I am a 50+ - year veteran in the remodeling and home-building industry, I have enjoyed my work almost as much as you and your Ace carpenter. Seem to I enjoy watching your videos many of which I have watched multiple times, I am especially intrigued by your son and his quick comprehension of your work, he will outdistance both of us in due time. There are two things I would like to commend you on which I learned very early in my apprenticeship. The number one statement is this make every step you make during working hours count toward completing the job. The second statement is never to walk around empty-handed, whatever direction you’re headed as you walk pick something up and deliver it closer to its destination. Here are three suggestions to save you time and make your work not only easier but safer, I trust you will take these suggestions in the same spirit that I offer them to you. #1 The stiff backs you put on the truss angle support boards In certain cases as required by the manufacturer. These can be applied on the ground level. After you pick the truss up from the pile and as it is being balanced by the Sky Trak hi-lift, close to the ground, have a nailing gun and stack of 2 x 4 stiffeners handy, and apply those at ground level, it will save you time and money. #2 This tip applies to the gable end truss, predrill the nail holes on both ends before you hoist it into the air. This will make the driving of those £.60 ring shanks, 1000 times easier, faster, and safer. I know you are knowledgeable of how many nails and what configuration they should be in to fasten the truss to the corner posts. This too will save you much toil and the wear and tear on your arm and rotor cups. #3 Prologue, to me this is the best suggestion I can make for you to increase your productivity while saving the wear and tear on your body, as well as speeding up the process when applying long sheets of roofing materials. You may need to put some thought into what I’m saying but once it becomes clear in your mind I know this idea will make you hundreds of thousands of dollars in labor savings before you retire. Here it is stated plainly. #3 A. Construct a lightweight framework that will hold a bundle of your roofing steel as it comes from the manufacturer. B. using your SKY Trak hi-lift machine lift the metal and framework together placing it at a 90° angle to your rolling platform. This will add very little weight to the procedure. C Construct it so that as each sheet of metal is pulled from the chute onto the roof the angle of the chute will be at such an angle to preserve the finish on the next sheet of metal in the stack without rubbing, this angle can easily be calculated from the ground level during construction of the framework. A simple smooth 1x4 may be used on the upper end to separate the two sheets placed there by the rolling scaffold carpenter as the individual sheet is being loaded on the roof. The metal will then be fed onto the new building allowing the workmen to pull it directly from the stack onto the roof with all ease. D The second man, the one in the rolling platform will neither have to lift the metal by hand, nor will this employee need to twirl it in the air 180° to prepare it or use on the new roof. This will be easier and safer for the employee, and save many man-hours of labor. I trust this information will be clear enough you will be able to grasp the concept and run with the idea, keep the videos coming I enjoy watching them you have taught me much over the years, again thank you. Luke
Michael is an awesome addition to the channel, its great having a cameraman! I've always wondered how you get so much done while holding cameras and fiddling with shots and stuff. Also, mic Greg up too, we want to hear him more!
Cut holes the size of your forks in the middle of the steel beams so you don’t have to set it on blocks when you pick it up, and then you know where to pick it up each time to be balanced. Great video! As always I love the attention to detail and the perfectionism!
It’s a good idea, however it will weaken those beams significantly and you would be putting holes where the strength is needed the most, in the middle of the span. They could put permanent blocks on the bottom so it’s always on stickers and fork-able too. I think you are on the right track.
Great to see the next generation out on site with you! Please do everything you can to keep him interested in the trades and pass on your passion for impeccable craftsmanship. We're going to have a crisis when nobody knows how to bang nails in a couple decades!
Decades? In ireland it will happen in a few short years. All the good guys in the roofing company i work for are 45 years plus. None younger are any good. Cant get labourers. Have had to bring 10 from mexico on 2 year contracts.
You are the Man!! Very good explaining how to accomplish all phases of the construction. Thanks from a Retired Building Contractor from Florida.. Love The Humor. And all fun things you guys do together. You Rock! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
To bad you fellas aren't in the state I live in. Would like folks like you two to do a little work for me. I really like the attention you give to details in order to make sure your work is as perfect and strong as one can humanly make it. To many go for ' it's good enough, who's going to know ' and that gives you a poor quality job and end product. We need more like you.
