I'm shopping for a ladder so I can get some jobs done on my house without always borrowing my FIL's extension set.
Whilst looking at 5-6m jobbies on a ladder-selling website I saw that they do triple-extension ladders up to 15-16m. 50 feet! What sort of job requires a 50 foot ladder in this age of easily-erected scaffold and cherry pickers? How forgiving is a 50 foot ladder vs a 15 foot ladder in terms of of the angles and what it bears on at both ends?
(Fred Dibnah used to climb much higher on old ladders lashed together but the last time I saw proper steeple jack ladders was probably 20+ years ago, all seems to be scaffold now.)
Whilst looking at 5-6m jobbies on a ladder-selling website I saw that they do triple-extension ladders up to 15-16m. 50 feet! What sort of job requires a 50 foot ladder in this age of easily-erected scaffold and cherry pickers? How forgiving is a 50 foot ladder vs a 15 foot ladder in terms of of the angles and what it bears on at both ends?
(Fred Dibnah used to climb much higher on old ladders lashed together but the last time I saw proper steeple jack ladders was probably 20+ years ago, all seems to be scaffold now.)