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    Anyone know how to save a tree?

    in Handyman

    Posted · Edited by Crusty

    Fruit bearing trees need to be 'manicured' that is; trimmed or pruned, so the branches bearing the fruit are balanced, and easy to collect the fruit from once the fruit matures. Most apple trees are manicured in the same fashion.

    Roofing Question

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    Good man on the drinks. I still patch my own but it would kill me today to work like I used to.

    Thanks.. having done a lot of manual labour in the past, you don't forget.

    Roofing Question

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    Good on you, a cooler full of drinks generates a lot of good will. You'd be surprised how few people bother.

    BTW, IKO's (I'm assuming Cambridge) are only about 78lbs per bundle. :icon_wink:

    Shit. Well at 57 years, and unloading 2 skids of them bent over, it felt like 100lbs :icon_redface:

    Roofing Question

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    Had the roof redone .. Used IKO Architectural shingles, they insisted on staying with the metal valleys(galvanized). They removed all old shingles, removed all vents, and replaced them, and installed five new vents as the roof was not vented properly. They put a heavy duty liner in the valley's and completely papered the whole roof, with ice barrier four feet from the eves all around.

    I'm pretty happy with the way it looks and the work they did. The fellow showed up with the truck and container to dump the old roof into the night before, and was by himself. He had all the shingles inside the container, and had to unload them. I helped him by off loading them form the skids in the truck, and carrying them to edge so he could pick them up.

    Fuck me.

    That shit would get you in shape fast. 125 90lb bundles of shingles, all moved bending over.

    Fuck me I'm in bad shape. :icon_neutral:

    I had a cooler filled with Water/OJ/Coke/Ginger Ale/Gatorade for them.

    They seemed to appreciate, and went through most of it as it was hot here, with full sun.

    Roofing Question

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    I have a bugalow and the current roof has aluminum in the valleys of the shingled roof. We are thinking of replacing it pretty soon, and the neighbor says the shingled valleys are just as good as the aluminum ones, and cost less.

    Anyone have personal experience with this issue? :icon_think:

    Aluminum valleys are crap, IMO. You're better off with a cut or woven valley. You can have maybe .032" of aluminum (if you're lucky, .027 or even .019 are more common), or .5" of shingles. Yeah, the aluminum won't wear out, but it will dent, puncture, crease, ect. If I'm on a roof, I'll walk all over a shingled valley, but I definitely avoid walking on aluminum ones. If you must use a metal valley liner, go with galvanized, or better yet, copper.

    Thanks ... I was asking beause we have lots of snow, ice, rain, here. Valleys tend to freeze up with wet snow, then, get icy. I thought the aluminum valleys would provide less chance of that occuring.

    Thanks again for the feed back!

    Roofing Question

    in Handyman

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    I have a bugalow and the current roof has aluminum in the valleys of the shingled roof. We are thinking of replacing it pretty soon, and the neighbor says the shingled valleys are just as good as the aluminum ones, and cost less.

    Anyone have personal experience with this issue? :icon_think:

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