Always so cool to see how this all comes together. As a remodeler, our projects happen in homes of all ages. It always amazes me how few contractors bothered to use levels to plumb walls up or even check for square when they were building the home initially. Especially in homes built since the 80's. Building plumb, level and square from the start makes everything work better down the road. Kyle, you can work the tank top too. Get some with your corporate logo for you Greg and Cole. Light gray, low cut neck and low cut sides. Great work guys
I thought you did great between filming and doing the actual work. Seeing harnesses, and the safe and practical use of machinery is a complete black and white difference to what I have encountered lol love to see it.
I enjoy your channel very much. I am way past my prime, but watching you two work, I feel like I could do some work with you. But then I cut my grass and get the mail and I am worn out. But thanks for making me feel young again, even though it’s just in my mind.
I always put the screws in the rib of the tin to ensure that if there was a leak under a screw that the water wouldn’t stand on the rib but rather in the channels of the tin.
Big fan and have learned a ton of tricks and tips. Very much appreciated. On you steel pallet...I was thinking and designing when you first mentioned it. I do some fabricating and I got some ideas for extensions and portability etc. Be fun to fab one up for you guys.
I haven’t seen the Diablo step bits before! I’ve used Green Lee, which is some really good steel, but I know the Diablo steel has a reputation for being hardened and good for cutting steel! I’ll definitely look those up!
Our roofer had an aluminum basket about 20’ long on his telehandler with the 3 sides railing removed. Worked great lifting metal to the roof plus light weight compared to steel.
Always outstanding work as always. Will the grabbo work on the high end of metal on Greg's end? But most important, 2004 i dumped my boss of a homemade telehandler platform that didn't have fork pockets. At 25 ft high,he had the presence of mind to grab the fork mast till I lowered him down. Weld something below, or cut pockets into center. Don't want you to quit sharing your craftsmanship!
Always enjoy your videos - I learn quite a bit from them. I’d love to have a post frame built for a shop when I retire. Heck, I’d love one now but I need a place in the country first 😁
Always enjoy the video's!! Yes it's been nice to have a camera operator, he does catch things that we may not get to see when you had to do all of it!! love the drone shots too! Like a couple other comments, Greg needs a mike and every time I watch you all build, I like to build something too!! (mostly like to have you guys build if for me!!😁) Stay safe and keep up the Great work!!
It has worked great for Arabs for centuries and the French Foreign Legion thought is was good enough for them. No greasy sun block, able to still sweat and get some cooling out of it, protects from bugs. So, yes, great idea.
Looks like you had a job for a welder of fab shop. Make it right once and be done with it. The suggestion below that suggested you cut hole for the forks could easily be done by a welder of fab shop.
Another great video and great job... You really make people think about how they are doing the job they do.. and i hope some try to do it better when they see you do it with such perfection and attention to details.. i have always been like this .. trying to be perfect and thinking as far ahead as i can.. not always happen but i try :D
I just said we get the 🔫 show and you followed with, yeah he took his shirt off to show you his muscles 😂 Yall are talented and funny. "LIFT WITH YOUR KNEES, NOT YOUR BACK" or your gonna be giving The Hunchback stiff competition 😅
Hi Kyle awesome job as always , you and Greg are machines , just wanted to ask , some roofs you sheath and some you don’t , is sheathing purely a cost factor for each job ?
Tell Craig to go look for a due Rag to help decrease the sun on his neck. Its what the black people wear at night. I use it in the yard for the same thing.
MAN GREG IS SUCH A NIECE GUY!!!.DO YOU REALIZE HOW CLOSE YOUR FACE WAS TO SHOES 👞!!!.SPITTING ON SOME PEOPLE'S SHOES COULD GET YOU A KICK IN THE FACE 😳 😂 AGAIN GREG IS A GREAT DUDE 👍
Those beams are plenty strong enough that you could have made that out of the 1 and used the other for extensions. You’d want to cut and weld in steel tubes into the center for your pick up point.
