come out in my plank?
 

getting the house ready for paint. replacing siding on the weather side, installing gutters on the shop, scraping and priming it... I build my own scaffold, and if i was to tumble like a cat ill land on feet... had some help today to get 2x t1-11 up, using ring shank nail from my 22* Hitachi nailer..........


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Those ladders look, um, I guess I’m super chicken. I’m tying my extension ladder off.

the extension ladder is tied off to the house and shop walls, the ropes don't show in the photos. the 6' A framed was ratchet strapped to the deck rail.

not the carpenter I once was... but you gotta do what you gotta do..

look, my 35 y/o tool belt even failed before i mounted the plank.....





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I use a mobile scaffold tower for jobs like that. I'm getting sensible in my old age.

They have adjustable feet for sloping sections.

I you are going to be up there on and off for more then a week or two to get it finished, why not dug a hole, bury a pier with metal strapping to a post with a T on top and corner brace it. Rip a piece of plywood, support it with 2x on bottom for safety. It takes couple to three hours to do. Mush safer then the ladder.

LOL .... Scaffolding By Dipso?

Not for me.

Signed....

A Scaredy Feline

40 years ago I probably would have been up on that abomination with you. These days I am not going up there without scaffolding. Uh-huh. No way.
I don't bounce like I used to.

Best
Les

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My last go round staining the hardest side of my house. Built a scaffold to put my ladder on.

I would add a strap as shown in RED as a minimum.

Then I'd hire someone else to do that job. I'm too old to bounce.

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Plank??
Do you mean 'pine box'? :D

In my younger days I would use the truck racks with a plank and set the ladder on top. Then I had kids and figured they would need a dad.

Sunday I became a grandpa, glad I stuck around for the journey.

Congratulations!

I had mentioned above that both ladders were tied off. I did that by nailing cleats to the garage and the house crawl space mud sill which is obstructed by the swamp cooler. Do appreciate your suggestion, really.

picked up the last few pieces of siding and spent yesterday priming it. Set the piece around the window today before driving an hour each way to borrow some proper ladder jacks for my plank.



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needed to take a few days off after crazy lightening and huge rain drop rain... muddied up the works site... man who uses ladder with muddy shoes ends up with muddy hands.

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How do you get up the ladder with such big testicles? :D

slow and carefully.... a neighbor came by and helped me lift the cut and ready pieces of T1-11 into place as needed.

the south wall is ready for the painter and had all I could do done to it.

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things were delayed to some rain event that muddied the site some. i never fell off my ladders, thankfully.