Making Wood Roof Shingles

Keep your eyes on the tree as it falls and move quickly out of the way.

Making wood roof shingles.

Once you get halfway through the tree then start at a downward angle above your original cut. Shingles are cut from blocks of wood shake bolts split out of a whole trunk of cedar. Cover the length of the cedar shingle roof peak that the new layers of shingles have made. Cover all of the nail heads with roofing cement.

Take the limbs off and move it to a cleared area where you can make your wood shingles. Cut until the tree starts to lean and fall. In this video we learn how to make wood roof shingles by hand. Lay down a layer of shingles with a second layer over the top until the shingles meet at a single straight peak.

Prep a wood shingle roof for reroofing a synthetic mesh underlayment allows continuous airflow between the roof deck and the shingles. How to make your own shingles. Start off with round oak wood then split it with a splitting axe. Boards that allow air to circulate under the.

As the shingle or the sawn shake use less wood they are financially preferred for large areas such as roofs today. Then use a mallet to split them out further. We found this to be the largest manageable size to work with. Now remove the bark from the wood and split into thin sheets.

Make a template piece that will be used to mark all the others out with. Turning out handmade wooden shingles isn t difficult in itself the hard part is finding the right material. Make sure all shingles on each side are covered. Cut a piece of rolled roofing eight feet long.

If an old roof was once covered with wood shingles or shakes they were likely nailed to skip sheathing which consists of widely spaced 1 in. Pa mac demonstrates how to make wood shingles otherwise known as wood shakes for roofing material to go on his new log chicken house. Of course since only the heartwood has any decay resistance of note and sapwood is more prevalent today with smaller logs most shingles or shakes used for roofing are treated to resist decay and may be fire retardant treated as.