Ridge tile - Old mortar won't budge

[foxhole]

Apart from the bucket, the ridge tile, any roof tiles, the hand tools the power tools.

The trick is to have only what you need when you need it and to take up as little as possible. We go up with a brick hammer in an empty bucket and a bolster chisel in one pocket and plugging chisel in the other. We remove say two ridge tiles. Pass one behind you and sit it on the ridge. Pass the other to the compo mixer. You clean the gear off the roof and put it in the bucket. He comes back up with the ridge inverted and full of gear. You lay that end ridge and point it and shuffle backward and pass him the ridge behind to fill with gear whilst you remove another ridge and fill the remaining space in the bucket with old mortar.

And so on.

Taking all manner of power tools up there becomes a chore.

Don’t need many tools just for ridge.
I made a small platform to straddle ridge for tools and bucket(stuck carpet to legs so it slides along) or you can use a ridge bucket .

 

[Si_]

I've just been up there for several hours using a multitool with mortar blade attachment. Easy on stubborn mortar and as for the garbage that last roofer used, it goes through it like butter.