Roof Work on Church Has Begun

I hired Durable Slate out of New Orleans to renovate my roof.  More than anything I wanted to save the integrity of the interior and this is no small job.  The renvation of the roof is expensive and I still will probably have the roof replaced at some point.  The clay top ridge needed to be re-set due to Issac and Katrina.  Something of note, the large clay ridge caps only sit up on the roof and piggy back each other.  They do not nail or cement in place but because of their heavy weight they will stay.
Anyway, the roofers show up the first day.

When I expect a crew of people over with boom lifts and ladders only 2 guys show up.  2 guys, 2 ladders, no power tools no ropes, just 2 ladders.  When Josh goes up the first time he says "the ladder is too short we have to go back to the shop; we will start tomorrow".  I thought, this will take a long time for sure at this rate. 

So, when a roofer goes up for repairs he brings with him a few tools, nails and hooks.  This is it!  He takes his time pulling apart the old damaged tile and slowly replaces each tile with copper nails and stainless hooks while his assistant cuts each one to size on the ground and then runs up the ladder to give him the finished tile.  Suprizingly they move right along replacing 50+ tiles in the first day. 

By day 2 they have done over 100 tiles and replaced the clay roof caps.  By day 4 and 5 they have done all the tile and all the ridge caps.  It was amazing to see and I was glad I did not tackle this myself.  (I watched a youtube video of it and thought I could do this myself, till I went to the roof edge).  Caulking up a few more spots and we are good to go.