Proper ladder safety
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tallyho8
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Always make sure the smaller ladders are towards the top...
Wonder why he didn't just flip his big ladder up?
EddieWalker
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Is it held together with duct tape?
Eddie
Eddie
groundcover
Elite Member
You can tell that guy didn't have a loader on his tractor !
Tig
Elite Member
Yes, and always use top quality duct tape.
EddieWalker
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Timber
Veteran Member
Don't get me going on stupid stuff people do on ladders. That stupidity pisses me off because it usually puts Innocent people in danger
pennwalk
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As long as you have duct tape the sky is the limit but hay bale scaffolding.. COME ON! It isn't even scary because it is so ridiculous.
Chris
Chris
Timber
Veteran Member
I worked around staging all through my 20s building ships and working on homes and Churches. I did steeple jack work as well. I built ships for 2 years. We had people fall to the death every month because of stupidity. Guy I worked with fell 7 story's to his death just because he didn't follow procedure. So yea I get pissed over stupid stuff when it comes to rigging ladders & staging. I hope your eyes never see what I have seen
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Rara Avis
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I have...
...but that was in a previous worklife...In one week, for an example of human carnage, we ran on a 13 story jumper, an electricution of a tree trimmer who hooked a 10.6KV powerline, a suicide attempt by jumping onto the tracks of DC Metro Sysytem, multiple accidental shootings, one in the butt, one in the brachial plexus, one in the face with a shotgun(he survived...
)oh and last but not least was the gas poisoning because a woman was cleaning her toilet with the classic mixture of clorox and ammonia...
And that doesn't even include the normal sampling of vehicular collisions, fires, and all other human activities which would require the services of Fire/Rescue...
Some of my straight informational postings have been jumped because they assume I'm some kind of safety policeman...so I have switched to sarcasm...
Timber
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Some of my straight informational postings have been jumped because they assume I'm some kind of safety policeman...so I have switched to sarcasm...
I owned a exterior restoration company for several years & I am a licensed rigger. I too have gotten a lot of crap about being the safety police. I had rigged a complex staging wall 1 day on the side of a mansion. It consisted of 5 upright supports & 3 levels of catwalks. I came back to the job to find 11 men and tools from different trades all over it. I freaked out because it was overloaded by more than double the capacity. Not 1 person could understand why I was so upset. Because of the span there was plenty of room for them to work but there were only 5 upright supports. My license and My rigging my responsibility when it collapsed because of overloading.
