How To Lift 4x8 Sheets Of Plywood To Roof

The dimensions make a sheet awkward to carry by yourself even if you can handle the weight.

How to lift 4x8 sheets of plywood to roof.

The last step was to use an 8 ft. Homemade lift for raising plywood onto a roof by yourself duration. There are ways though to accelerate getting all those sheets up to where the nail gun is waiting. Then i pushed it up until it caught on the 7 ft.

A standard sheet of plywood is 4 x8 and weighs anywhere from 25 to 85 pounds depending on the thickness. Make this easy workshop fixture to help lift a full sheet of plywood on your own. I usually buy smaller project boards. When building multilevel structures however comes the task of moving plywood from the ground up to the second floor.

2 4 with a v cut into its end as a push stick to lift the sheet to the eave line where one of the crew members could grab it. Gorilla gripper cool contractor tool glenbrook u duration. To get a sheet to the roof i dropped a sheet into the chute letting it catch on the lower block. Michelle gagnon 33 426 views.

When a blueprint may call for 100 sheets or more of 4 by 8 foot 1 2 inch plywood the job becomes very daunting.