Trash Talk: This Invention is Anything but Rubbish

By Cass Jacoby. 

The Trash Rocket is perfecting the process of removing debris from the roof to the dumpster. 

Heidi J. Ellsworth visits with Rocket Equipment’s Scott Seaton and Tom Christner in Season 4, Episode 8 of the Roofing Road Trips podcast. The trio talks about how the Trash Rocket was designed by roofers, for roofers to cut down wasted time spent on setting up a trash chute and help make the job faster, more cost-effective, reduce labor needs and increase customer satisfaction. 

The beauty of this product lies in the simplicity of the tool as a trash solution. As best said by inventor Scott Seaton, “It's just an easy way to get the debris out.”  

“It's a game changer,” agrees Tom. “For companies that are looking to improve their process to basically do more with fewer people, this is a good way to do that.” 

These trash chutes are designed to help contractors increase their profit by saving crews setup time, tear-off time and clean up time. “The fact that one guy can pull up and set it up in 10 minutes, just one guy alone is helpful,” says Scott. “It eliminates all that other labor, hanging a chute off the edge of a roof and all the other problems. I mean, we used to spend $3,000 on a job. $1,500 for setting up a chute and then $1,500 taking it off. And that's only if you needed it in one stop. And it would take four guys half a day or better to do it.” 

The Trash Rocket is a trailer-mounted hydraulic boom with a chute on the top of it. The innovation is designed to be put in a parking lot and then telescope up to the edge of the roof over top of grass, sidewalks or landscaping. The result is that roof debris has a straight shot to the dumpster at the bottom, with no damage or mess made near the house.  

You’ll be wondering, “Where has this been all my life?” when you experience the convenience of this  roofing solution to trash. “There's very little wear parts. It's all designed to be maintenance-free, trouble-free because we don't need headaches,” says Scott. “We designed this to do everything that we needed it to do.” 

Learn more about Rocket Equipment in their RoofersCoffeeShop® Directory or visit RocketEquipment.com. 

Listen to the entire podcast to learn more about how this innovation can make clean up at jobsites easier and to learn more about how it can make a difference in your roofing business. 

About Cass  

Cass works as a reporter/writer for RoofersCoffeeShop, AskARoofer and MetalCoffeeShop. When she isn’t writing about roofs, she is putting her Master degree to work writing about movies and dancing with her plants.