Great work as always. Kyle, what gauge are those sheets you guys put on? What type and brand is that retractable Greg and Cole are wearing? Keep it up the good work brother, thanks.
I thought the screws had to go through the ribs? Any issues with putting them in the flats like you do? It'd be nice to not worry about stretching the sheet by flattening a rib.
Our company switched from nailing to screwing 10 years ago. We screw all steel in the flats. As long as you hit the purlin and don’t strip screw it’s the way to go.
I thought that you punched holes in your roof sheets while they were on the ground for screw placement so you didn't have to mark them when you put the panels on the roof?
quick question, when you add a steel roof like this straight on the framing, wont there be condensation that will drip inside the building. I built a woodshed like this and that happend.
What was the plastic thing that is at the end of your sheet metal above the fascia? Did you ever make that video for figuring those angles? If not I'm still interested!
Can you tell me why you don't use a vapor barrier under your metal? Here in the Pacific Northwest that roof would drip water like crazy, due to the cold evenings and mornings, when the sun comes up in the morning it heats up the roofing and condensate on the bottom of the metal, thus dripping water like crazy inside of the building.
Thinking about building a shop on a new homesite. Down here in Texas a metal roof helps with a hostile climate, but the downside is the way metal conducts both heat and cold. So, I am considering using Zip+R for a thermal break. Other than cost, see any downside?
the cameraman is always the unsung hero.
I did almost 100% of this camera work lol
@@RRBuildings its like double the work to setup a shot that way
I am a 50+ - year veteran in the remodeling and home-building industry, I have enjoyed my work almost as much as you and your Ace carpenter. Seem to
I enjoy watching your videos many of which I have watched multiple times, I am especially intrigued by your son and his quick comprehension of your work, he will outdistance both of us in due time.
There are two things I would like to commend you on which I learned very early in my apprenticeship.
The number one statement is this make every step you make during working hours count toward completing the job.
The second statement is never to walk around empty-handed, whatever direction you’re headed as you walk pick something up and deliver it closer to its destination.
Here are three suggestions to save you time and make your work not only easier but safer, I trust you will take these suggestions in the same spirit that I offer them to you.
#1 The stiff backs you put on the truss angle support boards In certain cases as required by the manufacturer. These can be applied on the ground level. After you pick the truss up from the pile and as it is being balanced by the Sky Trak hi-lift, close to the ground, have a nailing gun and stack of 2 x 4 stiffeners handy, and apply those at ground level, it will save you time and money.
#2 This tip applies to the gable end truss, predrill the nail holes on both ends before you hoist it into the air. This will make the driving of those £.60 ring shanks, 1000 times easier, faster, and safer. I know you are knowledgeable of how many nails and what configuration they should be in to fasten the truss to the corner posts. This too will save you much toil and the wear and tear on your arm and rotor cups.
#3 Prologue, to me this is the best suggestion I can make for you to increase your productivity while saving the wear and tear on your body, as well as speeding up the process when applying long sheets of roofing materials. You may need to put some thought into what I’m saying but once it becomes clear in your mind I know this idea will make you hundreds of thousands of dollars in labor savings before you retire. Here it is stated plainly.
#3 A. Construct a lightweight framework that will hold a bundle of your roofing steel as it comes from the manufacturer.
B. using your SKY Trak hi-lift machine lift the metal and framework together placing it at a 90° angle to your rolling platform. This will add very little weight to the procedure.
C Construct it so that as each sheet of metal is pulled from the chute onto the roof the angle of the chute will be at such an angle to preserve the finish on the next sheet of metal in the stack without rubbing, this angle can easily be calculated from the ground level during construction of the framework. A simple smooth 1x4 may be used on the upper end to separate the two sheets placed there by the rolling scaffold carpenter as the individual sheet is being loaded on the roof. The metal will then be fed onto the new building allowing the workmen to pull it directly from the stack onto the roof with all ease.
D The second man, the one in the rolling platform will neither have to lift the metal by hand, nor will this employee need to twirl it in the air 180° to prepare it or use on the new roof. This will be easier and safer for the employee, and save many man-hours of labor.
