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's good physio for her new knee. I was asked to clear the gutter. And I did.
This gutter needs cleaning
Aug 25, 2012
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I'll be lowering it this afternoon when I get back from the pub.
There is no trick photography.
The garden slopes towards the house. I placed the ladders onto the lawn where the slope stopped and it becomes horizontal. I kicked the feet of the ladders into the grass at that point and climbed them. As Phil L says, the feet of the ladders are a long way from the house, however they are at a point where they are secure. When used at a normal angle the ladders do not wobble like that.
As for the zoom. There was none. However a quick look at my CCTV which covers some of that house shows that Sheila held the camera at arms length and was stood higher up than the feet of the ladders.
I used the same ladders to swap a lamp in a pub car park light. ie this one
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just fastened the ladders side by side onto the roofbars so that they were sticking out from the rear of the van, cable tied some step ladders to the end of the ladders and reversed the van so that the steps were under the light. Job done.
Am 25.08.2012 21:05, schrieb pcb1962: [..]
Well, i did read PeterC' posting this way: "Ladders+heights=scary. So better use the bucket for (you know what) instead of brownig your pants"
Sorry for my bad english. Greetings from the land of Huns and Sauerkraut Matthias
I understood you. And swap "browning your pants" for "s*it your pants"
In message , Matthias Czech writes
Adam the Mistsammeler
Gleich aus Inselaffenland
The patron saint of Germany is St Eingang.
That's why there are so many streets called Eingang Strasse.
whereas in the Cotswolds, there is Chipping Norton , Chipping Camden, Chipping Sodbury and loads of places called Loose Chippings.
And the largest city is Ausfahrt.
Lots of footpaths all leading to Cyfleusterau Cyhoeddus in Wales.
Owain
When people were mentioning bad positioning of the ladder for the guttering, I though "well Adam's used to ladders and certainly knows the consequences of falling off them" but trusting your life (or even just your livelihood) to a couple of ty-raps? Madness ...
Now you mighty laugh , but ...
We has a newbie come to work with us
he got stopped by the polizei
he gave his address as ...
"Weisses Lamm, Einbahnstr., Lauf"
Well, You gotta laff!
d*****ad
(sending address changed for the benefit of our continental cousin)
my welsh is rusty
In message , polygonum writes
Never leave a bus by way of the Notausgang !
No, I think the honour must go to Herr Bahnhof
In many cases yes, since the council cutbacks.
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my welsh is rusty
It's the spray from all those lllllllllllls
Owain
If the tie wraps can hold a set of ladders to the roofbars and stay there when doing 100mph then they are good enough for me.
Apologies for breaking into the conversation, but does anyone have experience of using robots to clean gutters? my gutters are too high to reach with a ladder.
No, but a mate did use an RC helicopter to Roundup-bomb his chimney stack, so as to weed it.
That's a constant load though, not a shock impact.
I bought a bag of big tiewraps from CPC a while back - absolutely useless for this sort of thing. Shout loudly at them and they pop open.
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