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Tying the ladder up
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Newboy
@cuboid
The following comments are meant as constructive criticism with the hope that they stop you before you do yourself some damage.
You have repeatedly asked questions about ladders & towers in a couple of the forums on this site, you've been given good advice from posters who have experience of working at heights but you seem intent on ignoring them.
You seem to have very little understanding of how to work safely at height - this last set of photos look like an accident waiting to happen.
1) Tower assembly is incorrect and would fail any site inspection as it's potentially dangerous to you and people on the ground.
2) The use of a ladder propped against a tower is a fundamental no-no.
3) Your tie-in's are neither use nor ornament.
4) One of the ladders you are using has seen better days
5) You ladder angle looks wrong (not withstanding it's against a tower)
6) Resting a ladder on a gutter is a no-no.
7) I dread to think how you plan to transition from the ladder to the tower platform.
Please take some time to assess if you really understand what you are doing and how you could do it better - a number of courses have already been suggested.
If you're really lucky, when you fall from height you break something and recover, if you're unlucky, you don't.
The following comments are meant as constructive criticism with the hope that they stop you before you do yourself some damage.
You have repeatedly asked questions about ladders & towers in a couple of the forums on this site, you've been given good advice from posters who have experience of working at heights but you seem intent on ignoring them.
You seem to have very little understanding of how to work safely at height - this last set of photos look like an accident waiting to happen.
1) Tower assembly is incorrect and would fail any site inspection as it's potentially dangerous to you and people on the ground.
2) The use of a ladder propped against a tower is a fundamental no-no.
3) Your tie-in's are neither use nor ornament.
4) One of the ladders you are using has seen better days
5) You ladder angle looks wrong (not withstanding it's against a tower)
6) Resting a ladder on a gutter is a no-no.
7) I dread to think how you plan to transition from the ladder to the tower platform.
Please take some time to assess if you really understand what you are doing and how you could do it better - a number of courses have already been suggested.
If you're really lucky, when you fall from height you break something and recover, if you're unlucky, you don't.
Eh?
What do you do, hover?
You just go up with a chunk of 100mm x 50mm timber and wedge it in the gutter.
You're the builder.
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Think the tie not being good was established awhile ago, a constructive comment would be how to do it. Thxs for pointing out ladder against Tower mistake as others have, won't be doing that again
. What's wrong with other ladder? A bit of paint doesn't make a trade Titan Classic ladder a bad ladder. It's a great ladder.
So how would you put a ladder against a gutter then when getting on a roof?
Thxs though. The tower assembly was partly my mate's fault he said he knew how to do it. He also said he did a roofing course and didn't know about flipping the ladder over at the top lol
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Brigade77
This might seem strange but you really cannot make this sort of stuff up.
Dork used to be a senior management type person in probably the bestest ever ladder, tower, access etc companies that ever existed, WC Youngman. Still going but only a fraction of what it was when I was there.
Ermmm, that might be because Dork helped write most of those BS standards that basically killed the industry, didn't do my career much good either.
Leaning a ladder against a H frame scaffold tower is so wrong on so many different levels that Dork doesn't know where to start. Let's just leave it to Darwin to sort shall we
Dork used to be a senior management type person in probably the bestest ever ladder, tower, access etc companies that ever existed, WC Youngman. Still going but only a fraction of what it was when I was there.
Ermmm, that might be because Dork helped write most of those BS standards that basically killed the industry, didn't do my career much good either.
Leaning a ladder against a H frame scaffold tower is so wrong on so many different levels that Dork doesn't know where to start. Let's just leave it to Darwin to sort shall we
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Newboy
If you had taken earlier advice then you wouldn't have done this in the first place
Well either learn to tie knots or better still use ratchet straps.
One of the few rungs visible looks damaged.
Standoff and tied in at the top.
As I said before, you have repeatedly asked questions about ladders & towers in a couple of the forums on this site, you've been given good advice from posters who have experience of working at heights but you seem intent on ignoring them. There are better ways to learn (and we all have to learn) but learning by making basic mistakes which put you (and others nearby) at personal risk isn't a good plan.
And pray no-one falls, otherwise you (as the employer) are fooked.
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Newboy
with a standoff?So you do put it against the gutter.
Obvs. And tied if you fancy it.
Bit silly to say this really.
I wonder what Brigs alternative is.....?
Use a stand off.
To, "stand off".
To quote Dame Judith Hackett (former head of HSE; head of Grenfell inquiry):
"I have come to the conclusion that there are no new accidents, only new people having the same old accidents".
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Standoff and tied in at the top.
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I have this standoff - the microlite. Lots of window cleaners put it on the roof when cleaning the gutters. They don't tie it in though. Do u tie it in to roof baton? Any photos of your ladder with standoff tied in would be appreciated for purpose of roof accessView attachment 151170
Standoff and tied in at the top.
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I have this standoff - the microlite. Lots of window cleaners put it on the roof when cleaning the gutters. They don't tie it in though. Do u tie it in to roof baton? Any photos of your ladder with standoff tied in would be appreciated for purpose of roof accessView attachment 151170
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