How not to use a Ladder;!....

[tony sayer]

scroll past the forth one slowly;!...

[John]

At least the last one is lashed at the top!!!

John

[Brian G]

A number of optical illusions in there - along with some standard practices for the job.

Take a look a how Fred Dibnah used to erect his ladders to access the chimneys he worked on!

What's the matter with the fourth one?

[Lobster]

Yeah, the guy's clearly very safety-conscious: see how he's wearing eye-protection? ;-)

David

[tony sayer]

Well earthed perhaps;?....

[dom]

And barefoot on his aluminium ladder, with a mains drill !

Some rigging looks chaotic but can be very safe in expert hands. Although not compliant with (UK) legislation, I wouldn't criticise it without knowing exactly how it was rigged, how it was used and what alternatives they had. In poorer countries people make do.

[Mary Fisher]

Is that in Edinburgh or Dundee?

Excellent - saved to show Spouse - thanks.

Mary

[Mark]

The 8th one down ? This one

a suicide bracket in use they were used quite often by builders years ago. I re-pointed the flank walls on my first house off one of them, and it was a

3-storey house.

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[Hugo Nebula]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:38:14 +0000, a particular chimpanzee, tony sayer randomly hit the keyboard and produced:

Oh! How we laugh at the foreigners and their funny ways! A couple of examples that spring to mind:

1) A chap using a 240v drill, standing in about two inches of water in normal trainers, plugged straight into a domestic socket that was still live in a building that had been open to the elements for a couple of years. 2) A plasterer on a mobile platform on a car park ramp at 1:5; the only thing stopping it from rolling away or tipping over was his mate at the bottom holding it back.

This was in Manchester (and as it happens, the people involved are born & bred Brits). Not a week goes by were the only access to a roof or cellar is by ladders not tied off, and that wouldn't be quite long enough if they weren't stood on beer crates, or scaffolding which is more in need of support than the dangerous building it's attached to.

[Andy Burns]

I take it you noticed that both ladders holding the "suicide bracket" are resting on a plank on trestles

[Mary Fisher]

AND the ladders seem to be standing on a trestle table ...

Mary

[geoff]

In message , tony sayer writes

What's the problem ?

He's got the goggles, he just needs a snorkel ...

I think these got posted a couple of years ago

[Lobster]

I saw a substantial and modern-looking one being used by some window fitters recently

David

[the_constructor]

It was extremely hot in the summer of 1976 when I was working rewiring a house in Colchester, Essex, Having pulled all the fuses out of the wylex fuse box, I started on removing all the light fittings and switches up stairs. Dressed in only plymsoles and shorts I got to the bathroom which was situated above the kitchen at the back of the house. Standing on aluminium steps I started to reoved the the ceiling rose. I shook violently for about a minute until my mate ran and switched the fuse box off. It later transpired that the previous owners of the house had had the bathroom light wired upto the cooker unit in the kitchen.

[Mark]

years

Yep safe as houses ;( I like the look of ladders over the porch idea. When I used them I had a 10ft scaffold board across the brackets, it could be a bit bouncy.

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[Andy Hall]

Suicide bracket.... Hmm....

This is sort of like one component of the pivot on a microlite aircraft which is often known as the Jesus bolt.

[tony sayer]

In article , the_constructor scribeth thus

Years ago I used to work at Pye Television Transmitters where we had 3 phase mains and around 15 kV DC supplies to the Klystron amplifiers..

One tech there was lecturing us on it was a good idea to short wires together before we started work on them.

Three times its happened over the years the flash and bang and just the other week when the shed outside PIR light wanted changing along with another, and I thought they were all on the same downstairs light circuit 'course the shed was on a separate supply and fuse box;(

And if the SWMBO wasn't distracting me I might have realised still it was only a small flash .. RCD protected anyway...

[tony sayer]

Having damaged my poor old back very many years ago I'm now very careful when using ladders and with fall risk as I simply don't want it buggered up again!..

It never ceases to amaze that people who use ladders don't think of their own necks more .. after all their the ones who are going to suffer and feel the pain!....

[Brian G]

Ah, but the cable appears to be nowhere near the water and the voltage is probably only around 110 :-)

As I previously said, many of these are optical illusions - and that's probably because of the camera angles.

[Tony Bryer]

aka Ladder Cripples

Modern version here