"Ron M." wrote:

I have an average-size 3 bedroom, 2 bath house that needs a new roof.
The old one's fine, it's just getting a little thin in places where it
was hit by hailstones, and the gritty stuff on the shingles seems to be
coming off more than it used to. The roof is 9 years old. We're in
central Texas, near Austin. It's just a standard, asphalt composite
shingle roof.

I can replace this roof myself - I've done this before - but one
question. Is there some method or device I can use to get those
packages of shingles up onto the roof? These things are HEAVY. I picked
up one at Home Depot, and one package must weigh 80+ pounds. I can't
imagine hauling a roof-full of them up a ladder, one at a time.

Thanks,
R.M.

The last time I did that we had two people. I put wafer board in
between the rails of an extension ladder. We then tied a rope around
a bundle and the guy on bottom would shove the bundle up the ladder
while the guy on top would pull it up with the rope. This sure beat
climbing up the ladder with each bundle.

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Jim Rusling
Partially Retired
Mustang, OK
http://www.rusling.org