Roofing Hoist Plans

Roofing hoist demo i m now building the platforms for 300 including shipping.

Roofing hoist plans.

Dec 31 2012 designed and built this shingle material tool lift to use when helping my dad roof his house to get around the worst part of roofing carrying shingles up. Building a ladder hoist start to finish. For 30 of lumber and hardware i turned my electric hoist and some scrap wood into a lift. Our construction hoists may also be referred to as material hoists construction elevators temporary elevators personnel hoists buck hoists man lifts material lifts and rack pinion hoists but they all serve the same purpose.

About our construction hoists. Load the large counter weight basket with cement blocks to support the two piece hand beam and offset the weight of the hoisted materials. Transporting personnel and material vertically in a safe and speedy manner. Needed to get 4 200 lbs of shingles onto my friend s roof and the nearest rental place with a power ladder was very far it was expensive and we lacked any way to transport it and an appropriate ladder.

Hand powered hoist our two piece hand beam is an inexpensive and efficient means for transporting materials to the roof. One of the many roof loading hoists i ve made. Compared to a poor soul lugging 70 pound bundles of roofing shingles up a ladder. Light weight and easy to assemble.

And using one hand to grasp rungs and the other to steady the bundle on his shoulder then dismounting to the roof s slanted surface from the side of a ladder powered roof loading hoists are a dream.