A system for removing shingles on a roof is provided. One embodiment includes a navigational apparatus for traversing the roof and a roof shingle removal apparatus attached to the navigational apparatus for removing the shingles. The improved removal apparatus pries existing shingles from the roof, and then stores the shingles in a debris bin before emptying the shingles in a precise location.

The present invention is a device to remove gravel from a roof. The device is a blade assembly vertically mounted on a riding drive mechanism, such as a tractor, and the blade assembly has a smooth, horizontal blade, such as used for snow plowing, and mounted proximate and parallel to the smooth blade is a serrated blade having an up position and a down position. In the down position, the serrations extend to the roof to loosen and remove gravel. In the up position, the serrations are above the edge of the smooth blade which scrapes the loosened gravel. A downward force is provided to force the serrations between the gravel.

A roofing shovel for prying roofing shingles from a roof comprises a head and a shaft. The head defines opposite first and second end portions, opposite lateral sides, a top surface and an undersurface and comprises prying teeth at the first and second end portions. The shaft defines a top end and a bottom end removably mounted to the head and forms a first angle with a portion of the top surface between the first end portion and the shaft and a second angle with a portion of the top surface between the second end portion and the shaft. A connection assembly is interposed between and contiguous with the shaft bottom end and the head top surface. The shaft bottom end and the head top surface comprise respective mutual connectors for connecting the shaft at, at least, a first and a second position relative to the top surface. In one of the first and second positions the first angle is greater than the second angle, and in the other of the first and second positions the second angle is greater than the first angle.

A pneumatic roofing material removal tool includes a single-acting pneumatic cylinder with a heavy piston for driving a blade under roofing materials and fasteners to detach them from a roof. The blade is connected to a driver having a blade end and an anvil end. Impacts upon the driver are transmitted to the blade, the driver and the blade being in rigidly fixed relationship. The single-acting pneumatic cylinder applies a forceful impact to the anvil end of the driver sufficient to move the driver and the attached blade under the roofing materials, and towards at least one fastener. Also included is a frame that slidably supports the driver and handle assembly, the frame also fixedly supporting the single-acting pneumatic cylinder. The roofing material removal tool increases the speed, ease, and efficiency of removing old roofing materials from a roof, and increases safety, while reducing physical labor and risk of injury.

A demolition device support has an elongated body that includes a base frame, a base frame support member, and an upper support member. The base frame is fixedly attached to the base frame support member, which is pivotably connected to the upper support member by a hinge. A handle extension member is mounted at the upper end of the body, and includes a mount for receiving handlebar. A collar is mounted at the lower end of the body, and is configured to receive a portion of the housing of a demolition device. The demolition device support is used to support a demolition device in an ergonomic and efficient position during use of the demolition device.

A shingle remover includes a fork riser, a pusher, and front and rear crank shafts. The fork riser includes forks separated by fork spacers. The forks are configured to push under shingles and separate them from roof structures. The fork spacers and forks pull out the nails associated with the shingles. Scoops on some of the forks urge pulled shingles away from the shingle remover for disposal. A fork carrier associated with the fork riser secures the forks to a front crank shaft while a cam associated with the front crank shaft periodically urges the forks forward under the shingles. A slot in the fork carrier engages with the rear crank shaft to limit movement of the forks to a substantially horizontal back-and-forth direction. The pusher includes tines that bite into the roof to oppose movement of the shingle remover as the forks push under and remove the shingles.

Example aspects of a roofing removal tool and a method for constructing a roofing removal tool are disclosed. The roofing removal tool can comprise a shaft defining an upper section, a lower section, and an intermediate section therebetween, a base positioned at the lower section, a first handle extending from the upper section in a first direction, and a second handle extending from one of the upper section and the intermediate section in a second direction that is different from the first direction.

A fulcrum prybar includes a shaft portion extending along a first axis, a curved prying portion affixed to a first end of the shaft portion, and a fulcrum portion affixed to the curved prying portion. The fulcrum portion includes two rectangular portions fused together to form an obtuse angle or a right angle cross section. One of the two rectangular portions is oriented such that it is flush with a horizontal surface while the prybar has partially raised an object from the same or another horizontal surface.

A demolition device support has an elongated body that includes a base frame, a base frame support member, and an upper support member. The base frame is fixedly attached to the base frame support member, which is pivotably connected to the upper support member by a hinge. A handle extension member is mounted at the upper end of the body, and includes a mount for receiving handlebar. A collar is mounted at the lower end of the body, and is configured to receive a portion of the housing of a demolition device. The demolition device support is used to support a demolition device in an ergonomic and efficient position during use of the demolition device.

A system for removing shingles on a roof is provided. One embodiment includes a navigational apparatus for traversing the roof and a roof shingle removal apparatus attached to the navigational apparatus for removing the shingles. The improved removal apparatus pries existing shingles from the roof, and then stores the shingles in a debris bin before emptying the shingles in a precise location.