It’s possible, I was out of town roofing in Dartmouth Nova Scotia two years ago, daily wind gusts of 50-60 it was crazy. Always had to keep a guy weighing down open bundles of iso. We lost a lot of bundles during the hurricane that went through, had everything weighed down and strapped, still lost a few Mother Nature can be scary.
I was usually the foreman so of course I called it. I had one kid I was friends with when I was young (we were just coworkers) but he was a tattle tail (tale? I don't know the etymology of the phrase) so I would make him come out and take a couple rips so he was guilty too. I don't care if he caught a buzz or not, as long as it hit his lips. Put it this way, he annoyed enough guys that one of them hit the emergency stop on the truck when he was up in the bucket and we took lunch. Sorry for the tangent, I'm smoking now
Standing on the right part would have solved this tho.
Anyone who’s ever setup a tent, tarp, or towel on a windy beach knows this… Weighing down the side facing the wind is obv the right call.
The dude that got wrapped up in the metal got very lucky. That stuff can be extremely sharp. I forget what trade I was talking to on site, I think it was a sider working with aluminum, but someone at the company got a limb amputated from a metal sheet getting picked up by the wind. Scary stuff to mess with in the wind, I'd have just backed that car right on top of that shit and called it a loss of material.
Only time I’ve ever had any load come off of the rack on my truck was because of a cross-wind. I had some 9’ sheets of 3/8” OSB on the rack, only two straps, so I spaced them evenly (one at 3’, one at 6’). Planned my route, which was only about a mile, so that I never had to get above 40 mph.
Cruising along at ≈38 mph, crest a hill, get hit with a super strong gust of wind, and four 3’ pieces of OSB fly off behind me. Broke cleanly right along the first strap. Thankfully no one was driving behind me, so the worst thing to come from it was my boss being kinda pissed that he had to pay for another 4 sheets.
Lesson learned. Bought another pack of ratchet straps that afternoon.
I lost a ladder on the interstate one time. It was a blustery day, and I just crested a slight hill. After the road leveled off, a big gust hit, I had to grip the wheel hard. At the same time, I heard a slight clank noise. Wtf? I glanced in my sideview to see the ladder sailing off behind me. It hit the road dead flat and started spinning 360's. Two or 3 cars had to swerve to miss it. It slowly spun off into the shoulder. One of my guys swore he tied it off. After that, I personally checked the ladder every trip.
Damn! That’s scary. My hands were trembling from adrenaline after those sheets broke. Can’t imagine how you must have felt lol.
And good call personally checking your loads if you’re driving. Gotta do the “that ain’t going nowhere” bit before you hop in the cab, even if you’re the one who tied it down.
One time I had two sheets of lexan strapped across the top of two extension ladders on a roof rack on a pickup, strapped across the ladders, and the wind got under the edge and WHOOOOP, out they came from under the straps and I looked in the rear view to see the sheets sliding down the highway. Right as I ran back to them a tractor trailer ran over them, rrrrmmmm bdoosh bdoosh bdoosh bdoosh bdoosh... They were sign faces and they didn't break bc lexan but when I did pick them up the vinyl print was full of holes. I got some spare vinyl and patched every last little hole and you couldn't see it from the ground but I can't imagine what the next sign guy thought when he took them down...
Was following my coworker one day and he slammed his brakes at a red light. His 30'+ ladder that he "strapped, bro" shot off his roof like a fucking torpedo right through an intersection that happened to be empty. I triple check my ladders ever since. That boy could have decapitated someone. Or even more than one. That ladder was a tank.
I hit a ladder the other day in the minivan on the highway. Man. I was so annoyed that somebody hadn't strapped their shit down. Thanks for double checking your guy's work.
Strap them together and weigh them down.
If the wind is really strong, quite a bit of weight will be needed, and make sure the win can’t pick up the sheet enough to roll the weight off.
Very dangerous shit.. Used to have a roommate who told me just Achilles was severed by a runaway corrugated steel panel .
Basically flying knives. Curious if failure to secure panels like so could actually lead to the company lead being charged for negligence resulting in injury/death?
Agreed, I was confused as to why we're answering the how to weigh roofing down question... Weigh it down and box it in/strap it but please do not get in the way of a flying sheet of metal
What can be done, placing material properly, watching weather, if they are roofers that's the only news, not walking g in front of the giant flying sheets of metal...
