Roofing tools include hand tools, power tools, and a range of specialized hand held or light powered equipment, together with some supplies, for example blades for cutting tools. Equipment includes lifts, cranes, safety products and a range of other items.

Besides normal hammers, saws and such, a range of specialized tools are produced for specific roofing needs.

• Aerosmith Fasteners makes pneumatic hand tools and hardened steel fasteners for attaching to metal and concrete.
• Arrow Fastener makes and distributes powered and cordless staplers, glue guns, riveters.
• The Coil Tamer is a specialized container for coiled metal to prevent spoilage from bending and crimping.
• The Demolition Demonis an air powered shingle and nail remover for roof tearoffs.
• The G-Tape is not exactly a tool, but is a masking tape with standard roofing measurments so tape can be applied to underlayment indicating where shingles should line up, for example.
• Leister USA a division of the Swiis tool maker, makes a range of tools. Of interest to roofers are plastic welding and hot air tools useful in commerical roofing applications, such as sealing adjacent sheets.
• Roofers Choice offers a wide range of hand tools for the specialized needs of roofing contractors. Tools are mainly available on a wholesale basis or to high volume users.
• Roofers Toolbox supplies a wide range of hand tools, as well as equipment and some safety items for specialized roofing needs, especially blades and knives, gloves, clean up tools, measuring devices, hammers. By mail order, also wholesale.
• Shinge Shear measures and cuts shingles for residential roofing applications.
• Sievert Industries, North America manufactures and markets hot air lap welding devices, tools and kits for single ply and modified bitument roofs.
• Strongtie's Quikdrive is a specialised fastener driver for metal roofing to avoid damaging the metal sheets. Strongtie also makes tiedowns, frames and other accessories for metal roofs and metal construction.
• Versa Bender bends metal on the jobsite. Bends counter flashing, saddles, metal roofing panels and other flashing details.
• Wildcat Supply is a low cost producer of tools for professional roofers. Mainly specializing in hand tools, the company still provides some heavier equipment and safety products.

Heavy equipment, mechanical conveyance, and machinery typify the kinds of equipment needed by roofing contractors.

• A & A Melters produces air jacketed rubber melters and hot packers, both dowed and wheeling varieties. Moody, BC
• Box Haul produces, not surprisingly, Box Haul and Box Haul Jr. These are attachements for cranes and lifts allowing roofing material to be loaded in a convenient box for placement on roofs and acting as a sort of dump truck with gate for debris. Made by ALLTech Manufacturing. Site has a useful video.
• Chutes International produces and distributes debris chutes made of nestable plastic tubes of the kind often seen attached to multistory buildings during renovations. Also supplies compactors.
• Cleasby Roofing Products produces air jacketed, towed kettles for melting tar and other flat roofing products.
• Engage Machinery comprehensive line of sheet metal machinery for architectural roofing and metal buildings.
• The Equipter Roof Buggy is a self propelled, towable, heavy duty bin for raising product to roofs and for removing debris from roofs. It features tiltable, adjustable controls and large tires designed to not scar homeowners yards as much as many types of lifts.
• The Hapco specializes in Honda gasoline powered generators, but also sells roofing hot air tools, both handheld and rolling tools for flat roofs.
• The Intech Equipment, Phoenix, AZ offers new and used specialized roofing equipment including kettles, spray kits, foam kits, trucks, lifts, hoists, g4enerators, hot tools, and safety equipment. Also carries a variety of hand tools and has rental options.
• The Liberty Seamless offers machinery to make metal gutters onsite, as well as equipment to make metal panels and gutter and roof accessories. Knoxville, PA
• The MetalForming, Inc. offers sheet metal shaping equipment, including, of special interest to roofers, portable roll-forming equipment for onsite manufacture of metal roofing systems and standing seam steel roofing panels.
• Plastic Welding Technologies produces the LAZR Automatic Hot Air Welder, a rolling membrane sealing device aimed at commercial flat roofers, used for PVC and TPO roofs. Also produces some related hand tools, rollers and hot air tools, plus accessories for these tools.
• Reimann & Georger produces lines of hydraulic lifts, cutting equipment and marine hoists. Of particular interest to roofers are its ladder mounted lifts, smal cranes and small pallette lifting equipment. Buffalo, NY.
• Roofmaster produces kettles, power roof saws and a wide range of products used especially in commercial roofing applications. It also supplies a range of products, material and safety equipment.
• Safety Hoist produces a line of material hoists integrated onto a ladder. Powered by low horsepower engines, these devices are useful for lifting shingles and other supplies to residential roofs.

As one might expect, safety risks are higher in rooftop construction than in an office environment. A wide range of equipment addresses the need to mitigate risks to employee safety.

• Kee Safety produces OSHA compliant rails systems and other roof safety items which do not penetrate the roof membrane. Buffalo, NY.
• Protective Roofing Products produces OSHA compliant safety systems including fall arrest anchoring systems - safety harnesses with ballasts. Ontario, CA.
• Quicksilver Engineering produces the Speed Stand, a warning line stand easily installed by one person on either flat or sloped roofing.

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