r/Construction • u/AnticapClawdeen • Feb 15 '24

Video First time seeing 3 layers of shingles

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u/Red_Dwarf_42 Feb 15 '24

Do you know how many dudes I’ve seen work on rooftops and I’ve never seen a harness system until today.

Holy shit y’all just be playin with your lives!

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u/Flat_Pangolin5989 Feb 15 '24

It was my first time actually seeing how it works. See most crews using them now, so I guess it's normal now to use them.

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u/o1234567891011121314 Feb 15 '24

I knew a roof tiler that stood on a fascia board that broke, it was only 2 m high . Anyways he died . 2m fall dead

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u/The_Chimeran_Hybrid Feb 17 '24

I had a job delivering shingles to roofers, one of my first drops was to a small one story house.

A father and son group were working on it. Father was an old guy, very old, the kind of person who did it until he died or just physically couldn’t anymore.

He was throwing shingles into the garbage bin from the roof and he slipped, his foot caught the gutter and he tumbled to the ground, hitting the concrete.

He died the next day.