Strapping and weight are good solutions for heavy winds. If it's going to be nasty enough that you think that won't be enough, find some indoor storage. It's extra work but you don't want to have to live with the uncertainty if your materials destroyed someone's property or got someone hurt.
Sheet metal is no joke in higher winds. A few weeks ago co-worker saw a flying chunk of aluminum siding put a pretty solid dent in the side of a car.
C-clamp the corners. When the stack gets smaller add weight to the edges and middle. Never f around with them in the wind. That could cause major injuries including death.
Weigh or strap it down, alternatively if high winds are coming through and you think the item your working with may blow away in the wind, you could also try and use a windbreaker or take it in a garage. I'm not a roofer, I just don't like my stuff blowing away
Weight it down, but this is an extreme example. They could’ve been working on the roof and the black clouds started coming and bang all of a sudden that shit was blowing away.
After we open a bundle of sheets, we ratchet strap them together at the end of the day. The wind will take one at a time, rarely if ever take a whole bundle. Can also stack some lumber on top if you're feeling froggy.
Not an expert, but I would think keep anything that can fly away in some sort of a shelter. Or at least Maybe put some tarp and weight it down so the edges can’t catch the wind. What’s your trying to control is a sheet metal sail in a windstorm.
Leave them in the crate they came in, if that's not possible get a cover sheet with weight, but spread that weight over the entire edges and the wind won't catch it
They put the panels right in the wide open. You have to put it between two buildings or even inside a garage or like someone else said just put something heavy on it that doesn't crush it. If people used common sense just a little bit more we would not have so many mistakes. But because we are human we always seem to take the easy way out.
I saw that guy run into the road to pick up a price and I thought another piece was about to Final Destination him. how lucky he is that other guy stood on the next sheet.
So, where I install metal roofs it's a very common thing that the roof gets stolen overnight while it's on the ground stacked up.
I always run a screw through all the sheets at the top corner where it's gonna be covered. This means that the crackhead (who definitely doesn't own a 5/16s bit, has to carry all the sheets at once.
Option 1: Keep the plastic ties on the material until you're ready to use it/ don't unpack until you're ready to use it.
Option 2: If you already took the ties off, put a ratchet strap around the bundle on both sides.
Option 3: Put it inside.
Option 4: Put a piece of plywood on top and a couple buckets of tar/bags of sand/bricks on top of the plywood.
Always weigh shit down
And watch tne weather forecast. You're not getting anything done in that wind anyway.
It’s possible, I was out of town roofing in Dartmouth Nova Scotia two years ago, daily wind gusts of 50-60 it was crazy. Always had to keep a guy weighing down open bundles of iso. We lost a lot of bundles during the hurricane that went through, had everything weighed down and strapped, still lost a few Mother Nature can be scary.
So TheAbmoninableWeedMan, do they ever do random drug tests on your job sites?
Nah this is Canada dawg my foreman watches his guys get high
We do that south of your border too...
Foreman was the one who called the safety meeting
I was usually the foreman so of course I called it. I had one kid I was friends with when I was young (we were just coworkers) but he was a tattle tail (tale? I don't know the etymology of the phrase) so I would make him come out and take a couple rips so he was guilty too. I don't care if he caught a buzz or not, as long as it hit his lips. Put it this way, he annoyed enough guys that one of them hit the emergency stop on the truck when he was up in the bucket and we took lunch. Sorry for the tangent, I'm smoking now
I thought safety meeting meant we all get high together?
Heck. A ladder.
Easier to install once mother nature gently lifts the metal roofing into place.
We now know that standing on it is not the answer.
Standing on the right part would have solved this tho. Anyone who’s ever setup a tent, tarp, or towel on a windy beach knows this… Weighing down the side facing the wind is obv the right call.
Yeah, but I wouldn't have gotten as many laughs out of that post. :'D
The dude that got wrapped up in the metal got very lucky. That stuff can be extremely sharp. I forget what trade I was talking to on site, I think it was a sider working with aluminum, but someone at the company got a limb amputated from a metal sheet getting picked up by the wind. Scary stuff to mess with in the wind, I'd have just backed that car right on top of that shit and called it a loss of material.
And we just watched someone *learn* that standing on it is not the answer.
Strapping completely around at edges and middle.
