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Posted by Eigenvector on November 5, 2006, 5:19 pm
> Eigenvector wrote:
>> I know the basic safety of ladder use. It's easy to get to the roof, but
>> here is where my fear of heights and mechanics get in the way.
>>
>> How to step off the ladder onto the roof and then how to get back onto
>> the
>> ladder without knocking it off the eaves?
>>
>> First time I tried it the act of pushing off the ladder to put my other
>> foot
>> onto the roof would have kicked the ladder down. So I'm sitting there,
>> swaying in the wind trying to picture the motion needed to do it. It
>> doesn't help that I'm mildly afraid of heights, and more realistically
>> afraid of falling down and hitting the pavement.
>>
>> I was thinking that it would be easier to use a step ladder rather than
>> an
>> extension ladder, at least with a step ladder you can step sideways off
>> the
>> ladder and turn and sit down on the roof. It doesn't work that way with
>> an
>> extension ladder.
>
> Use a ladder stabilizer.
>
> R
>
What do you mean? It was a borrowed ladder, so that is strike one against
me right there, but more to the point. A more steady ladder would help
greatly obviously, but being afraid of heights I need to picture the motion
in my head and I couldn't do it.
It's one of those things where you're afraid to do it but once you do it and
see how to do it it's no longer a big deal. It was this way with me and
climbing into my attic. Again the act of stepping off the ladder and into
the attic was beyond me. It was only when I forced myself to do it once and
saw that it wasn't a big deal did it become a trivial task. By the way,
getting back down out of the attic was just as tough.
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