I’ve never used a chicken ladder, but I need to work at the ridge of a garage roof with a pitch that I consider un-walkable.
I’m trying to envision how to set up a chicken ladder without actually climbing to the ridge while dragging it up. If I just slide it up, it will catch on the shingles.
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After I started typing this, I found this setup: ridge hooks with wheels.
That seems like the best approach, but I’m not sure that I want to spend about $100 for something that will probably only get used once. I don’t generally work on roofs. This customer asked me to install a cupola. I don’t expect too many more similar opportunities.
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Is $ 25 better?
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=ladder+hooks
Thanks.
Do you use 2 of them as they suggest?
No, unless the pitch is over like a 18/12.
Could you put some heavy cardboard or something like that under the ladder?
I bought these:
http://www.amazon.com/Qual-Craft-2481-Ladder-Hook-Wheel/dp/B0000224MR/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1250176758&sr=8-2
A whole lot less than a hundred bucks. Reasonable quality. I've used them a few times.
Scott.
Oops... didn't notice that Jayzog beat me to it....
Edited 8/13/2009 11:20 am by Scott
Similar to the chicken ladder, we use a henway for access on all our roofs. Never had a problem.
Grecian urns work well too.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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I'll bite: Uh, what's a henway??
As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
about 3 to 4 pounds
I use a aluminum ladder and a standoff bar attached to the top rung and siderails with the U bolts that come with it. Most of the time I can raise the ladder end up without touching the roof til I get to the ridge. Sometimes The ladder is too long so it is too heavy to do this. Then I get it as high as I can,then walk the ladder up the roof on the standoff, one side and then the other.The stand off has mittens on the ends so they don't mar the roof shingles.The standoff sits on the opposite roof.
This is fine for short term work, under 30 minutes at a time. A plank with high L type cleats is more comfortable but harder to move around.
mike
Funny you mention that stand off, I have one for every ladder I own, but I had a problem just yesterday, needed to remove a sash from a tall second story window. By tall, I mean 12' ceil in the first floor and high foundation.I only had my 24" ladder where I really needed a 28' to get OVER the 7' tall window so I could yank the stops.A 24' only made it to the meeting rail and with 16" wide shutters on either side, it wasn't looking like fun trying to reach the head. The standoff would have landed in the louvers ( rotten louvers) and bust them up.So, I sawed the standoff in half and ripped a 1 3/8th x 1 3/8th hunk of SYP and made it 7' long. Stuffed the ends of the stand off on it( it fin inside the sq. alum. tube) and had a REALLY wide standoff. I could straddle the window and shutters and get the sash out.It bowed a little, but I'm maybe 200 lbs with tools on, so it held me just fine. Funky way to work sometimes, cutting up perfectly good tools..LOLSpheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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How tall are these chickens that you need a ladder for?'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb
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I think you may be able to find an aluminum or steel tube that will slide inside of the cut standoff. Syp is probably the best wood for this use because it will bend a lot before it breaks. That is why yellow pine is the only recommended wood for gin poles.
I do the same as you, each ladder has it's own standoff.
mike
I still never have been able to figure out why the chicken crossed the road and now here you are trying to get the chickens to climb up a ladder onto your roof!
Maybe this will help answer why the chicken crossed the road:
Plato: For the greater good.
Captain James T Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
Richard Nixon: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did NOT cross the road.
Jerry Seinfeld: Why does anyone cross a road? I mean, why doesn't anyone ever think to ask, What the heck was this chicken doing walking around all over the place, anyway?
Sigmund Freud: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying insecurity.
Bill Gates: I have just released the new Chicken Office 2000, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, balance your checkbook and eat your neighbour.
Charles Darwin: Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically disposed to cross roads.
Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
Official Chicken Representative: Because he wanted to. Do you not think that maybe chickens have rights too? If you crossed the road no one would question you.
To see her flat mate. No, hang on - that was the toad.
Colonel Sanders: I missed one?
I think you have cleared up the issue of crossing the road for me. But now I want to know why you want them up on the roof!
Well, when he gets them up there he'll have something to crow about.
As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
Maybe he is wanting to use a real one on top of a weather vane!