Talking about the first crew I worked as a kid. They're either dead now from drugs or still on drugs with no license. I was one of the lucky ones. Sober for a bunch of years and haven't stepped foot on a roof other than mine in quite some time.
@@John-pk8lr yeah, the guy I worked for is still out there doing well but most of my fellow workers are dead, homeless or have totally wrecked lives. I quit drinking and moved into finish carpentry. I saw one of my old buddies living in his car a few months back. I gave him some money but that’s about all I can do. He was almost unrecognizable,
@@Winstonrodney6989 Yup. Spent a month in county jail thinking about my life. Got super lucky meeting a dude when I got out that does high end kitchens and baths. It's mind numbing at times because of attention to detail but man if it doesn't end up looking sweet. And pays well.
@@John-pk8lr Yep, I did the high end kitchen and bath thing for a while. You aren’t kidding about the attention to detail being mind numbing at times. Especially if you are a perfectionist. I’m on my own now and am pretty much just a glorified handyman. I like it because I make just as much money but have less stress. I’ll still do a nice bathroom every now and again but even that’s too much for me as a one and a half man operation. Keep up the good work! ✌️
One time when I was a kid, an older fella drove up along side of me and asked me if I wanted to get in his car. Naively I agreed and he drove to the park and asked me if I wanted to put my mouth on his big juicy c%@#. I said wait a minute mister, you must have me confused, I’m not a roofer.
Or Amish. My neck of the woods it’s either Latinos or Amish. Of course with the Amish there is always one dude with a drivers license that sits in the van all day and with the Latinos there is always one white dude that doesn’t do much work but knows Spanish.
@@bobbyt7448 Brick houses as far as the eye can see. I rubberized the flat roof on my 4-family recently, and have a new roof on my duplex. Brick duplex. Solid. You sound kind of racist towards the Midwest.
@@PUREBLOOD4LIFE One time in winter we climbed up the ladder to start the front roof. My buddy went up over the ridge to work on the back roof. About a minute later we hear someone coming up the ladder and we turn around and it was my buddy that had gone onto the back roof. He never even made a sound when he fell.😅 no harm no foul. He just got right back to work after sliding off a two story house.
This is the irony of the trade. It’s 95 percent alcoholics and criminals and then there’s those guys that are blue collar millionaires. Lots of money to be made if you are focused and driven. Unfortunately I was in the former category.
Back in high school in the 1970’s, I was a rookie roofer. Our team of roofers had one truck, one extension ladder, several claw hammers, a box of nails and a chalk line. Since I was the 16 years old rookie who wanted a job, my learned skill was to bring up the bundles of shingles from the ground up to the peak of the roof. I don’t care how big a boy you are, there is nothing as heavy as a bundle of shingles on your shoulder as you climb a ladder and walk up a pitch of a roof. I don’t know how I survived that summer.
@@chuck2998 I don't recommend trying to carry 3-4 bundles at once. That's just showing off, and a good way to hurt yourself. lol A person can often do two. But, it's best to build something that will lift them up for you if you roof a lot!
I QUIT roofing after a month of driving around between jobs in a truck ALWAYS filled with cigarette and pot smoke, as a non smoker, because I expressed my concerns to the owner that I wasn't comfortable with our colleague bringing fentanyl in his pocket to work. His response was: "Well if you're gunna get high, you may as well get as high as you can, I can't do nothing about that." 😂
Sounds like you get the 4” every night. Grow a pair! In this world ain’t nobody worried about your feeling and dam sure no roofer gives a fuck. The only thing you saved by quitting is your back and shown that you had everything it takes to quit
I concur. I was actually looking for it again. He got blacklisted so I subbed again but its a private video now. Fkn youtube cancelled me twice with 1 strike. 😂
@@j.pershing2197ya I’ve been banned 2 or 3 times now from commenting. I guess if I get one more ban they’re deleting my account. Sad I can’t cuss or call people out on their bullshit anymore. So much for free speech. Plus, I have RU-vid premium. When you pay for hbo and stuff. You get adult content. I guess not with RU-vid.
Memories. Years ago warehouse. Night crew tear off, day crew install. I was nights. We couldn't go outside in the day. Heatwave and fiberglass itch don't mix.
Had a relative hot mopping, fell off the roof carrying two 5 gal buckets of hot tar. Life flight to burn center. Survived idk how. Later recovered only to get shot. Hard short life.
This is just one of the types. There are a lot of pretty square family guys, a fair amount of young partiers, a few ex-cons, misfits trying to find something to do, nomads, guys who did it for a summer during school got hooked on the money and never went back to school, and then the guy who graduates high school on a Friday, starts work the next Monday and suddenly he’s looking at a 40-year-old in the mirror.
I love how we're celebrating the decline of blue collar skills and professionalism. That went down the toilet just like everyone else's bachelor's degrees.
Grew up in a construction family. Everyone did something with their hands. Just so happens my Dad was good at roofing. My mom didn’t trust me on top of a roof until I was 9. Haha. Not even kidding. Standards were higher for competence in the 70’s and 80’s.