I trust this information will be clear enough you will be able to grasp the concept and run with the idea, keep the videos coming I enjoy watching them you have taught me much over the years, again thank you. Luke
Michael is an awesome addition to the channel, its great having a cameraman! I've always wondered how you get so much done while holding cameras and fiddling with shots and stuff. Also, mic Greg up too, we want to hear him more!
Lol I did all
This camera work haha Michael
Was on vacation but I sure missed having him
@@RRBuildings Just remember it was your camera work and your willing to film that got this channel as big as it is now!
You need to mic Greg up so we can hear him! You guys are awesome BTW. These videos always make me wanna build something
Thanks for the time and effort RR❤️👍. "Muscles" looks great, keep up the good work💪!
Cut holes the size of your forks in the middle of the steel beams so you don’t have to set it on blocks when you pick it up, and then you know where to pick it up each time to be balanced. Great video! As always I love the attention to detail and the perfectionism!
thats genius.
It’s a good idea, however it will weaken those beams significantly and you would be putting holes where the strength is needed the most, in the middle of the span. They could put permanent blocks on the bottom so it’s always on stickers and fork-able too. I think you are on the right track.
Great to see the next generation out on site with you! Please do everything you can to keep him interested in the trades and pass on your passion for impeccable craftsmanship. We're going to have a crisis when nobody knows how to bang nails in a couple decades!
Decades? In ireland it will happen in a few short years. All the good guys in the roofing company i work for are 45 years plus. None younger are any good. Cant get labourers. Have had to bring 10 from mexico on 2 year contracts.
Great video everyone 👍📐🔨🎥
Great Job Michaël putting up with Kyle & Greg !!
Kyle, you should add two 6x4 tube steel beams across the under side the pallet as fork pockets.
Was thinking the same, wouldn't want that huge thing to start sliding on a windy day.
You are the Man!! Very good explaining how to accomplish all phases of the construction. Thanks from a Retired Building Contractor from Florida.. Love The Humor. And all fun things you guys do together. You Rock! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
@RRBUILDINGSYT❤
Your new metal pallet is ingenious and will be a time saver on every building you do. Your camera man is doing a great job.
Michael is doing a great job capturing different angles that allow more knowledge to transfer.
To bad you fellas aren't in the state I live in. Would like folks like you two to do a little work for me. I really like the attention you give to details in order to make sure your work is as perfect and strong as one can humanly make it. To many go for ' it's good enough, who's going to know ' and that gives you a poor quality job and end product. We need more like you.
Grear Job videoing Michael !!!.... You guys makeup a fantastic team together. Sincerely, the old Montana cowboy, Frank Scherping
Mike is doing a very good job!!!!!!!!💯💯💯💯💯
I agree with Greg about sunblock. That's why you always have a hat and neck gaiter!
Id really enjoy content on all the framing and the theory and goal and how it may be different from other build types. TY for all the vids!
Great job by great men , following you from Iraq
Always so cool to see how this all comes together. As a remodeler, our projects happen in homes of all ages. It always amazes me how few contractors bothered to use levels to plumb walls up or even check for square when they were building the home initially. Especially in homes built since the 80's. Building plumb, level and square from the start makes everything work better down the road. Kyle, you can work the tank top too. Get some with your corporate logo for you Greg and Cole. Light gray, low cut neck and low cut sides. Great work guys
Thanks for the video Kyle and troopers. 😁👍
I thought you did great between filming and doing the actual work. Seeing harnesses, and the safe and practical use of machinery is a complete black and white difference to what I have encountered lol love to see it.
No worries Kyle. Videos are always great and spot on! Build on team RR!
Please mic Greg. On site banter is gold
I enjoy your channel very much. I am way past my prime, but watching you two work, I feel like I could do some work with you. But then I cut my grass and get the mail and I am worn out. But thanks for making me feel young again, even though it’s just in my mind.
I always put the screws in the rib of the tin to ensure that if there was a leak under a screw that the water wouldn’t stand on the rib but rather in the channels of the tin.
Happy to see your videos every time...
Big fan and have learned a ton of tricks and tips. Very much appreciated. On you steel pallet...I was thinking and designing when you first mentioned it. I do some fabricating and I got some ideas for extensions and portability etc. Be fun to fab one up for you guys.
