Posted 4 years ago
ccloveybird
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I was originally trying to figure out what this is for a giveaway. After a few hours of researching and trying to figure it out, I'm now just genuinely curious and frustrated I can't seem to find an answer!
I'm also super excited I found this site because I am back home with my grandmother and helping her organize and get rid of around the house. She use to antique a TON so I'm sure we will have many questions on her items in the near future!
Thanks in advance=)
Looks like a picture off the web. Anyway it is used to remove slate shingles from a roof. We called them rippers. Very common tool even today
Agree 100% w/fhrjr2. Roofers who deal with slate roofing in particular (even standard typical shingles sometimes I think) use them if one needs to remove one or a few individual shingles/tiles from somewhere on a roof to fix a leak, *without* otherwise taking them *all* off and starting over from $cratch. With slate roof tiles (probably also the roundish 'red tile' ones more common in southern USA (+) states, think of the Alamo or somesuch) roofers can use tools like this to squeeze underneath the tiles and cut the nails that hold them down, hopefully without actually destroying the tile itself, so it can then be removed/reinstalled after whatever repair etc. is accomplished.
I think you carried it in your back pocket in case your paints sage in the back and you just hold this over your shoulder hook your belt and pull them up ...tada !!!! or for slate removal or as fault ...even clapboards ..if you have a mind to ...Ta Da no real man should be with out one ....I got 3 ..
Welcome to CW ccloveybird, only because I like to see how tools are used, here's the best YouTube video that I could find for a Shingle Ripper Tool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weNN9R4Sx9g
Thanks for posting, now we all know! :^)
Here is a new one that is sold at Home Depot.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Dasco-Pro-24-in-Shingle-Ripper-640/202519559
would make a great shiftier stick ... cut off the pointed end and weld it to the cut off shiftier stick below the boot ...hows that for an Idea...ya baby.....lol
Crazy actually that wouldn't work at all well because these are quite flexible and shifting wouldn't be easy. They have to be flexible or you can't maneuver them up under slate shingles.
Crazy No they are NOT recommended for relief of hemorrhoid itch either.
fhrjr2, there not that flexible like I said some are thicker then the new ones ...and you could tack a piece of flat stock to it if its not stout enough.... as far as hemorrhoid relief ...so you tried it huh ...lol , can tell your from NH ...smiling ..stay safe young fella ..