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Travisb6989

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Doing more and more high end custom homes with 22’ plus ceilings. So I needed to invest in some different ladders and likely some walk boards.

Curious on the Trestle ladders. Can one climb the extension portion of a trestle ladder, or is that only for holding a walk board?
 
Travisb6989 said:
Doing more and more high end custom homes with 22’ plus ceilings. So I needed to invest in some different ladders and likely some walk boards.

Curious on the Trestle ladders. Can one climb the extension portion of a trestle ladder, or is that only for holding a walk board?
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not me. they make some nice light weight man lifts that can get in a standard door opening, one option is like this
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I have one. Climbing the extension and working there is good for me, but I had a harness on.
I don’t bounce like I used to. I haven't used it in about 8 years now.

I could work a 16' ceiling, but that's it.
One advantage is the ladder can hold the fixture while I wire it.
 
Hv&Lv said:
I have one. Climbing the extension and working there is good for me, but I had a harness on.
I don’t bounce like I used to. I haven't used it in about 8 years now.

I could work a 16' ceiling, but that's it.
One advantage is the ladder can hold the fixture while I wire it.
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Is the base just wide as hell- seems like being up that extension part one little shift and thing fall over. Just looks sketchy
 
Hv&Lv said:
I have one. Climbing the extension and working there is good for me, but I had a harness on.
I don’t bounce like I used to. I haven't used it in about 8 years now.

I could work a 16' ceiling, but that's it.
One advantage is the ladder can hold the fixture while I wire it.
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What would you attach your harness to?
 
I was on a job several years ago and a plumber was using a six-foot ladder and standing on the top step. He slipped and fell, later I found out he became paralyzed from the neck down. Since then, ladders have given me the "Willes".
 
mtnelect said:
I was on a job several years ago and a plumber was using a six-foot ladder and standing on the top step. He slipped and fell, later I found out he became paralyzed from the neck down. Since then, ladders have given me the "Willes".
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The safety guy’s saying is “The top two are not for you”. Many years ago we had a guy remove a brace on a 12’ ladder to get over a merchandise case at a cash register, the ladder collapsed, he fell and broke his neck. He was the owners cousin.
 
TwoBlocked said:
What would you attach your harness to?
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The ladder itself.
The ladder is unbelievably steady. It’s a wide base ladder.
Now it hangs on my shop ceiling


Well, I can’t get a picture to upload. Keeps
Telling me it’s running into problems

So how much will the server process??
 
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Hv&Lv said:
The ladder itself.
The ladder is unbelievably steady. It’s a wide base ladder.
Now it hangs on my shop ceiling


Well, I can’t get a picture to upload. Keeps
Telling me it’s running into problems

So how much will the server process??
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Anything over a 14' stepladder height (18' or so ceiling) I set up a staging. Not the same one as the one MTW posted, but effectively the same. Staging supports fixtures and tools, also. There was a time in the '80's that 2 of us were up on it, on wheels and no outriggers, at 22' platform height, (planks were at top rung) and we wired about a 10K square foot garage off it. Those days are over. But to hang a chandelier at a residential site we will still do a 22' ceiling easily off of just (3) sections.
 
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