Always doing big stuff!! Amazing what 2 guys can do! Very inspiring!
Best way to go. 2 of us makes for an easy plan every morning.
Watching ❤
I haven’t seen the Diablo step bits before! I’ve used Green Lee, which is some really good steel, but I know the Diablo steel has a reputation for being hardened and good for cutting steel! I’ll definitely look those up!
It’s good to see your son working with you again.
Really appreciate the detailed explanation and each step of the process. Great team work! You gentlemen are consummate pros!
You deserve a dedicated cameraman Kyle, great work and keep up the awesome videos.
Our roofer had an aluminum basket about 20’ long on his telehandler with the 3 sides railing removed. Worked great lifting metal to the roof plus light weight compared to steel.
It's very great idea.
Holy hell. I had no idea what you were building. But that "palette" looks like a BEAST!
Sizlarga juda havasim keldi ishlarihgiz aʼlo darajada
Always love these videos
Great addition to your team!
Thanks Michael!
Amizig work ❤
The Ambition strikes you tube quoted you guys where they learned to build pole barns and installed metal
You make always very good Videos from Your Work. The to Explain from You is Instructive and Interesting. Thanks, 👍👌💪
Your videos remind me of when I would accompany my grandfather on his job sites building exclusive homes at Incline Village, Lake Tahoe
Always outstanding work as always.
Will the grabbo work on the high end of metal on Greg's end?
But most important, 2004 i dumped my boss of a homemade telehandler platform that didn't have fork pockets.
At 25 ft high,he had the presence of mind to grab the fork mast till I lowered him down.
Weld something below, or cut pockets into center.
Don't want you to quit sharing your craftsmanship!
Always enjoy your videos - I learn quite a bit from them. I’d love to have a post frame built for a shop when I retire. Heck, I’d love one now but I need a place in the country first 😁
Metal banding strips (used for shipping crates and such) would have helped keep the rectangular boxes from over stressing and coming loose over time.
Greg's gone full French Foreign Legion on you.
22:40 SAS in North Africa!
Always enjoy the video's!! Yes it's been nice to have a camera operator, he does catch things that we may not get to see when you had to do all of it!! love the drone shots too! Like a couple other comments, Greg needs a mike and every time I watch you all build, I like to build something too!! (mostly like to have you guys build if for me!!😁) Stay safe and keep up the Great work!!
Looks great Kyle
Amazing content....always great stuff here for sure
Skills is what I see
It has worked great for Arabs for centuries and the French Foreign Legion thought is was good enough for them. No greasy sun block, able to still sweat and get some cooling out of it, protects from bugs. So, yes, great idea.
Looks like you had a job for a welder of fab shop. Make it right once and be done with it. The suggestion below that suggested you cut hole for the forks could easily be done by a welder of fab shop.
Love to see more bracing content. Unless you have certain videos you have done in the past that explain it.
Weld it my man...be safe...weld it!
Looking good!
Great class. I learn a lot every time I watch. Will you be doing a cost breakdown for this building?
Try 16 GA. steel studs and track from a drywall supplier. 24 ft. is a common length for studs. Widths are 3 5/8 inch , 6 inch and 8 inch.
I bet Jimmy DiResta would love to help you out with your palette topic… 🤙🏼
Another great video and great job... You really make people think about how they are doing the job they do.. and i hope some try to do it better when they see you do it with such perfection and attention to details.. i have always been like this .. trying to be perfect and thinking as far ahead as i can.. not always happen but i try :D
@RRBUILDINGSYT what did i win :D
As a welder, that pallet build was painful😂😂
Good job
I wonder how many people think the building is moving when it’s actually the lift the camera is mounted to. Lol.
I just said we get the 🔫 show and you followed with, yeah he took his shirt off to show you his muscles 😂
Yall are talented and funny.