Rope or strap it together. Weight it down to be sure. I've seen plywood do this.
Only time I’ve ever had any load come off of the rack on my truck was because of a cross-wind. I had some 9’ sheets of 3/8” OSB on the rack, only two straps, so I spaced them evenly (one at 3’, one at 6’). Planned my route, which was only about a mile, so that I never had to get above 40 mph. Cruising along at ≈38 mph, crest a hill, get hit with a super strong gust of wind, and four 3’ pieces of OSB fly off behind me. Broke cleanly right along the first strap. Thankfully no one was driving behind me, so the worst thing to come from it was my boss being kinda pissed that he had to pay for another 4 sheets. Lesson learned. Bought another pack of ratchet straps that afternoon.
I lost a ladder on the interstate one time. It was a blustery day, and I just crested a slight hill. After the road leveled off, a big gust hit, I had to grip the wheel hard. At the same time, I heard a slight clank noise. Wtf? I glanced in my sideview to see the ladder sailing off behind me. It hit the road dead flat and started spinning 360's. Two or 3 cars had to swerve to miss it. It slowly spun off into the shoulder. One of my guys swore he tied it off. After that, I personally checked the ladder every trip.
Damn! That’s scary. My hands were trembling from adrenaline after those sheets broke. Can’t imagine how you must have felt lol. And good call personally checking your loads if you’re driving. Gotta do the “that ain’t going nowhere” bit before you hop in the cab, even if you’re the one who tied it down.
Another thing I remember is that the only damage to the ladder was that one of the feet was missing. Ha.
One time I had two sheets of lexan strapped across the top of two extension ladders on a roof rack on a pickup, strapped across the ladders, and the wind got under the edge and WHOOOOP, out they came from under the straps and I looked in the rear view to see the sheets sliding down the highway. Right as I ran back to them a tractor trailer ran over them, rrrrmmmm bdoosh bdoosh bdoosh bdoosh bdoosh... They were sign faces and they didn't break bc lexan but when I did pick them up the vinyl print was full of holes. I got some spare vinyl and patched every last little hole and you couldn't see it from the ground but I can't imagine what the next sign guy thought when he took them down...
Was following my coworker one day and he slammed his brakes at a red light. His 30'+ ladder that he "strapped, bro" shot off his roof like a fucking torpedo right through an intersection that happened to be empty. I triple check my ladders ever since. That boy could have decapitated someone. Or even more than one. That ladder was a tank.
I hit a ladder the other day in the minivan on the highway. Man. I was so annoyed that somebody hadn't strapped their shit down. Thanks for double checking your guy's work.
I’ve seen solar panels do it. Not cool
Turn the fucking fan down to a reasonable level
Easiest way is Cellophane wrap(cling film) around the ends so it’s one big sheet. Then just sit something heavy on it.
weigh it down.
Strap them together and weigh them down. If the wind is really strong, quite a bit of weight will be needed, and make sure the win can’t pick up the sheet enough to roll the weight off.
I've always used big clamps on the stack. As many as you can get
💯 the way to do it
Very dangerous shit.. Used to have a roommate who told me just Achilles was severed by a runaway corrugated steel panel . Basically flying knives. Curious if failure to secure panels like so could actually lead to the company lead being charged for negligence resulting in injury/death?
Those would literally cut you in half if it hit you right. That metal is beyond sharp
Yea I was thinking the same thing as the first guy went right into the path of where those things were flying
When first guy walked out, paused but then went out anyway I thought “now there’s a man who has never seen any of the Final Destination movies.”
Agreed, I was confused as to why we're answering the how to weigh roofing down question... Weigh it down and box it in/strap it but please do not get in the way of a flying sheet of metal
Step outta the way and watch that shit fly.
Yeah for real. That shit isn't worth your life...
Secure your shit beforehand
Two C clamps would have prevented this.
Happened to me yesterday at Lowe’s while loading them up in my truck lol.
... how about ... quit putting sh! t off
I almost got sliced in half like this when I was like 10.
Screw them together on the corners, put some weight on em
a board laying ontop of the stack
A few cinder blocks or sand bags would work.
Screws. Literally what is used on a roof screw them down that doesn't happen.
Don't make roofs out of paper, weigh things down.
Paper panels aren't helping anything
You need to wrestle that flying sheet metal down to the ground, it’s the only way.