@@brianstiggins494 yeah, done both but only on houses we renovated, not as a day to day, I wouldn't last long on either one if it's all I did.....and yeah, its all laborers welcome, especially if ya got stucco chicks, they sound rad as F!!!
Basically the stereo type. Did industrial commercial 46 years. Some residential. Retired last year. Got the f*@ked up back to prove it. We called pitch fiberglass tear off " scratch an burn". "Got it rough? Work 8 hours in pitch then bitch".
My roofer cousin now does only the entry pieces with warranty. Owns three houses and a 80 grand boat. when the wife screwed others, TWICE, and he forgave her, the daughters went with DAD.
I was a flat roofing labourer for a few seasons, the first day they hired four guys and I was the only one left at the end of the day because one guy couldn't climb an extesion ladder, too scared, one guy didnt know how to use tools and couldnt cut the material straight so he was gone, the other guy said it's too hard and left after lunch time. It's a tough job.
Did flat roofing one summer with a crew of Cree natives in Calgary. Talk about endurance. We'd be OFF the roof by noon due to temp., but started at 4 a.m. Great guys, actually.
That is so interesting that it is how they (Roofers) are no matter where in the world. Back in 2000 I did Roofing in Florida. I worked 8 months in that heat, the Cubans and Mexicans on the crews invited me to get togethers and had respect for not stooping for I kept up with them. I needed a different direction but thanked them
Roofers are some of the hardest working people in the construction trades. Hot weather, adverse weather, and all the material handling. Pays well, but the damage to your body is severe over time.
Do you have any of your old videos saved? Was trying to show someone the motherfuckin roofer news interview today. Then I realized the channel is a new one
Im a mixed woman.....i have done commercial metal roofing. I also worked in the shop machining metal for installation. Its a biatch .....i did it fora year. Hard work....😂but i managed.
@@TheBigGuys10percentthat’s because none of them know what a hammer is, well they think they know what a hammer is but they paint a completely different picture
Good money in roofing if you stay sober and keep your head you can have your own business before the age of 40. A roof is like a funeral,everyone is going to need one eventually, you never run out of work....😂
Sure, like welding and other draining jobs. The reason why noone wants to do those jobs is not because people are lazy, it's because everyone is more and more concerned about their health and even if the pay is good it's never going to be good enough for amount the stress you have to go through on the job. Any kind of building jobs creating drug and alcohol addiction because it's the quickest way to numb the stress during the circle of 8-12h/day after day physical job regardless of circumstances. In situation like this people many times taking so much pride over how much they can take as builder/welder/roofer/etc. but somehow not realising that when they open their mouths others hear nothing but cry for pity and acknowledgment they will never get or at least not enough to make even with how much they have to suffer by waking up at 4am to get to work at 6 and strain themselves for the rest of the day.
This is so accurate lol i worked on a roofing crew and EVERYONE was drinking all day long and were a binch of old hard asses lol.good money but its hard work
I've been putting on metal roofs in Washington, DC for 45 years. There is so much wrong with this video that I can't even begin to crtique it. But there is so much right that I can't stop sharing it with my friends. LMAO.
Had to be PBRs. Any other cheapie like natty light, coors, bud, genesee, or busch just don't work. That said, if the store is out of PBRs and the roofer for some reason is not able to get to the any of the other 18 liquors stores that are less than 5 minutes away, schiltz or stroh's could possibly serve as backups in such a pinch.
I'm no roofer, metal fabricator. One time I went to the U.S to do some mod/repair work (Canadian). I ended up going to a Wing place and the rules were no drinks during, it was like Habenero broth with wings, Long and veiny is I won but after my mouth was burning like a STD, the server came up to me asked if I needed a drink. Only word I could get out was PBR and it tasted like gods golden nectar...
In 1999 i was making 1700 a week bring home. Or NET for some of ya. I was shingling roofs. Minimum wage was around $5.50 hr. Or around 200 bring home a week. Rates now are about 350-500 a square now. I did them for 40 a square. Do the math...
Man if I was getting paid even 250 a square I wouldn't have quit. But I was making 15 an hour, and once fast food workers were getting close to that I went and got me a different job, still in construction but no way am I getting up on a roof in hundred degree weather to work my ass off for 10-12 hours, for 15 bucks an hour..
The home across the street just got a roof done by five Mexicans. Took them one day to strip it and put a new one on. And they wore long pants and hoodie sweet shirts all day. I'm in Florida it was 88 and humid. White people would melt.
Have my own roofing company for 44 years,as glamorous as that sounds it was my sorry ass and two of the best mexican guys ever up on the roof everyday for most of those years. They might have a beer after work but only once did I get to work and they were on the ground,hungover after a Sunday party. I laughed and we went home,tomorrow is another day 😎
My first real job was wet tar roofing. My boss would send me to the liquor store when it opened. Go get two cases of bud ponies two bags of ice and a quart of peppermint schnapps. Hed toss me his keys and say hurry up, I was thirteen. The good old days.😁
Had two East Indian guys in Canada that could do an ENTIRE townhouse complex roof in a full day. AND be safety compliant doing it. I was impressed, and took photos as a Safety |Officer for our magazine.
