2.8 squares per hour on a mansard carrying shingles by yourself is awesome. That is probably why you are not "young" anymore. That pace would kill a young man.

My brother in law and myself once did a 12 square 4/12 pitch house with a small dormer over the front door. Globe premier shake shingles, so they were 81 shingles to the square with air staplers. From the time we got to the job with our pickup trucks and threw the shingles up on the roof to the time we jumped back into them and left was 59 minutes. the guy was just leaving for lunch when we got there and we left before he got back! Just the two of us!

2.8 squares per hour on a mansard carrying shingles by yourself is awesome. That is probably why you are not "young" anymore. That pace would kill a young man.

My brother in law and myself once did a 12 square 4/12 pitch house with a small dormer over the front door. Globe premier shake shingles, so they were 81 shingles to the square with air staplers. From the time we got to the job with our pickup trucks and threw the shingles up on the roof to the time we jumped back into them and left was 59 minutes. the guy was just leaving for lunch when we got there and we left before he got back! Just the two of us!

My best day was 28 square on a mansard barn, gun nailed lams. And I carried every bundle. 10 hours. New construction. Boy to be young again. Best slate day 8 square on a 10 pitch. Did have a laborer sending slate up a power ladder. Best copper standing seam day 3 square porch start to finish 3 1/2 hours