Material Handler

boman47k

What kind of lift do you guys suggest for the roofing business? Have someone wanting me to help them find a good lift to service 2 story apartments. They have a Lull of some sort. I'm wondering if one of the Genie's might work out with only a 500lb capacity. I had guessed about 30 ft needed for height, but I think I may be wrong on that. This one of the biggest, if not the biggest, developement concerns in this area. I really have no idea how many bundles are lifted at once. That being said, what do you guys suggest?

boman47k

Got to thinking about this, and I guess a limited load capacity of 500lbs does not make much sens when doing this many roofs. About 17 workers involved.

Pearce Services

the Genie lift I have used in the past would be useless for what you are doing, unless you could ensure a level surface for every job, and it would be slow for a 30' lift.

apkole

A project and crew of this size could make good use of a SkyTrak. Rent/lease it for the duration of the project or as needed. Given the amount of material you will be moving through each hour, keeping it on site for the duration seems to make the most sense.

TempestV

any full size lift would probably work- Lull, Gradeal, Terex, Genie, Skytrac, Cat, Bobcat, IR, ect. They all should be avalable with 30+ foot arms, and should be able to lift 2000+lbs at max extension, so any of them should be able to fork a pallet of shingles onto the roof. Just look at the deals to see what you can afford, and look at the machines to make sure that you like how the controls and such are laid out.

mdshunk

Don't they make a 30 foot laddervator?

http://www.intechequip.com/RGCPlatform.htm

Driftwood

Roofs are loaded cheap by the roofing material supplier. They load with a shingle conveyor ,boom mounted on the delivery truck.
I'm curious as to why they would go to a painter for this info . Any roofer should know what Equept. is used in their area! Not being a wise a$$,just strange!

TempestV

where I grew up, all the shingles were delivered on trucks outfitted with shingle ladders. When I moved a couple of hours away for college, none of the supply companies seem to have trucks with shingle ladders- they deliver the shingles to the ground on pallets, and you use a forklift to lift the pallet up to the roof to unload.

boman47k

Thanks for the replies. I have also thought of a conveyer like system. In this case the roofer is my bro-in-law. All he has ever known is hard work and has no knowledge of the computer to look for anything. The lull they were using is old and they were wanting to replace it quickly. They have several trailertruck loads of shingles in warehouse and are roofing daily. Expected to take a while. I agree it is a little strange to be asking a painter in a way, but he knows I sometimes spend a lot of time on this thing and a broad range of subjects. Heheh, told him about a lift on ebay for $9,000. Wanted me to contact and get more info on it. He didn't realize the auction may not be over.Thing is, he is not the one actually putting the money out. The corp he is contracting with is putting the money up. That being said, and there being so many choices, and me not knowing exactly what there needs are, I think I will just tell him they need to shop for themselves. Surely they have someone in better position ti handle this than me. Give them any commision/ finder's fee involved.

michael084

I second the laddervator. Relatively inexpensive, and not too hard to move around.

Driftwood

Go to Hertz equept. rental. Lease or used equept. PS You're a good friend

Ten Fingers

If it says Lull on it, its my favorite way to put stuff where you need it. Nothing against the other brands that do that too.