[MKE_Voltage]

It gutter cleaning season. Do you guys clean your gutters from a ladder or do you get up on the roof? If you get up on the roof are you planning on wearing a harness?

[jim_hunt17]

I always clean gutters from the ladder. I clean a lot of gutters for work and always use the ladder. Never get on the roof.
and jason you are right, when at work I get nervous going on roofs and take a lot of precautions but never tie myself to anything, but always keep my cell phone in my pocket just in case. I do tie the ladder off to the gutter though.. sat on a roof for quite awhile once when the ladder fell.
at home i never think twice about climbing around on the roof.

Jim H.
Milwaukee, WI

[redwood]

Our roof has a 7-12 pitch. When I was younger, I always cleaned the gutters from the roof. As I got older, I switched to a ladder. Now I have my son do it and he is usually on the roof. Knock on wood, no accidents yet.

Mark E.

Pioneer, CA

Working Pro 1972 - 2015
Member since Jan 22, 2013
www.creative-redwood-designs.com

[MrToolJunkie]

I will not get on my roof…extremely steep and the concrete tiles can move on you…not very safe.

Orange County, CA

[MKE_Voltage]

I will go on my roof once or twice a year to inspect is closely but for gutter cleaning I use a ladder. I don’t think its smart to have a hose, bucket, water and heights.

[kzcarp]

Ladder for me, all of my gutters at home can be reached from a 10′ stepladder.

kevin

[DirtyWhiteBoy]

I have a lot of fall protection but most of it is too old and needs to inspected to work on a military job.

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[Anonymous]

I’m all for fall protection and think it should be a law. Just so employers have to provide it. And then from there I think it should be up to the person if they want to use it or not. Although I don’t mind falling, I’ve done it a lot. It’s the part after that that sucks.

[DirtyWhiteBoy]

Anonymous wrote:

Although I don’t mind falling,

Oh it’s not the fall that hurts it’s that sudden stop at the bottom that sucks

[MRenes]

I wear something every blue moon, but I’ve just never been in the habit of using it. I should though.

[jdw1865]

I avoid all but the very shallow pitch roofs.

[supimeister]

This is most pertinent for guys who are working way, way up there… But I remembered a review Stuart did on an interesting tool tether system… It would be better to not drop anything from up high onto somebody or something…

http://toolguyd.com/proto-skyhook-tool-tether-system-review/

John S

[DirtyWhiteBoy]

My Fall Protection training card will expire soon and I will retake the class on Tuesday morning at 8am along with a bunch of coworkers. It will be about 4 hours and we will be paid for our time.I wonder if anything has changed in the past 2 years? The card only last for 2 years.

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