The Things Men Do With Ladders - number whatever.

 I haven't posted one of these for four years, but I couldn't ignore this.. what else is there to say?

The Things Men Do with Ladders, number 19

Whoever first published this image was interested in whatever was happening at the top of these twin ladders - a platform rigged between the two. I'd be slightly more concerned at what was going on at the base. I could be wrong but they appear to be just propped up on a plank set between two trestles... jury rigged or just bodged? I couldn't possibly say..!

The Things Men do With Ladders number 16

This impressive example of the genre was sent to me by my friend Corky in California, though the man on the ladder is painting the church clock in Mussina, South Africa.  I hope he completed the job... 

You might just think that this is simply a man on a long ladder doing a job that requires two hands?

 

Further down, he and his ladder are balanced on a cantilever arm created out of planks of wood with a human counterweight sitting on them, while holding the ladder with a rope....

There's more...

Quite an impressively ingenious contraption these two have devised. This is clever enough to warrant the label 'construction.'

 Of course the chances of this going wrong are as high as painting the clock face. And how did he actually get up there.  

However he got up there, you could call this a Stairway to Heaven ...

The Things Men do with Ladders no. 13; Picture of the Week 18 May 2014

This is the thirteenth of these which I've borrowed from elsewhere. Thirteen, unlucky for some, probably this bloke as his ladder appears to be tied to the top of his flimsy garden gate with - no not rope -  just a bit of old rag.

The Things Men do with Ladders - picture of the week 13 Jan 2014

I haven't published any of these for a while, so here's one that made me laugh.

Whoever thought this was a good idea
has much more faith in masking tape than I do!

The Things Men do with Ladders 10: Picture of the Week 22 Nov 2012

Well there's nobody around, must have dropped off...

The Things Men Do With Ladders 9

Ok. Nothing to be said, really..!

Scaffolder On the Job: Picture of the Week, 3 October 2012

I have decided to begin another category of pictures of tradesmen On the Job.

There are reasons why certain jobs require expertise, and not all expertise depends on paper qualifications.

When a 200 year old chimney in the middle of a row of historic buildings needs extensive work, scaffolding is the first essential. And for scaffolding, you need scaffolders.

Spot the scaffolder.

The Things Men do with Ladders, no.8 - Picture of the Week 27 Sept.2012

And what happens if she moves her hand...?!

The Things Men do With Ladders, Picture of the Week, 8 September 2012

Health and safety plan presumably lost down the hole that the pole has been shoved down ...

Not my photo, obviously. I only set foot on SANE sites!

The Things Men do with Ladders - again! Picture of the Week 2 August 2012

What can I say? This is just the Darwin effect in action. Not my photo obviously, I wouldn't go within a hundred miles of him and my telephoto lens isn't that long... you can find this one easily, just google 'man on ladder in swimming pool' to find a discussion about why this IS NOT dangerous!!

                                                                             

Stony Stratford Historic Roofing, Pictures of the week 13 July 2012

Having missed posting anything at all last week (due to technical problems, honest!) I'm once again posting several. These show some of the reasons why Archifact stays in business. 

Historic Roofscape

Driving through an old English coaching town, you can enjoy the quaint shopfronts, ancient pubs and historic town houses, but what goes on above your eyeline?

The Things Men do With Ladders 5

Ok so they aren't builders, the man at the top won't be a gardener for much longer either.

The Things Men do with Ladders... Again: Picture of the Week for 3 May 2012

How not to fix the street lamp...

picture: stupidhumans.org

Who has the keys to that truck? And is the handbrake reliable?

Hope he remembered to return the timber to the site...

Well, once again not my photo. I have an excuse of sorts. No interesting work to photograph this week, the company have recently been concentrating on several client's drainage problems, and drains do not often make great subject matter for interesting pictures.

Bad weather for shooting much else - April was so wet that the grass in the garden is approaching knee height and is far too wet to cut. If it gets much taller, maybe we can rent the garden out for tiger hunting...



And under a newly invented sub-heading, "Things men do Without Ladders," we have the following...

Electrical safety?

Not certain if he's fixing it or has just got his leg stuck. Either way, he needs a ladder..!

The Things Men do with Ladders, Picture of the Week for 20 April 2012

And then they realised the window
was too small...

Not my photo, just another cautionary tale!

The Things Men do with Ladders

That's a step-ladder, that is... and a table and two benchs and... and he still can't reach!
Health and safety plan, anybody?
Not my photograph, just a cautionary tale.

Window Cleaner, Picture of the Week for 7 January 2012

Spot the window cleaner...

How safe is yours?

Another photo that isn't mine, sorry. I have the flu...