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What do you do when you need

Ozlander | Posted in General Discussion on April 26, 2009 08:46am

What do you do when you need a longer ladder?

You do what you gotta do.

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    BarryE | Apr 26, 2009 09:03pm | #1

    yep

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  2. fingersandtoes | Apr 26, 2009 09:05pm | #2

    I love these hair-raising ladder threads. I hope people post more pictures.

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      Ted W. | Apr 26, 2009 10:35pm | #4

      I know a lot of people here have already seen this one, but here it is for those who haven't.

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      1. fingersandtoes | Apr 26, 2009 11:16pm | #5

        Classics are never old. I'd feel safer shinnying up the pole than using that ladder.

        Here is another:

        http://www.all4humor.com/images/files/Unsafe%20Ladder.jpg

        Edited 4/26/2009 4:30 pm ET by fingersandtoes

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          BarryE | Apr 26, 2009 11:45pm | #6

          She's holding from the top:

           

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          1. Piffin | Apr 27, 2009 02:27am | #9

            not that I haven't done a couple hairy setups myself, but that one makes my nuts want to crawl up behind my ears and hide. 

             

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            BarryE | Apr 27, 2009 02:58am | #10

            yeah I've done some dumb things in my young days....but there is just so many ways something could go wrong in that picture

            Barry E-Remodeler

             

          3. fingersandtoes | Apr 27, 2009 03:40am | #11

            How do you think this guys little fellows feel? Hope the sawhorses at the bottom are Trojans.

            http://www.funnyphotos.net.au/userimages/user756_1169899382.jpg

            Edited 4/26/2009 8:42 pm ET by fingersandtoes

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            BarryE | Apr 27, 2009 03:56am | #12

            How bout these fellas? Hungry maybe?

             

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          5. Piffin | Apr 27, 2009 12:19pm | #13

            It took a while for that photo to load, so I was thinking , "Nothing too terrible there" untill suddenly I saw what was below them! 

             

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            Jeff_Clarke | Apr 27, 2009 03:47pm | #14

            Talk about being up to your a$$ in alligators!

            Jeff

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            Jeff_Clarke | Apr 27, 2009 03:50pm | #15

            Faith in hydraulics (imagine falling on the teeth):

             

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            Darwinism at work:View Image

            And the angle was supposed to be ... what?

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            Not DIY - DYI (Do Yourself In):View Image 

            Edited 4/27/2009 8:54 am ET by Jeff_Clarke

          8. Piffin | Apr 27, 2009 04:06pm | #16

            That last one reminds me of a story I read - I think here at BT.Foggy memory says it was Boss Hog's father, but may well be wrong -Anyways, It seems he had to trim off a limb that was up just a bit higher than his extension ladder would reach, so you put the ladder butt in the bucket of the tractor and got it up high enough to rest on the limb. on the part he would be saving, not the cutting off part.So far so good...But once the chainsaw had freed the good part from the weight of the cutoff, that limb went higher up. He was able to let go the chainsaw, and hold the limb with one hand, and the top ladder rung with another to keep the ladder from toppling, while screaming bloody murder for his wife inside to come start the tractor and lift the bucket higher. Eventually, she came to his rescue. 

             

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  3. Scrapr | Apr 26, 2009 10:32pm | #3

    that guy must be STRONG!

    at least they got hard hats for safety

     

     

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      rjw | Apr 27, 2009 12:12am | #7

      Yeah, hard hats, but I don't think those are steel toed boots<G>

      "Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

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    dedhed6b | Apr 27, 2009 12:12am | #8

    Only if they are OSHA inspectors.

    "Shawdow boxing the appoclipse and wandering the land"
    Wier/Barlow

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