#splitting shakes

History of Roofing Hand Splitting Shakes

Hand-Splitting shakes with a mallet and a froe is one way to make shakes but I bet it would take a long time to make enough shakes to do a roof.

Today I was asked; I am replacing two rows of cedar shake above a flat roof tie - in,  how many lineal feet does a bundle of shakes cover?

So, the subject of todays blog with a history twist. Having installed tens of thousands of squares of cedar shakes…