Artillery Tools

03/09/2018

The last tear off I did on the fire house was the siding. It was composition asphalt roofing that had been nailed horizontally with three different kinds of nails. I stared out with my official siding Bar and then I tried my Ultra Light Mini Bar. T he Ultra Light Mini Bar worked better because the blade was only 13/4 inches wide. It was small enough to get in between the rows of nails. It was a little lighter than the Siding Bar and the shorted prying motion was enough to do the trick. I could pry down from the top of the row of nails and then pry up from the bottom of the nails, As long as I stayed under the layer of tar paper it would pretty much take out the sorter wide headed nail. Once the siding was off around the other nails my trusty 17 inch Buried Nail Bar made short work of them. There were a lot of nails to pull so I really appreciated the comfortable grip on the handle.

01/02/2018

The most time spent on demolition at the fire house was removing everything off of the walls and ceilings. This house had two layers of material everywhere. There were three different combinations, chipboard with Sheetrock on top, chipboard with paneling on top and chipboard with chipboard on top. The bar combination I used that worked on all the layers a special bar that I made up and tested on lathe

12/18/2017

My friends fire house had two other floors that needed to be torn out. The laundry room was about 6' x 14'. It had sheet vinyl on top of 3/4 inch particle board that was nailed down. The second floor that I tore out was an 8' x 8' front door entry. It was 12 inch tile on top of screwed down Hardy Plank Backer Board. I used my Ultimate Flooring Bar on both floors and had two very different results. The 3/4 in particle board, came up real easy in some nice big chunks. I did need the 48 inches of leverage and all of the 5 3/4 inches of prying motion that the Ultimate Flooring Bar offered. Once I was able to get access underneath the particle board, it only took about 20 minutes. The tiled entry was a different story. The tile came off the backer board pretty easy and in fairly big chunks. The screws in the backer board held it down tight and it fought me all the way. The backer board came up in little pieces having to sheer the backer board around the screws. All the screws stayed in the floor so they made it hard for the salvage blade to get a hold of the next chunk of backer board. I solved most of the screw problem with my Buried Nail Head and my 25 inch Fiberglass Handle. I easily pulled all of the visible screws as I went along. It still about 1 1/2 hours and my body had taken a pounding. All three that I tore out on the fire house were very different in composition and removal tactics. I thoroughly believe that the more tool options you have the easier the tear out will go.

12/12/2017

My friend needed to replace half of his roof after the fire so I helped him tear the roof off. There were two layers of composition asphalt on it. The pitch was an 8-12 so it was to steep stand up much. Most of the time we sat on the uphill side and worked our way down letting gravity help us as much as it could. I used my Standard Fulcrum with my 8" Roofing Blade and I put on my Fulcrum Extensions with my Left Toe Kick. For the handle I used the 12" Extension and the 25" Fiberglass Handle, so it would be lighter. This bar combination worked really well. The V-grooves in the 8" Blade caught or popped most of the nails out with the roofing. The few that were left were easily grabbed with one of the V-grooves now that they were visible. The prying motion lifted the layers up well . The Left Toe Kick let me push the bar with my foot to get even more material shoved down the roof. The 46" bar length provided plenty of leverage and the weight was good with the fiberglass handle. Tearing the roof off was the easier part moving the 2000 lbs of roofing material out was the real work out.

12/05/2017

Recently I have been helping a friend gut a house that had a big kitchen fire. I do not get to use my tools in the field much so I wanted to write about some of my new demo experiences. The kitchen and dinning room floors had 4 layers of flooring to remove. The top layer was a sheet vinyl. The second layer was a brittle 12" square linoleum tile. The third layer was Masonite, nailed down to cover up the original vinyl floor. The original vinyl was really glued down, directly to the sub floor and in the high traffic areas it was really compressed on there. The Ultimate Flooring Bar worked really well in taking off most of the 4 layers at the same time. The prying motion was a big help to pop it off of all the nails that were used to hold down the Masonite. To get the last layer off in the high traffic areas I used the 1 3/4 " Blade and had to scrape it.The smaller blade worked better getting in between the nail pattern and I had to move around to find the best access to the full edges of the linoleum. This floor removal was a lot of work with plenty of jarring on the hands, shoulders and back.

After all the layers were removed the nail heads were just sticking up enough so I could grab them and pull them out of the sub floor with the Buried Nail Head and the 25" Fiberglass Handle. With a little kick with my boot to get on the nail head, they came out easily.

11/26/2015

http://www.randrmagonline.com/articles/86654-three-innovations-revolutionizing-roofing-restoration

Roofing is admittedly sort of the odd-man-out of the restoration industry. Some companies offer it; others do not.

03/11/2014

Check out some of Artillery Tool's great demolition tools. Then come check out the rest of the catalog at http://artillerytools.com

12/02/2013

Check out our restoration sets!

12/02/2013

Check out our Homeowners Demolition et

09/23/2013

We are excited to announce that September 20th marked out 10 year anniversary!

08/02/2013

Trade Show Update:
Our debut at the Crawford Contractor Connections in Texas went really well! A lot of new restoration companies got to see the Artillery Pry Bar System for the for the first time. We picked up several more brand name franchises and many more independent restoration companies.
Another first for this year was the PuroClean Convention in Hollywood, Florida. PuroClean is a small group of franchises, they saw the value in our system and took the opportunity to get their orders in at the show. Now 12% of their franchises have the Artillery Pry Bar System. It was our smallest show so far but it turned out to be our best show ever!

03/06/2013

2013 Artillery Tools National Restoration Tradeshow Schedule
Artillery Tools will be going to three big disaster restoration shows this year. The first one will be The Experience Show in Clearwater Beach, Florida on April 18th-20th. This will be the first time we are at this show. The second show will be the Crawford Contractor Connection in San Antonio, Texas on may 21st-22nd and is the biggest restoration show and our first time exhibiting. The third one will be The Experience Show in Las Vegas on September 4th-6th. We are looking forward to having a good year helping the disaster restoration industry be more productive with their demolition.