[AT] OT: Retiring from roof work

[Cecil R Bearden]

Dean:
I hope you heal up from this very soon.  In the last 2 years it feels 
like I have aged 10 years.  Probably from taking care of my bedridden 
Father before he passed away.   Dad would stand on the top of the 
ricketiest ( if that is a word!) ladder we had on the place.  He gave me 
a lot of crap about buying some good ladders when we built the last 
steel building here.  I weigh nearly 300 lbs and am 6ft tall, so when I 
hit the ground there is a lot of cracking going in.  Not just the 
pavement either.  I have found the best thing is a platform on a 
forklift or a loader to get up to high places.   When the Internet 
broadband guy came around, he was amazed that I would get out the big 
forklift and platform to lift him up to the peak of the house.  ( about 
20 ft)  He was going to use a ladder to get on the edge and walk up the 
roof then hang over to mount the antenna.

You just cannot beat a scaffold or a large piece of machinery.  I really 
hate ladders.  I bought a bucket truck last year and need to get it 
running to use to repair some lighting here.

Glad to hear you are ambulatory.

Cecil in oKla

On 3/31/2012 1:38 PM, Dean Vinson wrote:
> You're welcome, gentlemen, thanks for your kind and understanding comments.
> I'm still wishing I'd taken those few minutes to really make sure the base
> of the ladder was secure.  Lots of easy options.  Or I could have just
> carried it around to the back of the garage rather than the front, as I've
> done before, where it would have had flat soil to dig into rather than
> sloping asphalt.  That's the worrisome part...I just let go too quickly of
> my concern.  I'm grateful that my payment for that mistake is pretty
> affordable.
>
> Dean Vinson
>
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