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Originally Posted by sammyg2
The forces are trying to buckle the ladder, which is not designed to have any real strength in that direction.
It's designed for compression along it's axis, not perpidicular to it.
I haveno idea what the intention of the upper rops that are angled downward, they serve no visible purpose.
Is it strong enough to do the job? Obviously, at least it was up until the instant that picture was taken. Is he just lucky that it has not yet collapsed? of course he is.
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Well, what's more is that he has separated an extension ladder into two sections. They are stronger as a connected pair.
Now I know all you engineer types can run the calcs on the angle of the dangle, but let me tell you that in the 40 years I have been using ladders (sometimes improperly) and been on other people's jobs where a lot worse ladders are being used than I would use, I have never seen one fail.
The only bent ladders I have seen are on the side of the freeway. The potential to get hurt working on a ladder is pretty much all in the hands of the guy on it. IOW, human error is always the culprit.
So the rigging here is second only to the painter slipping. The ladder sections will survive and he is betting his life on that.
I don't know what the fvk the other guys is doing sitting there holding a vertical rope unless we just can't see how it's strung. Perhaps he raised the paint because it would have been more than the Great Valendas could have done to climb that carrying a paint bucket.
Ask me how I know.