Improved Access and work ladder

Yes or NO

  • Total voters
    8
  • Poll closed .
Personally I'd be surprised if any ladder company would agree to having their ladder used like this. Extension ladders are designed to hold the majority of your weight on the legs and to balance your weight by leaning the rails to a solid structure. This puts all of your weight with a sideways pressure on the rungs alone.
 
Clever

I wrote to get clarification about length of ladders.

It seems like a twenty four foot with twenty foot access height is accepted. But there is also something saying that a forty foot ladder can be used...with a contact point or ???

When I get an answer I'll post it
 
RopeShield said:
... 24'ladder and anything over needs top support
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By top support I take it to mean contact like we usually expect with extension ladders. Make sense. Lots of leverage with a person on the end.

I thought of something like this when I had my Waldon articulated loader. It weighed five thousand pounds so it wasn't going to tip over. If I was the only one to be in it and I didn't have employees I would have fabricated the attachment. But with employees, even if I was the only one allowed to use it I thought that it created too many questions.
 
It’s still a ladder and looks wobbly as f.. however we have rigged a ladder to a dump truck with back guys. This was for a wide angle areal photo.. what the hell do you tie into while running that saw?
 
The ladder...or tree with a long lanyard or short climbing system.

Using ladders as spars for rigging is out of the ordinary for most of us. This discussion came up a number of years ago when there were some arbos who were trained in rope rescue by fire departments, search and rescue, etc. Within constraints this is accepted. We all know that ladders come in a wide range of quality and strength. I'm certainly not advocating but I do have an open mind for this sort of use.
 
No way in the world (just my opinion). The ladder flexion looks sketchy just climbing it and moving around, let alone when some accidental contact with a cut limb occurs. I see a major lawsuit in the making.

Now if they had a section of 4x4 heavy box tubing extending the same direction as the hitch receiver and then an a frame of telescoping aluminum meeting the upward portion of the ladder to achieve triangulation fore and aft and side to side.......Oh snap, I hope none of you guys beat me to market :-)
 
I did a rotten red maple last week that couldn't be climbed beyond 15ft or so. everything was rigged and cut from the ground. I had two rig points fail on seperate cuts.
Everything is a shit of ice here. I didn't bring the ladder, just all my poles/saw and RK to set lines and pwr pole saw to make cuts.
I got it done without breaking me or anything but it got me thinking how or what i could do to help get me off the ground just a bit higher without resorting to an unstable ladder.
Match my RamRod up with this critter and I am pretty positive could have saved some time and effort. There is a 40ft push around manlift available but believe this ticks the cheap as chips box and would be safe enough if everything is done within reason/limits.
Ladders are freaking thing just something that needs gettin used to.
This thread might help someone who likes to work off ladders and just looking for a fair bit more safety.
Many of you know I make my money prune/climbing trees with ropes so this would be just another tool in the box and mb even to drag the beastly 40' around for those multi tree days
 
I've worked off of extension ladders plenty of times including hanging 4x8 sheathing off of them on a two story building and standing on the second to the top rung to reach a conduit in a factory where a lift couldn't reach. I was tied in with a fall protection harness. But it still sucked, lol.

Basically I'm no stranger to ladders, but I still stand by my no vote. I don't care if others use it as long as they are safe, but it's not for me.
 
Tom Dunlap said:
The ladder...or tree with a long lanyard or short climbing system.

Using ladders as spars for rigging is out of the ordinary for most of us. This discussion came up a number of years ago when there were some arbos who were trained in rope rescue by fire departments, search and rescue, etc. Within constraints this is accepted. We all know that ladders come in a wide range of quality and strength. I'm certainly not advocating but I do have an open mind for this sort of use.
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Ever read the accounts of walking across the ladders bridging the crevasses on Everest? Holy shit! Yes the fire departments and search and rescue are knowledgeable in the myriad of uses for ladders. They still freak me out
 
Yes..there's a scene in the Imax movie Everest taken in the Khumbu Icefall where horizontal ladders are used as bridges. The POV shot down to toes...ladder..crevasse...got my head spinning!

Not to forget, those ladders are NOT bottom on the product line either.
 
Not sure this is designed appropriately as the brace attaches to the rungs and not the stiles. Supported by base only? Fair bit of weight out on end of ladder designed for two points of contact... think a lions tailed tree on steroids...
 
The long ladder appears to be connected to the cart with large wheels, but I have no idea how they counter-balanced that arrangement.

When dad and I were building the log cabin, he made an A-frame out of steel pipe that slipped over the 3 point hitch arms on his tractor. It stood about 16' tall from ground level, and with a winch and pulley at the apex, we easily lifted full length hand hewn southern yellow pine logs into place on the walls (25' long by sometimes 10" at the butt end). The winch was an army surplus hand crank 25 ton winch, with a two speed gear box, mounted at the front end of the tractor..
 
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