Phil
Thanks for mentioning the "Little Giant" ladder. I've had mine
for over 25 years and it's the best investment in that type of equipment
that I've ever made. I'm a large person that is also a bit acrophobic but
feel secure on the ladder. It's quality (and expensive) but well worth the
price.
I've also used the paint shelf and I've also purchased the 'standoff' that
holds
the ladder away from the gutters by bracing the ladder against the side of
the building with a large and wide adjustable standoff bracket.
I also understand that they build a similar ladder from fiberglass for use
in
the electrical industry.
Steve Hammatt
Mount Vernon WA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
To: "Chris Kantarjiev" <cak@dimebank.com>; <ejrussell@mebtel.net>;
<shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: Adjustable/Folding Ladder
>
> 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/
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