Another peek into the Hillbilly Toolbox reveals a great idea for stripping roofs: a pump jack shingle trough
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Another peek into the Hillbilly Toolbox reveals a great idea for stripping roofs: a pump jack shingle trough
Lynn Hayward developed it out of necessity of—
Lynn: Not dropping stuff down on the side of a house and puttin' skid marks on it ...
It also helps contain the mess on the ground
Lynn: By dropping it into the trough, I control where everything goes
Nails, shingles, pieces of wood, tar paper, pieces of flashing ...
Lynn: ...and so you've got it contained in a three-foot wide area. But when it drops on the ground, it couyld be a fifteen or twenty foot arera.
The trough is fashioned from a tarp, wrapped inside of a pump jack. It starts at the safety rail, folds over the planks, and is fastened through furring strips into the fascia.
One thing to look out for, though—it could turn into a giant rain gutter
Lynn: The day I put it it, I got thinking about—y'know, I made it fairly tight and I was afraid that it might fill up with water so I came up and sliced some holes in it so it'd drain out. Seems to have worked.
So don’t bother buying expensive new tarps for this hillbilly tool.
Lynn: I usually use my junky tarps. Like sometimes when I build a house in the winter, I'll buy a 60 ft. x 80-ft. tarp and they always get damaged from being nailed off and the wind blows the hell out of them and tears them, so it's a one-time deal, so I cut them up and use them.
Eventually they end up in the dumpster, because they keep getting smaller, but ...
—Lynn Hayward is a builder and remodeler in Northport Maine
