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If screws then unscrew them, if nails I prefer to cut off the head with a sharp pair of end cutters(or whatever the proper term is for those). Usually the nails used on a tin roof are ring nails and are very frustrating to try to pull out in my experience.
Zach
 
A good pair of nail nippers and just cut the heads off the nails. If they are the old lead washers ones they are the easiest. If you try to pull the nails you will usually damage the tin.
 
I used a bolt cutter that snipped off the end rather than off the side. I just put a little downward pressure with the jaws open & the tin pushed down just enough that when I closed the jaws it snipped the head of the nail off. I think there is a name for this type of bolt cutter but I can't think of it. Gerald
 
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I've used a pair of end nippers or cutters to pull nails out of a lot of stuff with out damaging the tin or wood.
 
For starters, don't go at it like a gorilla. Slow and steady gets the steel off of there with minimal damage. I have used a hammer and 'superbar/bluebar' with pretty good success on old corrugated galvanized roofing without a pry board for most nails. Tap the bar under the nail with the hammer and then pry, but not too hard. Sometimes if the nail isn't too tight you can push the bar under the nail head, but remember, your hand wasn't designed to be a hammer. You'll get the feel of it. If the nail is tough you have to put your agression aside and resist the temptation to just jerk it out no matter what. That's when you get the end cutters to nip the head off. When the sheet is off remember to pull the nail you cut the head off of before you forget about it and rip your pants on it later on.

I've never removed the newer flat ribbed steel but I would think cutting off the heads would be the only way for that stuff. Jim
 
End nippers are good; a claw hammer is good. In either case use a one-inch dowel or steel pipe to lay in the valley of the corrugtion as fulcrum for your tool.
 
I use a slide hammer attached to one handle nail nippers like JDseller posted. Really works good for me. If I can get a hold of nail it is coming out with out damage to tin.
 
Fence pliers have a staple puller opening that will grip most gasketed nails. The rocker part will roll in the groove of the tin. A piece of 3/4" pipe cut in half long ways makes a fine buffer after the initial pull. Jim
 
Best setup I ever saw, was a rip hammer, with the head cut off, welded to pieces of 2 crowbars, situated so the crow bar pieces would straddle the ridge on the tin. It had about a 4' handle made of another crowbar. Left no trace, or dent, as long as you took care.
 
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If you can get behind use a sawzall to cut nail heads off, I did a 36x50 shed this spring, then pull the nails out with a nippers to save the lumber if you want. Once you get the first sheet lose just have someone pull out on it and cut the nails up and down
 
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