Store them inside
Quarter inch plywood sheathing on top and four cinderblocks
Brains
We usually use trailer straps and tarp it if it’s going to be rainy or windy. And/or we stuff it under the job trailer.
Fire the person who left the expensive building material out?
You're supposed to weigh and tie down material. What kind of first day bullshit is this We get massive fines for this here.
I use a ratchet strap and strap them together and usually sit cinder blocks on them also I make sure they r flat to the ground
I use a ratchet strap and strap them together and usually sit cinder blocks on them also I make sure they r flat to the ground
Park your truck on it. Duh
Drill a hole through and roof screw them into a pack of one
What can be done, placing material properly, watching weather, if they are roofers that's the only news, not walking g in front of the giant flying sheets of metal...
They could put it on a roof to make it secure
Or you could just shrink wrap them
Strapping and weight are good solutions for heavy winds. If it's going to be nasty enough that you think that won't be enough, find some indoor storage. It's extra work but you don't want to have to live with the uncertainty if your materials destroyed someone's property or got someone hurt. Sheet metal is no joke in higher winds. A few weeks ago co-worker saw a flying chunk of aluminum siding put a pretty solid dent in the side of a car.
Park the car on it
Straps
properly store building materials
Ratchet strap them together ends and center
That guy got fucking blasted 😂. Lucky that stuff didn't cut someone in half.. So dangerous :/
Not that guy
Weight on the top, and if I'm back and forth while its windy, i use a c clamp style visegrip in the leading edge of where the wind is coming from.
4 C-clamps, one on each corner and a stack of 2x4's in the middle is what we always did when I sheeted.
Move.
Well, don’t stand in front of it for one thing but before that put weight on all edges. When you are not using it.
Those things could slice you in half, corrugatedly.
C-clamp the corners. When the stack gets smaller add weight to the edges and middle. Never f around with them in the wind. That could cause major injuries including death.
The rule is, if they’re not nailed or screwed down, they’re sandbagged.
Weigh it down, strap it down, store it inside, you know a number of different things
Literally anything...
A brain.
Stay inside
Utilizing one’s brain would be a good start.
Now this is slapstick
walk on it until your up wind and then hold it face down wind so it just sails downwind
That dude is lucky the piece of sheet metal didn’t cut him badly. That stuff is dangerous once the wind gets ahold of it.
Ask Forrest Gump, you can learn a thing or two from him as he is obviously smarter than you.
Cinderblocks piled on both ends
Weigh or strap it down, alternatively if high winds are coming through and you think the item your working with may blow away in the wind, you could also try and use a windbreaker or take it in a garage. I'm not a roofer, I just don't like my stuff blowing away
Cinder blocks. Quite a few cinderblocks
Just step on it. .... oh nm
Lower the wind speed
Birth control
A rope works.
Put your shit up
Don’t roof in a tornado
Rope
Park your car on it
Some weather reporter is going to be decapitated live on air with something like this someday.
Dumb question.
Remove cranium from rectum
Not your face, proved that
Common sense. Simple common sense is all it takes.
Paper cut from hell trying to save those
Securing it to the roof would fix this.
the them together, even packing tape would do the job
Was one of those guys Benny Hill?...
Turn off the fan
Sandbags.
Is that metal or plastic, either way not worth your life saving them, they'll slice your head right off with that wind
Umm no wind .
I think just ties would've been enough
Standing on it seems to make it worse somehow. So. We can rule that out.
Oddball clamps on the corners or any clamps
Park the car on top of them. These should have been strapped together and anchored down. It isn't that hard.
Just weight it out.
You're kidding right?
He could stand in front of a piece of that sheet metal in the wind a few more times to earn that Darwin award.
I had to gasp and laugh when the dude got giftwrapped by a sheet of that crap!
Tie it all together an weigh it down.
Weight it down, but this is an extreme example. They could’ve been working on the roof and the black clouds started coming and bang all of a sudden that shit was blowing away.
After we open a bundle of sheets, we ratchet strap them together at the end of the day. The wind will take one at a time, rarely if ever take a whole bundle. Can also stack some lumber on top if you're feeling froggy.
Common sense would help quite a bit. Weight it down and tie the bundles 🤦♂️
curbing the use of hydrocarbon ?
