On 20/11/2017 20:42, Bill Wright wrote:
Anyone used to ladder work will never allow the ladder to get anywhere
near falling sideways or backwards. You'd no more do that than
spontaneously fall over when you're walking along the street. The people
who make these rules have no practical experience.

I've never come close to it either. And yet people do fall off.

The one that scared me was watching a thatcher moving a ladder without
bothering to climb down first.

Andy

On 20/11/17 19:04, Brian Gaff wrote:
Bungalows.
Brian

You mean, fitters for Sky - Nothing upstairs?

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Adrian C

On 21/11/2017 07:52, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 20/11/17 19:04, Brian Gaff wrote:
Bungalows.
Â* Brian

You mean, fitters for Sky - Nothing upstairs?

Or perhaps he meant bungle-oes ...

On Monday, 20 November 2017 20:42:19 UTC, wrote:
On 20/11/2017 17:29, Andy Burns wrote:
Angus Robertson wrote:

People joke about going on courses to learn to climb a ladder, but he
had a climbing harness and ropes and attached a ring to the wall to
tie off the ladder securely.
He did have a hard hat,

You need that on a roof because of the frozen turds that come from the
planes.

goggles

So you can't see what you're doing when they steam up. A real H & S
hazard on a roof.

and climbing harness,

Dangerous things on a roof ladder. Very dangerous.

where he fastened it to, you can see the brick dust where he drilled the
brackets, so I would expect to see more dust if he'd drilled a ring to
secure his ladder (always a good idea)

Anyone used to ladder work will never allow the ladder to get anywhere
near falling sideways or backwards. You'd no more do that than
spontaneously fall over when you're walking along the street. The people
who make these rules have no practical experience.

Bill

TV aerial erector fell to his death near us :-(
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....o-death-853087
and then there was Rod Hull, but he was an amateur.

On 21/11/2017 16:05, Java Jive wrote:
On 21/11/2017 07:52, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 20/11/17 19:04, Brian Gaff wrote:
Bungalows.
Â* Brian

You mean, fitters for Sky - Nothing upstairs?

Or perhaps he meant bungle-oes ...


They were short of bricks so the foreman said, "Just bung a low roof on it."

Bill

Why would "a new wideband LNB" be needed? How is it different to what was there previously?

As for the ladder...maybe it is for private work?

John

John wrote:

Why would "a new wideband LNB" be needed?

For Sky Q

How is it different to what was there previously?

What was there before was a quad Universal LNB

As for the ladder...maybe it is for private work?

Dunno, the van was plastered in sky stickers ...