So much time saved over going up and down ladders, plus a huge safety factor. Brilliant.

No ladders were harmed in the making of this video.

I saw you were getting close to 1000 subscribers so I thought I would help you out. I really liked how much easier it is to build a roof a couple of feet off the ground. I fell 20 feet off my roof that I was building on my cabin and broke my pelvis in two. I'm lucky to still be here and able to walk. I like your way much better.

I like to build my basements up on the ground then lower them into a hole.

WOW! Building from the top down. Would not have thought of that even if given 60 years to come up with it.

That was pretty cool, never seen a roof built this way.

Saw my grandfather do that with a neighbor and TRUCK jacks......they were ahead of their time I guess.....nice job!

So why didn't I think of this? I'm not a carpenter but can frame with the best of them. This is an excellent idea! Thanks!

Brilliant. Building a roof on ground level is safer and more efficient. With the right equipment, jacking it up is EZ.

I used to build silos this way. We'd build the floor, put the bottom lip on, attach the Jack's, build the top ring, build the roof, then jack it up. Attach another ring, drop it, lower the Jack's, attach it, raise it up, build another ring, and so on. Real easy till the wind blew and made our Jack's twist.

Absolutely Brilliant. That’s what you call “lateral thinking” After a couple of jobs the cost of he hydraulic jacks will pay for `themselves.

WoW that’s really smart. Faster and A Lot Safer.

...and to think I used to joke about building the roof first, back when I built my new garage!

Good evening from St John Parish, Louisiana 17 Jan 21.

Prefab Transport, back in the 1980's, used to use a hydraulic system for the lifting and lowering of transportable houses, which was similar to this system. The benefit was that the building could be lifted evenly, and not placed on an angle, by one person. With the screw jacks, the number of people required would depend on how many beams were under the house. You would then run side to side, either using hand crank winders, or electric winders run from starter motors. It would be 50 revolutions at a time, or, 6 inches, depending on what you were using. The system could also be adapted for use for lifting weighbridges from their pits.

0:05 This just makes me want to record this and store it, maybe put it on TikTok or something.

Very cool system. I will keep this in mind when I build my own shop.

That's working smart, not hard. Good job everyone, you've shown us all an easier way.

Now that’s what you call using your head, that’s a smart way to do that can I like how they build green beans wondering at a time and lift them up

Holy cow we’ve been doing it wrong this whole time!

After you get the bill for them LVL's you'll say what was I thinking. Renting scaffolding makes more sense than hiring for the lift.

That was really cool to watch very clever .

Those 4 jacks cost more than a Werner ladder and a safety harness

I have had a variation of this idea for years in my head, I have built all the houses I've lived in basically by myself but have always wanted to take a small one story rambler renovate it by using a crane to lift the roof off and put on ground reshingle/ fix roof on ground while completing the second floor framing with pre-built wall sections lifted on top of first floor by the same crane and finishing by placing roof back on top of new second floor, I figure you could do this all in one day with a large crew.

what a great idea. thanks for sharing this method with the world on the INTERNET.

That is amazing. What a great way to construct. 👍

"I fell off the roof. " "So ? What's your problem?"

They had a great chicken shed for a while there.

I showed this to an Amish guy and his horse kicked me in the face

Great idea, wonderful video.

Brilliant. No renting a left to get trusses up or put all the roofing up there. Just work off a stepladder - no falls and a lot faster.

Jacks are the star of the show

Safer, I suspect better because fewer shortcuts taken in that the work is performed at grade level near to those supplies, tools and cuts are made closer to the location.. No need narrative

That was really fast! Looked like the video might have been sped up a bit though.

I'd much rather build and haul materials for a roof from that height, now I just need four fork lifts... Cool video, I'll check out those jacks

Awesome I have never seen that done before .

I like it. Want some more of it👍👍 I hope there's other videos showing and telling more about the system Thank you

Ok that was truly neat!

Back in the day, we had to call in a crane at $1000 a day to lift up the roof.

I did this wrong for 17 years.

Wow that's a really cool idea. Beauty of that is you get the roof up before everything else so you are protected from rain etc while building the rest. Good if doing it solo as it could take years to build between workdays etc. Those jack things look rather specialized and are probably hard to find though, wonder what would be a more conventional way of lifting it.

I believe they build grain bins in much the same manor. Only a matter of time before someone applied that to carpentry. 👍👍

Wow! That's a very fresh and new idea.

This is beautiful.

