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All it takes is a complete disregard for safety and lack of self-preservation and this level of ingenuity can be yours! – Ms. Fix-It
Favorite Comment: Fixer Agujero says, “A strict follower of the “Saints of the Ladder Days Church”.
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Well, on the plus side: He can use it to get up to those ledges if his wife ever gets mad.
Hi everybody! I’m glad people liked my kludge. The following picture may clear up some of the misconceptions in the comments. The ladder could not be leaned against anything – I was working a good 4 feet away from the upper hallway (that’s not a ledge; it’s a half-wall). I couldn’t work from there for the same reason. There will be no problem changing bulbs later (fan and light on 6 foot down-rod). This is a (my) finished house, not a construction site (It would have been a lot easier if the builders had put in a ceiling box 13 years ago!) There’s no danger of electrocution because I didn’t connect the (newly run) wire to the house supply until I was done hanging the fan/light. In other words, installing the wall control and giving it power was the last step.
http://s986.photobucket.com/albums/ae349/gfwellman/
Yeah, hi… I’ll be sure to visit you in the hospital.
*heads over to LFMF to see part 2 of this picture*
I lol’d. <3
guy supposed to be steadying ladder is taking the photo. i wouldn’t want that drill to fall on me either. maybe they didn’t have a small enuf ladder to fit on the balcony
Heh, I had no one steadying the ladder. I know it looks crazy, but the step ladder is a Werner adjustable, and it’s *heavy*, while the extension ladder is quite light, so as long as I didn’t do anything stupid with my personal center of gravity, I was fine.
He has an extension cord, an extension ladder… now all he needs is an extension on his insurance coverage.
What, no duct tape? He’s such a n00b.
I thought that myself, but the rope lashing was reusable (and I actually used this ladder arrangement for two jobs)
he’s using the folding ladder wrong. He’s got in in half fold, when it should be at 3/4ths fold, with one end resting on the upper floor. Just like the safety instruction says to on the side.
This Werner adjustable step ladder only has two angles – step ladder as shown, and straight.
I think he found a loophole to the “Do not step above this rung” notice on the lower ladder.
He is using 3 ladders but the one strapped in the middle is redundant, it isn’t adding to the height at all.
Nope. Two ladders. The one lashed on is itself an extension ladder that doesn’t come apart. It’s true that the lower part of the extension ladder didn’t add height, but believe me, it added stability. What you can’t see in that pic where all the rope lashing is.
OSHA would love this one.
I’m sure if he used enough cables ties, OSHA would sign off on it.
He’s extending an extension ladder
… to install a lamp where nobody installed a lamp before…
I think he’s smiling because he doesn’t have to change the bulb to the fixture he’s installing.
I’ve had to use similar kludges when no A frame ladder was tall enough , or could not be expanded in the space below. This was kind of harsh (‘white trash’) and it illustrates something very defective by design – how is the future owner of that place going to change a light bulb? This isn’t a home repair, its something under construction. It could (conceivably) be a picture of someone hanging a chandelier which hangs much lower once mounted, as well.
Still, the caption is quite harsh.
Thanks! – and good guesswork – the fan/light is on a 6 foot down-rod.
http://s986.photobucket.com/albums/ae349/gfwellman/
It is however actually my home, not a construction site, although sometimes I make one of the rooms look like one
I am not in the construction business, so my selection of tools is sub-professional, but I get by.
Meh… zip ties are pretty damn strong and notice he’s lined up the rungs on the two ladders, making the add-on ladder pretty much a hand hold. This is safer than it looks.
You are correct that it’s safer than it looks and that I lined up the rungs. But I used rope instead of zip ties because the rope was reusable. I did joke to a friend that “cable ties would have been a guarranteed ‘There I Fixed It’”
lol…
To me, rope is more of a kludge than zip ties (ropes can stretch/slip whereas zip ties don’t unless pushed to extremes), but I’m glad we agree “There I fixed it” jumped the gun on this one once again.
So how many kludgers does it take to install a light bulb?
I’m guessing just one if you have the right tools.
A metal conductor, a power tool and an electrical outlet. A recipe for a you tube video.
Any electrician that plans on seeing his next paycheck would have used a fiberglass ladder.
well, that’s a broken neck waiting to happen…
It has alway proven to be a good idea to install lamps in places nobody can reach them to change the bulb…
A strict follower of the “Saints of the Ladder Days Church”.
Well the way I see it, you’ve got two options here. You can either do what this guy’s doing, or just go without light. I personally would choose the ladder.
You see a guy changing a light bulb, I see a stuntman working on the next Jackie Chan movie. The injuries in the end credits should be awesome.
common, johnny just sneak over and tip him over
Ummm, isn’t that a second story floor/ half way right there that he could be attaching a cantilevered ladder over instead???
seriously dude,
yo dawg, i heard u like ladders so i put ladder on your ladder and you can be on ladder when you are on the ladder!