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05-23-2012, 10:38 PM
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Double Check Those Ladder Straps!
I saw this scary accident today. Well right after it happened anyway. I don't know what happened for sure. But I do know it scared me when I saw the girl take a small child out of the back from it's car seat. Those ladders could have went through the back window and hit that baby.
So double check those ladders and make sure they are secure!!!
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05-23-2012, 10:56 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Little-Lectric
I saw this scary accident today. Well right after it happened anyway. I don't know what happened for sure. But I do know it scared me when I saw the girl take a small child out of the back from it's car seat. Those ladders could have went through the back window and hit that baby.
So double check those ladders and make sure they are secure!!!
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Yup just because the helper put them back up does not mean they did it right.
I made the mistake one time and my 32' ladder came right off the truck taking a left turn.. 
I asked the kid why he did not tie the front of the ladder on .
he said it was too cold out and thought I would check before I took off. 
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05-23-2012, 11:20 PM
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Seen an 8' step ladder come flying off my journeyman's van as I was following him in the shop truck a few years ago. Going about 55 down the highway, fortunately I was a few hundred feet behind him and had ample time to pull over and stop. Coulda been bad though.
It was cool though; the ladder bounced around a bunch but it unfolded itself and landed upright right in the middle of the road 
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05-23-2012, 11:29 PM
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Better yet, don't buy the cheapest ladder racks. Buy the good ones that don't need bungee cords and scrap pieces of NM.
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05-24-2012, 06:43 PM
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Wow, yeah, that could have ended much worse than it did.
Glad the baby is all right. How's the ladders?
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05-24-2012, 07:30 PM
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There are plenty of morons out there who tie down ladders and staging with bungee cords..
Just look around at the trade trucks on the road..
Those things are designed to keep raccoons from taking off the top of your trash can.. not holding down 32' extension ladders on top of a van doing (60) mph.
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05-24-2012, 07:42 PM
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Those things are designed to keep raccoons from taking off the top of your trash can.. not holding down 32' extension ladders on top of a van doing (60) mph.
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i would not discount the ingenuity of a creature with opposable thumbs so easily B4T
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05-24-2012, 07:48 PM
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i would not discount the ingenuity of a creature with opposable thumbs so easily B4T
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Yeah really, took me weeks to figure out who was opening my exterior closet door and getting into the cat food. Those rascals can open a standard door knob.
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05-24-2012, 11:59 PM
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I use dog collars.
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05-25-2012, 07:13 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by B4T
There are plenty of morons out there who tie down ladders and staging with bungee cords..
Just look around at the trade trucks on the road..
Those things are designed to keep raccoons from taking off the top of your trash can.. not holding down 32' extension ladders on top of a van doing (60) mph. |
If you don't do it B4t's way, you are a moron. 
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05-25-2012, 11:21 PM
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i lost a bundle of 3/4" emt kind of like that. My old employer had pickups with fiberglass bodies on them. Then he also had a rack above one side for the extension ladder. I would always put the pipe on top of the extension ladder and then strap it down. Well someone pulled out in front of me, i stopped and the pipe didn't. It missed to car in front of me but ruined a bunch of pipe. Some people learn things the hard way. 
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05-26-2012, 12:42 AM
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If you don't do it B4t's way, you are a moron. |
Only a moron would use a rubber cord to tie down ladders.. BBQ.. I'm surprised you don't get that with all your ranting about working hot.. 
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05-26-2012, 12:44 AM
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So what does Doofie use to hold his ladders down? Tie down straps work fine...that's what they're made for.
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05-26-2012, 12:58 AM
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So what does Doofie use to hold his ladders down? Tie down straps work fine...that's what they're made for. |
Just use romex the ladders will stay there forever.. 
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05-26-2012, 01:01 AM
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Just use romex the ladders will stay there forever.. |
Our commercial cops frown on that. Don't you have to work in the morning?
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05-26-2012, 01:38 AM
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Just use romex the ladders will stay there forever.. |
I think romex ladder ties looks bad.
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05-26-2012, 01:41 AM
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I think romex ladder ties looks bad.
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Just use 14 wire and no one will know...
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05-26-2012, 01:45 AM
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I chain my ladders with a chain and padlock, if both strops broke the chain would have to also. Otherwise its a niggle in the back of my mind.
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05-26-2012, 07:40 AM
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So what does Doofie use to hold his ladders down? Tie down straps work fine...that's what they're made for. |
Well Peter Putz.. I use rope.. not some "rubber band" you can buy at the $.99 store..
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05-26-2012, 07:43 AM
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Just use romex the ladders will stay there forever.. |
There is nothing that screams hack more than (2) yellow tail sticking off the side of a truck..
Especially when they have so many twists that the jacket is broken..
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