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LeeNetworX
03-23-2011, 08:48 PM
Getting our house painted and when I got home from work today there was a little 125 lb. Mexican at the top of this thing painting.

I'll hand it to these guys - they are willing to do whatever it takes to earn their wage. I think I could maybe make it up half way before not wanting to go any further. Fuck that.
goof2
03-23-2011, 08:57 PM
Unfortunately I've done worse and I absolutely detest heights.
Trip
03-23-2011, 09:01 PM
you've never seen me hang christmas lights
101lifts2
03-23-2011, 09:10 PM
Yeah Mexicans earn their keep.
Captain Morgan
03-23-2011, 09:14 PM
Yeah, I'd climb it. I might get butterflies about halfway up when it really starts to bow, but I'd still climb it. I use to "walk" up ladders with a bucket in each hand.
zlicius
03-23-2011, 10:00 PM
hope his co. has insurance..........

i'd prolly climb up and down it, thats about it.

ed here
Tsunami
03-23-2011, 10:19 PM
I would paint up there, but I wouldn't climb that ladder. I can't stand the way ladders squeak and give under my weight, and I not even heavy!
Homeslice
03-23-2011, 10:27 PM
Damn, big-ass home. 3 stories? Or just 2 but with cathedral ceilings?
pauldun170
03-23-2011, 10:38 PM
and thats why I dont mind living in a ranch.
Gas Man
03-23-2011, 11:03 PM
Been there done that. But I was hanging cedar siding at the father in laws... so I was carrying a piece of siding (sometimes so long it was from my ladder to his), and a tool belt with nails and hammer. I didn't like it, but I did it.
Cutty72
03-23-2011, 11:38 PM
Dude, it's just a ladder... what's the big deal?
LeeNetworX
03-24-2011, 06:57 AM
I'm very uncomfortable with such heights; couldn't do it. We have a 20' extension ladder that I can get about 2/3 the way up before getting really nervous.
LeeNetworX
03-24-2011, 06:59 AM
Damn, big-ass home. 3 stories? Or just 2 but with cathedral ceilings?

2 stories with a walkout basement - so essentially 3 stories in the back.
Bluestreak
03-24-2011, 07:57 AM
I've also done worse.

I'd have no problems climbing that. I have a wooden ladder that size that up's the pucker factor a bit...
Mr Lefty
03-24-2011, 08:10 AM
I too have "walked up" ladders like this before... once you've done it a few times and know the ladder is stable in it's footing and setting, the flex doesn't bother ya
wildchild
03-24-2011, 08:10 AM
no one here mentioned a hay mow? i've done worse then that but it doesn't mean I would want to do it again.
had to replace a window in the peak of a barn roof that was a great day.

oh and I hate heights.
Flexin
03-24-2011, 08:31 AM
Yeah I would go up. I have been up three stories in bunker gear. Had to climb on to a flat roof, go through a roof hatch down a attic latter (narrow ass ladder), go down stairs and back out side. Then I would do it again and again.

The "fun" part is walking off the roof to get back on the ladder. Another fun one is getting out a window in bunker gear and getting on a ladder.

Tallest ladder I have been up was 85 ft. That was on a ladder truck.

James
wildchild
03-24-2011, 08:37 AM
Tallest ladder I have been up was 85 ft. That was on a ladder truck.

James

there better be someone on the ground holding an air sick bag if I'm on a ladder that tall, because my lunch is coming down first.
Particle Man
03-24-2011, 08:40 AM
Vinyl siding. Fuck painting.
Archren
03-24-2011, 08:49 AM
I have had a panic attack with less height. But in my defense, it was going up a rappel tower after having slipped off once before (belay caught me, but I had fallen about 5 feet before he caught the slack). I was trying to get into the L-shape on the ledge side (no wall), and lost my footing. The other Soldiers there said my scream was blood curdling. :lol: I can be tough, and even incoming mortarts don't freak me out... but heights scare the everloving crap out of me.

Oddly, it doesn't freak me out on roller coasters or aircraft (planes and helicopters both). :idk:
fatbuckRTO
03-24-2011, 08:54 AM
That wall is crying out desperately for a window.
Flexin
03-24-2011, 08:56 AM
there better be someone on the ground holding an air sick bag if I'm on a ladder that tall, because my lunch is coming down first.

The ladders on the truck are a bit more stable. They don't have that bounce/flex that the extension ladders have so its not real bad. The only real issue I see is when your going down and get off one section on to another. Your foot has to reach another 3 or 4 inches easy and its not easy to find the first few times.

James
Flexin
03-24-2011, 09:14 AM
BTW to me the base of the ladder could be a bit closer. It could be just the picture. Also I don't like the slope that it is sitting on ether. I would also want someone heeling the ladder.

James
CasterTroy
03-24-2011, 09:21 AM
I got home from work today there was a little 125 lb. Mexican at the top of this thing painting.


Imagine there being a 200 pound college kid at the top of that ladder 3 stories up leaned against the house holding the gutter with 3 fingers, hands wrapped around the top rung and pulling the ladder and himself towards the house as a 8 ft a-frame ladder is wedged against the top 8" of the ladder laying in a 12/12 pitch slope roof with a 65 yr old man at the top of THAT painting a dormer.

Now imagine all this taking place as the ladder this poor college kid is standing on, is in the bed of a pickup truck backed up against the house because the ladder was about 3 ft shy on it's own.

Yeah that was the LAST day this crackah ass worked for that crazy old fool! I was sure to get my pay for the week in CASH before I left that day...and he never heard from my ass again.

