dude, you are awesome!! I do everything by myself as well. Hoping to build it tomorrow. Buying motor tonight & I haven't seen a dump version of one of these.
Your the MAN! Love your roof loader, I need to get the material topside and prefer to do things myself. (For many reasons) Thank you for taking the time to share your inventive genius with the rest of us. Power on!
Thanks, I only was able to build this because I got ideas from other guys that shared theirs.... I didn't even know what one was before then so I appreciate your comment.
Probably not many expect to see the shingles automatically unload. And the braces going from the rails to the roof are Right. This is the best design yet. Thanks for showing.
Pardon the pun J Bush, but this is over the top awesome!!!! This is by far the best DIY shingle lift I have seen yet!! I will be copying your design when I build mine!!!
Just watched your video on lift. I'll be constructing one similar to yours. I'm thinking of using a 4 wheeled harbor freight dolly and building a good channel for the dolly. I'll build rails like yours. Thanks for the video.
Pretty ingenious ideal, but if you're buying enough shingles to do a whole house they will not only deliver them but they will also put them on the roof. Even if they charge a delivery fee it couldn't have amounted to the money you spent at Harbor Freight and the day and a half you said you spent building it. Time is money and at minimum 20 bucks an hour and a day and a half comes out to be $240 in labor plus whatever you spent at harbor freight. Plus the time it took you to put the shingles on the roof with your invention. still way cheaper to have them delivered and put on the roof. But nonetheless that was a nice little tool you built.
Someone fetch this clever fellow a beer! Your invention works slicker than cat shit on a doorknob. Well done Mr.Bush Sir, well done!. I'm working on building a lift and am under a time constraint as materials are ordered already. Site is all 2-4 stories of 8/12 and ~43 square w/ many different edges, valleys, dormers, and a chimney. Lowest access point is 18' off the ground and a long way to hump bundles from there. The tear off of full shakes is going to be a mess with no vehicle or trailer access at any point, frequent high winds, Redwood decks to protect & get over & off, and 3 story windows that have to be covered with plywood. Everything goes to the ground on tarps then has to be wheelbarrowed a little at a time completely around the building on a sloping sidehill single track path to a trailer in the driveway. I only wished we could have witnessed a close up shot of it functioning at the top, profile view. So you manually stop the lift at the top?
is it still holding up for you? I love how you did it, I am thinking of a simpler easier idea for me, but only going to be used once and I am going to use my car to do the pulling, but love how it drops off shingles on top. Main difference I probably going to make it where it only carries one at time but I still want it drop off on top so I can maybe drop few bundles off, might be able to get away with doing two bundles at a time but I am thinking I would have to re enforce and get a stronger rope. Thanks for posting you have helped me figure out how to save my back!
Really like your design-just can't figure out exactly what you did on the backside at the bottom (at about 3:36). It's the slickest design I've seen yet. I need to put 4x8's on the roof and would modify it a bit more to enable that. I really like the dump feature, even though I'm not sure I can do that with 4x8's. Good job!
Thanks Mr. George, the 2/4's are just sliding along the backside but I should've recessed castor wheels inside the 2/4's because of friction and clearance on the backside in order for the dump to even be possible. I will answer any questions if you would like because every time someone rebuilds this thing it's going to be better and better.
way worth your invention. I bought a safety hoist HD400 28ft rated for 400lb paid $3300 at ABC Roofing Supply. 2 weeks later brake spring snapped after only loading it with 180lb. cost me $600 to repair damage on it. had it for 3 months and now brake band broke seems like it got smashed.
I can do that it's not a problem..... but the hinge part is not tricky at all.... it only looks tricky. I have it screwed to both parts like you would a crawl space door or doggy door, it's just laying flat instead of vertical.
There are 2 - 3" deck screws per 2/4. Each 2/4 has the pitch of the roof cut on the ends of them so they will set properly on the roof. The other end of the 2/4 has a slight angle and it is screwed to the elevator.
Nice built. The " auto " tip at the top was the best feature. How hard is it to move around? I see you have an axle on the bottom, but even with wheels looks like it can be top heavy for one guy to move it around. One of the best build I have seen for this yet. Stay Safe, Joe Z
I want to thank you for the design inspiration of the flap delivery system. I based my entire design off of that! Here's a video of mine in action: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JkIMvHembyk.html
