Hi All,
After many years of installing on steep roofs (most New England
roofs are 10/12 or 12/12 pitch) with various approaches including
harnesses, pulleys, lifts, Lulls, staging, etc., we finally realized
that it is so much easier on residential installs to just erect
scaffolding for all our jobs.
By installing regular construction scaffolding on the South Side we
accomplish many things:
1) With rails it meets Osha fall protection requirements
2) We attach a rope and pulley to the scaffolding to lift modules.
Super easy and safe.
3) Our electrician and construction supervisor love it for going up
and doing final connections, check polarity etc.
4) Even with the extra 2.5 hour set up and another 2.5 hour
breakdown time and the $200/month rental we figure we save alot of
money on each job. It makes everything on the roof go much smoother
- it prevents roof crew burnout and it's much safer. You can do
rail assembly and other pre-roof assembly on the scaffolding. Tool
boxes are brought up for the duration of the job and you save a lot
of up and down trips. If you set it up close enough - anything
dropped lands on the scaffolding. etc. etc. All around it works very
nicely.
For larger commercial jobs or flat roofs - there's nothing like a
LULL. We rent them for around $1200 for 2-3 days.
Hope that helps!
Best,
Jeff C.
Check out: http://www.tranzsporter.com/lh400.html
I've used one of these for about two years now - I think it cost about
$1,400 for the electric motor version 28' tall, 200 lb. capacity. Once
you've done it a few times it takes about 15 minutes to assemble on site.
Kirk Herander
Vermont Solar Engineering
802.863.1202
NABCEP(tm) Certified Solar Installer
NYSERDA-eligible Installer
VT Solar Incentive Program Partner
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[mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Geoff
Greenfield
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 4:07 PM
To: 'RE Marketing for home scale RE industry'; 'RE-wrenches'
Subject: [RE-wrenches] solar roof lift experience?
Hey gang- anyone have any success (or horror) stories with regard to
panel lifting equipment? I have considered a home-brew cart on a ladder,
looked at some products made for comp shingles, and saw some
fancy-schmancy European stuff at the shows. Just today I was hit with a
marketing email from this company:
Check us out at: <http://www.boeckeramericas.com/> BoeckerUSA.com
Anyone been down this road?
For a brighter energy future,
Geoff Greenfield
President
Third Sun Solar & Wind Power Ltd.
340 West State street, Unit 25
Athens, Ohio 45701
(740) 597-3111 fax: (740)597-1548
www.third-sun.com
Clean Energy - Expertly Installed
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