Brilliant method to remove snow from your roof!
 

On 2/24/15 5:01 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/23/2015 11:49 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 21:59:46 -0500, KC wrote:

On 2/23/2015 9:48 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/23/2015 9:40 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
For you guys in the great frozen north:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqpc26hfykk

As for me, think I'll go out in the morning and knock a few coconuts
off the palm trees.



That's a clever contraption. I had seen it before and was thinking of
trying to make on. There were no snow rakes to be found anywhere
around
here. Everyone was sold out.

Anybody have any idea where we get the yellow plastic thing attached
to it?

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I think any slippery piece of plastic would get the job done. Maybe
an old carpet runner or something like that?



I was cutting blocks using a telescoping pruning saw with the saw
removed. Once I undercut the snow and then cut each side making
a "block" it just slid down the roof on the inch or so of remaining
snow. Really didn't need a plastic runner.


Years ago, when I visited a buddy in Thunder Bay, Ontario, we were
driving around and I saw guys on roofs chopping, cutting, and pushing
off the snow. Friend told me that the homeowners' insurance companies
active there retained these fellas to clear off the roofs of their
policyholders' houses so they wouldn't have to pay to rebuild a
collapsed roof.

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Proud to be a Liberal.

Brilliant method to remove snow from your roof!
 

Yup...I mentioned this a week or so ago.
Although originally from Finland, a company in Minnesota makes two versions, a household version for $ 129. And a bigger commercial version for $159. Look up Roof Razor.
Another guy provides building plans for his version on YouTube.
One of them uses a thin axel with small wheels attached as the cutting edge. The wheels keep it off the shingles.

Brilliant method to remove snow from your roof!
 

On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 00:29:30 -0500, KC wrote:

On 2/23/2015 11:44 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 21:59:46 -0500, KC wrote:

On 2/23/2015 9:48 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/23/2015 9:40 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
For you guys in the great frozen north:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqpc26hfykk

As for me, think I'll go out in the morning and knock a few coconuts
off the palm trees.



That's a clever contraption. I had seen it before and was thinking of
trying to make on. There were no snow rakes to be found anywhere around
here. Everyone was sold out.

Anybody have any idea where we get the yellow plastic thing attached to it?

Cut a strip off a poly tarp or get a vinyl carpet runner.

I would worry about snagging the shingles unless this had some kind of
standoffs on the bottom. Maybe some D shaped runners.


Yeah, it didn't look like it stripped it clean. I will leave at least an
inch when I build mine.

Rollers to keep the shingles safe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hg6KF-es0I
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Guns don't cause problems. The behavior
of certain gun owners causes problems.

Brilliant method to remove snow from your roof!
 

wrote:
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 00:29:30 -0500, KC wrote:

On 2/23/2015 11:44 PM, wrote:


Cut a strip off a poly tarp or get a vinyl carpet runner.

I would worry about snagging the shingles unless this had some kind of
standoffs on the bottom. Maybe some D shaped runners.


Yeah, it didn't look like it stripped it clean. I will leave at least an
inch when I build mine.

If you have a metal nibbler you could cut the D shaped feet in the
bottom part of the metal before you break it over, leaving the Ds
sticking down. Quick and clean
Plan B would be to cut out the runners and pop rivet them on the sides
after you shape the scoop.

Just make a tapered thick plastic wedge on the bottom. Run the back of the
wedge on the shingles.