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Roof hook alternative
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Roof brackets and a plank with ladder laying on the roof, footed into the plank perhaps?
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How about a 32 footer laid on the roof & anchored to the ground? :thumbup:
I've used stabilizers before, but they're alot more unsafe being they don't hook the peak so well. Not bad with a small pitch. Worse comes to worse, shell out $20 and get yourself a nice new hook.
I've used stabilizers before, but they're alot more unsafe being they don't hook the peak so well. Not bad with a small pitch. Worse comes to worse, shell out $20 and get yourself a nice new hook.
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Three more posts cuz......yous gots a shirt.
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before i had bought hooks, i used a rope thrown over the peak and tied to the ladder, then it was tied to a tree/post/light pole/heavy guy.
"60% of the time it works everytime"
"60% of the time it works everytime"
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What about the other 40% Homey?
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This style of bracket with ladder laid down into plank
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I have a brand new one. That all I have done is put it together. if you are interrested. I think I paid $ 35 for it.
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You going to be papering the roof??I can't find my roof (ladder) hook. :cursing:
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and I got some work on my own house to do from a (low) roof. Any ideas for a SAFE home fabricated alternative ?
(NO, I will not use the 36 footer laid on the roof & anchored to the ground)
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-Bill
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Houston, we have a problem....
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Problem should be solved. I've figured out what happened to it. I lent it to one of my painting buddies - no, he did not ASK for it, I PUSHED it on him when I saw how they were painting the siding above a garage roof (36 footer to the ground !!). After I remembered today, I called and he said he still has it. His wife is getting together with my wife tomorrow and I should have it back.
Yah MAK, I'm papering the roof :thumbsup:
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no NO N0. I'm doing something MUCH more insane. I've been using three coils of 1" black irrigation pipe for the past three years to make a solar heated outside shower. This year I wanna put the coils on the roof of our kitchen el, which is single story and is attached .......
Oh heck, one picture's worth a 1,000 words.
I wanna put them where the red arrow points.
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OH, and thanks NEPS, if my buddy's wife don't bring it, I may take you up on the offer. I'm driving down to Duxbury as often as possible to visit my mother in re-hab and shovel out her house. I assume you're not far from rte 3.
Yah MAK, I'm papering the roof :thumbsup:
no NO N0. I'm doing something MUCH more insane. I've been using three coils of 1" black irrigation pipe for the past three years to make a solar heated outside shower. This year I wanna put the coils on the roof of our kitchen el, which is single story and is attached .......
Oh heck, one picture's worth a 1,000 words.
I wanna put them where the red arrow points.
OH, and thanks NEPS, if my buddy's wife don't bring it, I may take you up on the offer. I'm driving down to Duxbury as often as possible to visit my mother in re-hab and shovel out her house. I assume you're not far from rte 3.
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Biker,
It attaches very solidly to one end of a section of ext ladder. Ya throw the hook over the peak, the ladder rests on the slope of the roof and WILL NOT SLIP, and you got a very safe situation to stand on and work the siding above a garage.
Don't tell OSHA, put I've made a platform that sits on the ladder so that it is level and one can place an 8-16 ext on it to get those high peaks above the garage. First couple of times using it, the pucker factor is high, but ya get used to it.
I'd set it up and take a picture, but that would create incriminating evidence
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no ladder hook in the van????
no problemo,,,,,,,,,take apart an extension ladder
take a rope and tie the two ends together,,,,leave about a foot of slack in the rope,,,, and lay them over the peak,,
you can walk up and down either side easily
i did many dormers that way before i had ladder hooks
check out chicken ladders used by slate and tile roof guys,,,,
no problemo,,,,,,,,,take apart an extension ladder
take a rope and tie the two ends together,,,,leave about a foot of slack in the rope,,,, and lay them over the peak,,
you can walk up and down either side easily
i did many dormers that way before i had ladder hooks
check out chicken ladders used by slate and tile roof guys,,,,
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The Little Giant isn't so little! It would take longer for me to heave that sucker up on the roof then to paint it. If mine wasn't given as a gift I wouldn't have one.Another way I've done it is with little giants opened up & fully extended down each side of the peak. If you got one & depending on your needs, it works well.
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