Originally Posted by
Tom M King
It was a simple 5:12 roof. Only one little gable intersected it as the roof over the entry porch. I always snapped every line. Charles was a great athlete in High School, excelling in every sport. Charles fed me shingles as I nailed them with a 1" crown pneumatic stapler. That was before anyone had seen a roofing tack pneumatic stapler. The only thing that slowed us up was having to stop to reload. He died from lung cancer in middle age because he was a smoker though. This was a new roof on one of my spec houses, so not like we had to tear off an old one. We were both proud of that day, and I never matched it again. The people who bought that house owned six McDonalds in a major city. It was only resold a few years ago.