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You safety guys will love this

3.9K views 6 replies 4 participants last post by  faber307  
#1 ·
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!
 

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#2 ·
That's the benefit of being the owner. No jurisdiction for OSHA. :jester:

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?)
 
#6 ·
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.
 
#7 ·
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.