How To Lift 4x8 Sheets Of Plywood To Roof

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.

How to lift 4x8 sheets of plywood to roof.

I usually buy smaller project boards. A standard sheet of plywood is 4 x8 and weighs anywhere from 25 to 85 pounds depending on the thickness. The last step was to use an 8 ft. Make this easy workshop fixture to help lift a full sheet of plywood on your own.

This video was uploaded from an android phone. When a blueprint may call for 100 sheets or more of 4 by 8 foot 1 2 inch plywood the job becomes very daunting. When building multilevel structures however comes the task of moving plywood from the ground up to the second floor. To get a sheet to the roof i dropped a sheet into the chute letting it catch on the lower block.

There are ways though to accelerate getting all those sheets up to where the nail gun is waiting. Michelle gagnon 33 426 views. Subscribe dave stanton shows you how to do it in an easy informativ. Homemade lift for raising plywood onto a roof by yourself duration.

Then i pushed it up until it caught on the 7 ft.