From: Chris Kantarjiev <cak@dimebank.com>
>Lots of people make these. I have one and like it a lot. The scaffold
>setup works, but I find it really unstable to get up and down on - it
>helps to have a partner hold it steady, and helps to put a 2x8 or something
>across the rungs to stand on (that part's pretty obvious). Once I'm up
>on it, it's reasonably stable - it's just the getting up and down
>that is wobbly.
Forget that tinny stuff. :-) My dad bought the Waku ladder from Germany,
marketed here by Little Giant. Now I guess Little Giant makes their own in
a similar design. Rated for 1000 pounds. The paint shelf is built to stand
on, rated at 600 pounds. Both sides telescope so you can put it up on any
kind of stairway. The bottom legs spread wider than the ladder for
stability. If you need to get higher, you can straighten it out and use it
as an extension ladder. I'm acrophobic as all heck, and this is the only
ladder I trust.
As far as scaffold, I guess you won't get me too far off the ground without
some kind of handrail to grab. For lower work, you can separate the Waku
into two stepladders and run a board between them, but I'm not going high on
such a setup.
Scariest thing I saw was when some guys did the soffit an fascia on my
former house, a 1904 foursquare. The gables on this place are really high.
On one side of the house, this guy puts his car in the neighbor's driveway.
Car has a piece of plywood on the roof rack. He puts an extension ladder on
top of the car. Does he screw on a stop-strip? No. Looked pretty spooky.
But that was just a warm-up. On the other side of the house, they put up
two stepladders and ran a board between them about 7 feet up. Then they put
an extension ladder up on the board. That was all we could take. We left
the property so we didn't have to watch. My palms sweat just thinking about
it. I didn't realize we had hired the Flying Wallendas.
Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
LOON, MAC pethier@isd.net http://www.mnautox.com/
Daughter Amanda has presented us with a second grandchild. Sirena Mae
Stremski arrived on the first day of Spring 2001, weighing 7 pounds 3 ounces.
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