You safety guys will love this - Electrician Talk - Professional Electrical Contractors Forum

faber307 · 02-27-2007, 08:13 PM

I've had this fixture to change. It's been on my mind for a couple days how I was going to get to it. Funky stairwell to get a large ladder into. I thought about having a guy help hold the ladder while leaning.

I came up with this contraption!

After I hung the bracket, I hung from the bracket, then decided to trust it.

How much would that one cost me!

**MDShunk** · 02-27-2007, 09:04 PM

That's the benefit of being the owner. No jurisdiction for OSHA.

Those stairwell lights are the only reason I got a Little Giant ladder. They're a good stairway ladder, but they suck at everything else.

(did you charge a hazard premium for the job?)

faber307 · 02-27-2007, 09:08 PM

Hazard premium.......
with that and your sliding mark-up scale.....
I MUST BE GIVING IT AWAY!

(I will be looking over that scale during my billing process MD)

robertwilber · 03-09-2007, 06:38 PM

that looks oddly familiar ....[sigh]

Joe Momma · 03-09-2007, 07:46 PM

To me it looks like your ladder was upside down.....
wouldn't you want the edge that reaches the wall on your unistrut?

And who took the picture, the EMT's that were 'standing by'?

**MDShunk** · 03-09-2007, 07:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joe Momma

To me it looks like your ladder was upside down.....
wouldn't you want the edge that reaches the wall on your unistrut?

I wondered the same thing, until I realized that's the end of the metal top that has the "screwdriver holes". I guessed he used bolts, through those holes, into spring nuts in the strut.

faber307 · 03-11-2007, 11:01 AM

I tried it both ways. This way seemed more secure.
I had two peices of 1-5/8" stacked horizontal on the wall.
Then I bolted a peice vertical that stubbed up about 6".
When I slid the ladder onto the vertical riser, the taper of the top of the ladder wedged into the wall very tightly.
From the picture I do see the ladder bowing a little.
I weigh only 170lbs.