Update on roof..........

Goose · Sep 5, 2011

Did what I planned yesterday, replaced a sheet of steel on a garage roof on our farmstead.

Also did as I planned, used my H Farmall with a loader as an anchor on the opposite side of the building and ran a half inch rope across the roof to hook into a heavy leather belt around my waist. Checked both the rope and snap ring on the end for working weight.

Then parked a pickup next to the building on the other side, with the ladder set in the box. adjusted the rope so the snap ring would stop about a foot short of the edge of the roof on the side I was working on. When I got to the top of the ladder, I hooked the snap ring into the belt around my waist. In the pic, the rope is just hooked to the top of the ladder so it was there when I wanted it.

Went ahead and did the work on the roof, and it was kinda slick at times. Don't know if I'd have had a problem, but it sure as heck was a comfort to have that rope hooked up to me.

Janicholson · Sep 5, 2011

Solid security is a great feeling. My house is 12/12 and 13/12 pitch, security means toe boards and scafolding as needed. Jim

VADAVE · Sep 5, 2011

And the keys to the tractor were???
in your pocket I hope.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 5, 2011

It was left in neutral.

MSD · Sep 5, 2011

That looks like a pretty flat roof but you do what you have to to feel secure. The type of soul you have on your shoes makes a big difference. I once saw a building crew that had a piece of rubber back carpet laid out and anchored at the peak that the guys walked up and down on. That was on a 50 ft. wide 5/12 pitch with 16ft. sidewalls. When I was building pole barns we always tried to get all the tin and ridge on in one day so the tin stayed clean. Once it gets a layer of dust on it, it gets slick also. Stepping on the screws or nails helps also.

JML755 · Sep 6, 2011

Goose,
great idea. I had to get up on a barn roof (4/12, I think) this past winter to fix a heater vent that had been knocked over by snow. Yup, there was about 4" of melting snow all over the thing. I pulled the snow off as I made my way up to the vent and there was no way I could walk on the flatter portions between the raised ribs, too slippery. However, I did find that I could walk on the raised ribs and used the screw heads (as MSD suggests) to increase my traction. Unfortunately, I would have needed a couple of hundred feet of rope to do what you did and I didn't have that with me.

I was just thinking, though, that a good addition to the rope idea would be a ring something like used on a horse picket line. This way, you could move the ring up and down the rope as you needed to secure yourself at various points.

Update on roof..........

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