Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: wpclean on October 16, 2012, 09:27:55 pm
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I am left handed, so when I am using the gardiner poles I have to have the clamps facing towards the floor !
Does anyone know if you can have the clamps made to open from left to right ?
Thanks, they do say left handed people are more intelligent , but as you can see from my post it is false!
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I can think of two solutions
but can I ask what hand holds the pole and what tightens and open the clamps?
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I use left hand to open/close the clamp ;D
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I use my left hand to open and close the clamps but im right handed
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I am left handed
That's sinister...
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so do I blue frog, so I am confused, anyway just adjust the brush so the clamps are where you want them
I open with left thumb and close with left thumb, if that makes sense
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Exactly what i do Stuart ...
Hold pole with right hand, left thumb over the clamp to the right point and pull open, left thumb pushes the right point when closing.
When im using the pole then its right hand at the base and left hand higher up supporting
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I use my left hand to open and close the clamps but im right handed
and me
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SB (sorry forgot your name) - do you cover Worcester town centre ? Edgar Street ?
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I'll get me coat :-[
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Facelift guys should use this as another selling point.
Phoenix poles are left handed people friendly.Not like Gardiners poles ;D
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Back to original question, can you order the clamps opening left to right ?
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Back to original question, can you order the clamps opening left to right ?
mine do open left to right, I put my thumb under the lever and pull up to the right
sure you just don't need to position them correct by turning the sections until they are where you want
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and just to ask ;D how do you extend say twenty feet with the pole facing down from the ground ;D
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and just to ask ;D how do you extend say twenty feet with the pole facing down from the ground ;D
I have a triple ladder :P
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right I have been thinking about this, and maybe I am wrong, and I can't be bothered going out to my van to find out, but if you just remove the clamps, turn 180 degrees, i.e upside down, they would then be the way you want them
achh I don't know phone gardiners ;D
I am trying to imagine a clamp on a pencil here and my kid thinks I am nuts ;D
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right I have been thinking about this, and maybe I am wrong, and I can't be bothered going out to my van to find out, but if you just remove the clamps, turn 180 degrees, i.e upside down, they would then be the way you want them
achh I don't know phone gardiners ;D
I am trying to imagine a clamp on a pencil here and my kid thinks I am nuts ;D
That's what I do now, but just thought it would be easier if the clamps opened the other way LOL ;D
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and just to ask ;D how do you extend say twenty feet with the pole facing down from the ground ;D
I have a triple ladder :P
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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SB (sorry forgot your name) - do you cover Worcester town centre ? Edgar Street ?
I could do mate...
I have work close by?
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my sons left handed and had to buy him a left handed spoon to eat his breakfast ;D ;D ;D ;D
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One of my commercials has aquired a business and are going to ask me to clean it tomorrow i know it. Bit out of my way, so thought of you after you were so kind. Will let you know details tomorrow when ive spoke to them
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I'm really sorry about this:
http://www.cracked.com/article_19808_5-reasons-being-left-handed-screws-you-life.html
PM me if you need to chat to someone.
Sorry. :'(
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Never trust a south paw.
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Facelift guys should use this as another selling point.
Phoenix poles are left handed people friendly.Not like Gardiners poles ;D
;D
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I am left handed and never think about it just get on and work with what ever I have to do.I have never let this life destroying disability get in the way.I have always work in a this back to front manner and don`t know any better. Try it just don`t think about it. After all we have always been arse about face.
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I use left hand to open/close the clamp ;D
Generally if you are right-handed you will hold the pole on the right side of the body and use your left hand to open the clamps.
If you are left-handed you would usually hold the pole of the left-hand side of the body and use your right hand to operate the clamps.
In either case you would use the thumb of the operating hand to either pull open the lever (LH use for RH people) or push open the lever (RH use for LH people). There should be no need to have the clamps on the under-side for this to work.
These clamps have been in use now for nearly 5 years and we count many LH users as our clients. In fact my father who has helped in the development and testing of these clamps is left-handed and has been using these clamps daily for all of this time. Perhaps I should get a video done showing how he operates the pole/clamps as a LH user - would this be helpful?
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I'm left handed and I always make sure the brush is at the top of the pole!
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I use left hand to open/close the clamp ;D
Generally if you are right-handed you will hold the pole on the right side of the body and use your left hand to open the clamps.
If you are left-handed you would usually hold the pole of the left-hand side of the body and use your right hand to operate the clamps.
In either case you would use the thumb of the operating hand to either pull open the lever (LH use for RH people) or push open the lever (RH use for LH people). There should be no need to have the clamps on the under-side for this to work.
These clamps have been in use now for nearly 5 years and we count many LH users as our clients. In fact my father who has helped in the development and testing of these clamps is left-handed and has been using these clamps daily for all of this time. Perhaps I should get a video done showing how he operates the pole/clamps as a LH user - would this be helpful?
That would be great, I think it just down to my poor technique as I am self taught ;D
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The confusion was caused thinking I was left handed, I only write left handed so am in fact " mixed-handed !
I have taken the advice given, and now have got the knack of using the thumbs ;D
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I'm left handed and I always make sure the brush is at the top of the pole!
;D
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I use left hand to open/close the clamp ;D
Generally if you are right-handed you will hold the pole on the right side of the body and use your left hand to open the clamps.
If you are left-handed you would usually hold the pole of the left-hand side of the body and use your right hand to operate the clamps.
In either case you would use the thumb of the operating hand to either pull open the lever (LH use for RH people) or push open the lever (RH use for LH people). There should be no need to have the clamps on the under-side for this to work.
These clamps have been in use now for nearly 5 years and we count many LH users as our clients. In fact my father who has helped in the development and testing of these clamps is left-handed and has been using these clamps daily for all of this time. Perhaps I should get a video done showing how he operates the pole/clamps as a LH user - would this be helpful?
That would be great, I think it just down to my poor technique as I am self taught ;D
Apologies that it took some time - here is a link to a short video showing the pole clamps being used both right handed and left handed. The second clip shows my father who is left-handed operating the pole clamps - he has been using these poles as a left-handed person since they were released 5 years ago.
http://youtu.be/9HrWB10hDjk