Air hose anchor
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Not sure thats an OSHA approved roof jack! Gives me the willies just seeing this!
When roofing, I've made a hook from a steel coat hanger and attached it to my air hose with a small radiator hose clamp. I hooked it to the top of the panel and let the hose hang down the outside. Then unhook and move to the top of the next panel when necessary. It also helps to have a hook on the nail gun to hook to ladder, panel, or anything within reach. If right handed, the hook should go on the right.
I agree about the roof jack, but 50 years ago on fresh plywood, the roof was easy to walk on, until it started raining. Wanting to drive the last few nails into the fresh plywood before pulling a tarp over it required driving a few 8D nails in part way to stand and hang onto. That new plywood became very slippery in the rain. This wasn't OSHA Acceptable either, but very necessary at the time.
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I agree about the roof jack, but 50 years ago on fresh plywood, the roof was easy to walk on, until it started raining. Wanting to drive the last few nails into the fresh plywood before pulling a tarp over it required driving a few 8D nails in part way to stand and hang onto. That new plywood became very slippery in the rain. This wasn't OSHA Acceptable either, but very necessary at the time.
Charley
He probably either notched the sheathing or it's not nailed down tight where the hose comes through. Leaving it loose would have made putting on clips harder, so there may be a purlin block on that joint. BITD, 12/12 pitches were, for me anyways, easier to sheath. Not as much stooping over, and a toe cleat every course was all I needed, taking them back off as I came back down rolling out felt paper. Nowadays a safety harness and fall arrester wouldn't do me much good. I've turned into more of a 'hand up the plywood' guy.
Around here, framers are wrapping the houses and leaving the window cuts in due to long lead times on windows.
Really making a bottleneck on other trades.
Around here, framers are wrapping the houses and leaving the window cuts in due to long lead times on windows.
Really making a bottleneck on other trades.
Reading Dennis's post reminds me "The older I get, the better I used to be!" Shingled my last 12/12 pitch roof from top towards bottom. Put set of roof jacks where I could reach the ridge, and shingled down. Did the cap shingles from other side (4/12 pitch.) Reset roof jacks and repeat.
Looking at the photo again, I noticed one detail that we don't use anymore. The barge rafters are supported by blocks back to the gable truss. We order our gable rafters shorter in height and have the 'ladder's' rungs run back to the first regular truss to avoid sagging out. The method shown will require the sheathing to support the barge rafter and not the other way around as it should be. Different strokes, I guess.
Gees. What you expect for a measly half million bucks.
in 10 to 20 years these new homes will be tomorrows ghettos.
In that neighborhood, probably will be asking well over 0.8 megabuck.Gees. What you expect for a measly half million bucks.
Price doesn't necessarily equate to quality. In my years of working, some of the sorriest built homes I worked in, were the more expensive. Once in a half million (built in 1986) the built up girder which supported both first and second floor, lacked about 4 inches of hitting support pier. Builder put a piece of treated 2X8 on the ground and stuck a 4X4 post on it to support girder. We refered to houses in this upscale neighborhood as "line in the sand houses." When going in to fix something, we weren't going to fix anything beyond the "line in the sand."
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