By: Steve Taylor
There’s no snow to shovel off the roof here in Florida, but
the roofers are out re-shingling the roofs in my neighborhood in Tampa. Roof
shingles don’t usually last longer than 15-20 years here; they take a beating
in the hot summer sun.
I stopped to get a few pictures of this roofing operation. Here
in this case, the roofing materials are conveyed up to be placed on the roof. These
guys still remember the old way of carrying the shingles and other roofing
materials up the ladder on their shoulders. Some roofers still do this as I’ve
seen it in process here in the neighborhood. Just imagine the potential for
accident or injury carrying bundles of shingles up a ladder and you’ll see the
value in this conveyor.
I’m sure that use of the conveyor saves a lot of time as
well. It takes about 1 minute to load and off-load the shingles on the roof using
the conveyor. I’m pretty sure it’s at least 5-10 minutes for one person carrying bundles up the ladder and then descending the ladder to get another bundle to
say nothing about the fatigue of doing that hour after hour.
This Mack Truck chassis is up-fitted with a heavy duty
flatbed and a Cleasby Conveyor. The flatbed provides plenty of space to load
pallets of shingles and other roofing materials.
Find out more about Cleasby products at:
Guest post by Steve Taylor. Steve is a certified lean six
sigma consultant in the work truck equipment business specializing in fleets
and process improvement. Find his Linked in Profile at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevectaylor
He may be contacted at steve@truckarchitect.com
or steve@upstreamsource.com
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