This video is one of the best for raising the roof because it outlines the entire process AND the problems you had and how you worked through them! I love this! Great job! I have subscribed. I can't wait to see how you finish your build! Thank you so much for sharing your process!

This guy is incredibly creative and smart at the same time. I’ve helped somebody do this last year, but we did it the conventional way I really like his way better.

In 1964, some friends and I raised the roof on a 1959 International bus. We braced the roof a little like you did. We found that the center braces didn't quite hit the center of the roofs curve. Our roof swung left at the front and right at the rear. They bracing was strong enough for us to move the roof (by hand) into place. That build was amazing until my gal and I hit the first stop sign as we took it out of the drive. Our frig fell over and everything broke all over the floor. A buddy solved this by drilling a couple of holes and inserting a bolt that had been bent into a hook shape. It grabbed the frig-base rails and then got tightened from underneath. with a new supply of pickles and beer and whatever else she bought, we drove around for 8 years or so. Then we split - turned 30 and settled down, got real jobs - turned into stupid old farts. I am jealous!

This brotha over hur making a double decker bus all by himself this mans must be protected at all costs for the mad max apocalypse 😅😎🙃

As an ironworker and welder, ya did a nice job.

Wow. Just, wow. Such an awesome video. Thank you so much for making this! Once I buy my bus I plan on a roof raise!

Thank you so much. You are so intuitive in checking your work. Very instructuve and informative. I can't wait to see the rest of this project.

Thank you so much for this great video!

Awesome!! Looking forward to what you do next! I definitely want to do a build in the next year or so and looking forward to learning.

I like the threaded rod jacks. And the windows will be at a better height now.

I appreciate the detail of the video, my wife and I are looking at a bus now. I’m fortunate that I’m am a metal fabricator. I like seeing the mistakes and problems so it give me i idea as to what to expect.

thanks for that upclose shot of the roof raise jacks now i know how i can make some other channels just quickly skip by that so thanks. 2 years old now time to see if you have the next video out yet lol

Nice job. This will help me when I raise mine, thanks.

Very cool !!!

This is awesome 👌

This was brilliant.... out of all the roof raising video's, I can't explain why I never even considered this. Just amazing!

Very good

solid work!!! good job

Great job

Can’t wait for more! Raising the roof on a bluebird TC1000 in the coming weeks.

Nice job 👍

Great job. Like the hat channels idea. Saves time further down the road

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nice!!!!!!!

Where did you get those nice hat channels? Does someone sell them or did you have them custom made? Thanks so much for this awesome helpful video!!

great video! Thanks for sharing. you got a sub out of me for this. I look forward to more of your build.

Really love this video! Where did you get your inserts?

Great job! I am trying to find a 31ft-with-nose or 29ft flat nose scchool bus to fit to my drive way. Can you tell the bumper to bumper length and the model of the bus?

Hope you're mechanically inclined because schoolies are so intricate with air brakes and leaks and wear and tear! Hope you watch Bussy McBusface (Mike) vidoes, he has a 40 ft schoolie and is always doing mechanical work!

What's the significance of the chime that sounds during your time lapse music sequences?

I love this! 😍 I want to raise my roof as well but having a hard time finding insurance that will allow that. What insurance do you use for your Skoolie?

Will there be more windows at the level of the raise? Very interesting 👍😎

Can you list the parts used to make those tiny jacks?

Great video. I am about to do my under the window roof raise on my 2000 Bluebird 40ft RE, and this video was very helpful for me to figure out all my cuts. I have one (probably many) question. What gauge sheet metal did you use for the skin of the bus. I am trying to figure out the best and most cost effective metal for the skin. I have heard 18g cold rolled, but have also heard 20g might work. What did you use? Thanks.

can I also raise the roof on a rear engine and raise it at the windows

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So, I’m wondering about the channel that you added. Where did you get that? I’ve seen most people just use square tubing, but that looked really simple. We are considering an under window roof raise too, and we are trying to make figure out some of the details.

How much weight was added to the bus by just added material to raise the roof?

So if I buy two buses to be able to do this, how much would you charge to come to Texas and do this for me?

one thing i might had done different was to remove the rubrail and make the cut so that the rubrail covers over the seam of the new sheetmetal when you reinstall the rubchannel (the bottom row of holes could be reused but need to be drilled intoo the new metal , sandwishing the new metal in between the old metal and the rubrail ) if you can find another schoolbus bus in a breakers yard you could take off another set of rubrails and use that to cover the top seam in the sheetmetal the same way making it look even more like it came out the factory that way allways supprized that people raise those roofs by so mush , im too tall to stand up straight in a schoolbus and would only raise the roof by a few inches to be able to walk uright even with a new wood ceiling the extra heigh just makes it harder to store the bus inside somewhere sumting else i was thinking about was if there would be a way to replace the stock windows and their frames with dual pane windows from a normal home , i think it would be possible if you gleu them in with the same stuff they use to glue in car windows , think on a big schoolbus the windowframes are held in place with a strip of metal screwed over the frame holding the original windows in and could be remounted as extra security sumting i saw done on another schoolbus was removing the front entrance and stairwell (they used the stairwell space to mount a generator ) so there was a flat footwell and a spot for the passenger to sit next to the driver , they made the rv style door and new stairwell along the middle of the bus in between the wheels

Shouldn't you have staggered the cuts in the vertical ribs to give the raise a stronger structural integrity?

I’m curious.. would you be able to use the sheets of metal that you took off from the ceiling of the interior of the bus to fill the exterior of the bus 🤔

Where did you buy your widow deletes from if you don’t mind sharing

Do you help do skoolie builds?

Also what was the height of the bus after when you were done ?

did you make a 2nd floor?

Just curious, what is the reason for raising the roof, isnt there plenty of head room in the bus. seems like alot of extra work. you are doing a dam good job.

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Looks good but that’s a lot of windows it would be cool to cover that space with metal

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i feel like you did this the hard way

Most of the roof raises make the filler structure out of square tube and angle iron. Which would add much needed structure to your now really high sided bus... those pieces you used will add nothing to the structure as you are finding out and its not yet welded... im afraid that this bus will have a skinny waist line or a large one depending on how the sides bust under the weight of added weight of the skin.

Why ?

Every time you put your fingers between cut metal i cringe ... eeekkk

While this looks good, one must realize that a school bus is ALREADY VERY TOP HEAVY, which means they tip over more easily. Add in cabinets and rooftop a/c, and you are in elevated danger of tipping over in sharp turns or doing evasive manuevers. This roof raise where you keep the very heavy window glass is even worse. I'm all for custom/diy work, but be very well aware that you are seriously compromising safety by doing this. If you want more headroom, don't use a school bus! A box truck or motorhome uses lighter weight roofs, aka aluminun, fiberlgass.

is the roof heavy? how.did you jack it up?

what is the highest the roof can be...12.5 feet 13 feet?