Roofers working during snowstorm - GIF

[Altair]

Roofers working during snowstorm.




Previously:

Snowblowers clearing a mountain road in Norway - GIF
Power brush for snow removal - video
Using rope to remove snow from roof - GIF
Shoveling 7-foot columns of snow - GIF
Roof snow removal tools - GIFs

[Frank S]

keep working boys a little snow is not going to kill you. The first one who falls off the roof has to buy the beer.

[odd one]

That job does not pay enough to take those risks or the wear and tear on your body on the best of days....unless you're the El Jefe.

[nova_robotics]

Around here you have to pay worker's compensation rates per hour worked. Your rate is based on your industry and your safety history. Most industries are $2-$5 per hour. Roofer's base rate is over $14. There is a reason for this.

Also, I have no idea how roofing companies make money having to pay the government $14 for every hour worked.

[jdurand]

Around here you have to pay worker's compensation rates per hour worked. Your rate is based on your industry and your safety history. Most industries are $2-$5 per hour. Roofer's base rate is over $14. There is a reason for this.

Also, I have no idea how roofing companies make money having to pay the government $14 for every hour worked.

When you pay cash, there's no hours to report.

[nova_robotics]

When you pay cash, there's no hours to report.

This is true. Most of the roofers I've seen are younger guys just starting out, but some of the older ones look like meth grew legs and picked up a bundle of shingles. They probably wouldn't know what to do with a paycheck if you handed them one.

[mlochala]

Unless the weather is just like that all the time there or it's some kind of urgent need, I can't understand why anyone would do that in that kind of weather. Just isn't worth the safety risks.

Not only that, but wouldn't the moisture trapped behind those shingles be a bad idea as well?

[piper184]

And people wonder why their shingles blew off in the first hard wind of spring. Oh well they probably compensate for the cracking by putting in another staple, if they even notice.
No worries, "that's what insurance is for".
SMH

[Frank S]

Around here you have to pay worker's compensation rates per hour worked. Your rate is based on your industry and your safety history. Most industries are $2-$5 per hour. Roofer's base rate is over $14. There is a reason for this.

Also, I have no idea how roofing companies make money having to pay the government $14 for every hour worked.

You're not supposed to look at it as giving the government money in the form of insurance rates although that is largely where a lot of the monies of the premiums are dispersed, between the government the corporate execs and stockholders. The premiums are supposed to be invested to create large pools of funding to be paid out in the event of accidents. The government's involvement in anything and everything is supposed to be secret in order to perpetuate the wealth of the ruling elite.

[Frank S]

Unless the weather is just like that all the time there or it's some kind of urgent need, I can't understand why anyone would do that in that kind of weather. Just isn't worth the safety risks.

Not only that, but wouldn't the moisture trapped behind those shingles be a bad idea as well?

The workers view not having money to feed their families if they don't work in inclement weather as an option regardless of the risk factor.
Rain would be worse than snow, snow can mostly be brushed away as the shingles are lain. Any remaining moisture left under the shingles would be minimal and eventually would evaporate away or gravity would cause it to coalesce and drain out from under the shingles eventually.