Making Wooden Shingles in Slovenia

300Six said:
They certainly are a 'de-rigueur' fashion statement for roof coverings on ritzy mansions in Vancouver.
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They used to be extremely popular in WA, too. But people learned it was foolish to roof your house with kindling. When a wildfire blows thru every house with shakes would go up while the houses with 3-tab, metal or tile were spared.
 
Square_peg said:
They used to be extremely popular in WA, too. But people learned it was foolish to roof your house with kindling. When a wildfire blows thru every house with shakes would go up while the houses with 3-tab, metal or tile were spared.
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I don't miss the skip sheathing either. The last one I did the skip sheathing to my mom happened to buy it some years later. They just replaced the shakes last year. About thirty five years later.
 
Thirty-five year life span is not bad for what you get. In the big storm some years back, the one 't blew the neighbors dormer over here onto my roof crushing my sky-light, cost many farms their own roofs when the tiles blew off - once they go it's a domino effect taking whole sections - and even blew a tile or two off of my roof, it was my shingled woodshed among almost every other roof in the area, that sustained zero damage even though it is situated where it took on the full brunt of the storm.
At a certain point, like thatch, this was the roofing of the poor, the sort of DYI equivalent of the Home Shop and box store out there nowadays. Both roofing types have metamorphosed since then into the choice of the rich, (with the noted exception of those of us trying to maintain the good old-time ethic as it was from the beginning). If I were to make a commercial proposition of my own shingle making I'd be asking a euro p/s, it's not cheap by any means. At the same time also not so exclusive that it has no presence especially where it is being brought back and people have a sort of communal commitment to maintain shingle use as part of a regional culture like in the parts of France, Switzerland, Austria where I have seen. And not only on a piecemeal scale, usually where it has some historic connection to a place shingled buildings can make up a good part of the whole, even dominate. In such enclaves shingles have an obvious and important cultural presence and those people are willing, somehow, to continue their use. Besides, who can think of another roofing that is as uncomplicated to make, install and maintain all by yourself with the raw materials at hand and all without any reliance on a product coming out of some factory, with all the expense, inefficiencies, and extended woes that entails?
 
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The house I grew up in had cedar shake roofing. That was a pretty wet site on the southern Oregon Coast. It lasted quite well - at least I don't remember my dad replacing any of it other than right below my window where it was a bit worn from quiet entry and exit... It will split some when you walk on it regularly.
I have a couple of froes that need some work after watching/reading through this thread.
 
Lieblad said:
Fwiw,
It has elements of roofing hammer, but thats a common ’euro hammer of general carpentry.
If you look at a true roofing hammer, its obvious differences.
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Where was that hammer in the video identified as a "roofing hammer"? I am curious as to what constitutes a "true roofing hammer". I gave google a try but :confused:




Bob
 
I am also interested to know what sets the roofing hammer apart. Here is Vaughans version. I have never seen a roofer use anything like it and probably won't.
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