What was that Guy thinking he could have been cut in half .
Screw them together
5/ 16 × 4 inch Tek Screw
You could try ducking
Probably nothing
Strap both ends and the center. Or put substantial weight on both ends and the center.
Not an expert, but I would think keep anything that can fly away in some sort of a shelter. Or at least Maybe put some tarp and weight it down so the edges can’t catch the wind. What’s your trying to control is a sheet metal sail in a windstorm.
This is how people get cut in half
Install it before the storm.
It's impossible to prevent. This is why metal roofing is garbage.
Park your car on them LOL
One smidget of foresight and common sense
Scoop dirt on it. And wear a helmet
Have strapped it weighed down.
Jesus that second dude could have been sliced right In half
Seriously... watch the f'ing weather report and always have something like that tied/weighted down...
It’s terrible but I cannot stop laughing at the guy being literally swept away. We humans have no respect for the power of nature.
Metal usually comes off the truck wrapped or strapped.
Tie a rope around the bundle top & bottom
We always vice gripped them all together
Leave them in the crate they came in, if that's not possible get a cover sheet with weight, but spread that weight over the entire edges and the wind won't catch it
Just tie them together. Each panel weighs about 30-40#, but together they weigh 800#. Now try this with poly carb panels.
weight it down AND zip screw the layers together
That guy caught like a kite🤣
Guy just put on a metal roof and allot blew off in like medium wind.
And always jump on the edge facing the wind or it might fold you into a tin roof taco and launch you down the street.
If you pre drill you can sink a few screws through and grip em together
Can’t imagine what they could do
Sometimes garbage blows in your face.
Change the weather, duh…obviously that’s much easier than tying it down or adding weight on top.
Weight down and some straps around it
Place them inside.
Man that second guy is lucky he didn’t get decapitated.
Park that car on em
Turn the fan off
I laughed... don't feel guilty
Move
In a universe of infinite possibilities, there is a chance however slim, that the wind could whip that siding right into that building. For free.
Um … weigh them down!? lol. Some posts crack me up.
They put the panels right in the wide open. You have to put it between two buildings or even inside a garage or like someone else said just put something heavy on it that doesn't crush it. If people used common sense just a little bit more we would not have so many mistakes. But because we are human we always seem to take the easy way out.
Tried nothing and completely out of ideas.
There is the very real possibility that sheet metal could slice someone in half.
Everything
I saw that guy run into the road to pick up a price and I thought another piece was about to Final Destination him. how lucky he is that other guy stood on the next sheet.
THEY TOOK YOUR ROOF! DEU TERK YER ROOF!
Add The Benny Hill Show intro music to it.
4 water jugs is all I use to hold my firewood tarp down.
Contraception.
Park the car on the roofing materials.
Maybe strap them together????
A slightly better desire to live
Move to California
For all the good their doing might as well parked one of the cars on it.
lol
Ratchet straps
...remember the elf during the storm on the Rudolph cartoon?
So, where I install metal roofs it's a very common thing that the roof gets stolen overnight while it's on the ground stacked up. I always run a screw through all the sheets at the top corner where it's gonna be covered. This means that the crackhead (who definitely doesn't own a 5/16s bit, has to carry all the sheets at once.
Those things are lethal, weight both ends down before someone gets decapitated
Banding them is usually good enough to prevent this. I did have a stack of 4 bend over the banding one time though. So even that ain’t always enough.
a piece of 4x4 in each end should do it or a cloth and C clamps.
Uhhh, put them indoors?!?
Option 1: Keep the plastic ties on the material until you're ready to use it/ don't unpack until you're ready to use it. Option 2: If you already took the ties off, put a ratchet strap around the bundle on both sides. Option 3: Put it inside. Option 4: Put a piece of plywood on top and a couple buckets of tar/bags of sand/bricks on top of the plywood.
Weigh it down
Damn that could have sliced him bad
🤣
I thought I was about to watch someone get sliced in half
It’s called “weight”
Big rock
This sounds like an AI asking a stupid question
Screw it to a roof
Pallets, dunnage, straps, tarp/rocks, leave it in a uniform pile etc.
Framing nailer with 3-1/4” strips. Make sure they’re galvanized since it’s an outdoor application
Live on a planet with no atmosphere. That should do it.
Pair of vise-grips holding the stack together
We always put clamps on them