Message from @Troye
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Carrying them up the ladder means you have one less hand while climbing the ladder.
If you lose balance (because carrying weight)
Thought of it as I asked
Youre 50% more likely to get fucked
years of carrying shingles, they made us use a new modified ladder with a gas motor powered pully system.
50% more fucking sounds good rn honestly
@Torvarren thats excessive.
Just tie a rope to a bundle of shingles and pull them up
Hell just put a pulley at the top and pull it
Yeah, a pulley system would work fine
Theres so many alternative steps between "cant carry shingles" and "gas powered pulley"
Like just put a pole at the top and make a temporary manual pulley
Osha compliant requirement
Thats what I see builders do here to move buckets of cement
**Breaking news**: *Gas motor powered pulley system launches shingles, decapitating 7*
that looks rather expensive
That looks rather dangerous
good thing I work for independent unlicensed contractors so I don't have to worry about safety regs at my job hahaha.. ha
Mmmm no safety
The good thing is if you get fucked in the job you got a lawsuit in your hands
on the one hand, no one pays attention to safety except you in my type of situation
For uhh, austerity purposes
on the other hand you're safer because you know that and you pay special attention to your own safety lol
These shingle lift ladders cost about $2,000
@Torvarren why not just
Worker goes up ladder
Manual pulley at the top
Bucket to put shingles in at the bottom
You see
Put shingles in bucket
Lift bucket with pullet
That's what a sane person would do
Pulley
Shit carying shingles isn't even the dangerous part of the job. It's falling off the roof that fucks people up. Using foot boards does more than that silly thing.
You gotta think outside the box if you want to please overlord Osha
They do it to try and eliminate some liability, but end up creating completely new ones.
Because I can see the danger of going up a ladder while carrying shit on your shoulder. I can barely keep my balance on a ladder with fully free hands
Someone needs balance training
it takes practice but once you understand it well it's not so scary
I've done it a lot