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Removing metal roof sheeting

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the mick

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I've got to put new sheeting on my barn but I want to remove the old first. What do you guys thinks would be the easiest? Hammer and cats paw (crow bar). Or see if I can drive up from underside with a 2x4. All suggestions appreciated.
 
If it is held down with screws then I would get up on top and unscrew the screws with an appropriate driver. If it is held on with ring nails I would crawl under a rock and not come out. Ring nails are dreadful to remove in my experience, but the best way I have found is to cut the top off with a heavy set of end cutters, remove the metal and then break the protruding part of the nail shank off by hitting it with a hammer, or else bend it over and mash it flat.
Zach
 
When you say sheeting, I think your talking about plywood or osb. If that is the case a 2x4 from the bottom will get it loose so you can pull and pry it loose. gobble
 
If your metal roofing is nailed down with 'lead head ' nails or something similar with a gasket below the head, use 2 hammers and drive the claws of one under the gasket with the other and yank it out. Difficulty varies with type of nail/wood its nailed into etc.

Ben
 
i took a couple pole building down, i took the heavy end nippers, welded a coupling nut to one of the handles and screwed a slide hammer into the coupling nut. works good for pulling the ring shank nails out and doesnt tear up the tin.
 
my bad, missed metal roof sheeting in the subject line. We took down a 50x100 for reuse and used blue wonder bars and cats paws to pull ringshank nails. Many times the head would pop off the ringshank, allowing the metal to be pulled off, other times the nail would come. Sometimes they were really tough, but they will come. justmy experience. gobble
 
I used a 4' crowbar or if you happen to have a 5' long or so buggy axle, they work better yet. Start at the end so that when you've pried up to get 1 completely loose the next 1 would be started. This won't work if you're trying to save the roofing for something else. You'll pull the nails thru the holes. You have to go back and pull nails but for me it worked really easy. I was tearing down a building so I could pull the nails out of the rafters on the ground.
 
I highly recommend against driving two hammers together. Long time ago, I had one shatter, and shot a chunk into my hand like a 22 shell. Good thing it wasn't my throat. Nowdays, if I see someone do it, I run!
 
My brother in law lost an eye using two hammers that way. The head of the hammer he was banging on exploded apart and a piece of schrapnel went completely through his eyeball and lodged in the back of the eye socket.
 
I was using a hammer to drive a hammer head onto a new handle, chip came off and went into my shoulder,through a rain coat and 3 shirts, still had to have the doc dig it out
 
Guys that replaced the roofing on my barn used a round point shovel.

They could get the point under the steel, push the handle down against the boards, sheeting popped up.

It was pretty slick.

Fred
 
I have removed a lot of sheet metal with a good pair of nail nippers and a thin wood block. Grab the nail head with the nippers and slide the block under one side of the nippers and roll the handle of the nippers and out come the nails. You can do it quickly and without damaging the sheet metal. The best I have found are Channel Lock brand.
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Doing that on a pair of old vise-grips works good, too. That's how we used to remove ring-shank neo-nails from pole barn metal.
 
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