"LIFT WITH YOUR KNEES, NOT YOUR BACK" or your gonna be giving The Hunchback stiff competition 😅
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
Great work
@24:20 why is that edge sticking over the gable rake ? shouldnt it be flush? now your gunna have to bend it down or cut or grind it flush...
well done job sir, i will like to learn from you
Hi Kyle awesome job as always , you and Greg are machines , just wanted to ask , some roofs you sheath and some you don’t , is sheathing purely a cost factor for each job ?
Customer preference I would say
He seems to put sheathing on the roofs for a home but haven't really seen them do it on a barn or storage. Maybe because it's not a house?
Most of his roofs are metal sheath whether house barn or storage
9 times out of 10 sheathed roofs will have standing seam going over the top.
Tell Craig to go look for a due Rag to help decrease the sun on his neck. Its what the black people wear at night. I use it in the yard for the same thing.
When will the "muscles" merch be available? 😂
MAN GREG IS SUCH A NIECE GUY!!!.DO YOU REALIZE HOW CLOSE YOUR FACE WAS TO SHOES 👞!!!.SPITTING ON SOME PEOPLE'S SHOES COULD GET YOU A KICK IN THE FACE 😳 😂 AGAIN GREG IS A GREAT DUDE 👍
Those beams are plenty strong enough that you could have made that out of the 1 and used the other for extensions. You’d want to cut and weld in steel tubes into the center for your pick up point.
Great work as always. Kyle, what gauge are those sheets you guys put on? What type and brand is that retractable Greg and Cole are wearing?
Keep it up the good work brother, thanks.
You guys must be going to spray foam that's why no vapor barrier
I thought the screws had to go through the ribs? Any issues with putting them in the flats like you do? It'd be nice to not worry about stretching the sheet by flattening a rib.
Our company switched from nailing to screwing 10 years ago. We screw all steel in the flats. As long as you hit the purlin and don’t strip screw it’s the way to go.
Kyle you are constantly bustin Greg's balls. You're gonna give the poor guy a complex lol
Dang you gotta build my garage.
I thought that you punched holes in your roof sheets while they were on the ground for screw placement so you didn't have to mark them when you put the panels on the roof?
Just walls or porches. He has said that because it's so high and the purlins are offset for each other, that they don't do it.
@@daryldavirro4237 Thanks makes sense, the offsets would be really hard to control punch placement.
Miller machine, Vincennes Indiana can build it for ya. They can make anything
Great channel . outstanding educational footage. yourself and greg have a great partnership. you should make more fun of gregs chicken legs LOL
"x gone give it to ya" when it comes to bracing
20:24 The original "Hawk Tuah"
More bracing always good. Especially in this big building. Cable anchors might even be good.
Kyle and his ruffs lol
Marking all the perlons on each roof sheet seems like a real pita. Would a story stick work?
I would like to see something to secure the platform to the forklift, like fork pockets.
Do use Powder Coated Roof and Sidewall Screws? Also noted, you do not stack drill the sheets.
Drilling sheets of steel stacked will leave metal shavings that lead to rusting.
Well that’s one way to weld two beams together
Pro. Well done 👍👍👍👏👏👏👏
Can you provide some input on roofing fastners and how long the life span is on a few brands that you're utilizing?
quick question, when you add a steel roof like this straight on the framing, wont there be condensation that will drip inside the building. I built a woodshed like this and that happend.
Correct. Without proper airflow, depending on your environment.
What was the plastic thing that is at the end of your sheet metal above the fascia? Did you ever make that video for figuring those angles? If not I'm still interested!
Fantástico
You've gotta show how you did your facia peak.
Get some bug spray to clean your shoes off before getting on the metal! Spray it on and wipe it off. You'll stick like glue.
Can you tell me why you don't use a vapor barrier under your metal? Here in the Pacific Northwest that roof would drip water like crazy, due to the cold evenings and mornings, when the sun comes up in the morning it heats up the roofing and condensate on the bottom of the metal, thus dripping water like crazy inside of the building.
All hisbuilds have ventilated attics, vapor barrier not needed since there's always air flow.
Thinking about building a shop on a new homesite. Down here in Texas a metal roof helps with a hostile climate, but the downside is the way metal conducts both heat and cold. So, I am considering using Zip+R for a thermal break. Other than cost, see any downside?