It might seem unnecessary to build it this way, but if you look at the rates of debilitating injury and death statistics from a one-story fall, then you might think this is a good idea. And we're not even talking about hospital bills, lost wages, and suffering

That was a very good idea.

Damn that's slick!

brilliant video also a great way to build, on the lifting is it air driven or hydraulic, or air over oil, whatever it is its great

Wow ingenuity at work...

Sweet idea. Obviously it's easier to build at ground level so we're talking the cost difference between building this, then jacking it up, versus hiring a crane for an afternoon to lift prefab truss sections the conventional way. Either way it's the added (or saved) $$ that will make the decision.

For one person building a structure, this is the way to go. From safety, organization, possibly even cost.

Pretty darn cool !!

very innovative , great idea and much safer for the workers

Brilliant, built from the top down.

Gracias felicitaciones y siempre adelante

that was ... AWSOME!

brilliant idea

That was really cool!

Hey neil thanks for the download. First-ever copyright comment I have seen on KZfaq... Not even SpaceEx make those comments...

More impressive would be if you raised it with levers and put blocks in to support it higher and higher, save the cost of the jacks.

very cool ! smart thinking!

This is brilliant!!!!!

I like that, makes it so much safer/easier to build the roof

nice for little things. wonder how this goes with bigger house/building. more complex espicially.

That was pretty dam good

That was insightful .

I did this with an entire house in 2010. Built it on the ground in 2005, finished it competely in place, then hired a guy who moved it and lifted it 14' in the air so I could use it as a second floor. I then put a ground floor under it. Took me 6 days to build the wall under the house, so it could be lowered in place, and 10 years later the lower floor is still not 100% done. Everyone asks me "how did you get up there to do that roof? Ha ha. It was not "up there" when I did the roof.

Out of a 2 minute video, the actual lifting process was about a second, so roughly 1/120th of the time. If you extrapolate that over 3 days (which is what it appears to have taken), and 8 hours of work in those days, that's about 12 minutes. Given the video speedup isn't exact, and the fact that I don't know exactly how many hours it took, let's just say less than an hour; probably less than 30 minutes. Pretty good and much safer way to do it if you have access to these lifts and they (or the service) don't cost a fortune. When I clicked on this I was expecting them to stair step this thing up and that would have been brutal to watch -- torture to actually have to do.

pretty cool!

I don't know about cost, but I do know that was slick and potentially a game changer. PS Yes I have stick built houses and garages. Tall walls can be a pain unless you have a crane or lift on site.

Excellent.

Wow! Very cool

Works great if your building a simple garage type building. A 4 wheel drive forklift is better,, will lift the materials, bring them to you, unload truck,,, lift heavy beams into awkward position, and on and on. I onced used it to jack up a second story roof wall that had waves in it..wish they had KZfaq back then. Besides when trusses are delivered they bring a crane to lift to 1st floor.

Can I use those! Haha Have to lift existing garage to run three course of block under bottom plates. Want to make 8’ door height 10’. At least I have an idea of how to do it now. Thanks

Awesome👍👍

That was awesome...

Whaaaattttt ? Awesome. First time I see this.

That is brilliant!

like , those jacks do mucho work!

Good idea, could be a practical application....seems like a crane and 2 steel beams could as well accomplish this with about the same cost and not have any risk for all that surface area pushing your set up over under wind possibly...this had to be like jello without any diagonal bracing as it was going up in terms of stability/racking.

Very cool!

Thats all great if you have those expensive jacks laying around lol.

I use to chop wood so fast that the chips flying over head kept me in the shade most of the time. Hmm how can I get the chips up there without the chopping? That way I won't have to chop as fast.

That was pretty cool

How much did the jack's rental or purchase cost?

It may be slow going but if you can jack a travel trailer up to change a tire..you could jack a corner at a time and build up under until you get it high..in a safe way of course..it's got me thinking..

Pretty cool

Excellent

That is badass.

Who else was waiting for them to slide it onto the building next to it... .

와 진짜 갑자기 쑥 지붕이 올라가는군요 크래인으로 들어올릴줄 알았는데 참 기발한생각입니다

GOOD JOB!

What advantage does this have over normal construction methods?

Fantastic

Very cool 👍👍👍. ✌️😎👌

Very clever but I remember back in 1987 April 23rd Bridgeport Connecticut, they tried that. It didn't go well at all.

Very Cool

Awesome, that's all i can say awesome....

If you put it on youtube, you just gave away your right to fuss about anyone copying. You agreed to it when you accepted youtube access.

i'am storing a copy of this video in my trash can.