@Troye you hoist them up with like rope

Jinx

Carrying them up the ladder means you have one less hand while climbing the ladder.

If you lose balance (because carrying weight)

Thought of it as I asked

Youre 50% more likely to get fucked

years of carrying shingles, they made us use a new modified ladder with a gas motor powered pully system.

50% more fucking sounds good rn honestly

@Torvarren thats excessive.

Just tie a rope to a bundle of shingles and pull them up

Hell just put a pulley at the top and pull it

Yeah, a pulley system would work fine

Theres so many alternative steps between "cant carry shingles" and "gas powered pulley"

Like just put a pole at the top and make a temporary manual pulley

Osha compliant requirement

Thats what I see builders do here to move buckets of cement

**Breaking news**: *Gas motor powered pulley system launches shingles, decapitating 7*

that looks rather expensive

That looks rather dangerous

good thing I work for independent unlicensed contractors so I don't have to worry about safety regs at my job hahaha.. ha

Mmmm no safety

The good thing is if you get fucked in the job you got a lawsuit in your hands

Just make sure you're recording

on the one hand, no one pays attention to safety except you in my type of situation

For uhh, austerity purposes

on the other hand you're safer because you know that and you pay special attention to your own safety lol

These shingle lift ladders cost about $2,000

@Torvarren why not just

Worker goes up ladder

Manual pulley at the top

Bucket to put shingles in at the bottom

You see

Put shingles in bucket

Lift bucket with pullet

That's what a sane person would do

Pulley

Shit carying shingles isn't even the dangerous part of the job. It's falling off the roof that fucks people up. Using foot boards does more than that silly thing.

You gotta think outside the box if you want to please overlord Osha

They do it to try and eliminate some liability, but end up creating completely new ones.

Because I can see the danger of going up a ladder while carrying shit on your shoulder. I can barely keep my balance on a ladder with fully free hands

Someone needs balance training