THIS is the reason I don't like to be on ladders!
Cutty72
03-24-2011, 10:04 AM
As long as the ladder was up against the front of the pickup box it should be stable. :idk:

But yeah, I agree with Flexin, especially when working off the ladder or carrying weight up and down, I always want someone heeling the ladder.
CasterTroy
03-24-2011, 10:06 AM
As long as the ladder was up against the front of the pickup box it should be stable. :idk:



200 pound ass, near the top rung, 36 ft in the air on an aluminum ladder with a 180 pound man on ANOTHER ladder pressed against me all held in the bed of a pickup.....the only thing holding us ALL on was a 4" aluminum gutter.

I think Charlie Sheen would be considered MUCH more stable than I was at that point
the chi
03-24-2011, 10:28 AM
Considering the last time I told someone they were making me nervous on an 8 ft ladder and they assured me they were fine and werent going to fall off, then did just that not 2 minutes later...I would go with not unless someone was holding the bottom.
MILK
03-24-2011, 10:33 AM
No, I would not climb that
LeeNetworX
03-24-2011, 01:01 PM
That wall is crying out desperately for a window.

It's the 'privacy' wall - most houses in the subdivision has either the left or ride side void or almost completly void of windows. It's typically the side that has the most bedrooms. Most of the windows are in the front and rear of the homes.
wildchild
03-24-2011, 01:11 PM
It's the 'privacy' wall - most houses in the subdivision has either the left or ride side void or almost completly void of windows. It's typically the side that has the most bedrooms. Most of the windows are in the front and rear of the homes.

this is how you know you live to close to your neighbors..........you need a privacy wall. I don't even have curtains in my house. LOL
LeeNetworX
03-24-2011, 01:14 PM
this is how you know you live to close to your neighbors..........you need a privacy wall. I don't even have curtains in my house. LOL

LOL - you should see the house we had in South Florida - maybe 10' between our houses on one side and 12' on the other.

At least here our closer neighbor is about 50' away.
Bluestreak
03-24-2011, 01:15 PM
this is how you know you live to close to your neighbors..........you need a privacy wall. I don't even have curtains in my house. LOL

Dito. My closest neighbor is 1/4 mile away and it's my cousin.

I couldn't imagine living with neighbors that close.

As it stands now, I can take a piss off my back porch and the only witness will be the dog!
wildchild
03-24-2011, 01:24 PM
LOL - you should see the house we had in South Florida - maybe 10' between our houses on one side and 12' on the other.

At least here our closer neighbor is about 50' away.

50 isn't bad 10 feet, no way.
Particle Man
03-24-2011, 01:32 PM
Dito. My closest neighbor is 1/4 mile away and it's my cousin.

I couldn't imagine living with neighbors that close.

As it stands now, I can take a piss off my back porch and the only witness will be the dog!

Same.

http://prtclmn001.smugmug.com/Other/Winter-2010/DSC09163/1227208133_vXMg6-X2.jpg

http://prtclmn001.smugmug.com/Other/Winter-2010/DSC09166/1227215795_UALrR-X2.jpg

Although the neighbors can be real turkeys...

http://prtclmn001.smugmug.com/Other/Winter-2010/DSC09157/1227210852_mMbL3-X2.jpg
LeeNetworX
03-24-2011, 02:11 PM
Although the neighbors can be real turkeys...

http://prtclmn001.smugmug.com/Other/Winter-2010/DSC09157/1227210852_mMbL3-X2.jpg

Nice - do you obtain your own bird for Thanksgiving dinner each year?
Particle Man
03-24-2011, 02:19 PM
Nice - do you obtain your own bird for Thanksgiving dinner each year?

Yes: from the local supermarket :lol:

They aren't dumb birds - they disappear come Thanksgiving time :lol:
MILK
03-24-2011, 04:13 PM
this is how you know you live to close to your neighbors..........you need a privacy wall. I don't even have curtains in my house. LOL

Yup. If you can see in my windows that means you are standing in my yard!!! My blinds stay up except when my busybody mother takes it upon herself to mess with them. Lol
Archren
03-24-2011, 04:18 PM
Yup. If you can see in my windows that means you are standing in my yard!!! My blinds stay up except when my busybody mother takes it upon herself to mess with them. Lol

Dude. That's like my mom. No sense of respect for other people's space. :lol:
MILK
03-24-2011, 04:27 PM
Dude. That's like my mom. No sense of respect for other people's space. :lol:

Oh I thnk you have me beat woman! Although mine did recently buy me a new frying pan and new bedspread because she didn't like the ones I had! :lmao:
Archren
03-24-2011, 04:30 PM
Oh I thnk you have me beat woman! Although mine did recently buy me a new frying pan and new bedspread because she didn't like the ones I had! :lmao:

Not too far off from what mine would do... she tried to push some curtains off on me when I moved. I said I'd rather buy new ones because the ones she tried to give me were like pink and fucking frilly. :panic:
MILK
03-24-2011, 04:36 PM
Not too far off from what mine would do... she tried to push some curtains off on me when I moved. I said I'd rather buy new ones because the ones she tried to give me were like pink and fucking frilly. :panic:


I'm afraid this last round I've been an enabler.. I like the bedspread and the frying pan is awesome!! :lol:
OneSickPsycho
03-24-2011, 04:42 PM
Yup. If you can see in my windows that means you are standing in my yard!!! My blinds stay up except when my busybody mother takes it upon herself to mess with them. Lol

My boss at my last job would come into my office and open my blinds at least a dozen times a week... my window looked out over the call center, so every time I was there eating lunch, I'd have like a dozen motherfuckers just there looking at me... felt like I was on display.

I never got the opportunity before leaving there to just walk into his office and start fucking with shit... I really wish I would have.