I looked at the ladder article in the new issue, but it did not answer one problem that I ran into a couple of weeks ago.
I needed to go up on the roof of the garage at the gabel end. Since the ladder is extending over the edge of the roof it is contacting the sloping roof and I had a hard time “playing” with the ladder until I found a position that was confortable, but it sill was slight askew.
Because of roof overhang standoff’s agains the wall would not do any good.
What a safe way of doing this?
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How about a pair of ladder hooks with wheels that you simply roll up the slope ?
Eric S.
I needed to go up on the roof of the garage at the gabel end. Since the ladder is extending over the edge of the roof it is contacting the sloping roof and I had a hard time "playing" with the ladder until I found a position that was confortable, but it sill was slight askew.
I go up on the gable ends every day. After a few hundred, you won't even have to think about it, you'll get the angle right everytime.
What a safe way of doing this?
Hire someone.
The minute you start thinking you are safe on a roof, or getting on one, or getting off one, is the minute you should reconsider your mortality!
Before you get on the roof, be sure you can safely get off it and back onto the ladder; I find it much easier to get on than to get off.
Unfortunately, the only way to learn what you can comfortably get off of is to scare the bejabbers out of yourself a few times.
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10 .... I have laid the foundation like an expert builder. Now others are building on it. But whoever is building on this foundation must be very careful.
11 For no one can lay any other foundation than the one we already have--Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:10-11
"What a safe way of doing this?
Hire someone.
The minute you start thinking you are safe on a roof, or getting on one, or getting off one, is the minute you should reconsider your mortality!"
Actually I am, that is why I asked.
But I should have used the word SAFER. I clearly realize the dangerous, but trying to eliminate the worst possibilities.
What triggered this was that I just got the ladder standoff and used it on the eves to hold the lader while I cleaned and fixed the supports on the gutter. And I notice how much the stability that the supports added.
But because of some other structure I could not get to the last 6 ft from the side and had to go over.
Then I notice that the support would not do any good and just got in the way and wondered if there was a better way (other than renting a manlift).
Bill, I was trying to add some humor. As you note, it's a matter of "safer."
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10 .... I have laid the foundation like an expert builder. Now others are building on it. But whoever is building on this foundation must be very careful.
11 For no one can lay any other foundation than the one we already have--Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:10-11
Can you say -- ForkLIft. :}
PS. don't forget the climbing harness and fall protection. For OSHA
Edited 7/24/2003 10:50:33 PM ET by fredsmart
Edited 7/24/2003 10:51:07 PM ET by fredsmart
"Can you say -- ForkLIft. :}"
Yes, I think that it is spelled L A D D E R<
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